The Flo News January 23, 2007

Reprinted by permission of The Buffalo Press

The icicles and the frozen rain gauge tell the story of this week at Flo. The whole week was grey, overcast, wet and cold until Sunday which was clear, warm and blue and beautiful. One day like that can make you forget a week of bad weather, like a month of wet weather can make you forget a year of drought.

My little pond is full and it is pretty slow to refill after a drought so I hope that everyone else has the water they need going into the year. The Leon County farmers and ranchers don’t need another year like 2006.

Flo resident James Lennox has recently had gall bladder surgery and says that he is recovering fairly well from that, although he had been ill from it before the surgery a couple of weeks ago. James says that the surgery helped a lot, but now his hip is keeping him pretty much house bound since he has not returned to driving yet.

Richard Blanchard of the Flo VFD says that they need your support. Their monthly meeting is on the second Monday of each month at the Lone Star Community Center. Donations to the Flo VFD can be made while attending a meeting, or by mailing it to Flo VFD c/o Richard Blanchard 5639 C.R. 382 Buffalo, Tx 75831.

A person… I wouldn’t call him a fan, had to be asked to leave the Oakwood-Neches girls basketball game after he was profane, rude and threatening toward the Oakwood coach. This was in the presence of the players and other students. This fellow didn’t appear to be intoxicated. He didn’t have a child on the team. I guess he just forgot that these games are supposed to be about teaching character and teamwork to kids. He was banned from Oakwood games for the rest of the year.

My grandfather said…is a new feature that we are introducing in the Flo News this week. The idea is for local citizens to write, or call and tell me stories about the early days of settlement in the Flo area and Leon County. One of my Grandfathers was J.L. (Jack) Moore who was born in 1853 on the ridge just above Serrisco Creek about a hundred yards south of F.M. 1511. Grandpa Jack passed away a few years before I was born so I never got to hear him tell any stories that he is said to have loved to tell, but my mother, Mary, and uncles Evan, Edell and Alvin and aunt Alice Barnett of Centerville have all told a lot of them and I will start off next week with an account of what Grandpa Jack said that this country was like when he was a boy.

Let me hear your stories and I will try to get them in the column as time and space allow.

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