July 2009

Ménage à trois

July 31, 2009

I’m not talking about what you think … at least, I don’t think so. I confess that I don’t really know for sure. You see, I have a threesome of feathered visitors to my yard. A pair of cardinals and a “friend” visit the bird feeder I put out for them. I’ve tried to get [...]

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She Knew She Couldn’t Beat ALS

July 30, 2009

But, she gave it one hell of a fight. Giggling until almost the end, Aunt Cleo passed today. There’s gonna be a lot of cackling and giggling in Heaven tonight, because Aunt Cleo was a veritable fountain of jokes that were a bit off-color. I figure those angels need some of that. And, if they [...]

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Al-Amir Lebanese Restaurant in Addison. I Fell For It Hookah, Line, and Sinker

July 30, 2009

Belly dancers! International music! Hookahs! We missed it all, because we arrived for the lunch buffet at Al-Amir … and that entertainment is only offered in the evenings. Doggone it! Al-Amir is a Lebanese restaurant in Addison, Texas (there is one in Dallas, too) that we found quite by accident. It was a very happy [...]

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If It’s Not Fun, Don’t Do It

July 29, 2009

Y’all see this little girl on the slide? That six year old still lives inside my heart some forty-nine years later. I look like I’m on top of the world, don’t I? Well, let me tell you about that day. I remember it well after all these years. Daddy and his brother, Uncle Denny, took [...]

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If You Have A Scorpion In Your Freezer

July 28, 2009

You might be the “anti-pioneer woman.” Y’all please understand that in this case “anti” means “opposite;” it doesn’t mean “against.” I’ve got nothing against Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman ). In fact I think she is a pretty cool blogger. But, so is my friend Thorne, who may be Ree Drummond’s polar opposite. At [...]

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Ominous

July 27, 2009

Changing pictures from color to monochrome seems to change their “tone” entirely. On a bright and beautiful day, my husband and I drove through the South Texas Hill Country near Luckenbach viewing these sights. They seemed cheerful in color. Once I changed the pictures to black and white, they seemed almost ominous to me. What [...]

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Leaves Of Three — Let It Be!

July 26, 2009

Faster than Indiana Jones’ bullwhip, a long strand of poison ivy lashed out and wound itself around my leg; it dragged me to earth and hog-tied me and… OK, I exaggerate a little bit — but not much. I was working in my garden pulling vines and brambles out of the flower beds. In that [...]

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Raining Bats At Congress Avenue Bridge

July 25, 2009

Yesterday I showed you a picture of people lining the bridge at Congress Avenue in Austin at sunset. Those folks had gathered there to watch a colony of bats flying out to feed. That’s why we went to Austin, too — we were going batty. I have to tell you that we had a better [...]

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Vacation is Good

July 24, 2009

Ours is just a “mini-vacation” — a trip to the Capitol of the Lone Star State. We dashed down to Austin for an overnight trip to break the monotony of two weeks of working on our house and yard. Everybody needs a break from drudgery now and then so they can maintain an optimistic outlook [...]

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The Delivery of Medicine Bags at Camp Sanguinity

July 23, 2009

Some of you are aware that there was a “Good Medicine project” going on at this blog over the last year. Crafty folks from around the world designed “medicine bags” to give to some very special kids. Specifically they were for the 140 campers who would attend Camp Sanguinity, a summer camp for kids with [...]

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Uncle Walt’s Band. I Thought They Would Always Be There.

July 22, 2009

My high school friend suggested that we go to hear a concert. It must have been about 1975 or 1976. She said, “I want you to hear Uncle Walt’s Band.” I had no idea her uncle was a musician, but I had grown up hearing my Daddy and his friend E.W. picking on their mandolins [...]

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Heaven or Hell? 654 Miles of Yard Sale!

July 21, 2009

I guess that could be heaven for someone like me (a confessed garage sale junkie) except that it runs from August 6-9, is in the Deep South (can you say “hotter than blazes?”), and even I get weary of garage sales after about the third one in a day. It’s time for the 22nd anniversary [...]

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Tic Toc

July 20, 2009

Do y’all wake to an alarm clock in the morning? I don’t need an alarm clock, because I have alarm cats. They always decide they need to be fed while I am still sleeping, and will go to great lengths to waken their “mommy.” For the longest time, every morning when I opened my eyes [...]

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What The Angels Eat

July 19, 2009

That’s what Mark Twain said about watermelon. It is the chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. – [...]

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We All Need Another Hero

July 17, 2009

How would you react in an emergency? I know that I don’t have whatever it takes to be a “hero.” Any time I get frightened or excited, you could put my brain in a bluejay and it would fly backwards. That’s why real heroes like Mike Schmidt amaze me. Last year, he decided to go [...]

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Coffee Break

July 15, 2009

I’m not really on a coffee break. I thought I’d show you this picture of Caramel Mudslide Coffee from Spoons Cafe and pretend I’m having fun. Isn’t that better than showing you the whips and chains I am using to force myself to finish a project? Wait a minute…. ….you wanted to see the whips [...]

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Just Call Me “Scissorhands”

July 14, 2009

Or you can just call me “Eddie.” OK. I realize that these aren’t “scissors,” they are hedge trimmers. But, I feel as if I’ve been pruning a yard the size of a football field with a pair of scissors for years. Our old hedge trimmer was a piece of junk. It couldn’t even chew through [...]

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The Blues in Black And White

July 13, 2009

I listen to a lot of music during the summer, and most often I’m playing the blues. Because I’m listening to the blues today, I decided to enter this photo of a friend playing blues harmonica into the Monochrome Weekly Project. You can visit Aileni at the main site to find other photographers who love [...]

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Words From The Sage — Leroy “Satchel” Paige

July 10, 2009

Have y’all ever noticed that “vacations” can be stressful? Lordy, ours is this week — because it’s a working vacation. Mr. Tucker is moving a shed (sideways, with a fence in the way) and I’ve been moving my office (carrying a good 600 pounds of books upstairs). On a break, I started leafing through a [...]

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No More Excuses For No Grocery Bags

July 9, 2009

Down at the coffee shop this morning, I conducted an informal poll. Folks sitting at the tables there are accustomed to me dropping by and asking stupid questions and, thankfully, they put up with me. I asked ten people, “What is the easiest baby step that a person can take to ‘go green’?” Surprisingly to [...]

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