One Pharmacist's View

Of Cabbages and Kings Last Saturday our Sooner football team and many thousands of Sooner fans made the drive down to the Dallas Cotton Bowl. The big arena has been expanded through the years and they say it can seat 96,100 Oklahoma-Texas football fans.

It was 95º last week. And here it is October. But I knew that it had been hot like this in the past. In 1953 on this date 70 years ago the high was 104º! I reminisced in my mind about this.

Summertime-and the going was easy When I was a kid in school at Stonewall summertime meant days of playing, swimming and being with my buddies. School was out, and this meant no teachers. But there comes a time when this blessed summertime ends, and time makes a drastic change in your life.

I have another dental appointment up at the VA this week. I sure do dread it but am thankful to have a place to go keep my teeth in a somewhat functioning mode. Some years back I was undergoing the rigors of having some dental implants made in my upper Jaw area.

Old Town? Where? Old Town Allen defines a section of Allen that was — before it was.And because it was.If you go on North on Camper Road past the big Merriman gas station on SHW-1 up on the hill, you can see the South Canadian River.

I was watching TV last week and saw that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority had decided to sort of back off doing much of anything for the time being. This was obviously a result of the “hornets’ nest” the authority stirred up with their proposed expansion of the Kickapoo.

Work Evasion Reading my publishers “Country Comments” last week about how our current youth have this toxic aversion to work reminded me of my own misspent childhood. During this time, I would have probably accepted with glee a lot of Senator Bernie Sanders’ liberal thinking toward child labor.

This is the week we celebrate Easter. It’s a time in which we think about getting back to church next Sunday. I remember clearly “Easter Sundays” over at Stonewall. It was a celebration and even a dress up time over in the First Baptist Church and a time for ladies’ hats.

St Patrick’s Day was never a big deal in Stonewall. In fact, if it hadn’t been for those old Warner Path-A Newsreels at the Main Theatre I might not have even known there was one.

The Iceman Back in 1943 while the big war (WWII) raged around our world, me and my big brother Gerald were in the ice business.