Music Video Friday – 76 Auld Lang Syne

December 30, 2011

Happy New Year I am a naturally optimistic person and it is my true wish for everyone to have a very happy new year.  May your dreams come true in 2012.  I am particularly blessed to have an amazing  wife and extended family and my friends are equally awesome. Here’s a good version of the [...]

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Real Texas Resolutions

December 27, 2011

Make 2012 the best year ever A New Year’s resolution is a commitment that you as an individual make to one or more lasting personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. It’s a common thing at this time of year whether it is made public or kept private. This lifestyle change is generally [...]

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A Real Texas Christmas Story

December 25, 2011

The Christmas Story Take 10 minutes to listen to John Henry Faulk’s Christmas story in Texas.

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Real Texas Jalapeno Peanut Brittle Bacon Cookies

December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas! This year’s holiday recipe is a unique recipe. You can easily just make the Real Texas Jalapeño Peanut Brittle, but if you are willing to take just an extra creative step, you can make my Real Texas Jalapeño Peanut Brittle Bacon Cookies!  They are really delicious! To download the recipes and print them [...]

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Music video Friday – 75 My Christmas music

December 23, 2011

My tastes in music is varied and eclectic or a varied mixture of what I like. On one  hand, I love Robert Earl Keen’s Christmas with the Family and on the other, there is the Three Tenores (Jose Carreras,  Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti)version of John Lennon’s Happy Christmas song.  Keen’s song is so typical of [...]

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Real Texas Christmas 2011

December 20, 2011

Small Texas towns are waitin’ for Christmas By David Werst 1992   ‘Tis the week before Christmas and all through the town The lights are a shinin’, it sure does look grand. It’s a small Texas town, kinda far from the city, All the folks here pitched in, and made it look pretty.   There [...]

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Music Video Friday – 74 Where’s the line

December 16, 2011

Where’s the line to see Jesus?

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Real Texas Tidbits of history

December 13, 2011

Texas Tidbits are a real treat There are several hundreds of you folks out there who enjoy a regular dose of Texas history every week or so in the form of Texas Tidbits.  You folks who don’t receive the ‘Tidbits’ can find and subscribe to Texas Tidbits over on the left side of this blog.  Just [...]

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Music Video Friday – 73

December 9, 2011

Christmas music  in Real Texas

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Music Video Friday – 72

December 2, 2011

Run, Run, Rudolph This is a good start to get you in the spirit of Christmas.  I had a good ear to hear him date the song with the line “taking off like a Sabre jet at about the 2:15 mark.  I used to build Sabre Jet model airplanes…..Great Christmas song sung very well by [...]

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