2025 World EXCA Coming to Texas in October
Listen up, Texas neighbors and beyond. There’s a different kind of rodeo coming to Texas. From youth to pro, World Extreme Cowboy Association (EXCA) members are tuning up their horses for the 2025 show-me-your-stuff competition October 28 through November 2, in Glen Rose, Tx., hosted by the Somervell County Expo Center https://www.theexpoatglenrose.com. Entrants, ages eight […]
KIDS AND WATER
To the waterpark! I took three granddaughters, ages 11, 14, and 17, to a waterpark for a couple days of chill, to escape the Texas heat, a short vacation from parents. It didn’t matter that summer storms followed us there; the resort was an enclosed year-round water park that had three zippy slides, a lazy […]
Texas Hot Tub
Gosh, it ‘s been Hot This Summer!
Stay Away From Auctions
Who doesn’t love a good auction? The bling, the crap, the undefined. I follow family footsteps when it comes to auctions, so what I buy is not my fault. Auctioneers recognize us, size us up when we walk through the door–a glint in our eye? They send somebody into a back room and scoop up all the […]
Skunks Make Awful House Guests
Skunk spray is an awful thing to wake up. Skunk odor seeps through the house even though the doors are shut. “Uck! They did it again.” I open the glass door a pinch, cut my eyes to the sleeping dogs. Koko and Pancho don’t even look up, but Sammy jumps to her feet. Guilty! She […]
Mowing, My Way
Everybody has their own style of mowing. Well, those of us who mow. Because I’m an outside kind-of-a-gal, I actually like this kind of activity. I learned early on it’s the only place a mother can go that children won’t follow once they’re old enough to know mowing is work. Of course, that was before I […]
OWL–A Friend Until They’re Not
There were unusual scuttling noises high in the oak tree in the back yard. They were coming from the old abandoned tree house my son, Josh, built with his dad when he was a boy. We couldn’t see what was making those noises inside the tree house because it was well-boarded on all sides. So […]
Chasing Buzzards
The dogs run through the field barking at the sky…Alert! Alert! Five…then ten…fifteen buzzards circle overhead. As their circles narrow, I know. It’s time. Buzzards return to the same nesting site every year to hatch their yearlings. They like quiet places, like abandoned barns and broken, deserted houses with tall, empty chimneys. When these buzzards lost […]
The baby buzzard…vulture
What Did You Do Today?
What Did You Do Today? Posted: June 21, 2020 in Home Page Tags: beets, Bell pepper, canning, Companion planting, garden, gardening, green beans, Home, Plant, Seedling, sow, Vegetable Who does this anymore? Canning, I mean. Really, who? I’m drawn to my garden like a kid to mud. It’s work…back-bending. But I happily pamper those little seedlings through early spring and into summer for that first BLT sandwich that […]