A Comment About Leaving Comments
For some reason, the powers that be at Blogger, the program/system/website, whatever it is technically labeled, that I use for this blog, saw fit to either change or delete the gadget for leaving comments after the posts. Or perhaps it is just a glitch in my...
Sisyphus and My Walk Path
When I work on my walk path, I am reminded of Sisyphus from Greek mythology, the king of Corinth who was punished for his deceitful ways by being sentenced to the eternal task of rolling a giant boulder up a hillside in Hell, only to watch helplessly as it tumbled...
Popcorn Night at the Oscars
I’ll admit it; watching the Academy Awards has long been my guilty pleasure. I think I must have been in junior high when the tradition began. Mother and I would get the dishes done, homework would be finished, Cokes would be poured, and we would settle in for the...
Tales From The Kitchen: The Two-Ton Cake
One more cooking disaster: the cake I passed off as brownies, sort of. This one happened after we had graduated from Texas A&M and had moved to Edna, Texas, which was right down the road from Victoria, Texas, which made it an easy commute to University of Houston...
Tales From The Kitchen: Potato Salad Overload
My next kitchen faux pas was also while we were at A&M. It was the turkey day game weekend and John Phillips, Bo Reagan, and a couple of other Aggies down the street were having their girl friends in for the big weekend. The plan was to all enjoy a barbecued...
Tales From The Kitchen: Learning to Make Pie Crust
Following recipes accurately was one problem in my early cooking days (see “Tales From the Kitchen: The Giant Cake,” January 31, 2013); incomplete recipes were quite another matter. Besides the cook books I received as wedding gifts, most of the recipes I tried to use...
Tales From The Kitchen: The Giant Cake
When the kids were growing up, they spent most of their summer afternoons over at the country club pool right across the street from our house, and because the walk from one to the other was short, they and friends would pop in and out from time to time during the...
Quanah Parker Shot An Arrow Into the Air…
Quanah Parker shot an arrow in the air and one of them landed in Muleshoe. The latest addition to the Muleshoe Heritage Center is a 22-foot tall arrow sculpture, the 48th such marker to be installed on the Quanah Parker Trail, a project undertaken by the Texas Plains...
In Defense of Litter Boxes
I thought about taking a picture of one of the litter boxes referred to in the story, but a picture of the cats who use them seemed a better choice! I read a newspaper story the other day about a man and his wife visiting a woman who had 32 cats. His wife warned him...
Colten Brings Home Another Dog
TThe blog is late this week because have been conducting triage on our newest family member. Meet Porche, Colten’s latest contribution to dog rescue. Porche, which we choose to pronounce pour-sha, came to live with us after her accident Sunday afternoon. Colten...
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