Music Video Friday 38-Augie Meyers

March 25, 2011

Augie Meyers is a Texas legend After getting to know Augie and his wife Sara on the Tex Mex Fandango Cruise in January, I couldn’t wait to get home and start listening to some of his music.  His story is a heck of a story and his seat in any music hall of fame already […]

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Real Texas Advice

March 21, 2011

Response to Dear Abby’s reader A lady wrote in to Dear Abby in my Sunday paper complaining that her husband is a good guy, but he is way to obsessive about professional sports, especially football.  That sounded more interesting than the other man bashing/husband bashing topics Dear Abby usually has so I kept reading. The […]

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Music Video Friday – 37 Toby Keith

March 18, 2011

Toby Keith loves this bar  

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Let the DRT run the Alamo

March 15, 2011

Daughters of The Republic of Texas Although I missed many of the activities at The Alamo in recent weeks when they were celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the battle, I have to tell many of you there is another fight brewing over the Alamo…..although it may be just simmering right now. It has been proposed […]

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Saving daylight in Texas

March 13, 2011

Daylight Savings Time in Texas It is that time of the year again when Texas and most of the United States will lose an hour of sleep. Daylight Saving Time begins in Texas at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13.  It ends on November 6, 2011.  I am aware that residents in Arizona do not participate, […]

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Music video Friday – 36

March 11, 2011

If Texas Was a Woman What a great title and a great song!  Let me explain this a little more. In one of our other lives, Ramona and I own a travel agency called….what else…..Texas Cruise Company.  We book cruises all the time, but mostly we specialize in cruises out of Galveston.  So the phone […]

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Flu season in Texas

March 9, 2011

A Flu shot may be worth it I’m reconsidering.  Sometimes it take a severe blow upside the head to help me reconsider my point of view, but it may happen this time.   You see, for the past several days I have been near death with the flu.   I confess I have actually been sicker than […]

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The Fall of the Alamo

March 6, 2011

Alamo falls March 6, 1836 There are many observances and recognitions going on in San Antonio and around the state today to mark the 175th anniversary of the Fall of The Alamo in 1836.  I know I said I would be there, but a flu virus had other ideas and like  Jim Bowie, on March […]

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Music Video Friday – 35 Ballad of the Alamo

March 4, 2011

The  Alamo fell March 6, 1836 All this week  in the year 1836 the battle of the Alamo raged in San Antonio de Bexar.  As many as 185 Texians were holding off between 3,000 and 6,000 soldiers under the command of Santa Anna, the self proclaimed ‘Napoleon of the West.’  Still one of the most […]

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Real Texas Wildfires

February 28, 2011

Wind advisories in Texas Our weather alerts out here generally advise us of extreme fire hazards due to high winds.  And when it has not rained in a considerable bit of time, the threat of wildfires, or grass fires is always somewhere in the back of our minds.  And it was in the backs of […]

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