Lawrence D. Mayo

Hi Baby:

Today began the beginning of the end for you ten years ago today.

The day was rainy and dreary, I remember them taking you from the house to the hospital, you got to see your azeala bush in the front of the house blooming for the first time as they wheeled you from the house. You were conscious as they took you from the house to the ambulance. Then began the long wait as you drifted in and out of sleep until the end that night.

The first few months...

Hi baby,

Well your 65th birthday came and went, thought about you all day and wondered what we would be doing if you were still alive.

New roomy is doing fine. Just completed one month on the job and so far so good. Most of the legal problems are resolved and he will have his license back shortly. He's already looking for a motorcycle, lol.

My Uncle J passed away shortly after my seeing him in Los Angeles for my Uncle E's birthday. He fell upon arrival...

Hi baby:

Got to see your brother the other day when I was up in DeQueen. He is looking well, says that most of his medical problems are cleared up. He's given up the chicken business, says it would cost him around 150k to keep it up to standard and he decided it wasn't worth it. He says now he is selling hay to the farmers. There was such a lack of hay last year due to the drought that sellers were getting premium dollar. The grandkids are all grown and both the girls are...

Hi Baby,

Was thinking about you today. I was missing our traditional New Year's Eve night at the Chinese restaurant and then out to the clubs and then back home. We always had a good time on New Year's Eve.

Have a new roommate, was essentially homeless, met him a few years back and the situation got pretty precarious for him so he is now in the guest bedroom. Not that he sleeps there. Seems to like my bed a little better, lol. He's 25, unemployed which I will be...

Hi baby,

I lost my little Princess on Monday. She stopped eating and within 4 days she lost 1/3 of her body weight, went down to 20 pounds. Then she couldn't keep down water, she would drink and then move a few feet and up it would all come up. Of course it was the weekend and I had to wait until Monday to take her in. The vet and she is the greatest took one look and agreed that it was time. It is always so hard, remember when we had to put Buddy and Caesar to sleep and how...