Loreda and the T-shirt Quilts

Loreda and the T-shirt Quilts

A while back I had the bright idea to make a quilt out of all those T-shirts I just had to have as souvenirs and mementoes and which were taking up huge amounts of space in my closets and drawers. I had seen a kit advertised in the newspaper for doing just that, so I...

Benny Pena 1928-2011

We said goodbye to a classic cowboy Saturday. Benny was 83 years old and had spent all of those years working cattle, riding horses, and helping people. When I say all those years, I mean literally all those years, as he started out life on horseback as a baby,...

George, Reba, and Lee Ann Sing for Us

We attended a modern county music lover’s dream concert last Saturday night in Lubbock at Texas Tech’s United Spirit Arena. Lee Ann Womack opened the concert, followed by Reba McEntire, and ending with George Strait. What a deal! The day tickets went on sale I had...
The Cedar Posts Story

The Cedar Posts Story

  Conventional wisdom claims  that no good deed goes unpunished. I offer this situation for your consideration. We spent part of Spring Break at Lake LBJ in the heart of the Hill Country and offered to bring back cedar posts for our son-in-law to build a new...
In Praise of Skilled Craftsmen

In Praise of Skilled Craftsmen

Ray and Alex came to install the new sink and faucet the other day. I watched as they figured out what went where and worked out all the kinks in a job that looked incomprehensible to me. These are the same men, remember, who moved a wall, rebuilt a closet, put up...