Oh, The Fun We Had! More Tales From School

Oh, The Fun We Had! More Tales From School

by | Aug 30, 2013 | Bright Lights

I came across a picture from a faculty Christmas party the other day and just had to share it. I believe this would have been our 1995 party and gift exchange. Linda Marr was our high school counselor who would draw names out of a box to match us with a person to give...
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...