Crucifixion

Huh.  Well here are some shots of our living room.  I messed up when I turned this thing on.  I was talking about my early childhood and I mentioned some things about Yoakum when I lived there.  I remember one big event.  We went to the stations of the cross during Lent and I guess I was taken aback by the stations of the cross and when we got home, I got 2 two by fours and nailed them together and made a cross.  My idea was to lay Charlie down on the cross and I was going to crucify him and our neighbor across the street – I think he was about 91 or 92, he was a retired Chiropractor – he watched Charlie and I play and when he saw me put Charlie on that cross and pick up the hammer and I was going to crucify him, that old man came off his porch and crossed the street before the hammer came down on Charlie’s hand.  What he didn’t know was, I had put a nail in the wood so Charlie’s fingers were in between the nail.  The nail wasn’t on his hand so the only thing that would have kind of hurt Charlie was if I had missed the nail and hit his hand with the hammer, which I probably would have done accidentally.  But anyway that was kind of an exciting time for that old Chiropractor and for Charlie and I.  It was a little much for us to do.  When my mother found out what I was doing she was not a happy camper about that.  She kind of got upset with me, but I think that actually she was chuckling inside.  That’s one of the really stupid things I did as a kid.

The Start of the Journal

Agnes:  This is Papa and he’s getting ready to tell a little bit more of his story.  He decided to change to a different chair so it would give a little bit different scene because he wants to take it not on himself – and its too hot to go outside and take a picture, but he’s going to do the next one from this chair.

Getting the Hang of Things

There, there.  Hey we’re in business now. Hi Jim.  I have my own sound effects here.  I just got back from a KC meeting and Johnny brought me home.  I have to beg rides from wherever I can get them and he told me that Casey’s truck blew a head gasket so he’s going to have to replace that head gasket.

Casey Schultz

He says its expensive because - if you take it to a shop – because of all that stuff you have to take off, so he figured that he and Casey can get that thing taken off and the head gasket put back on.  It will be good for Casey to get some experience with that.
 

It is hot here.  It was 103 today and it didn’t look like there was going to be a break in the weather until about the 16^th of August, but that’s the way it usually is this time of year.  I really appreciate the gift and the work you and Cristan did putting this package together.Now I’ve got to enroll in MIT and figure out how to run this thing, but I’ll catch on.

Jim and Cristan

Mom’s already way ahead of me on this so she can help me.  It was nice to get that package.  Cristan did a superb job of packing it.  That was very professionally done.  Anyway, its here and I’m going to start getting some experience with it.  I guess this will be the first entry of this journal so you’ll be hearing from me some more.  Thank you very much and I do love you dearly and Cristan too.  God bless you both.  Night night.