I stood on top of the steep hill looking down into the valley hundreds of feet below. The landscape was covered with rocks, cactus, sage and lots of thorny bushes. The cold wind blew up the slope and into our faces but the rain of the last two days was finally gone and Lee McDermett and I stood in the full sun and took in God’s beauty. This was the hunting trip I had always dreamed of but never taken.
Early last week Lee called me and asked if I wanted to go hunting just outside Langtry, Texas near where the Pecos River meets the Rio Grande just above Lake Amistad. My friendship with Lee is a pretty cool story. When we were kids, we lived in Floresville and were friends, and so were our mothers. We went to Church together at the Flroresville Church of Christ. Lee was a pretty good bull rider and made his living traveling the rodeo circuit. Some years ago, he moved to Forney and established a successful business, the Mc-Dermett Insurance Agency. In 1998 I was running for County Commissioner and knocked on Lee’s door. You can imagine my surprise when my childhood friend answered. As it turned out his mom was there and I got to see her too a couple of decades since I went off to college. My mom was delighted I had seen her old friend. Now the story gets even more interesting. Lee introduced me to his wife JoDee Harwell McDermett. When I asked if I could put up a yard sign I was shocked by the response. They told me that JoDee was a member of the Harwell family, as in one of the other candidates for County Commissioner, Rayford Harwell.
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