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West Texas Dust

I’ve heard so many things about West Texas over the years, opinions seem to vary between indifference to outright vehement bashing, but I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for wide open places and huge skies. I hitched up my britches and Hubsand and I decided to do a mini driving vacation to Marfa, [...]

31 Days of Gratefulness

I suppose this is akin to my Best Moments of the Week lists, but a blogger at Bless Her Heart posted about here 30 days of a grateful heart and it sounded like a good idea.

I’ve been posting one thing a day over on Facebook, but I figured I’d collect them here for posterity [...]

Red Rocks and Pine Trees, Mark II

I ventured back out to Utah again a couple weeks ago for more hiking and visiting. There is something that the red sandstone does to me – it draws me in and opens me up. I love it and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.

The first trip was to a place called Little [...]

Up, Up And Away!

Saturday morning there was a meeting of the local group of hot air balloon enthusiasts out by the lake. They lifted off from near the dam, floated over the trees and then down into the bowl of the lake. I met a friend there at 6am to check it out. I left the house shortly before [...]

The Card Catalog

Late last year, after reading this post from Small Notebook, I fell helplessly, totally, completely in love with library card catalogs. I mean, look at this picture. How can anyone NOT like this:

I hunted for one on Craigslist for a couple months, couldn’t find one that was a good price and in good condition and forgot [...]

What I Do On Saturdays...

Today was a fun-filled day!

We stopped off at Daily Juice this morning for breakfast. Mmm, chocolate banana peanut butter smoothie…

Then we stopped off to take pictures in the bluebonnets (how cliche, but also how fun!)

And OF the bluebonnets…

Then we stopped by to visit the flamingos.

I swore it was going to start talking to [...]