October 10, 2000

 

 

                                                  Jud News

 

                                                 by David Epley

 

SORRY ABOUT BEING LATE .BUT NOT MUCH HAPPENING.WE WLL SURE MISS RUBY NANNY SMILEING FACE HER AND GRACE CAME DOWN EVERY FEW DAYS AND GOT A COKE I KNOW HOW LOST GRACE IS .THEY WERE ALL WAYS  TOGETHER..IT STILL HASN’T RAINED.CANT REMEMBER IT BEING THIS DRY THE ONLEY THING WE HAVE PLENTY OF IS HOGS.SHORE LIKEING THE PEANUTS.OUR FRIEND SCOOT CAME DOWN FROM UP NORTH HE HAD A CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST TIMETHE WIND WAS BLOWING ABOUT 40 MPH HIM AND JEFF WALKED INTO ABOUT 60 HEAD SLEEPING .SAID IT SOUNDED LIKE A 100 SWICTH BLADE KINIVES OPENING UP LOTS OF TEETH CLACKING .SAID IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE WAS HUNTED BUT WOULD BE THE LAST.YOULL KNOW HOW THOSE YANKEES ARE THO.BUT DID KILL 2BIG ONES .WEIGH ABOUT 450LBS GOING TO GET THE HEAD MOUNTED SO HE CAN SHOW THOSE BLADES OFF UP THERE.MAY GET A LOT OF YANKESDOWN HERE FOR THE HOGS TO HUNT .THAT WOULD BE FUN.GREG AND CORLOS ARE OVER IN AFRICA HOPE TO BE HERE FOR HOMECOMING MAC AND MORGAN ARE IN IRELAND DP AND DAVID JUST GOT BACK.SAID IT SURE WAS COLD AND RAINIEAND 40FT WAVES SHORE ROUGH .WELL DOYLE KILLED A BIG RATTLER ON THE RIVER AND THEN CAME OUT OF HIS HOUSE AT 130 AND A BIB ONE WAS ON HIS FRONT PORCH .BUT HE LIVESON TOP OF A DEN..WELL WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DRINKING THE OTHER DAY AND HOW TO QUIT FOR ME IT WAS WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID .DRINK AND DIE  AND THEN JANNA ENGLISH WROTE THIS POMEN FOR ME AND THAT STILL HELPS SO IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND WHO NEEDS SOME HELP JUST SEND THEM TIS IT HELPS MEAND HOOPE IT HELPS YOULLS FRIENDS AS WELL

 

                              OLD HABITS

That‘s enough the doctor said,

One more drink and you‘ll surely die—

Those words sure got my attention

Believe me – that‘s no lie!

 

My name was mentioned many a time

As people prayed down on their knees,

Lord, let him live and give him strength

To fight this awful disease.

 

And maybe the lines were open up there,

And somehow those prayers got through—

One thing for certain— I wasn’t checking out,

Many things I still want to do.

 

So I decided to trade in my bottle,

My drinking had come to an end—

It‘s over, I’m through, I quit—no more,

I decided I need a new friend.

 

A friend that won’t make my gut hurt

And kick me when I’m down,

A friend that won’t cloud my thoughts,

And need a drink to get around.

 

Now some thought things were better

When alcohol numbed my days,

And some thought I was plumb crazy

To even try and change my ways.

 

But another chance I have been given

To make the most of life,

And I owe it to myself—

My family and my wife.

 

I admit there’s been many a day

When I‘ve longed for my favorite brew,

But I ‘m stubborn enough to remember

That day when I said I was through.

 

And now when people tell me

Old habits are sure hard to break,

I smile and simply tell them—

Yeah , but I’ve got what it takes.

                                                                Jana Wiley English