My sissy came

JoAnn tries to come visit around February of each year. She lives in San Antonio
and we don't get to see each other often and needless to say I really do look
forward to those visits.. Wayne usually visits with his sister while she is here.
This year Vicky was able to come and it was great to be with her too.
We planned it so other relatives could be here on one day so we could all get
together at once. Our niece Ann from Quitman, our cousin Barbara whom we had
not seen in years. Also my son Wayne and daughter Sharon came.
Sometimes our two Waynes get confused because JoAnn's husband is Wayne.
We just did sandwiches and desserts and laughed until we hurt.

One of the things that seemed so simple to begin with turned into uncontrollable
laughter. My first bill for my new cell phone was due that day. I gave Jo Ann the
information to pay it so I could go fix breakfast.
 First she tried calling the number 611 to pay from the cell phone. She kept
 getting a message that it wasn't a working number. She got on the internet
and contacted the chat line.  This lady kept saying that was not a working number.
Finally JoAnn told her it worked for everyone else because I was getting phone calls.
Vicky came into the kitchen and told me Jo Ann wanted to see me.
I smarted off I that I was a working CEO and if she wanted to see me she would have
to pay to see me. Also, I told Vicky all Jo Ann had to do was pay my phone bill.
Everybody is kidding so there was teasing back and forth. By this time we figured this
is a problem that needing solving and wasn't going to be simple by just paying the
bill. Another one of those pesky things where the company screws up some where and
you have to deal with unraveling it. Remember this went on for awhile with the lady
on the chat line kept apologizing because she couldn't figure out why she couldn't find
the problem or the phone number. At some point I realized Jo Ann was using my cell number
to try to pay my land line. I just put my hand over my mouth and said "OH!"
Jo Ann turned around in her chair and said "WHAT!?"
I just said.."I gave you the wrong number..that's my cell number and you are talking to
the company where I pay my land line bill.  She said "and now I have to tell that lady
I was using the wrong number!" I kinda felt like I needed to get out of
Dodge and told Vicky that I needed to finish breakfast and would she pay
my cell bill..JoANN told Vicky "don't you get involved with her"..Well, I did
give Vicky the correct number and she did take care of it for me..
I understand this is one situation that you would have just had to be
there to understand how funny this had developed, because it reached the
point that everything that was said was funny and we were laughing hard.
I must say that with all the confusion of paying my phone bills they
both did a good job. Payments were accepted and my phones weren't
cut off...thank you sissy and Vicky.
Love you both..

P.S. from JoAnn. The reason I told Vicky not to get involved with Esther is because I have
been around her a long time and she has gotten me into soooooooo many things, it has left
scars on me.

Psalm 119:105
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

I got a kick out of this!

From Jo Ann

I received an email from someone that I didn't recognize. In fact, it was a phone number with an
extension of a popular carrier.  I usually do not open emails when I don't know where they came
from but I did this one. When I started reading it I thought it must be from someone putting malware or a virus on my computer and I felt a dread. This is a copy of it, read you will see what I mean:
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Hey listen to this. I was walking from bdrm to kitchen to get more tea (11 pm) living room was dark and I heard something, stopped it stopped. Walked a few steps and heard something close, stopped, didn't hear it. looking behind me now and walking heard it, walked a little faster and kinda getting alarmed now stopped fast enough this time to figure out it was (are you ready for this) the ice in my tea glass rattling.
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Since I already opened it I thought I would call the phone number (the email address that was a
phone number ) A lady answered and I asked whom I was talking with and she said "Reeda"

To make a short story shorter it was my nephew (Mike) who sent it to me. He's always teasing me
about being blonde ( I used to be) I have gotten a lot of blonde jokes from him and his brother Wayne
about being blonde. I told him I was going to start calling him blonde.  Those 2 brothers are something else. They have a sister, Sharon, who is real sweet but she can get herself into funny things too. Like the time she put super glue on her lips instead of lip balm by mistake.  I feel sorry for her though because they are always playing jokes on her.  Their mother turned gray early while raising them.

Interesting evening for David and Sharon...Jan.15th.

Last night  Sharon called me and told me about their evening. She and David had gone to the Cotton Patch restaurant to eat supper in Denison. Mark called and ask Sharon how long she and David had been married and she told him that it was almost 41 years..WHY?..Seems he and Jana were on a scavenger hunt and they needed a picture of someone married over 30 years. They came on to Cotton Patch and made their picture. Then said they needed one of him proposing to Jana so he got down on his knees and customers all around were saying "ooooh and aawww" and they promptly explained they were already married and what they were doing. THEN next came the 'show' they needed a video of someone singing the Star Spangled Banner and anyone who knows David knows he was in his  element when he stood and sang The Star Spangled Banner,  he sang it well, and I am sure everyone in the restauarant enjoyed it. The waiter came and ask them what they were doing and Sharon explained it to him and he said "you all are awesome"...then some gal came by and said
"good singing." Sharon said she bet the Cotton Patch hadn't ever had that much excitement.

Three Sisters Newsletter ...

Here it is Janurary 7th, 2016.
Along with everyone else, I am asking where did 2015 go?

This newsletter has excerps from the June 1998. Mike and Reeda  sent in an article and since it is rare to get anything from them, I am putting it in first.
Mike and Reeda: "Finally finished the pontoon boat. It only took little over a year, which may sound like a long time, but isn't compared to Reeda's horse trailer, that is almost finished now for almost six years. We were going to name the pontoon boat after Reeda but it didn't turn out very good so I just brushed WAYNE across the back. We got it to the lake on memorial day. Summer and Rusty called it the 'Minnow' ( and I had it named Wayne) because at 9 mile  mph  everywhere we went was a three hour tour. Besides people, we had three dogs and a parrot on it. Scarlet has her own perch and can now say oowee, hello, can sound like a police car does a crow very loud, and calls the horses. She is supposed to live for fifty years with the intelligence of a five year old and to think we got rid of the kids last year." Update on Scarlet this was 1998 and they still have her in2016. Her vocabulary has grown a bunch.

Garcia's news:
What you see is what ye get:
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Warrington news:
Terri is here, don't that say enough, no time for news just work. Terri doesn't work as hard as everyone else. She takes time to play. She was on THE PRICE IS RIGHT. It viwed on June 9th. When she appeard on screen, it was going so fast you had to watch it twice to see her. I thought for sure she would be a contestant..Don't know how they missed her...personal note from her aunt Esther..They have no idea what they missed!!!

This is from JoAnn  in1997...
Some of you may be wondering  why the print is in different colors don't know. Only the computer knows and it's not telling.
JoAnn put in Yankees Guide to the South:
Here are some cute ones:

 Get use to people saying
"You ain't from around here, are you?"

Tornadoes and Southerners  going through a divorce  have a lot in common. In either case, you know someone is going to lose a trailer.

.As you are cursing the person driving 15mph in a 55mph zone, directly in the middle of the road, remember many folks learned to drive on a model of vehicle  known as John Deere, and this is the proper speed and lane position or the vehicle.

From Anne Heitman news.. In 1998 newsletter

September 7th Darvin and I are going to Israel again. We are very excited about this trip. We'll be going with our pastor and his wife this time. It is their first time to go. It should be very exciting for them.
News Velma sent in.
We spent Friday with Barbara at Ft Worth, then spent some time with Ricky. We missed two turns, but didn't get lost.
One of my grand dogs died. Leann's Sam died last Sunday and to her it was real sad. Bill and Barbara were with her when he died in the hospital.
Tammi ( Carol's daughter) and her two little sick boy's, heart trouble, are ailing this weather is hard on their breathing. Barbara's daughter-in-law, Robin has had back surgery, doing fairly well.

Joke: A neighbor man was making his whisky and fell in the vat. Two men tried to get him out, but he fought them and he drowned. They cremated him and he burned for three days.

Esther sent this in from visiting Coy...I went to visit Coy yesterday afternoon, and she took me down the road to gamling, she was playing Bingo and I played several games with her, she did Bingo and I didn't, and I believe she had just left the pool room when I got there  where there had been a big game in progress..all I heard about it was "that Coy sure knows when to hold'em and when to fold'em..Leland said the next time I went to see her that he wanted to go too. (all this going on in the nursing home)

FYI:
Never take a sleeping pill and laxative the same night.

Eph 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed
out of your mouth, but that which is good
to the use of edifying, that it may
minster grace unto the hearers.

What Wayne said

What Wayne Says:

My husband has a sense of humor. He also has a quick wit.  I thought I would share some things
he says:

Lately I was driving home, Wayne was the passenger and he had just made the comment that
his legs were hurting. I turned left into our sub division and I said "Whew, that oncoming car was
driving a little faster than I thought. Wayne said "Yeah for a second I thought my legs hurting
was going to be the least of my problems."

Three Sisters Newsletter..December of 1997 and March 1998

As was mentioned in the last newsletter, we were going to do excerps from them..This one was from a newsletter in December 1997.

Warrington news:
Wayne, JoAnn, Ralph, Diana, Joseph and Courtney are to leave for California the 17th. to see Terri. That is if JoAnn doesn't have jury duty. She was to have it the last of October but begged  off because she was so busy and thinking it would be into the next year before they called her again but wrong they summoned her for December the 11th. She is fearing for her life that if she has to serve then she can't go to California. (note from Esther..It's my understanding, sissy, that they consider that a personal problem) sooo, my advice to you is to "stand up and hollor..hang 'em all, the lawyers too."
That should do it.

Terri's news:
She wrote to say that she has relatives coming, a whole slew of them.( guess she hasn't heard about the jury duty)..she calls them the Beverly Hillbillies. We are going to Rosarito Mexico to do some shopping, then we are going to ride the train to downtown Los Angeles. (gonna try to lose some of 'em there), but the ones who can keep up with me can do some sight seeing, star searching tour of HOLLYWOOD. Gonna show 'em RODEO ( RO-DAY-O) Drive scene too. The ones that do not get 'discovered'  in Hollywood (all of 'em) will continue the adventure  to Universal Hilton and stay there overnight. In the morning it's the Universal Studios tour and then if I can't get rid of 'em there they are to come home with me for Christmas. They are getting their presents on Thursday and then plan to leave the next morning.(Imagine that.)

Diana shoots back a with a response:
We may not get 'discovered' in Hollowood but we will be there for a day, she may kid us about that but someone needs to remind her that she that she has been out there darn near 10 years and she ain't  been discovered yet and shouldn't be making little snide remarks about us. As far as Universal Studios go if we are lucky we will lose her.. ha ha ha..
I never did find out how the jury duty went..esther

News from Ione:
Terri, Ione said to tell you the card was worth waiting for..whatever that means..Terri probably found one that said Happy birthday to my favorite aunt....Terri's favorite aunt happens to be the one she is currently talking to. Ione and I figgured that one out.

Poet's corner:
Money talks I'll not deny,
I heard it once, it said good by.

Esther's solution for balancing check book..and it works folks.
Esther has a terrible problem balancing her check book,but has solved the problem.
JoAnn told her Wayne didn't balance the check book and it was a mess and she was trying to figgure it out and she told me to tell him to just write in ESP by the error. Just make the adjustment and go away happy. And "what does ESP " mean I ask..she said 'Error Some Place.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
So far today God, I am alright, I haven't gossiped, I haven't lost my temper, I haven't been grumpy, nasty or selfish . I AM REALLY GLAD OF THAT, but in a little while God, I am going to get out of bed and from then on, I'm probably going to need a lot of prayers.

March of 1998 letter.
From Wayne and Beth Hale:
Wayne had an interesting week end, the sewer line from one bathroom got squashed and while digging it up, mostly rock and some dirt to replace it he broke the main water line to the house. He ended up having to turn off all the water while Lori was babysitting several children whose parents were at the hospital.To put a temporary fix he had to cut off water including the bathroom in the garage. Ordinarily no big deal but he was replacing the tile in the girl's bathroom when the first sewer line quit, so for a few hours there  wasn't a bathroom anywhere working (ug) Then Leland and Wayne had to quit digging up the original sewer line because the rain turned to snow..oh yes it was raining..Wayne then decided to change the oil in Lori's car, at least he was out of the rain and or snow.Then when he got through and got the car off the ramps the driver's side window wouldn't roll up, you figgure that one out.It was real late when he got the window fixed and the door panel back on. That night there was to be a hard freeze and he remembered at midnight that his tempory 'fix' on the main water line was still exposed and he had to get to the nearest available dirt to cover it up..Wayne said Beth haden't noticed the hole in her flower bed yet. (note from Esther..Hey Beth about that hole in your flower bed, can you bring it up here? I need one just north of the house.

Hey Anne it's your time to get into trouble too..Is Darvin keeping you so busy you can't write? It's going to be dangerous for the deliquent one's that never send any news..no telling what may come forth from these letters..More letters to come folks so tune in often.

QUESTION;
What happens if you get
scared half to death twice?

Romans 5:19
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made rightious.