Sweetie Pie’s Ribeyes In Decatur Has The World’s Best Baked ‘Tater

August 22, 2009

Maybe that generalization is a little sweeping, but the baked potatoes at Sweetie Pie’s are darned good! Now, doesn’t that make your mouth water? But, wait! You don’t know how they cook them. That’s the part that fascinated me. See, they have these two enormous vats, with racks to hold the baked potatoes. Chris, one [...]

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Roaming Around Rhome

August 15, 2009

I told y’all not too long ago that “all roads lead to Rhome.” I was talking about the tiny hamlet of Rhome, Texas. Whenever I get lost, I wind up there. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to tell stories at the Rhome Public Library (through a grant generously given by The Texas Women for the [...]

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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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I Brake For Historical Markers

July 8, 2009

How many Methodists can you pack into 256 square feet? I guess that was the question back in the early 1870′s, because this log cabin served as the first place of worship for area Methodists in Chico, Texas (Wise County). The tiny cabin was created from half-notched, rough-hewn, oak logs and, according to the historical [...]

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The Shell of A Roadside Attraction in Decatur

July 4, 2009

The rooms at the old Texas Tourist Camp are empty now; the cabins closed their doors to travelers back in the 1970s. The once bustling highway in front of it doesn’t get much traffic since the Interstate Highway was routed around the other side of town. As I walked around to take these pictures, I [...]

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Lavender’s Blue, Dilly Dilly. Lavender Ridge Farms near Gainesville, Texas

June 27, 2009

“Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly, lavender’s green, When I am king, dilly, dilly, you shall be queen. Who told you so, dilly, dilly, who told you so? ‘Twas my own heart, dilly, dilly, that told me so.” ~English folk song Actually, “lavender” is “a pale to light purple to very light or very pale violet” but [...]

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I’m So Glad Spoons Cafe In McKinney Is In My Neck Of The Woods!

June 20, 2009

Y’all know by now that I’m a gal who likes to eat. If I find a restaurant I like, I’ll go out of my way to visit. “Spoons,” in McKinney, is one of those places. I had visited it more than a year ago during an Arts Walk night in the town. I loved it [...]

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Interlude

June 17, 2009

“The sun rose to a cloudless sky and what seemed to be an endless sea of waving grass. The prairie goes on forever as far as the eye can see. The wildflowers make it look like a floral tapestry woven with threads of yellow, white, blue, lavender and pink” ~ Nellie Morgan, 1855. Back in [...]

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Jurassic Texas

June 15, 2009

Dinosaurs! I encountered a small exhibit of them at The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney, Texas, which is right here in my neck of the woods. My children went through a period when they both loved anything to do with prehistoric reptiles. I delighted in this interest, because I had wanted [...]

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Six Degrees From Mother Neff

June 1, 2009

Actually, I think it’s only three degrees. There is a famous American folk musician who has a very convoluted “connection” with Mother Neff State Park in Texas. I asked you to name that folk musician, if you could, in my last My Neck of The Woods post. It was Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as [...]

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Who Was Mother Neff, And Why Does She Get A State Park?

May 30, 2009

I’ve often seen the road sign pointing to Mother Neff State Park as I drove on Interstate 35 south of Waco, Texas. Being curious, I’ve always wondered, “Who the heck is Mother Neff? Why does she get a park named for her?” I always meant to stop for a few minutes and see if I [...]

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St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Lindsay, Texas. My Neck Of The Woods

May 9, 2009

Traveling in Texas on US Highway 82 from Paris to Lubbock you are likely to see more beef on the hoof than you will beef patties at the Dairy Queen. It’s mostly a string of small towns with a lot of rolling farmland in between. You will notice the “skyline” of the tiny hamlet of [...]

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Peggy Sue BBQ in Dallas

April 25, 2009

Peggy Sue has a nice rack. Of RIBS — what were you thinking? I didn’t even see “Peggy Sue.” We decided to chow down on some barbecue last weekend, and Peggy Sue BBQ was highly recommended, after all The Dallas Observer listed them as The Best Barbecue in 2008. It sounded promising, so I got [...]

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Art Walk and Music in McKinney, Texas

February 27, 2008

I know better than to walk…it could be healthy or something. Lord knows I don’t want to do anything healthy! But we did take a stroll last month. We went to the McKinney Art Walk, in downtown McKinney, Texas. It was a beautiful evening, with the moon hanging in the sky like a silver earring. [...]

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Great American Race—Lewisville, Texas Edition

July 7, 2007

Vintage cars lined the streets of old town Lewisville, Texas. “Oooh”s and “Ahhh”s could be heard from the excited crowd as they milled about snapping pictures. Bustling crew members wiped every speck of road dust from the cars until they gleamed as if they were on a show room floor. The exhausted drivers in the [...]

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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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Old People Can Party, Too

March 2, 2007

I was looking at my pitchers (that is not a misspelling, it is the correct Texas way to write the word “pictures”). I realized I had not updated about our visit to the grand opening party at The Vintage Factory last Saturday night. The teenagers did grace us with their presence. That was a comfort, [...]

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“Party Down” at The Vintage Factory

February 22, 2007

I’m not sure I’ve ever been a “party animal,” but I’m going to give it a try this weekend. I’m hoping that our teenager and a friend will join my husband and me so that we won’t feel too out of place. For those in the Dallas, TX area who like vintage clothing, this Saturday, [...]

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Dolly Python, Slither In and Shop

February 20, 2007

Here is a slideshow of the treasures at Dolly Python, a vintage store in Dallas.

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House of Dang–A Darn Cool Shopping Experience

February 18, 2007

All I can say is, “Wow!” You have to check out The House of Dang, if you are anywhere near. We went to visit it yesterday after reading about it in the Dallas Morning News several weeks back. It sounded intriguing. The paper had named it THE best new independent store of 2006. The article [...]

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