Spend a moment, enjoy Texas hospitality, you're invited to another visit
with Ed and Barbara in and around our different times and places. Photos
of our pets, of ourselves, and other strange
animals. A story or two just for fun, and
a poem or two just to read. We hope you enjoy your visit.
Meet us in pictures:
Barbara
Ed
Pierre
Liba
Barbara and Joba
Barbara's birthday
Barbara and Popo
Asking "why me?"
You can't have both doors!
Our nap time
Hortense and Horatio
Hill country sundown
Ed's sister Doris and
her husband, Gordon
Doris and Ed in 1931
Doris and Gordon
Ed in 1960
Ed and Barbara in 1954
Barbara in 1960
Ed in 2000
Joke:
Once a rude city slicker came to the ranch to buy a horse.
"I don't trust you", he said. "I insist on trying out this horse before I
buy it". With that, he mounted the horse and yelled "Giddy-yup". The horse
did not move. "This horse is no good, he will not go" said the rude man.
"I am a religious man", I said. "My horses are trained to obey religious
commands. If you want this horse to go forward quickly, you must say "Thank
you Jesus!". And if you want him to stop, do not say "Whoa", you must say:
"Praise the Lord". With these instructions, the rude man yelled: "Thank you
Jesus" and the horse bolted forward and away he galloped. Clippity-clop,
clippity-clop, as fast as he could go... straight toward a bottomless canyon.
Seeing the edge of this chasm coming ever closer, the rude man yelled
"Whoa!"...but the horse continued to gallop forward...."Whoa!" again cried
the man, but the horse continued galloping forward. At last the man remembered
the command to stop the horse, and he screamed "Praise the Lord!".
The horse came to a screeching halt just inches from the edge of this bottomless
canyon. The man wiped the sweat from his brow, rolled his eyes toward
Heaven, and at the top of his voice screamed:
"oh THANK YOU, JESUS!"
we lose more good horses this way
Barbara taking Pierre
for his daily bike ride.
Barbara in 1956
Barbara in 2000
Poem
SURPRISE!
I dreamed my death the other night, and as Heaven's
gates swung wide
with quiet grace an angel there, escorted me inside.
There-in to my surprise I saw, each of you
I'd known before
Pre-judged by me, and found to be, unfit
past Heaven's door!
Indignant words raced to my lips, but I never set
them free....
For on all your faces I now saw, YOUR
surprise at seeing ME!
from "Once Upon a Time... Forever" (c) A collection
of poems by Edward L. McKneely
Wild raccoon entering back door
Wild raccoon leaving.
So now baby raccoon tries it.
Wild javelina
Tame woman. Wild man.
Tame ducks in our pool
More of our Hill Country Place Views
Old western transportation.
Waterfall at our place.
Two fawns at our place.
Power generator shed and
water tower at our place.
North view of our place.
South view at our place.
San Antonio over my shoulder.
Animal time at both
places
All of these animals are wild. They come to eat and
drink at our home in Houston and at our place in the hill country of Texas.
There is food and water for them at both.
Baby possum stealing food
Mama possum looking for her baby
Another baby possum feeding
Late at night to take this picture.
Used special equipment for this picture
Came, ate, going home.
Memories
As the shades of evening soften... all the cares upon my
face
It is then I think most often... of our times spent in this
place.
Of all the gifts God's given me... my most precious ones are
few
One of them will always be... my time spent here with you.
from "Once Upon a Time...
Forever"(c)
by Edward L. McKneely
I hope you have enjoyed these pictures, poems, and jokes. I won't know unless
you tell me.
