September 27 2008
Well gang, it’s been a helluva couple of weeks.
There are lots of folks that are living in heartbreak and misery. Some are homeless, some have no power. Their lives will never be the same. And some are just plain missing.
Texas being the place that it is, money and food are being donated, and in some cases just old fashioned muscle.
It’s kind of attention getting when an SUV full of guys with chainsaws drives up and they start cutting up trees that are lying in the street and throwing the pieces by the side of the road.
When asked why they’re doing it, the leader of the gang shrugs his shoulders and says, "Hell, we can’t go to work, we got all the tools, may as well help our neighbors."
Who he doesn’t know, by the way.
Yeah. You think and hope that you’ve got some of that stuff in you too.
The Houston Astros have turned out to be almost exactly the team that you thought they were in April, except that they concentrated most of their wins in two really exciting streaks.
The Houston Texans football team is two games into their season, and like for the last six years the running game is suspect, the quarterback is erratic, the pass rush is weak, and the offensive line is still learning to play the game.
As if a hurricane and two mediocre sports teams weren’t enough, it seems that the economy that George Bush has been telling us is fundamentally sound, is going to go down the drain if we don’t let the bankers pull themselves out of the hole, by our bootstraps.
And with no over site, this Paulson guy wants an immediate check for 700 billion dollars, and he’ll do what he can to fix things. No guarantees, and no over site either. You gotta love it.
Well, the message this week was going to be a report on some of the boys, who after three days of no power, decided to have a rifle competition with night scopes mounted on their rifles.
But with all the challenges hitting our neck of the woods, it seemed a little silly to make a big deal out of a few flesh wounds and the loss of a couple head of livestock.
And this being the case, there will be no message to the club members this week.
Sorry, gang.

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary