Recently, Amy and Hugh Clark made an outing to Laurel to cheer on Amy’s boys in a 5K race (at our age I’m talking sons and grandsons). Son Jeff and grandson Grey finished first place in their age group. Don Clint and grandson Blake both finished in the top 10 in their age group.
Jeff’s other son, Will, just finished his master’s degree in pharmacy and is entering the University Medical Center’s two-year Pharmacy School in Jackson
Dan Jenkins’ son Bailey just finished his sophomore year at MSU, where he is majoring in mechanical engineering. This summer, he will be traveling to Iceland, Norway and Sweden with a group of fellow students.
Amy, one of my forever friends, has a knack for enjoying life and making me laugh. I can’t look at her during serious events or always behave around proper folks, but we try in 15-minute increments. At least then we revert to ourselves, Lord love us.
Saying all this because she has a knack for finding the diamond in the rough and making it a unique gem. Soon after she and Hugh got married at my house with 45 minutes’ notice to me, they bought the plainest — I’m gonna say, in my opinion — ugliest house in town.
Chester tried to get me to consider looking at it years earlier and it was a flat definite no. Well, I looked inside after Amy bought it. She described it through her eyes and I just got chills. The house was three times as large as it seemed, lively knotty pine accents and a man cave, plus it was right on the bayou and they almost gave it away. Almost.
Today, it is a doll house. Everything growing is what Amy and Hugh planted. Every outside venue was probably salvaged, scraped and reworked with vision. True story: I was driving the car when she picked up a three legged-chair from a ditch, propped it against a bookshelf and sold it for $15. She washed the ditch dirt off first, and maybe painted it green.
Dan is living with Amy and Hugh because that’s how big the house is and all they do is fish. Remember that, because it leads to my garden club news that all the men folk need to read this week on Page 4.
Other graduate news I know of: Asa Hausner graduated Magna Cum Laude from MSU in Mechanical Engineering. Asa is the son of Wendy and Brad Hausner and the grandson of Ray and Judi Hausner.
Webb Machine is proud of their new employee, Britton Cooper, who just graduated from Bayou Academy with honors. He’s truly a fine, well-mannered young man with a bright future.
In closing, our church family lost a dear life too young when Ed Tankersley suffered a massive heart attack on May 8. Seeing his peaceful face in church will be how I think of him in heaven. His kindness will be remembered by Chester and me.
