Jeanne Murchison:  

no kill animal shelter, then spend the rest on my family, travel and education for my grandson. I don't dress like I did 10 or 15 yrs. ago! I'm big on age appropiate! I share my home with friends, which I find happy and interesting! I have 2 trophies, one for being the sports princess in Palacios high school, the other in the woman's division of skeet and trap shooting. My husband was a big game hunter, trap and skeet shooter. My oldest friend is Gloria Harvey from Palacios! Our Dad's worked together at Camp Hulen when we were born!! We visited back and forth during the years and wrote many letters when she lived in Calif. I spent the week end w/ her last week!! We had a lot of fun when we were young, eating little tomatoes from her Dad's garden in the summers, mixing 3 kinds of ice cream and mixing it w/ her Mother's electric mixer, swimming in the resovar way behind her house! Going to the dances at the pavilion, which happened about 3 times. lol My Mother thought I was taking a dress to go to Church on Sunday, which we did, but she would not have approved of me going dancing. My second oldest friend was Butch Cashion, he was 2 yrs. and I was 3 yrs., when we moved across the street, he was my BFF for many years! Mainly I remember us playing with little cars and digging tunnells in a big dirt pile behind his house, reading funny books, riding his motor bike and hanging sleeping bats from our fingers in the big tree behind his house!! haha I don't really know who I knew first Gloria or Butch!! Good memories for me of our ol' neighborhood!! My first job was at Stanley's grocery, where I got paid no telling what, to check groceries. What I remember most about it is I was a nervous wreck!. lol My first real boy friend that I had car dates with was Freddie Stanley!! Neighborhood kids played baseball in the street between our houses!! One day he called to see if I would go to the Rice Festival football game w/ him, afterwards we rode the ferris wheel down town on the square! We dated for 18 months!! lol I can not imagine why Freddie liked me, I was a stringy haired, skinny little girl, but thinking back, I guess he did. hahaha Something I never told my parents...... Our first little house was by a creek, some boys had thrown my Dad's life jacket in the creek. My Mother was so upset when I came in from school, I was in the 3rd. grade, and had walked home in the rain since my Mother didn't drive!! I took out running following the winding creek & looking for the orange life jacket, I saw it bobbing up and down, but I had to get in front of it, and I did many blocks later, but then I had to have a way to reach it! I couldn't walk by the creek so I had to run on the street a block over and run the block back to see if it was still coming! The creek seemed to be a river it was so far out of the banks! Finally I saw this huge tree that had a big limb that was out over the water! I could see it coming so I took off my shoes and climbed the tree! I walked out on the limb that went out over the raging water, I placed myself so I could catch it when it came flying by! I sat down and turned upside down hanging by my knees. When it got to me I caught it & hung on to it and little by little the water drained out of it enought so I could lift it out of the water. I remember that so well, I even remember my dress going over my face and I couldn't see, so I had to tuck it in my panties in the front!! I remember hoping no one was watching and saw my panties! By the time I walked all the way back home it was dark thirty! My Mother was frantic, they were so upset I never told them what I had done! The main thing, in my mind, was that I got the orange life jacket! I used to love to run, I ran every where!! When I worked at the Daily Tribune those 3 yrs., I was running up and down the streets, running the ads for the news paper, and back to have them checked before they ran in the paper. I loved being out in my yellow Mustang, instead of being cooped in our office all day. I shared office space with the boss of the advertising dept. I did have my own desk and phone!