Wednesday, February 28, 2024
What Do You Love Besides Ice Cream?
I love keeping up with people and ways to do it--in person, on the phone, computer equipment, over the fence, or whatever. Recently I have renewed several old acquaintances and I just love knowing them again. I can't imagine living back in covered wagon days and going so far away without taking a...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
Addendum To "The Foto"
I got to thinking about all of the family who knew and love my Dad Hursel (Hursey) that might like to read my Blogit posting here so I decided to put it on Facebook one post at a time. Even though it was late into the night when I posted the first part of "The Foto" it was only a matter of minutes...
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Friday, February 23, 2024
The Foto -- Part 10 -- The Ending -- Wrapping It Up...
..... Hursey (Hursel) was my Dad. He was like this fellow though I did not worry about sticking to details. The photo that got me going is a real photo that really made me miss him. He died at age 89 and if I am still alive I will be that in less than three years. The other named fellows are all...
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
The Foto -- Part 9 -- And The Winner Is...
----The second set of contestants stepped up looking reticent but willing to give it a go. The drum roll announced it, the shuckers produced the fine looking oysters on their slimy beds and both contestants gave it a go. They lifted up the shell, swallowed the oyster down. Hursey silently counted to...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
The Foto -- Part 8 -- The Drum Roll
Hursey, Durell and Elvis Berry, all being cousins and at one time or another working in Ben's Cafe, far off in Antlers, Oklahoma, were well versed in oysters, and in every way one could cook, or not cook, and serve them. They were all three great shuckers, and they knew the in's and outs of Oyster...
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