Oh my gosh. Please don’t tell Slim how much I love squash. I also love his humor and am always so pleased to have him as Wednesday’s Guest. Let’s all grab a cup of coffee and join him in some fun. Enjoy…. Squash. One of the English language’s most painful words, along with maim and
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I had company for several days this week. My friend, Jan and her brother, Jim, came for a visit and we had a grand time reminiscing about our childhoods. Jan and I have been friends since we were 11 years old, and the friendship has weathered the years and the separations well. She lives in
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Slim Randles is here today as Wednesday’s Guest with a little story about his friend, Dewey and a new enterprise. You never know what the guys at the Mule Barn Truck Stop are apt to do. Enjoy…. When Dewey Decker bought that acre on the edge of town from Gil Masterson, it astonished some people,
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When I was a kid, I remember seeing hundreds of butterflies, even in Michigan, which is not even on the migration path of these lovely, delicate creatures. In the last two decades the population of Monarch butterflies has gone down from 1 billion to approximately 30 million today, primarily because of the destruction of their
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On Monday, I shared a few pictures of the glorious cloud formations that I get to enjoy here in my little corner of East Texas, and I have a couple more today. These are some thunderheads that formed the other day, but unfortunately passed on by without leaving anything behind. Still, they were lovely to
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Slim Randles is back as today’s Wednesday’s Guest with the latest installment of the saga of Dud and the book he has been writing forever. Slim has also shared Dud’s progress now and then at The Blood-Red Pencil blog, so you can hop over there if you’d care to read an earlier update. In the
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Thought I would start us off with a chuckle today. I saw this on Facebook and thought it was a hoot. Don’t we all feel like this some days? And I’m especially feeling it this morning after hearing about another mass shooting. Is it ever going to end? For some time I have been saying
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This will be short today as I have to limit my computer time for a few days, so lets start with something to make you smile. This is a picture of a moon flower from my back flowerbed. The plant came to Texas with me when I moved here from Omaha, NE, and I was
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I found these mushrooms growing by an old stump in my back pasture and thought they were very pretty. With the sun shining on them, it looked as if they had been gilded. I wish I could have captured that shimmer of gold, but pictures I take with my phone never look exactly like the
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What on earth is going on in Hungary? Just reading snippets of news it sounds like a revisit of Nazi Germany. This from Reuters today: Hungarian police halted a train packed with migrants bound for the Austrian border and tried to force them to disembark in a town with a detention camp on Thursday,
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