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Summer Evenings Before Television

June 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Texas, family, just musings, poetry, writing of place

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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SIMPLY WAIT: 10 WAYS BLOGGING WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE and a quote about ice-cream

May 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Writers, just musings

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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These Old Bones…They Ain’t What They Once Were.

April 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · family, just musings, writing of place

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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Tuesday Morning Spring Muse

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · family, just musings, weather

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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The Small-Business Myth

April 12th, 2009 · No Comments · just musings

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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Earth Day Is On It’s Way

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · @me, Nature, empioyment or NOT, family, in the news, just musings, retirement, weather, writing of place

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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Five Days Gone…Happy Spring!

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Photography, family, history, just musings, writing of place

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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Texas Independence Day

March 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Liberty, writing of place

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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