Growing up, we spent many summer days visiting my grandparents house in Orchard, Texas. Every evening, after supper was over and cleaned up, we would all grab a folding lawn chair off the back porch and set them up in a rough circle on the east side of the house. We always picked an area [...]

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One of the things I like most about this thing we call Blogging is number 2 on Patry Francis’ list. And she ranks up there at the top of my amazing people list. Patry published this list back around Thanksgiving in Twenty O’Six. I stumbled across it again today as I was looking through some [...]

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Leave to a youngish mind in a middleaged, out of shape body to discover the hard way (always the hard way) that he cannot still do everything he once did. Yesterday I decided, at long last, to finish the distruction of our dog pen that Ike had started. Bearing in mind that this dog pen [...]

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After hitting the 80’s on Sunday, with morning rain adding to the humidity and clear afternoon skies letting the sun beat down on this part of the world, I made the walk to the road with my offering to the gods of the waste wagon while watching my breath fog out of my mouth. What [...]

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Just recently, the small-business boogeyman came up in the debate over the estate tax — specifically, whether it is unfair to impose a tax on estates in excess of $7 million per couple (the level this year) or whether the first $10 million of every estate should be exempt from taxation. Predictably, the advocates of [...]

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I saw this announcement in the local news email this week…
The city’s biggest family celebration begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at Discovery Green, a large green space in the heart of downtown. And as it happens, it’s one of those old-fashioned grass-roots efforts.
via Earth Day Houston: We’re having an eco-party | Lifestyle/Features | Chron.com – [...]

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Boy, this week has flown and I hadn’t even realized I hadn’t updated anything here. The Grandson had a checkup last Friday including a couple of imunizations…And to say he hasn’t been a happy camper this week would be an understatement. Just getting through my email and newsreader each day has been a tough row [...]

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Today is Texas Independence Day, when a group of men met in a tiny unfinished wooden building in the small town of Washington-On-The-Brazos to take the daring step of announcing to the world that they were creating a new nation.
via Writer finds record of Texas’ birth 173 years ago today | Houston & Texas News [...]

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