High Notes
01-12-2012
I like
football, baseball and basketball, and I’ve played them all…not well, but I
always had fun. Now all of those sports
are of the “spectator variety” for me, and the number one game for me to watch
is college basketball. Oh, that’s not
true, I really prefer high school basketball, but I’ve gotten out of the habit
of attending games, and do my spectating from the easy chair sitting in front of
the HD tv.
Take
tonight…Ohio
State Illinois 9 p.m. I
will watch!
Saturday,
the Kentucky Wildcats will be at
Tennessee
Next
Sunday, the Buckeye boys will have a re-match with Indiana, AT HOME this time,
and we hope they will give the Hoosiers a rough and tumble game resulting in
victory for the boys in scarlet and grey.
OSU lost their first game at Indy, by a narrow foul-induced score.
On Monday,
my brother Paul, of Sedan Crabtree Road, McDermott, and I made a road trip to
Flemingsburg, Kentucky, to attend a livestock sale in that neat, and relatively
near-by town of 3,000.
I have
been in Flemingsburg a few times in the last couple of years, accompanying,
Linda Noel, of Second
Street Portsmouth
Flo didn’t
have the title of “assistant editor”, but she was the smartest grammarian in our
small staff in those days. And, Flo and
James (Count) McConnell were outstanding, and nationally known, art-glass
dealers for many years, so Linda comes by the antique business honestly.
Linda
lives next door to my girlfriend, Nora Netzer, at Forest Heights, Portsmouth and
the three of us hang out together some.
Linda’s long-time husband, Jack Noel, the retired fireman, died a couple
of years ago.
Oh, and
coincidentally, my long-time Burt’s Lane, Stout, neighbors, Dee and Nancy Mauk,
have moved into the Forest Heights apartment in the adjoining duplex to Linda,
next door to, and in-between Linda and Nora.
Dee and
Naancy are settling in since moving last Fall.
On one of
our Flemingsburg trips, Linda, an only child, said, “You know I was really grown
before I knew my Dad’s name was James…I remember somebody asked if Jim McConnell
was my Dad, and I said, ‘No, my Dad’s name is Count!” Count, who was born in 1911, was an
outstanding Portsmouth Trojan athlete of his day, excelling at all sports. And, Florine was a star basketball player for
the Trojans during the late twenties and early thirties.
No, my
part-time farmer brother Paul, did not buy any of the beef calves that were
being sold at Flemingsburg on Monday, but we had a good time anyway. It was a new experience for me, and he had
never been to that particular stock sale.
What sold us on the idea of going though was my memory of the wonderful
Country-ham and fried potato breakfast they sell in the Stockyard
Restaurant. It is really a nice place to
get a great meal, and they are open every day, not just their Monday and
Saturday livestock sale days. If you
want to have a good old Kentucky
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