Casper is proudly modeling his Halloween costume for Camille and Lindsay to see on my blog! He is very proud of this outfit and gets all excited when I start to put it on him. The hat is especially adorable.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Casper the Starkville Yellowjacket
Casper is proudly modeling his Halloween costume for Camille and Lindsay to see on my blog! He is very proud of this outfit and gets all excited when I start to put it on him. The hat is especially adorable.
Tennessee Bulldogs
Camille and Lindsay, you would have been proud of me as I broke in line to get this picture! I stepped up to the plate, used all my assertiveness training and asked for their autographs on this nice State visor I had just won as a door prize. Coach Stansbury saw us and asked what we were doing there and couldn't believe we'd made a special trip to Starkville so I could take advantage of this photo op--Remember when y'all got me a Penny Hardaway autograph? I never got to have my picture made w/him.A Lauran Tradition
For over 50 years now, I have been a basketball junkie and have had my picture made w/my favorite players over the years starting w/Jack Butcher of the 1957 Memphis State basketball team. I moved onto Larry Finch and Keith Lee as my all-time Tiger favorites. My first favorite Bulldog basketball player was Rickey Brown whom we befriended when he was in a hospital in Memphis. I know somewhere there must be a picture of us but I can't put my hands on it like I can for the others. The next State player I was crazy about was Lawrence Roberts and now my heroes are a couple of fellow Tennesseans. Last night we went to "Meet the Players" night at MSU and I got to get my picture w/both of them, Barry Stewart and Jarvis Vanardo. They are the only returning starters from last year's team that almost beat Memphis in the NCAAs. I think we will be good again this year even though we are young and inexperiences. Did I mention Camille and Lindsay?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Lindsay and Camille
Camille suggested I start a blog so I wouldn't send 1,000 emails a day to tell her what we've been doing. I think of a blog in the present tense--like what's happening now--but I was reminded today that I had ignored the past and had not mentioned Camille and Lindsay. So here's a tribute to my loves who don't live near me anymore to take part in our daily activities.
We had Lindsay before Camille was born. We kept her while her parents traveled. We took her to see Christmas lights where she uttered her first word, "Ites" She was an only child for three years before Camille was born. She continued as part of our family and became Camille's pretend sister. They went to St. George's together and Memphis basketball games and went on vacations w/us. The only difference was in their eating habits. Lindsay only ate french fries and peanut butter while we fretted constantly trying to get Camille to eat anything--We spent lots of fun summers at Pickwick where the girls were forced to sleep in an inflatable boat because there were so many other people in our house that they got run out of their bedroom. As they got older, they still remained close although they went to separate schools and then Lindsay moved to Florida. They went to different colleges, live in separate cities now and fortunately I can keep up w/both of them through the internet. My friendship almost came to an end when, in college, Lindsay did something w/her away message that read "Dreaming of LHWingo" and I thought she was making fun of me and I wouldn't speak to her for weeks. I still, to the day, don't understand how it worked but apparently anyone who sent her a message got the same response but w/their screen name instead. The next post will be about the second time we almost disowned Lindsay. It was related to calling us to rub in an Auburn victory over our hapless Bulldogs.
We had Lindsay before Camille was born. We kept her while her parents traveled. We took her to see Christmas lights where she uttered her first word, "Ites" She was an only child for three years before Camille was born. She continued as part of our family and became Camille's pretend sister. They went to St. George's together and Memphis basketball games and went on vacations w/us. The only difference was in their eating habits. Lindsay only ate french fries and peanut butter while we fretted constantly trying to get Camille to eat anything--We spent lots of fun summers at Pickwick where the girls were forced to sleep in an inflatable boat because there were so many other people in our house that they got run out of their bedroom. As they got older, they still remained close although they went to separate schools and then Lindsay moved to Florida. They went to different colleges, live in separate cities now and fortunately I can keep up w/both of them through the internet. My friendship almost came to an end when, in college, Lindsay did something w/her away message that read "Dreaming of LHWingo" and I thought she was making fun of me and I wouldn't speak to her for weeks. I still, to the day, don't understand how it worked but apparently anyone who sent her a message got the same response but w/their screen name instead. The next post will be about the second time we almost disowned Lindsay. It was related to calling us to rub in an Auburn victory over our hapless Bulldogs.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Marathon Day in Starkville
The day began w/a lovely Southern brunch at T's and ended with a dance at the Shrine Club to the music of the "Cracker Jacks." The interesting part of the band is they are our age and have played at most of the weddings of ex-patriates from the Delta who have Memphis weddings. They play all the good music of the 60's and 70's and although we left before it was over, I am sure they ended w/"Shout." Sandwiched between these two landmark events were an open house at another Pike's house in Starkville, a very interesting basketball scrimmage and and a very boring football game v. MTSU that we won.
What's not to love about Rocking Rellenos for breakfast the next morning to top off the weekend? Everyone at my B n B gets Rocking Rellenos which is basically a egg strata w/cheese and green chiles. It is yummy. It is no carb. It replaces the standard monkey bread, hash brown potato casserole and sausage egg bake that Camille likes so much. After our guests left for home in Atlanta, I did all the laundry, etc. before I left so I would not have to rush down there this week to get ready for company. We are going to celebrate no company by going to Shipley's for hot donuts on Sunday morning. We play KY this weekend in football and have a basketball exhibition game after the football game so I am excited about that and Casper will wear his bumble bee suit all weekend. He looks adorable.
What's not to love about Rocking Rellenos for breakfast the next morning to top off the weekend? Everyone at my B n B gets Rocking Rellenos which is basically a egg strata w/cheese and green chiles. It is yummy. It is no carb. It replaces the standard monkey bread, hash brown potato casserole and sausage egg bake that Camille likes so much. After our guests left for home in Atlanta, I did all the laundry, etc. before I left so I would not have to rush down there this week to get ready for company. We are going to celebrate no company by going to Shipley's for hot donuts on Sunday morning. We play KY this weekend in football and have a basketball exhibition game after the football game so I am excited about that and Casper will wear his bumble bee suit all weekend. He looks adorable.
Monday, October 27, 2008
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