Another Good Cat Has Gone to Heaven

Another Good Cat Has Gone to Heaven

by | Aug 21, 2013 | Bright Lights

  We lost Black and White Kitty last Friday. Bill found her little body out by the barn. We don’t know what happened, but the fact that we found the body helped us have closure. Had she just disappeared, I would have found it much harder to deal with her loss....
AJ Earns His Master’s Degree

AJ Earns His Master’s Degree

by | Aug 14, 2013 | Bright Lights

We had the pleasure on August 3rd of watching our son AJ walk across the stage at Riverbend Center in Austin  to receive his Master of Education degree from Concordia University. He earned this degree while teaching elementary physical education for the Dell...
Mari Goes to Aggieland

Mari Goes to Aggieland

by | Aug 8, 2013 | Bright Lights

Today marks the end of week one after Mari’s trip to Aggieland and the Texas A&M vet school where she received top of the line orthopedic surgery to repair the ACL and meniscus in her one hind leg that was about to go out on her. And this begins week two of our...
A Closet of One’s Own

A Closet of One’s Own

by | Jul 29, 2013 | Bright Lights

I am now the proud inhabitant of a honkin’ big new closet. A 10 x 16 foot addition to one end of the house, to be exact. And yes, I am aware: if I need a bigger closet, then I no doubt have too much stuff. But more on that subject in a minute. We took down the brick...
Memories and a Coffee Can

Memories and a Coffee Can

by | Jul 24, 2013 | Bright Lights

Amid the odds and ends that are my sewing supplies is an old steel coffee can full of buttons that I can remember being around forever. It may have belonged to my grandmother, but considering that the Duncan Coffee Company began in Houston, and we lived near Houston...