Filed under: Friends of Rob & Emily | Tags: back porch, Crista Moore, dictionary, garage apartment, Khaki, kitchen table, laminating machine, linen, tea, watermelon
Here are some of the things I don’t think about without thinking about our times with Mrs. Shery:
Garage apartments – up until two years ago, I was still making trouble up there!!
Decorum – Mrs. Shery always made me look it up, in that big dictionary that took too much room in the kitchen, if I was being rude or un-ladylike~probably after playing Baby Got Back!!
Tea – she loved her tea.
The word Khaki or Slacks – Todd Patton renamed the dog Khaki to Slacks.
Old random buttons – you all know that bowl.
Watermelon – you all remember Rob’s message about Emily.
The number 9 that looks like this instead of a straight line down – that’s how she wrote it.
Critta Mo – Eric G coined it but Mrs. Shery approved and changed it and call me
“my mo!”
Linen outfits – she wore them well.
Laminating – since she was the first person I knew with a machine and I actually received one of those cards from Jason Mackenzie!! PS-I now have a machine of my own and still have that lovely card from Jason!
It’s amazing how many areas of our lives she touched. I actually think I have muscle memory for opening the back yard gate, walking up the Reeves’ back porch steps and opening the back door. Half of the times, I never made it past the first empty chair at the table.
It also amazes me that our stories are so similar about this one woman sitting at this one kitchen table in this one two-story house on this one street in this one small town during a relatively small amount of time in our lives and what a HUGE, LONG-LASTING effect she made on all of us.
I love that even though I haven’t seen, spoken to, or even thought about some of the people sharing or being shared about – we have a common bond that doesn’t take long to reconnect us all – SHERY LOVE.
I love you Emily for doing this.
Filed under: Friends of Rob & Emily | Tags: crossword puzzle, garage apartment, John McConnell, kitchen
One of the funniest/embarrassing moments I remember about your Mom: We were all at your house (usual) one night and Heather Wheatley was there with me. (Stop laughing Emily.) Apparently we were getting kind of hot and heavy in the apartment above the garage and your mom saw the whole thing from the kitchen and promptly brought it to my attention when I came back into the house. I remember thinking, she’s not mad but she’s never going to let me forget it. And when I talked to her 5 years later she brought it up as if it happened yesterday.
And the other thing I give your mom credit for is me doing crossword puzzles religiously. Everytime I walked in that house there was one on the kitchen table and next to it, there was about 10 books she was using to cheat. I always used to try and help her but I wasn’t very good at them back then. Yet today, everyday I work the crossword in the Shreveport Times and usually finish it (with help from about 10 books). I can remember only one person who I would have picked all of that up from and it was definitely your mom.
