October 6, 2009

  • Lots of odds and ends...

    Read Cassie's post: A Lesson in Giving
    My mom got a new dialysis port today. It's a long story, but she had to wait in the ER yesterday for 4 hours, and was told it would be 2 more hours. She felt to bad she could not stay. But her port  had come apart, and needed to be repaired. They did that in a different office today.
    I have not posted anything here about the concert. It was good. Gabe (or Buffy, as he'll be known forever) got here on Friday night. We met at the church and stayed till well after 1:00 a.m. I could not believe he was even able to still stand (let alone drive) after only a couple of hours of sleep. It's a long way between Kansas and SE Texas. I always wanted to say, "Gabe, you're not in Kansas anymore," but I figure he's heard that only a bazillion times.

    We didn't have a huge crowd...only about 50....but I was thankful it wasn't only 20. I had this fear that he was coming all the way down here from Kansas, and almost nobody would show up. It would not have been his worst concert, though. At that one, there were only 5 people.

    We had a spaghetti dinner before the concert, and then stayed afterward, talking. Earlier in the day, Brandon, Rachael and Bethany took him to Chick-fil-a for lunch, and then back to the church for some goofing around time.

    Paula Rutherford (heyheypaula) got to come down from Decatur (which is northwest of Dallas). She did not know till the last minute if she would be able to come. We were so happy that she was able to make it. She stayed for our Sunday morning service and lunch afterward. Then we hung around talking till about 3:00 p.m.

    I'd love to do some genealogy investigation in Decatur sometime in the future. Decatur is in Wise County, TX. My great-uncle was a sheriff in Wise County. His name was Walter Monroe Malone. His sister, Martha Rachel Malone Roberson, was my great-grandmother. His brother, Charles Samuel Malone, Jr., or Uncle Sam, helped to raise my grandfather after his father left the family.

    Another sheriff in Wise Co, John W. Hogg, was a distant cousin. His brother, James Hogg, was the governor of Texas.

    I emailed many times with Sheriff Phil Ryan, exchanging information about Walter Malone. He told me if I ever found a picture of him, he wanted a copy for their archives. Phil had been a police officer in Pasadena, which is right "next door" to the city we now live in.

    I love history. And genealogy.

    So my ancestors include a prince in Wales, a king in Denmark, President James K. Polk, 2 sheriffs and a governor of Texas. Why didn't we inherit any money?


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