"ART IS HEADED HOME..."
Art and Carmen Snipes came over yesterday
for brunch. It had been awhile since we got
togther, what with summer travels and all.
"Over" is a correct term because they live due
south of us, less than two miles.
We made some nice (mild) posole using that
marvelous broth out of the browned pork
roast, with danishes, magnificent fruit pieces,
and coffee of course! And oh yes: Red Lobster
cheese biscuits, made at home. Art said:
"Wow, your house smells good!"
Since Art moved over here in'88 we have got
together maybe over a hundred times. No
telling how many places "we have eaten at."
Wanda knew all the good places.
There were two CHS '51 reunions, '06 and '08.
Here in Albuquerque.
That summer of 2012 when Art was alone, he
celebrated the Fourth of July with us, at our
house.
For you see, he and I have been friends since
1939 and the first grade at La Casita. From 1940
tp 1948 we lived a block apart over there at 1100
Reid and 1020 Thornton.
We and our brothers played in the shade of the
elm trees during WWII as the B24's droned
around town on those lazy, crazy, hazy summer
days of boyhood.
As we popped grapes yesterday at our brunch
and the ladies talked, we remembered old CHS
'51 and mentioned many friends by name, and
said: "Do you ever hear from XXX or wonder
where YYY is now?"
Then we went thru the usual attempt to name
Clovis streets as they were in the forties, when
the population was 12,000 and not 40,000.
It was game attempt I think, given that names
seem to be the first thing to go, at our ages.
West side of town: Hull, Davis, Edwards, Reid
Thornton, Calhoun, Hinkle. Merriwether,
Rencher, Mitchell, and Main.
East side: Pile, Gidding, Axtell, Wallace, Sheldon,
Ross and Prince...and that was about it for us.
There is a whole new town full of streets out
north which I never leaned--I was gone--- and it
wouldn't surprise me if Grady is eventually a
suburb, with Cannon growing and all.
Our little brunch was fun... just splendid...
and over two hours passed in nothing flat!
But it was also sad, as life sometimes is,
for it will be our last one for awhile. It was a
sort of a goodbye going-away event, for Art
is moving back to our dear old hometown,in
early January, along with Carmen...and it will
be a happy experience for her, I'm sure.
He is headed home.
We had a long hug as he left...who knows
if we'll ever meet again ...this side of heaven...
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Mil
DECEMBER 1, 2017
See MIL'S PLACE, "ART'S BIRTHDAY"
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