When Terry was gestating and mom and dad were thinking about

When Terry was gestating and mom and dad were thinking about names, I suggested Terry from the comic strip Terry and the Pirates. Terry, you can thank me for your cool name. We did a lot of family stuff on Sunday afternoons after church with either the Thomas family or with my dad’s family. We occasionally took the loooooong drive north on 96/69 to Kountze to see my dad’s parents (25 miles or so). About 10 miles south of Kountze there were two features on this highway: an odometer calibration range with mile markers every mile for 5 miles and a Burma Shave poem. Burma Shave advertised by posting cute sayings on a series of red signs along a well traveled route. For example: Many Make/A Big Mistake/Rely on Horn/Instead of Brake/Burma Shave It was cool to locate and read the signs aloud as we traveled. My grandma Bea Golden was a good cook and we had some excellent meals – her biscuits would win a prize. And my other grandmother, Nora Barrett, could cook as well and also made super biscuits. My mom was a good cook, especially pies, but could never replicate her mother’s or mother in law’s biscuits.