Quips from Kay

 No wonder the elderly remember and talk about the past so much...there's not a lot of future to dream about. That's my excuse for telling you about some of the activities we had when I was a very young girl in my little town in South Texas. When I was in the 9th grade the town leaders opened a place called "The Youth Center". It was just a couple of blocks from the high school and had a big dance floor, a juke box, and a snack bar. TV had just been invented and  was not common and no one could even have dreamed of the internet. We were easily entertained. It was a place where we could go, dance a bit and hang out with our friends with no strings attached. Two adults were present as chaperones but they did a good job of staying in the background so we felt like we were truly on our own. Since I loved to dance it was the perfect place for me. In the Fall we had hay rides, sitting on a trailer filled with hay which was pulled by a tractor. As we were pulled along, we sa...

I took a break from writing because my brain ran dry, but it's operating better now so here's some more "old Kay stuff" After one semester at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women's University)  in Denton, I was so homesick that I transferred to Texas College of Arts & Industries in Kingsville. It is now A&M Kingsville. Going to college at A&I in the 50s is a memory that's more like something I dreamed. My world at that time was filled with things like cows, cowboys, dances, Mexican food and music. It was a small college a small town with diverse economies. The great feature was the King Ranch, famous throughout the U.S. for its development of new methods of ranch operation and a new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis. It was also the home of Assault, the racehorse who won the Triple Crown in 1946. Little sidebar here: on one of our various field trips to the King Ranch we were walking through the stables and as I passed by Assault's...