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1st Saturday
Breakfast on
the Bernard !!!
Saturday,
February
2nd - 8 a.m.
- 10 a.m.
Dido's -
County Road
519 -
Brazoria
$6 adult, kids
10 and under eat
free
Click
Here to
R.S.V.P.
- but come even
if you didn't!
Friends Of the River's Breakfast Couple of the Month
Gail and Laurel Brinson
F.O.R. Members - Volunteers
 When
we were asked to be the Breakfast Couple of the Month we
were honored and I thought it was pretty well timed. Our
39th anniversary is Friday
Feb. 1st
and I figured I could use a hearty breakfast on Saturday. On
Sunday we are leaving on a seven day cruise to
Jamaica, Grand Cayman and
Cozumel.
We found our place on the river in Nov. 2001. We had lived
in Richwood off and on since 1979 and I was starting to
really need something more than that little house and yard.
Wil (our grandson) was 4 years old and was like a caged
animal in our fenced backyard. We put the boat in at 2611
bridge on Thanksgiving week-end and found our place just ¼
mile up river. They had received an offer and Laurel was broken hearted but I knew it was
going to be ours. After I called the owner about ten times
he knew I was serious and the previous offerer still hadn’t
yet put up the money. So---- we got the place we wanted.
Laurel and I retired in 2003 and 2005 respectively from the
business we started in 1993. Technical Innovations, Inc.
(just north of the Brazoria KC Hall on highway 36) made
cutters and equipment used by medical device manufacturers
to make holes in devices, catheters and in some instances
people, hence my "Holeman" moniker.
We started dating in our Junior year of high school (high
school sweethearts?) and she chased me until I caught her
two years later. Our son Tony (36) is head of the IT
department at a group of banks in Houston. He and Ashley have a cute, smart and
very determined five year old princess. They live in
Pearland and come down often to ski, wakeboard, drive the
boat, hang out, eat and play.
Daughter Emily is in Sales and is still with Technical
Innovations, eleven some years. She is involved in FOR and
church activities. Wil is soon to be eleven and he’s a
handful and is also very determined. I am enjoying my second
fatherhood with him.
It’s interesting to note that we still enjoy and tolerate
each other’s company. We all went to Hawaii together last year and we have reserved an
80’
houseboat
for a week in Tennessee this year. Did
I mention we enjoy traveling, although not necessarily the
same style or places.
Laurel tends to
prefer more structured and planned travels (get on the
"deluxe motor coach", get in line, we need hotel
reservations, etc. Etc.) while I prefer to more or less
"strike out" and see what happens. I agreed to do the cruise
(very structured) when she agreed to just "camp out" and
explore (no structure) for a week in
Paris.
We thoroughly enjoy living on the river. We have met and got
to know a lot of good people through all the events and
activities of FOR. We’ve attended and supported the fund
raisers, the clean-ups, the Digs, the organization meetings
and we’ve been enthusiastic observers of all of the San Bernard
River boat parades.
I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Holeman
One of F.O.R.'s
primary functions is to educate the public
regarding the issues concerning the San Bernard
River and it's Communities. Contact Pat Webb
pat@sanbernardriver.com to schedule a
guest speaker for your group or special event.
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