The 50th Wedding Anniversary
Fifty years ago on September 4th, 1965, we were married at the First Methodist Church in Rosenberg, Texas. This September we celebrated those 50 years together at a party hosted by the kids at our place at Lake LBJ. Caroline and AJ wanted to do something to...
The Bonfire From Our Back Yard
Now that the homecoming bonfire has been moved to the back of the golf course driving range, which is right across the road, we never have to miss the spectacle. It comes right to us. For about the past two weeks, dump trucks, trailers, and flatbeds have been...
Look What My Husband Built For Me!
After a visit to my friend Shari’s Victorian/shabby chic/eclectic-style garden on the banks of Lake Travis the other day, I was inspired to reinterpret one of her pieces of landscape art to match the southwest/rustic/desert/xeriscape-style of my garden. This is what...
The 2015 Lamar All 60s Class Reunion
I know I am a bit late-ha! that’s an understatement-getting this story out there, but here it is. The powers that be, pictured here, decided it was time for another blow-out, so on August 8th at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds, they did it again; invited classes...
KCBD Visits Us Again
Every summer KCBD-TV out of Lubbock does something they call their Community Coverage Tour, which involves traveling to some of the surrounding towns in their viewing area and broadcasting the 6 and 10 o’clock news segments from a popular location within each town...
The Gunsmith
When I stopped to pick up the two pistols that David Wyer had repaired and cleaned for Bill, I was amazed and fascinated as I walked into the old, nondescript building with the capital W on the outside front wall. I caught Dr. Wyer working at one of the many machines...
Second Wave of Wildflowers
Trip buddy Pat Angeley arrived right on time. We were looking forward to the second wave of wildflowers in the Hill Country, myself having enjoyed the blue bonnets earlier. Bland overcast skies followed us, which kept me from wanting to stop every five minutes to take...
Welcome to Lifetree Cafe
We have a new program at our church, First United Methodist Church in Muleshoe, a Monday night gathering for people to come and visit with people they know, people they haven’t met before, people they may know but not well, people who aren’t there to judge...
Consider the Forgotten Phone Book
I needed a phone number for a business in Kingsland the other day, so I picked up the Picayune Area-Wide Phone Book we had brought home with us from the lake, went to the yellow pages under Satellite systems, and Boom, there it was, a listing for the business I...
The Greenest Green
Took a little trip to the Hill Country last week. Spring hits earlier there than here, and the usual photo op involves scores of wildflowers. Blue bonnets were in attendance, but it was the fifty shades of green that had me making predictably unsafe stops along the...
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