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1. Cindy Scroggins on March 13th, 2010 at 7:58 pm

   Oh, man. Yes. Yes, I do.

2. Sheila Ryan on March 13th, 2010 at 8:00 pm

   We can scrabble around in the debris and act out stories.

3. Deron Bauman on March 13th, 2010 at 8:03 pm

   I’ll bring the scotch.

4. Cindy Scroggins on March 13th, 2010 at 8:12 pm

   I have silly work to do next week, but some days are freer than others. I wanna play and see, and help. Don’t y’all do it all without me, okay?

5. Rick Neece on March 13th, 2010 at 8:54 pm

   Sheila, Deron, Cindy, someone…
   Please post a photo of the evening, for those of us who vicariously live such moments with you.

6. Sheila Ryan on March 13th, 2010 at 9:14 pm

   I’ll pretty much just be there, except when I’m not. So give a call, then stop on by. Hang out with me and the baby doll.

7. Phil Bebbington on March 14th, 2010 at 3:02 am

   Now, if the door sticks, it’s my fault.

   Deron, the guy across the street may be about with his Cadillac (hood badge and belt and buckle on the back) with the blades. I bet he’d pose for you whilst you shot him. I think Dutton Drive might be the perfect backdrop for the shot.

   Damn! I wanna be there too. Now, you promise me you will drink over there.

8. Sheila Ryan on March 14th, 2010 at 7:06 am

   Phil, I think there’s still some booze in a kitchen cabinet. And if we run out, there are a couple of liquor stores only a mile or so away in Cockrell Hill.

9. Deron Bauman on March 14th, 2010 at 8:05 am

   I bought some islay scotch last night.

10. Sheila Ryan on March 14th, 2010 at 8:20 am

    Could I interest you and Amy in a foster care arrangement for the baby doll?

11. Sheila Ryan on March 14th, 2010 at 8:23 am

    On second thought, I’m wondering: Jasper.

12. Deron Bauman on March 14th, 2010 at 8:27 am

    Jasper would lick and care for the baby more than the baby would wish to be licked or cared for.

13. Sheila Ryan on March 14th, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Jasper does like to lick, doesn’t he?

14. Deron Bauman on March 14th, 2010 at 8:37 am

    oh boy.

15. wellcraftedtoo on March 14th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Sheila,

    You haven’t said so in so many words, but I’m assuming that you’re readying your mom’s house for sale?

    Oy.

    Believe me, I know what that can be like: just about every feeling possible can descend.

    ‘Readying’–what a nonsense word to encompass the cleaning out, organizing, sorting, sifting, and winnowing (not to mention trashing and selling) of how many years worth of living, buying, loving, and using!

    On the other hand, if that’s not what you’re up to, thank you for allowing me to muse back upon what it felt like to clean out Raleigh Road after 50 years of, shall we say?, heavy habitation.

    My thoughts will be with you this week.

16. Sheila Ryan on March 14th, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    Thank you, Pamela. That’s indeed what I will be up to. A four- or five-day blitz.

    Thank you for your thoughts.

    Tonight, as I sit in the Milwaukee airport, waiting for a delayed connecting flight to Dallas, I remind myself of the wisdom of Hunter S. Thompson:

    “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

17. wellcraftedtoo on March 18th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    And when the ‘weird’ turn pro, watch out!

18. wellcraftedtoo on March 23rd, 2010 at 10:15 am

    Sheila,

    Does not fair Dallas inter its refuse in landfills?

    A landfill that is then planted o’er with grass and trees, adding greatly to the beauty of the neighborhood?

    As in the one up the road here on Willow that Jake worked so hard to get authorized (zoning board) in the 70′s.

    And it’s all filled up now, and ‘closed’.

    Can you imagine the pickings in there? (Where ARE my Beatles records, anyway??)

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