April 2007

A Quick Link

April 16, 2007

I hardly ever take the time to watch a You Tube video when it’s in a post. Today, I did. Over at Big Pink Cookie, Christine posted two YouTubevideos of couples having their first wedding dances. The first is hilarious. The second was so much fun it made me cry. If you like things like [...]

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Increasing Blog Traffic

April 16, 2007

Y’all, I’ve been pondering the mystery of “blog traffic.” For those of us new to the “blogosphere,” finding ways to bring traffic to our sites is always a conundrum. For the first three months I was writing, I felt like I was talking to myself. I do that all the time, so it was nothing [...]

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The Great Republic of Rough And Ready

April 15, 2007

There are folks who claim that we Texans are prone to bragging a bit. That, my friends, is an understatement. Any Texan worth her salt can expound until the cow’s come home about the virtues of The Lone Star State. You ain’t even gonna believe this, but I, myself, am quite capable of this. I [...]

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I Might Have A Cure For The Cat’s Ear Mites

April 14, 2007

Walter Mitty has not been a happy camper. That has made at least two of us. I believe I may have told y’all that I am the domestic servant for five “fe-lions.” Walter (aka “Wyatt” because he “erps” hairballs all the time) is the neurotic one. Let me amend that, he is the obnoxiously neurotic [...]

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White Noise

April 13, 2007

My husband is probably the funniest man I’ve ever met. He constantly plays on words or comes up with excruciating puns, and he always cracks up his audiences. My oldest son was visiting, and my husband made one of his wordplays (I don’t remember what it was now). Everyone laughed except my boy, who kept [...]

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Link Love #4

April 13, 2007

Yesterday was a busy day in the yard, so I didn’t get around on the Thursday Thirteen meme very much. Wednesday, I followed links like crazy for the Wordless Wednesday, and discovered some pictures that took my breath away. My Link Love list this week is a mix from the two of those and is [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #5 BACON!

April 11, 2007

I have told y’all before that bacon is an essential part of any self-respecting Texas gal’s diet. Bacon is yummy. It can make darn near anything taste good. And, for us bacon lovers, there are all sorts of other products associated with bacon that we can acquire. So, here are: THIRTEEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT [...]

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Wordless Wednesday—Mamaw’s Patchwork Quilt

April 11, 2007

This is Estelle and her pinwheel quilt See related essay If you would like to participate in Wordless Wednesday, post your picture on your site, then visit the Wordless Wednesday site and leave your link with a comment. Whether you are participating or not, if you would like to leave a comment, your name and [...]

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Patchwork

April 10, 2007

Draped across the foot of my guest bed is a patchwork quilt crafted by my Mamaw’s hands. She would roll over in her grave if she knew I won’t let it be actually “used.” For her, there wasn’t much point in having anything that didn’t have a purpose. But, the quilt is too fragile to [...]

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Is Your Blog User Friendly?

April 10, 2007

I’m grinning like a possum eating persimmons! Leanne has been working on that picture of my hands that you see in the header. She has made it into a cartoon (with red fingernails) and I can’t wait to put it on my blog. In a week or so, she will begin re-vamping my site. It [...]

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Thinking Blogger X 2

April 9, 2007

Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-Holic tagged me with The Thinking Blogger Award. I was as surprised as a puppy when it meets its first porcupine. In the same set of comments, Geeky Streak tagged me with The Thinking Blogger Award. At that point, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Now, I have [...]

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Thinking About Blogging Awards

April 8, 2007

After two nights in a fancy-pants hotel in Galveston, I can assure y’all that I’m addicted to blogging. I woke up each morning at 5:00 a.m., although no cats were insistently touching their noses to mine and tickling me with their whiskers so I’d get up and feed them. My first coherent thought each morning [...]

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Anna Nicole’s Diaries

April 6, 2007

My husband and I finally got everything packed and crawled into bed to try to get some sleep before our travel tomorrow. We switched on the television to the nightly news and caught the story that two of Anna Nicole Smith’s diaries were coming up for auction. My husband said, “Were they written in crayon?”

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Link Love #3

April 6, 2007

OK, it’s not technically five this week, but don’t get your underdrawers in a twist. This week has been more than a little crazy. I’m trying hard to decide on how I want this new blog space to eventually look, so that Leanne can design my new layout. Trying to figure out how things work [...]

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Thursday Thirteen–Talkin’ ’bout Texas

April 5, 2007

THIRTEEN THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT TEXAS The first native born Governor of Texas was James Stephen Hogg. He had a daughter whom he christened with the unfortunate name “Ima” after a heroine in a poem. Yes, Ima Hogg. What was that man thinking? Perhaps he thought he would marry her off one day, [...]

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Wordless Wednesday–Vignettes

April 4, 2007
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At The Catfish Plantation, You Get More Than You Pay For

April 4, 2007

I had a hankerin’ for fried fish. I like to eat fried crappie (that’s pronounced like “croppy”) but you have to catch crappie for yourself, and I don’t fish. I did until Daddy made me bait my own hook and take my own fish off the line. Those squishy worms were nasty, but I didn’t [...]

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My Own Personal Blogging Award

April 2, 2007

…”THAT REMINDS ME OF THE TIME..”… When I was growing up, I was considered the “shy one” in my family. We moved away from my hometown after I graduated from High School, and one of our old neighbors saw my Daddy several months later. He asked, “How’s that daughter of yours—the mute one?” He had [...]

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Bluebonnets and April Fools

April 1, 2007

April is a grand sight here in Texas. After a good soaking spring rain, the bluebonnets bust out all over at the sides of the highways. If you’ve never seen it, you have no clue what a magnificent display Mother Nature arranges. Fields and hillsides are decked out in blue flowers that shimmer in the [...]

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