Yesterday's post leads me to remember those high school years. It seems my crew is relatively the same. There's Peetey and Mr. Turkentine - I've known them since 7th grade. There was "Jeff" who I barely see nowadays and "Josh" who used to hang out on occasion. My sister and her friend Kristen even hung out with us. Having a home with a swimming pool was a good place to hang out, especially during the summers. We would have lots of other hangouts. It started off at "The Dock" - a little dock off of Lake Wichita near the stadium. No one was out there so we all would go out there with our respective girlfriends and talk(well, I wasn't much of a dater but they would). Naturally since we were in high school there was always beer and fun. I never drank until I was 21 and it was never beer. But they did and we all had a good time. Then it evolved into going out to Taco Bell and Taco Mayo for cheap dinners. When you could get 2 tacos and a drink for $2 that was all that was needed. Taco Mayo was even cheaper than that, although rumors of "dog meat" were greatly exaggerated, I think. Then we would go to the park at Jefferson Elementary, where I married Kristen and "Peetey" by saying ,"By the power vested in me, which I have none, I now pronounce you man and wife". Then there were other hangouts that would take longer to get to. We would go out to Lake Kickapoo about 25 minutes away and hang out. Then we would also go to Lake Arrowhead on the weekends and camp-out in tents. That was fun. There was also Parker Ranch road and Turkey Ranch road - those were the make-out places. I never really went there, except when it snowed cause I liked the scenery. There is a story about Parker I'll let Peety tell if he wants to, something about his car getting stuck in the mud and the cops knocking on his window. We also used to go shooting guns near the railroad tracks. I am surprised we never hit any telephone wires. It seems that most of our time was spent trying to be somewhere else for a change of scenery. I can see that. Ah youth.

Thought of the Day
"Whoa. Is this like the weather channel?"
"Yeah, eh heh heh, the forecast is partially cool."
Beavis & Butthead