Gleaning Facebook: Sheila 1971-72

My bride sitting by our creek. I was and am a lucky man.

This slide was labeled simply: The Prophet. Look at the other pictures in this little album. This prophet was one lucky guy.

This was actually the late summer of '71. The first Sunday of our new life in Rome, I drove Sheila up to the Pocket. We walked up the trail to find Keown Falls. It was so dry that summer that the falls was reduced to the drips you see in this picture.

At the Judy & Gary Cox wedding. I'll say it again: I was and am a lucky man.

A day at Cedar Creek on the Looney farm with Mike and Carolyn and their girls. Did I mention that I was and am a lucky man?

Some days that first year of our marriage, I'd come back to our little apartment from school to find a scene like this. Great food and... I was and am a lucky man.

Lillian Shaw
That pot is in my kitchen right now.

Terrell Shaw

I can top that! That girl is in my house right now.

 

Save the Coosa River Basin!

The Etowah Darter (from the CRBI website)

Please consider joining the Coosa River Basin Initiative for 2010. Dues are $35. The mission of this wonderful grass-roots environmental organization is to preserve and protect the Coosa River watershed, so vital to the health, economy, recreation, and wildlife of all of Northwest Georgia. Immediate and important battles coming up in the new year include:

• protecting our watershed and others from the transfer of millions of addition gallons per day to satisfy that leaky wasteful behemoth Atlanta that sucks so much already from Lake Lanier and the little Chattahoochee daily. Sign the No Water Grabs petition!

(from the No Water Grabs website)

• stopping overdevelopment in the floodplain of the Coosa, the Etowah, and the Oostanaula, including the incredible plan for the City of Rome to gift 60 wetland acres of our central park in the very heart of Rome to developers for a song, allowing the developers to fill the duck pond and wetland with dirt and erect yet another strip shopping center within a mile of what must surely be acres of unoccupied retail, office, and commercial space.

I am a newly elected member of the board of directors of CRBI and I'd love to feel that I had a part in drumming up some more help. If we do not let our city, county, and state leaders know that we oppose these unhealthy, and really unwise policies, our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren will miss out on having this wonderful wetland and greenspace in the center of our city. And they will not continue to have the river system with the most diverse ecology in the US, as they do now.

CRBI is the most effective force for the environment we have in Northwest Georgia. Be a part of it.

Can you tell I feel strongly about this?

Visit www.coosa.org for more facts and membership info.

And join the Facebook CRBI cause:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/235620/42668177

Sign the No Water Grabs petition.

Pictures from Uncle Grady's Funeral

A group of pictures displayed at the service.

Margaret Thomas Shaw (Uncle Grady's widow)

David and Vicki Shaw with their three daughters (L-R) Haley, Katie, Jessica

Katie Shaw

Sheila, Me, Carmen Elliott

The Crouses: (L-R) Gil Sr., Jan, Gil Jr.

Ron Johnston

Ron Johnston, Carol Shaw Johnston, Jim Turrentine, Beth Shaw Rozsel, Joan Shaw Turrentine, Ruth Baird Shaw, David Baird Shaw, Vicki Brown Shaw, Debi Shaw Lewis, Sheila Matthews Shaw, Janice Shaw Crouse, Charles Terrell Shaw, Gilbert Lewis Crouse

Ruth Baird Shaw

I see why i have not been a fan of picture taking. 

Lisette Lewis
Actually, I was thinking that this was a very nice picture of everyone.

Janice Shaw Crouse
I'm awfully glad to have the picture!! Gregg and Chuck are the only ones missing.

Mother (Ruth Baird Shaw) with her seven children (L-R) Joan, Beth, Carol, Debi, David, Jan, Me.

Gordon & Marelli's Natalie Roseberry and her son.

Carmen Elliott, who will be 99 next month, is a faithful member of Avondale-Patillo United Methodist Church. Jim Turrentine, married to my sister, Joan Shaw Turrentine, was a pastor there fifteen years ago or so. Jim presided at Uncle Grady's funeral.

Mike Bock

I told Carmon that I saw his picture. I printed a copy of your post about Grady, from Alone On A Limb, and included it in his birthday card. 

Terrell Shaw
It was great to see him.

Ruth Baird Shaw
I may be the only person there who did not meet Carmon. My family will not let me meet older men! <smile>

Me with Merelli Norton (widow of Gordon)

 

Gil Crouse

Kevin and Michael Shaw

Eugenia Shaw with her daughter Angie

The family gathered at a restaurant to eat together after the service. (L-R) Beth Shaw Roszel, Karen Shaw, Danny Shaw, Debi Shaw Lewis, Margaret Shaw, Ruth Shaw

Janice and Joan

Rone and Carol

Mrs. Tebow's Choice

According to reports:

Twenty-odd years ago a young woman was advised to abort the human seed growing in her body. Doctors feared her necessary medical treatments would seriously damage her baby. She had a choice to make and chose instead to allow that sprouting embryo to grow. She would pray for a healthy baby but accept the outcome whatever it was. After exiting her womb, that bundle of potentiality became one of the great college football players of all time.

I applaud her choice.

I am glad she had a choice to make.

I could not criticize her if her choice had been the reverse.

Now, the fact is, an abortion is ALWAYS a brutal, painful, agonizing, choice to make. Anyone who tries to trivialize it is foolish, in my book. Anyone who would use abortion as casually as spermicide or a condom will rue that choice if they have an ounce of humanity. We are doing a great disservice to the young women of our country by so callously accepting the huge number of abortions currently happening. That such an astronomical number of our young women are allowing themselves to be used by uncommitted men is painful to me. That this joyless debauchery is resulting in way too many young women having unwanted pregnancies and then way too many abortions is sad. If we believe to our bones, as I do, that women have an unalienable right to choose abortion, and also believe that abortion is harmful to the women involved, we have a responsibilty to work to prevent that choice from having to be made so often.

The response by some pro-choice groups to the case above will do more damage to the pro-choice cause than fifty anti-abortion Super Bowl ads. The majority of Americans are pro-choice AND anti-abortion. If the screamers appear, as they do, pro-abortion, they will offend at least three-quarters of the people paying attention, in my opinion. They offend me.

The proper attitude of pro-choice groups should be to applaud that mother for the choice she made two decades ago and to proclaim their dedication to assuring that all women continue to have a choice.

Abortion should be safe, legal... and rare.

To Junior, -- Love, Samson

Grady Columbus Shaw, Jr.

Dear Uncle "Junior",

I suppose I must have been a husky baby. My parents said that was how I earned the nickname. At 5'8" I'm not now exactly the image that comes to the minds of others when you call, "Samson!"

Grady Columbus Shaw, Jr.

But "Samson" I have been for 62 years -- to you. And for not quite so long to my cousin Gordon, and "Mama Shaw", and Uncle James, Bill, Jack, and "Daddy Shaw". I really didn't even notice it much, I was so used to it growing up. A few months ago, when I walked across the parking lot at Gordon's funeral to greet you and Margaret through your driver's side window, I'm not sure your, "Hey there, Samson!" registered at first. The warmth registered. The genuine joy to see me registered. And that silly appellation helped communicate it.

Margaret, Danny, and Grady

Yesterday, only moments after I learned that Grady Columbus Shaw, Jr. had died, it struck me that I will on Earth never again hear that particular communication of love and joy. That all the members of that boisterous group of Shaw brothers, and their parents, are gone now.

And all by myself, I choked up. Silly, I guess.

You were never quite as merciless in your teasing of the oldest grandson as the wise-cracking Bill or Jack. You could tease, too, but always with an "aw, shucks" in your voice and a twinkle in your eye. You were unfailingly generous and kind. For your last few years you had that unsightly cancer on your face. At Gordon's funeral I noticed a little boy, maybe 7 or 8, watching you. Finally he could stand it no more and came right up to you asked, "What's wrong with your nose, mister?" You betrayed no discomfort at all, and replied in that same soft kind voice I've known all my life, "It's just a sore, son." The boy was satisfied and moved on. And so did you.

Grady Columbus Shaw, Jr. is fourth from the left in the front. He flew 20 missions in the Pacific during World War II as a nose bomber on a B24 Liberator. He was part of the 31st Bomb Squadron - Hofer Crew (Four Fan Fanny, Serial 44-41669).

My mother says that you were to her more brother than in-law since you were a young teen when she became the teenaged bride of your older brother. She says that she and you and Bill played together, and in a way, grew up together.

(l-r) James, Bil, and Grady (Junior) Shaw

I know that I loved seeing you even more in recent years, if for no other reason than the degree to which you recalled for me the voice, the carriage, the love of life, of my father whom I still ache for after almost 24 years.

So, Uncle Grady -- I've finally gotten used to that more respectful way to address you -- I won't pretend to know how these things work, but I hope that you are somewhere now with Charles, and James, and Bill, and Jack, and maybe Gordon -- all of you laughing your heads off, Bill almost snorting and choking at Jack's shenanigans. Maybe there are some fire crackers. Maybe cigarettes don't cause harm here. They ARE a handy way to light the fuses. Or maybe the Lord allows dogs, and you have Trouble, the Boston Terrier, to pester. Mama Shaw in apron, cooking a feast, fusses at you from the kitchen, probably, and Daddy Shaw responds with a grin, "Good Grannies, Lillian, (pronounce that 'Lil-yun') let the boys have fun. I swanie, it's about time!"

(l-r) Joan Shaw (Turrentine), Ruth Baird Shaw, Charles Shaw, Lillian Shaw (Mama Shaw ), Bill Shaw (making a face, of course), James Shaw, Margaret Shaw (partially hidden), Grady Shaw, Sr. (Daddy Shaw - foreground), Grady Shaw, Jr.

If that's the way it works, your brothers are a happy crew today.

But back here we're not feeling so hot. There are tears for our loss and a few regrets for phone calls and visits unmade. We will bury you on Wednesday near the earthly remains of Charles, James, Bill, Jack, Mama Shaw and Daddy Shaw. We will gather later to remember you at Avondale-Patillo United Methodist Church. Jim will preach. Others may say a few words. And I will sing "Amazing Grace", sadly aware that, although I will always be...

Your loving Nephew,

I will, on Earth, no longer be...

Samson

(Holly Creek picture from the internet)

Thirty-nine years ago today, beside a cold little tributary of Holly Creek splashing down the side of Fort Mountain through towering white pines, I asked a question and, miraculously, got the right answer! Thank you, Sheila.

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Janice Shaw Crouse
You done good -- then and all the years since then! Wise choice, the whole family has benefitted!

Christie Hufstedler Boyd
Hey, there's a band called the Avritt Brothers on Austin City Limits singing a song called "January Wedding." Made me think of you and Sheila. Congratulations on such a long and wonderful marriage! You might find them on YouTube.

Sheila Matthews Shaw
Awww....you're welcome! I love you!

Terrell Shaw
I am a lucky man. The woman in the next room loves me and tells me so by beaming a signal to some satellite above the earth's atmosphere where it bounces back to my Mac. I am considering actually standing up and walking a few paces to express myself more directly to that girl. Whadya think?

Elizabeth McGinnis Johnson
GO GO GO !!!

Jane Baird Lathem
AWWWW, that is so sweet!!! You are a VERY lucky guy!

Gleaning Facebook: Uncle Grady at Drkalb Hospital

Please lift a prayer for my wonderful uncle, Grady Columbus Shaw, Jr., who is gravely ill this evening. For my siblings and other relatives: Dekalb General Hospital, ICU.

Gleaning Facebook: First Anniversary

Today is the first anniversary of the inauguration of a new president. During this year we have begun the slow recovery from the worst financial crisis of my lifetime. The president has brought together the best military minds of our country to develop a pragmatic bipartisan approach to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has restored honor and respect for the United States among the nations of the world. The president proposed goals for a solution to the health care mess that cripples our economy and leaves a big proportion of our citizens uninsured, properly leaving the Congress to work out a bill that can garner a majority of votes. Despite an unrelenting stonewall from the opposition he has seen health care bills, unfortunately without the public option, pass both houses of Congress. America is still struggling financially and wars continue and the health-care mess is not yet cleaned up, but America is in a much better place than a year ago. Thank you, Mr.President.

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
Well said.

Terrell Shaw
Thanks Sarah... I'm afraid for heath care reform after Massachusetts, which already has universal health care, threw a monkey wrench in the heath care works for the rest of us. Have we forgotten that health-care reform was the major domestic plank in the President's platform? And are the news folk so completely distracted by the straw-men erected daily by the opposition that they cannot see that the President and Congress have accepted much if not most of the opposition's modifications?
I read one friend's complaint that the President is "ramming health-care reform down our throats". Do these people only listen to the frothing partisans? Do they ever look at fact? (For example: There is NO public option in the bill. There are NO "death panels" in the bill.) Do they credit anyone besides themselves with patriotic motive?
It is mind-boggling.

Jared Lathem
HAHAHAHA. Terry you are cracking me up! I love this stuff! Obama is not a failure? HAHA. keep them coming.
(fyi...I am so thankful I can poke you in regards to your politics. No matter how crazy you are politically you do have a sense of humor. And I am glad you are as concerned for your country as you are. We both want the same thing...the best for the US.)

Thomas Guy Beall
I do not have a problem with politics. I have a problem with fanatical politics. People who can find nothing good about a president, VP, etc. all they do is gripe about. If they spent as much time trying to find a solution as they did griping, then we would get somewhere. I applaud you Mr.Shaw. Sorry, I am one of youur former students and i just can make myself call you anything else.

Susan Cherones
I don't hate America, but I sure am close to hating Americans.

Jim Ellington
Terrell, you say this is the worst financial crisis of your lifetime. What about the Great Depression and the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War you fought in, you old geezer??? LOL! I know for a fact that Mrs. Ruth Shaw adopted you after you were fully grown and thrice her age! LOL! OBTW, Happy New Year, friend! Love to ya'll

Terrell Shaw
Thanks, Rhonda.
Jared, if Jane knew how to spell, your name would be Jarred.

Now Tommy, you are catching up with me and after looking up more than once from the orchestra pit, at my amateur musicianship, I'll bet you can come up with something else to call me. But Terrell will do. Thanks for your kind words.

Susan, we are just people, and despite our moments of clarity and love and bravery and selflessness and intelligence, we can also quickly descend into the haze of fear and hate and stupid, cowardly selfishness. Jared's a preacher now, and might 'splain it in terms of our fallen nature.
And Jim, Jim, Jim... you have way too much time to spend online at that hotel desk. Go make up a bed, take some towels to room 203, or sweep the lobby. And quit smoking the stuff you find left in the rooms. (And a great new year to you too!)
Look who's calling me "geezer"!!! Sheeesh!

Jane Baird Lathem
Excuse me Terry.....I do know how to spell. If you knew your Old Testament you would KNOW that JARED is the correct spelling!!!!! So THERE!!!!!!

Warren Lathem
I love it when cousins fight.

Ruth Baird Shaw
The whole eight years President George W. Bush was in office, he was vilified. Republicans need to be more mature and not villify President Barack Obama. As the first "Black" president, I hope he does well and is reelected,
But George W. Bush did not get us into war, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Islamic Terrorist got us into war and have continued with more success this last year!!! This is what motivated Mass to vote for a Republican. The bottom line...We want someone to take our safety against Terrorist seriously...

Terrell Shaw
Now Jane, I'd never claim to know the Old Testament better than you, but I do suspect that, given his politics, Jared's noggin has been severely jarred somewhere along the line -- hence my suggestion that perhaps you had intended to name him for his addled condition rather than after Methusaleh's granddaddy. 

The apple falls not far from the tree, eh Warren?
Mama I'm content to let history deal with Mr. Bush.
There are few, I think, who would take issue with the opinion that Barack Obama inherited the situation I described. One cannot fairly evaluate the first year of any President's term without taking into consideration the state of the union at his inauguration. I tried to give my assessment of Barack Obama's fledgling presidency and I stand by it.
If the economy continues to grow, if jobs begin to rebound, if we can pass a health-care reform bill that is an improvement on the status quo (and it's hard to imagine one that wouldn't be), if we are able to begin bringing our soldiers home from the Middle East -- a lot I know, but I think all of those things can happen -- then the handful of independents who have been listening too much to the Republican stonewallers will begin to swing back to the president.
If we fail at those things then the middle will stray back the other way.

Justina Gordon
War and fighting is not always the right answer. Yes you're right, the terrorist did attack. I believe that a terrorist is one who deliberately engages in actions designed to harm or kill innocent people, that destroy property, that rob blameless people of their right to a peaceful everyday existence. This means that people in the United States and across Globe has experienced terrorism. Does this mean we should start a war with our own people? My family has experienced terror when trying to go to school between the 60’s – 70’s. Should we have engaged in war with those that terrorized them? Remember... war can be defined as the waging of armed conflict against an enemy. We all have choices in life.
Many people say they believe in Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision. I’m sure the people who believe in his words of wisdom can’t be the same people who believe that war is the answer.

Terrell Shaw
Thanks Justina. I am sitting here incensed to think of anyone mistreating those cute little 10 year-old twins I met in 1971 or their gentle and kind parents. More later. This is a tough evening in our family.

Ruth Baird Shaw
Justina...Many causasion people stood with African Americans to put an end to segregation of the schools etc ...As awful as it was, do you think we can compare it with radical Islamic men plotting to murder 3 thousand people (of all races) and destroy major buildings and airplanes and who tell us they intend to continue murdering Americans and Europeans??

Terrell Shaw
Yes we can and should compare those terrorists.
And, of course, many, many Muslims have fought and died in battles against Al Qaeda.
There is absolutely no qualitative distinction between Al Qaeda and the Klan. I see no important distinction between people who, for their twisted beliefs, are willing to murder random children in a church in Birmingham and those who. for different twisted beliefs, murder random people in a New York skyscraper. Terror is terror. It is nothing new or even unusual in the history of the world. And to whatever degree we allow the terrorists to succeed in changing us with their terror, they have succeeded, by definition. We can and should hunt them down, but we should do so with steely determination and few words. And with just as steely determination we should keep to our way of life with as little alteration as possible.

Justina Gordon
Ruth... Honestly... YES!

Gleaning Facebook: Effective Government

 "What we don't know yet is whether my administration and this next generation of leadership is going to be able to hew to a new, more pragmatic approach that is less interested in whether we have big government or small government; they're more interested in whether we have a smart, effective government," 

 -President-elect Barack Obama, December 2008

Terrell Shaw
I believe Obama's even-tempered pragmatism is exactly what we need... I hope our nation will be patient enough to allow it to succeed in the face of a unified obstructionist Republican opposition and grumbling from the more doctrinaire on the left.

Susan Cherones
I agree that it is a dern sight better to have him at the helm, but my dreams were shattered when he installed Geithner and Summers in the henhouse. These are the very foxes who orchestrated (years ago) the policies which brought down the financial crises and to have those foxes let loose in our treasury indicated, without a doubt, that Obama is just as controlled as that other one by the true "leaders" of our country. My heart is still broken, and I can't even imagine what to do about it-my joy was so great at the prospect of change and my hopes just dashed when I realized though he is smarter and seems to be a better human being, he is either as corrupt as all the rest or is under such control by the shadow govt that he can do nothing of substance about his promises. I'll take the scraps I can get, any reversals of Bush's policies and practices are something, but Lord HELP us, how in the world can We the People ever ever ever get our country bacK??

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
Whole heartedly agree, Mr. Shaw.

Terrell Shaw
Susan I disagree vehemently with your assessment.

Politics is the art of the possible. Those who thought that Obama is a left-wing idealogue were not listening as well as they should. It was starry-eyed liberals -- who thought Al Gore was no better than Bush -- put Bush in office with their third-party "votes of conscience". Our system is not made for sudden and radical change. Obama is steering us away from the brink and he had to have some market insiders to pull that off.

There will be no European style state health care in America anytime soon. But we can have a better, fairer, less expensive, closer to universal health system if we Democrats will not form our usual circular firing squad.

Al Gore won the election in 2000 but lost the Presidency because of Democrats. Jimmy Carter lost the Presidency in 1980 because of Democrats. Those two losses cost the United States thousands of lives, a loss of standing in the world, trillions of dollars of wealth, and the environmental cost is unlikely ever to be recovered.

To me the prospects of change under our current President are exciting but not revolutionary, and they are not something anyone should reasonably think will be obvious in 12 months.

If America cannot develop a longer attention span we are in even bigger trouble than a giant recession and two wars.

The Measure of a Man

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. 

-Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Jeffery Self on 30 Rock

Jeffery Self as Oliver in the Rome Junior Service League Follies, 1995.

Jeffery Self, Roman, fb friend, grandson of my around the corner neighbor, and former Oliver to my Fagin, not to mention fellow cast member of Auntie Mame, Fiddler on the Roof, and other shows will be on 30 Rock tonight, playing Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) cousin. Double feature starts in just a few minutes at 9 p.m. Congrats, Jeffery! 

Gleaning Facebook: Palindromes

Thanks to Carla Byram I realized today is a palindrome date --11:11 on 01-11-10. When's the next one? 

Terrell Shaw
That is I realized it at 11:11 p.m.

Chris Goodwin
Aha....October 11, 2011. (11-11-11)....lol

Terrell Shaw
aha lol aha
Good one Chris!
My page doesn't give the seconds, David... but that's neat if it worked out that way.

Jim Ellington
Terrell, is a Palindrome that time when Sarah speaks at the GA dome? LOL!

Ruth Baird Shaw
Plese...Terrell l and Jim....Sarah Palin was Governor of a state and an excellent one...much more experience and higher intelligence than Obama who was selected by the media and by the Democratic party to keep the Clintons out of the White house! She did not make as many "public mistakes" as Obama did that the media cover for him...like "57 States."

Beth Novian Hughes
how about in 10 days 01-22-10 (sans time though)

Christie Hufstedler Boyd
Didn't Chris mean November 11, '11?

Terrell Shaw
Don't get picky, Christie!
Beth, you are right, I suppose we were holding numbers to a higher standard of palindromy than words. 10-22-10 is a palindrome but is not a symmetrical one, like 1881 (written in san serif typeface).

Think daffodillicly

 Just keep in mind that we are less than four weeks from the first jonquils! Think daffodillicly.

Comments

Tersi Bendiburg
Yet, these are quiet, lovely, days for reflection....."To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." Jean-Paul Satre.

Christie Hufstedler Boyd
Okay! That sounds like a good idea. I'm also thinking of Hometown Headlines post that it will get into the 50's this week! I'm a little tired of this cold weather. Got used to it in New York, but...this...is...NOT...upstate New York!

Chris Goodwin
winter daphne's gonna beat em to the punch

Terrell Shaw
Thanks all. This is for you Tersi:
http://aloneonalimb.blogspot.com/.../poetry-stretch-first...

Ruth Baird Shaw
Terry...Loved reading again some of your poetry...

Susan Cherones
I am excided to think daffodillicly!

Gleaning Facebook: It's Snowing!

The unmitigated glee, elicited from the very toes and fingertips and right out of even the pigtails and crewcuts of nine- and ten-year-old Georgian souls, and flung visibly and audibly from their eyes and vocal organs, all by a few flakes of frozen precipitation, must be witnessed first-hand to be believed, and then one cannot but doubt his memory of its magnitude, its brilliance, its amplitude. It's snowing

Comments

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
Sounds like that Glee is Contagious!!! Enjoy!!!

Betty Smith Franklin
Its a blizzard of enthusiasm!

Gleaning Facebook: Ribbing

Favorite status of the day from former student Mike Pruitt: "Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals."

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Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
You do realize that Mikey actually DOES this!!!!!

Ruth Baird Shaw
Terry...lol... thanks for the laugh. Are you telling me that Mike was one of your students?

Terrell Shaw
Mike was in my very first McHenry class in 1971-72!

Tony Pope
LOVE IT! Too funny! Need to remember that!

Ruth Baird Shaw
Rhonda...do you know Mikey? BTW...is your Ingram family related to the Newton County Georgia Ingrams!

Terrell Shaw
Do you know Mike Pruitt, Mama? And how is your cold, by the way?

Linda Mackey Moore
That is the most hilarious status of the year and will be hard to beat from here forward!

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
Mrs. Shaw, I hesitate to say this but...YES, I do know Both Mike Pruitts!! The one that was in Mr. Shaw's first class belonged to our sweet bus driver, I believe. The one commenting on this page I have known since birth...He, if I am not mistaken, went to Pepperell Elementary. I think there is some confusion here... 

And, Mrs. Shaw, I don't think I am familiar with the Newton County Ingrams. But, one can never be sure

Terrell Shaw
Are you telling me I've been confused about which Mike I'm talking to for a year now! Mike (2) you could have straightened me out!
I agree, Linda. Mike's status makes it OK that I've been confused about who he is for months!

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
LOL!! If you think you have been talking to our Bus driving Mrs. Pruitt's son, then , YES...you have been talking to the wrong one!!

Terrell Shaw
Yep, I thot I wuz dealing with Kathleen's smart-aleck. Turns out I'm messing with someone else's smart aleck! <grin>

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
HaaaaHaaaaa!!! I am literally LOL!!!! Tooo funny!

Terrell Shaw
Always here to provide comic relief to my (cruel) former students!

 

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
THANK YOU!

Terrell Shaw
Ha! With your great sense of humor, I doubt you are ever short of friends, Mike. And don't you talk bad about little Rhonda or you'll have me and a bunch of others to deal with! 

Wow! I've spent way too much time on FB today! And I obviously don't know what I'm doing.

TamaraBarry Tidwell
OMG!! This is so funny! I wondered how Mr. Shaw knew this Mike. Mrs Kathleen would think this was funny. God bless her soul.

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
I KNOW, Tammy!!! LOL!! I swear, I have to watch THIS Mike Pruitt every minute!...I guess everyone Wishes that they had gone to McHenry and had Mr. Shaw as their favorite teacher too!!

TamaraBarry Tidwell
You bet they do!