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The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London, which today is the 13th most populated city, with about 8 million residents.
And Now You Do
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5:16, Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
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It is that time right now this very week for the annual Kerens.Com Ladies Column, just for the Ladies and nothing but the Ladies. Focused purely on all those hard working women out there that bite their finger nails and spank the dog all spring and summer long while waiting with tremendous heart stopping anxiety for Hank Williams Jr. to bellow out those famous words:
"Are You Ready For Some Football!!"
That has got to be the deadest part of the year between February 1st immediately following the Superbowl and August 1st when the first pre-season game kickstarts a new season. Isn't that right girls? What in the world are all of your guys suppose to do with their free time when there is no football on the television set? Boring Boring Boring. You might as well teach them how to crochet during that bad time of the year.
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randyghughes21 writes "This Past Saturday, April 25th, my mom and I went to her school reunion. It was very fun. Mom got to meet some of her friends she had not seen in over a year.
Gholson is a wonderful Community just north of Waco, Texas. There was good food and fellowship with her friends. I also visited the school gym where my mom played on the girls basketball team. Gholson has also won many basketball trophys. Both the girl's basketball teams have won in playoffs and so have the boy's team as well. It was a wonderful way to spend a Saturday afternoon."
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We lived in three different places in Elm Flat—the Parks place, the Thompson place, and the Goforth place. (Out in the Flat, you always referred to the place you lived by giving it the name of the owner of the land. The first house was the Parks place, meaning the farm and farmhouse were owned by Mr. Parks. Ditto with the Thompson and the Goforth places, and later Dad leased the Houston place, which did not have a house on it.) None of these three houses were very fancy, but each had a sound roof overhead, which was nice and about as much as anyone expected. None of these three places are still standing, and passers by would be hard pressed to imagine that houses ever stood on any one of the three sites, although each of the three abodes linger clearly in my memory.
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southerncrossranch writes "Many years ago I was on my way from Lancaster, Texas and cut across 287 and hit Interstate 45 to Highway 31. I had never been that way before. I was on my way to the Jr. College over at Athens to enroll for the first semester after I graduated high school. I had been over in Lancaster visiting my married baby sister.
As I turned down 31 and just got past Powell, the old Ford pickup I was driving quit on me. So here I was broke down in the middle of nowhere. And back then you didn't have cell phones. So I was took off walking toward Kerens when a gentleman stopped and asked if I needed a ride.
I said "Yes Sir, I surely do" and off we headed. I told him that ole black truck a ways back was mine, and I needed to get to a phone and call my grandfather to come get me. So he offered me a phone at his business but I asked him if he would just let me out at a gas station so I could get a coke and use the pay phone. So he said sure. He let me out and off he went back toward town."
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Poisonous snakes are a fact of life around Kerens. As far as I know there are copperheads, cottonmouth moccasins, rattlesnakes, and a small snake we used to call a ground rattler. If you are a herpologist (snake expert), maybe you can think of some more, but these four are plenty for me!
Probably the best thing you can do as far as snakes are concerned is to leave them alone.
If you leave them alone, you are not likely to get snake bitten. Start fooling around with them, and the opposite is likely to be true!
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southerncrossranch writes "Hello everyone as most of you know it is that time of year again. Spring is here and of course it is time for another election for the school board. I would like you all to know what a privilege it is to be able to run for the two available seats this year. And how much I appreciate anyone who is willing to put their name on a ballot and get involved.
Some of you have asked what my qualifications are for running. Well let me see. I have served my country proudly wearing a uniform. It does not matter which branch, for anyone who wears a uniform and serves is a hero in my book."
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The first in a series of some "Into The Fringe" somewhat esoteric, but very true incidences.
I wrote this when I had newly formed a study group in my home for Wednesday nights, which was coincidently Don's weekly pool night with his friends. It was a wonderful thing for me, because I was getting increasingly worse with the Rheumatoid Factor raging through my body, and it was so good to stay in the comfort of my own home. After three years, I had to give it up; but hung onto it vehemently, and making no bones about not wanting to end a good thing. I have always had a problem letting go of good things, literally. It was an envelope of time, that when over, was sealed and added to all the other wonderful experiences of my past that were similar in nature. All good! I suppose I could reflect, and say that life is made up of a series of “envelope experiences” crammed full of wonderful things that I unenthusiastically had to end, or they were ended for me.
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Local News: Searching for Will Johnson in Kerens, Texas
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Mike writes "Searching for Will Johnson, I believe he is about 25 years of age, in Kerens, Texas. I bought a car from him and have tried repeatedly to contact him. I've left numerous messages and have had no response from him. If anyone in Kerens might know this young man, please ask him to call me. I bought his Buick Riviera. He has my phone number.
Thanks.
Mike"
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #178
Bulldozing Johnny Scott's Cafe
August 3rd, 2003
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My first surprise this week was when I opened the Tribune and saw that Neal Williams was out of town on vacation and my column was lost within the bottomless bit bucket under his computer. The notice also said there would be a double dose of Darby this week in the newspaper. Hmmm. What in the world would I put down that would accompany those words about Main Street last week. I was already planning something for the ladies. Something about football season since that time of the year is staring at us right between the eyes. Football season is important to all of us ex-Bobcats, although I would not quite put it in the same category as the street we lived on when growing up as kids. You know, that red brick street that runs through the middle of town. Not quite a yellow brick road, but to Dorothy, it was a symbol of a road leading to home. Don’t you think? I do not have any sparkling red slippers that I wear around the house, but I still see that road as a pathway into my hometown as do so many others.
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ppborgfeldt writes "
MEDIA RELEASE
North Central Texas Council on Governments
Aging Programs
Contact: Pat Borgfeldt
Volunteer Recruitment Consultant
(817) 360-0984
ppborgfeldt@aol.com
February 27, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Volunteers Needed to Help Nursing Home Residents
February 27, 2009 - The North Central Texas Council of Governments’ (NCTCOG) Area Agency on Aging Ombudsman Program has immediate need for warm-hearted volunteers to help elderly and disabled residents of nursing and assisted living facilities in Corsicana and Kerens. Ombudsmen advocate for residents’ rights including, but not limited to, dependable and consistent care and an environment that promotes the residents’ dignity, self-determination, and communication."
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Foxtales: Addendum for article entitled “Lithium”
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ATTENTION: ANYONE WHO GETS BYETTA SHOTS!
In the last article, I mentioned “Byetta”, a relatively new Diabetes medication doctors prescribe to keep you from having to go on insulin (administered by shot twice daily.) You start on 5 mg, for a month, then go up to 10mg. In my case, I was on two months of 5 mg, then 21 days on 10mg. I was on Metformin, and Glipizide as well. Three meds for high sugar. Even then my sugar didn’t drop that much.
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When one of the oil companies put a pipeline through Elm Flat, it passed right in front of our house, the Thompson place, a big unpainted, two-story house just west of the Houston place that Daddy rented a few years later. (There was a low place on the Houston place, right across the road from our house, where the water pooled up into what appeared during the rainy season to be a small lake. Once Dad borrowed a shotgun and killed a big Canadian goose that came down on the water, and Mom cooked the goose for dinner . . . not very good, too greasy.) This was winter, a rainy, wet winter, so instead of driving into town, the workers on the pipeline rented rooms with various farmers out in the Flat so they would have a place to stay during the weeks it took to dig the trench and put in the pipeline.
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rrandyghughes writes "Valentine's day is not far away. I saw a wonderful movie on Dish network's Oxygen channel about true love. It was about two young people, Noah and Allie, who cared a lot about each other. If you have some one in your life, let them know how you feel. The movie starred actress Gena Rowlands and James Garner. it was a beautiful movie. Love means never having to say goodbye."
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rrandyghughes writes "Hopefully by May the new Denny's Restaurant will be open. In the future, many Corsicana residents will be able to order Denny's Grand Slam breakfast and in April the new Office Depot will open, hopefully with more new businesses on the way for Corsicana and Navarro county."
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Local News: are you ready for the digital transition?
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rrandyghughes writes "Will you be ready for the digital TV transition in February 2009? The 17th of that month, all TV stations in the Dallas Area will shut off the analog TV broadcast and only broadcast in the digital TV mode for good. If you still use an outside TV antenna, you will have to buy a digital over the air converter box or buy a TV that has a digital tuner."
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 At about 2500 A.D., humankind discovers a computer problem that *must* be
solved. The only difficulty is that the problem is NP complete and will
take thousands of years even with the latest optical biologic technology
available. The best computer scientists sit down to think up some solution.
In great dismay, one of the C.S. people tells her husband about it. There
is only one solution, he says. Remember physics 103, Modern Physics, general
relativity and all. She replies, "What does that have to do with solving
a computer problem?"
"Remember the twin paradox?"
After a few minutes, she says, "I could put the computer on a very
fast machine and the computer would have just a few minutes to calculate but
that is the exact opposite of what we want... Of course! Leave the
computer here, and accelerate the earth!"
The problem was so important that they did exactly that. When
the earth came back, they were presented with the answer:
IEH032 Error in JOB Control Card.
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