2014-10-15 113531-436040698.MOV

Well today is a beautiful fall day and I thought I’d sit down and share some of my memories with you guys. Excuse me. Got a frog in my throat. I’m sitting on the deck in back of our house. It’s just wonderful looking at the grounds here and seeing the statue of our Blessed Mother in the back, in the foreground I guess. Just finished having breakfast and a wonderful lecture from grandmother on my weight so I have to start today to do something about that. I think the last part of my memoirs that I dictated were some of the first grade memories and what I remembered from my time in San Antonio in the first grade. I started the first grade, as you know, in Yoakum at St. Joseph’s school. It’s a parish school and it was a parochial school that was staffed by the Sisters of Divine Providence – the same group that Sister Mary Christine is a member of for many years from Our Lady of the Lake College. So when I went to St. Anthony’s I believe it was also staffed by the Sisters of Divine Providence. Going to St. Anthony’s was a lot different than going to St. Joseph’s in Yoakum. San Antonio was an exciting place to be and almost scary for a little guy in the first grade – all the so called traffic. I did walk to school. It’s amazing, we would do that today. I didn’t have to go very far but it was several blocks and I never did take the same route every day cause I loved to explore different neighborhoods. St. Anthony’s was a parochial, not a parochial but a, I don’t know what you call it but it was a stand-alone school that like I said was staffed by the Sisters of Divine Providence. (sneezing) Excuse me. Had to sneeze. It only did the grammar school, no high school.
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