In 1949 I was 6 years old and one of my earliest jobs ever bestowed on me was to be the water boy during harvest time – especially in the cotton fields. My dad had two patches of cotton, one about 35 acres and one about 45 acres.

La Grange’s Jaycee Demons and 1973 state NBC champion Gomez Jewelry of Houston divided an exhibition baseball twin bill at Fair Park on Saturday. The Demons won the opener by a 6-5 measure while Gomez answered the afterpiece, 3-0. La Grange plated three quick counters in the first frame of the lid lifter around Neal Miller’s two-run triple, Dave Zatopek’s single, a walk and a sacrifice. Gomez came back with a deuce in the top of the second, but the Demons dished a solo in the third without base hit support off the Houstonians’ Bobby Wittkamp. The Clint Bippermen won it in the tail end of the seventh and final stanza after two were away. Neal Miller, with a walk, and Bubba Riehs, aboard by way of a fielding choice, scored the tying and winning counters via a wild pitch, a throwing error and two more passes issued by Wittkamp.

I have been thinking about temper tantrums, and when the last time I had one. Well, perhaps not the last time I exhibited my little girl outburst, but when it was publicly noticeable I was in a raging frenzie.

To the editor: Never ever was a judge so clever as the magical jurist Merchan. He’d have us believing The Donald’s deceivings were election perfection, no no, — and never ever are laws so clever ever made in a Dunderbak’s sausage machine.

To the editor: I know we are an angry country right now. If all of this name calling and anger with each other doesn’t stop, I don’t know if we can hold our nation together.

To the editor: In Fayette County, Texas, and America, we value our freedoms – including our freedom to elect leaders who govern in our name in free and fair elections. Despite facing intimidation, threats, and harassment, a jury of everyday Americans had the courage to weigh the evidence and convict Trump of felony election conspiracy and cover-up – deceiving voters in order to seize power.

To the editor: This year’s Memorial Day was special because it harkened the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a day to honor the Allied Force’s biggest move to stop Hitler’s Nazi Reich. On Memorial Day, we reflected on the demands of achieving and maintaining freedom and opposing autocracy.

This Friday is Pat Sajak’s final episode of Wheel of Fortune. He’s been hosting that show since 1981! Vanna White, his letter turning cohost on the show, joined in 1982.