Candidate sighted in natural habitat

"Hey, Mr. Warthen!"

I was out walking in my neighborhood last evening when I heard the call. I turned around and Artie White had stopped and had his window down. He had been driving the SUV that had just passed me.

He was out delivering campaign yard signs. He had a big one on the back seat of the Yukon (I think it was a Yukon; anyway, it was something about that size). He was on the way to place it in the yard of one of my neighbors. He wasn’t sure how to get there, so I gave him directions.

He told me he had raised a little money and was going to have a couple of radio spots, one at regular times on the "Andy Thomas Show."

My wife came up and we talked a while, directing traffic around us. She taught his siblings in Sunday school, or when she was youth director at our church, or both. We talked about his sister’s upcoming wedding.

As he drove off, he said he would send me a picture for the blog, since he saw I didn’t have one. I’ll post it when I get it.

Oh, and Artie, let me know if I got anything wrong above. I wasn’t taking notes.