Nov 12, 2010 - Jacksonville State vs. Southeastern Missouri State

Our last JSU home game. What a fantastic weekend. The weather was perfect and Jo Ann put on a big tailgate party for Raymond's fraternity, the Jacksonville Police, JSU Police and Jacksonville fire departments. Raymond's friend Manny's dad Raymond works for a Budweiser distributor. We had plenty of beer and memrobilia. JSU lost its first game of the season the prior week but won its last home game over Southeastern Missouri State. It has been a lot of fun this year visting Jacksonville regularly.

Oct 22, 2010 - Jacksonville State Homecoming

Jo Ann and Elizabeth did the Susan Komen 60 mile walk for breast cancer this weekend. I dropped them off Friday morning at Lake Lanier Islands at 7 AM and beat a path back home to take my son-in-law to Jacksonville for the homecoming weekend festivities. The weather was perfect, the camping was as good as usual and with no women to watch us, we avoided debilitating hangovers. Jacksonville won its game with Austin Peay State University of Chattanooga, TN stretching their no-loss season to 8 & 0. On the way home, Brett (my son-in-law) got his...

Oct 15, 2010 - Jacksonville State University

Chamber of commerce weather - A gorgeous weekend at a beautiful college. Jacksonville State played Tennessee State on Saturday afternoon and won 24 to 0. The gamecocks are undefeated through seven games so far this season and off to the best start in their history. With three wins at the end of last season,JSU has now won ten consecutive games. Next weekend is homecoming and the opponent is Austin Peay State University whose record is 4 and 2. The daytime temperatures have been in the mid 70s and the nightime temperatures in the mid 40s....

Oct 1, 2010 - Jacksonville, AL

I left Birmingham on Saturday, October 25. My son made arrangements for me to leave the 'Mobile Command Center' in Jacksonville, AL, his town of residence. Raymond and Lane got married a year ago after graduating from Jacksonville State University and decided to stay in town and pursue graduate studies. Jacksonville is a delightful city and the university is small enough that students don't get lost and large enough at ~ 9,500 students to offer most of the programs, services and benefits that a larger university would have. JSU just...

Mar 17, 2010 - Here we go again

We are now in Country Court RV Park after a very interesting start. We delayed starting our trip for a couple of days because we were helping Melissa. She had to work another 24-30 hour shift yesterday. Bill took Phoenix (her dog) back to her apt. early this morning as we wanted an 8:00 departure. All was going well...car hooked up and ready to pull out. Bill entered the motor home and realized the steps didn't retract. After trying to open and shut the door a few times, a quick call was made to Lynn Williams who works on our RV in...

Nov 9, 2007 - Jacksoville State University

Another JSU football game. Another very nice weekend. Temperatures in the mid 60s. We never went to the game. We stayed in the tailgate area and had a ball with the kids, many of whom did not stay in the stadium longer than one quarter. Jo Ann was holding forth with the kids in the trailer and I was philosophying by a fire the kids made in a barrell outside. They burned all of the wood they could find and ended up burning white plastic chairs - not a good idea. We had one of the best tailgate parties we've ever had.

Oct 18, 2007 - Jacksoville State University

Another JSU football game. We encountered severe traffic getting out of Atlanta and it took us 3 1/2 hours to go 115 miles! We met Raymond's new girlfriend for the first time. They took us to the pep rally for the game in the stadium. It was great. This is homecoming weekend and the fraternities/sororities are working on floats for the homecoming parade. We got to go the the frat house and watch the float construction. Raymond's fraternity has won the float competition for several years and their float has been towed by my truck every year...

Sep 21, 2007 - Jacksoville State University

Another JSU football game with a big tailgate party. JSU played eastern KY. The weather was dry with temps in the mid 80s. Raymond's fraternity had a BIG party in front of our trailer in the tailgate area. Raymond and I did the tailgate party. Jo Ann stayed home to go to a wedding shower with Elizabeth. Raymond cooked wings and they were a big hit as usual. The fire department and sheriff's department visited us for dinner. I spent the night alone in the trailer - it was very quiet