Friday, March 29, 2024

With Christmas now behind us, we’re moving on to the next fun seasons

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CRESSON MAYOR

Cresson Mayor Teena Putteet Conway, a native of Cresson, attended school for two years in the historic Cresson school. She is a Granbury High School graduate, and earned a BBA from Baylor University. After marrying, then raising her family in the Metroplex, she returned to Cresson after 40 years.

Just as I get our Christmas tree and all the decorations down and put away, it seems that January is almost over and we are onto the shortest month of the year! We have been blessed with some rather warm days in this month of January, however, the Fort Worth Stock Show is in town and you all know what that means … cold, messy weather!

We did go to Bulls’ Night Out and let me tell you the days of crisp, cold breezes coming into the rodeo arena are long gone. The new Dickies arena is very lovely inside and there are enough lights to cover all of Granbury and Cresson. There is not a bad seat in the house and I still love the grand entry the most. There’s something majestic about watching the cowboys take off their cowboy hats as they ride past the United States of America flag.

Now, we get fired up for the Super Bowl! I can remember when we used to win, but those days are fading from my memories. I love to watch the Dallas Cowboys and they used to be considered the only team in town, but with so many new folks moving in from all over the United States, there are all kinds of fans around town.

Back in the day, to watch the Dallas Cowboys on your television, my dad would climb on the rooftop and make adjustments to our antenna. This was quite humorous to observe because daddy was afraid of heights and his nerves were already frayed from my mom hollering out the window — ‘Turn it a little more the left, no stop, no go back to the right!’ It was a huge event. One time when the Cowboys were in the playoffs with the Green Bay Packers it was in the middle of a Texas style blizzard. I recall that both of my sister-in-laws wore full length mink coats to the game! (When else would they get to wear them?) The game was played at the original Texas Stadium in Irving. The walk to the stadium was horrendous, but that did not stop us! We trekked to the stadium and enjoyed the game. Now, all my  friends that can recall game details, did we win or not?

And, since the romantic celebration of Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, let’s get in all the publicity for that event. I like to wear heart T-shirts, heart earrings, go to The Pearl and enjoy a girl’s night out with shopping and fun, but celebrating with my husband typically happens on another night. As we’ve gotten older, we weigh how important it is to go out versus fighting the crowd. If you have good friends like Cresson’s own, Judi Smith, she can plan ahead and get reservations, knows where to park, and get us into almost any establishment without any hiccups. But not everyone has a ‘Judi Smith’ to take care of them.

And by the way, note to my husband, I am available for a date on February 15th!

 

teenac@cressontx.org