I have not gone to Branson for a few years, I think it was 2007 or 2008….Something like that anyway. And always, a trip down Highway 76 was a major deal…coming onto Hwy 76 from a motel you usually had to depend on a car stopping to let you in as it was always bumper to bumper…. Whoa, not so this time. Very seldom did traffic impede my entrance to the highway, except at show time, of course, and even then it was not like years past. I could cruise down  76 and I had to worry about speeding, I mean really, just no traffic….. At the Cracker Barrel, we were seated upon arrival….Really, and here in Albuquerque we almost always have a wait at Cracker Barrel….Double whoa……The Presley’s, Baldknobber;s and Daniel O’Donnell were packed, so that was good. Where are all the people? You know what, I think I know….I think they were all up at Ozark, Mo., at Lamberts. We had a two hour wait up there…Hey, and we waited. (Sweetie says it was under an hour wait…I guess it just seemed like 2 hours)…. Coach Z was our waiter and he took real good care of us. By the way, Coach Z coaches soccer down at Branson. He waits tables a couple a days a week. It’s a shame, but that’s what a lot of teachers have to do anymore to make ends meet. He had his first named spelled out on a clothes pin on his chest as Hey-zeus. I asked him why he spelled it that way and he said he got tired of people calling him, Jesus, pronounced the same as our Heavenly Father. Living in New Mexico, of course we knew all about that and shared a laugh with him as we know a couple of Hose’s(Jose’s)…..You heard the one about Jose going home one night after his first day on the job so sad, telling the wife there were signs hung all over the walls saying, Fire Hose…..Fire Hose….Yeah, ok, it is a little old but at least I hope you still smiled….Pete  ps If you eat at Lambert’s, Ozark, MO and you see Jesus, please tell him the folks from New Mexico said hello and if he does a good job for you, tip him well. Ok? He is a very nice young man…..