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Dana,

I would venture to say since your grandparents farmed in Hereford, it is very likely my grandparents knew the Jennings, Robonson's, or Boydstons or at minimum knew of them. I believe most farming communites were pretty close knit expecially in the Panhandle. We also had family in Dumas, Tx with the last name spelled Hutson.

My granddad Lon Washam imparted many stories to me of his youth. One year Lon and his brother Tobe travelled to Ft. Worth to hear Eleanor Roosevelt 'speechify' in behalf of Franklin. Lon and Tobe were standing in their buckboard wagon looking over the crowd, when a cowboy sitting cockeyed on his horse, suddenly yelled out: "Madam you are about the ugliest woman I have seen"!  After the snickering subsided, Eleanor pointing at the cowboy said: "And you kind sir, are the drunkest cowboy I have ever seen"! The crowd roared wtih laughter throwing hats in the air! 

Your brother Gary as a gemologist did some intricate tedious work designing jewelry.  In 1970, I designed a security system for a client's jewelry store in Santa Cruz, Ca. I was fortunate, him spending time demonstrating how he graded various diamonds and gemstones. 

Have you done any research on your family ancestors?

Fred Miller

Drum roll.... And the lady IS....?   ~ The Shadow

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Prior post...me screwing up trying to post a picture.

The lady is our youngest daughter of three ladies.  Was trying to pay tribute for National Daughters Day which some people celebrate on Sept. 23.  Other people celebrate it on the 4th Sunday in Sept.  We celebrate it every day with these three...

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Why is it called the Harvest Moon?

The Harvest Moon is named because its bright light allowed farmers to work late into the night to gather crops ahead of winter. 

Best time to view: Just "After Sunset" today Saturday September 26 and Sunday September 27

Don't forget to go outside and howl at the moon. It will confirm what your neighbors already believe...

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

When I lived in Yuma, Arizona 2012-2019, 
on the day of the "Full Moon" We had a 
Dance in the desert and Howled at the 
"Full Moon" as it came up!! Those were 
the days!! What Fun!! I'm the one in the large blue
stripe sweater and white hair. See if you can find me!!

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Sherry,

Looks like you had alot of fun with performers playing music!  But, but... isn't that the sun rising?  I beleive I have identified you in at least three pictures. Let's let others take a shot at it, also!!

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Rex, that was just one of Yuma's Beautiful 
Sunsets. The Sunrises are just as Beautiful!! 
 

Dewey Johnson

      I am sorry to hear about Dick Storey’s(RHS '63) recent death. He was one of the players I especially hoped would be able to make the 70^th celebration of the Roswell Lions Hondo Little League winning the Little League World Series in 1956. A few days prior his sister, Nancy Storey Alsup, RHS ’65, emailed me that he was dealing with congestive heart disease and couldn’t travel.

      I did phone him several months ago. He was effusive in his praise for the other members of the team. For example, he was still amazed at how Blaine Stribling was the team’s catcher for every inning of each of the twelve tournament games leading up to and including the championship game in Williamsport. He was also still grateful to Randy Willis who loaned him his baseball glove for one of the tournament games. Dick had forgotten his.

        Dick’s father, Dub Storey, attended all twelve of the All-Star games that summer of 1956 – Carlsbad, Los Alamos, Lubbock, San Antonio, Williamsport – and filmed footage of the play. Back home in Roswell, Dub Storey showed his films to various gatherings, including civic clubs. If you will recall, film was a big deal in 1956.

        At the Au Revoir Banquet, which closed the 1956 LL series, Commissioner John Lindemuth presented trophies to the fourth place, third place, and runner up teams, and the Series Cup to New Mexico. Accepting on behalf of the team was Dick Storey.

       Dick joins five others from the team in death – Randy Willis, Guy Bevill, Teddy Garrett, Bill Turley, Mike Sandry – as well as Mgr. Richard St. John. Harold Hobson was unable to attend the reunion due to poor health.

    We, meaning Amy Tellez of the Historical Society of Southeast NM and I, have not heard from nor do we know the whereabouts of Blaine Stribling, Albert Palomino, David Smith, and Coach Pete Ellis.

      Four team members were able to make the celebration - Jim Valdez, Tom Jordan, David Sherrod, and Ferrell Dunham. Jim and Tom reside in Roswell. David lives in Palestine, TX, and Ferrell lives in Amarillo.

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102-year-old woman walks Gordie Howe International Bridge for her Birthday.  The bridge is 1.5 miles long connecting Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Canada

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

WOW!! Rex I am not sure I could do that at 
83 let alone 102!! Even if I made it to 102!! 
God Bless Her!! She is a go getter!! 
Loved it thanks for sharing!! 
 

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Well it's time to put on the work-out attire and head for the gym or better yet, the exercise bike. Work on  cardio vascular for endurance if we're gonna catch up with 102!!  

John Landess

Sherrie, I found you and also Waldo a number of times!!~ Ha

Well I am back in Tennessee after a 30 hour travel day. thanks to numerous cancellations and schedule changes. I could condemn American Airlines, but have been told, it is all of them.

Along the way, I picked up an upper respitory infection, which really laid me low. I know now that I must be getting 'slightly' older !!!!! 3 Rxs and 4 doctor visits in one week!! course, two of those was to my chyropractor.

Watching KOB4 on tv, I see where NM is getting a bit of rain, as well as flood watches. I hope that Roswell will be spared again. I remember the big flood back in the 50's. Don Ervin had a great and somewhat funny story to tell on that (#207), while replying to Billy T.

Cuz it was 10th st. the spring river was right behind our house.  My brother and I held the front door for hours to keep the flood waters from knocking it down.  We still had 18 inches of water in the house.  Some houses washed down the street and we had a wrecker and a car stuck in our porch.  There was my mother, my brother, my sister and her three children.  I thought that they would all perish, because I was the only one in the house that could swim.  I can still hear my Mother praying to God not to take the children.  Don

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Joe Treat

I have been reading messages about family etc.  This brought up memories of mine.  First of all I would not have been born if not for WWII.  My dad was from Roswell and owned his own ranch.  He volunteered even though he could have received an agricultural exemption from the draft.  My mom was in college in El Paso and in a sortie.  The sorority entertained soldiers by having dances.  At one dance the method to choose dance partners was to have a "Paul Jones" where concentric circles of men and women circled and then you danced with who stopped in front when the music stopped.  There was my dad to be.  My mom went home and reported that she met the man she would marry and so it was.  He was in training for a dental unit for the army.  They did marry and I was born the next year.  When he returned he moved us to his ranch. It was 50 miles from everywhere..  I do remember the weather beaten wooden building.  It did have running water inside.  I do not remember an indoor toilet, but there was an outdoor shower.  There was no electricity and we used kerosene lanterns for lights.  We did have butane heating and cooking.  A couple or three years later my parents had a new house built across the Felix creek so we would not be trapped when it came down.  Our new house was wired for electricity, but had REA did not get there until the 60's.  We used kerosene lanterns for a while longer.  My dad bought a "Windjammer" a windmill that made electricity.  Imagine that. However it could only profuse DC not AC.  We I had a storage shed of huge glass batteries all attached.  Most appliances could not be used on that electricity circuit.  We did have lights..  Later we did get a generator that gave us real electricity for use.  At least while it was running.  We had no phone, visitors came by all the time. We had neighbors, relatives and workers and truckers who came to shear sheep, or to help with roundup or to take huge bags of wool or sheep or other livestock. Many happy years there then we moved to Artesia so I could start school. Summers were still at the ranch where my horse was.  My dad commuted a lot.  We had good workers to look after things. We owned that ranch through thick and thin for several more years.  Eventually we had a different ranch near the UFO crash sight near Corona.  Many happy years out in the countryside.

Charline Lake

Nice account, Joe.  Fascinating.  

Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

Joe, your account is very interesting and you seem to have very good memories of those early years. Thanks for sharing. 

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Joe Thanks for sharing you history! I love hearing
my friends histories. Its amazing to know how 
our lives began, I want to say "Who Knew"?? 

Patricia Hundley (Lappin)

Joe, I enjoyed your living history account.  I didn't think anyone would ever come close to my husbands account of growing up with no electricity and all the things we take for granted now.  I will tell his story a little about when they got electricity.  When the wiring was put in their house and they could actually put light bulbs in, they did not have enought light bulbs for all the sockets.  So when they turned the lights on he and his brother took socks and stuffed them in the open sockets so the electricity would not escape.   I laughed so hard when he told that story the first time.  It's a wonder the house did not catch on fire.  LOL

Sherry I was able to find you in your pictures.  Fun times you were having.  

John Landess

Joe, quite a story...other than having a horse and having water in the house, it could have been an Alakan homestead story!!! Well, and a lot less snow!

We hauled water from a spring some 8 to 10 miles away for over 8 years, and that got exciting in the winter with the ice. My Dad finally had a well drilled with the big handpump on top. They didn't get electricity until I was married and started a home on one end of the place (12 years). I paid to have power run in for some 2 miles and they hooked up. Still used a wood stove for heat though. The good old days??? well, they were old!! ha

Fred Miller

And the nominees for the comedy wildlife award....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2026/10/04/laughable-animal-photos-18-finalists-for-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-2026/

When getiing on that website and clicking on either 8 or 16 wildlife links, all that appears is an ad by Forbes to subscribe to their rag. I would vote for the orangutang though...

~ The Shadow

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

My Favorite;
Comedy Wildlife Photography: a preying mantis looking sexy reclining on a leaf!!

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October 9th is "Leif Erikson Day"!!

Did you know the Vikings reached North America 471 years before Christopher Columbus?

The Norse settlement of North America, including Greenland, began in the late 10th century (1000 AD) and lasted for about 500 years. Further west, the evidence is more limited. Only one Canadian settlement has been confirmed: L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. There is evidence of Norse activity in other parts of Canada, but no trace of the long-term farming colonies found in Newfoundland. In the present-day United States, there are no confirmed remains. 

Bill Leggett

“He’s so special. He’s on course to break the school’s single-season goal scoring record,” Roswell soccer head coach Robert Madrid said Oct. 6. “He’s having a really special season, and that sends him back to the top … scorers in New Mexico.”

Ashung makes it look easy. Keeping him ready to compete in both sports takes coordination behind the scenes. That planning was on display last Friday, when Roswell football head coach Jeff Lynn limited Ashung’s second-half playing time ahead of a Saturday soccer game. “We’re able to do that at Roswell because we’ve got great relationships as coaches, and you know we pulled him there in the second half,” Lynn said Oct. 2. “Didn’t play him much in the second half because we know he’s got a big soccer game (Saturday). So he’s special. … So super proud of him.”

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"London Bridge" was moved from London, England in 1968 and is now located in "Lake Havasu, Arizona". 

Each stone of London Bridge was painstakingly numbered and reassembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle!

The "rest of the story..."

https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/opinion/london-bridge-day-the-story-of-lake-havasu-s-grandiose-antique/article_b8c8b538-9f33-5c67-b0a4-547c448286c3.html