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 enter you email address and tell us where to send the 
‘bits’. We’re not selling anything there, although at some point we probably should put in some Texas related offers. I do intend to tell folks about some of my eBooks or some other really good Texas product at some point.
I’m in the process of redesigning the Texas Tidbits eBook cover some to make it more readable and noticeable. And I’ll probably go to a one sidebar blog design after the first of the year.
It was just yesterday that a lady asked where she could buy a masa spreader I wrote about when I posted something on making Real Christmas Tamales. I just referred her to the original inventor, a lady named Sandra Vasquez in Corpus Christi. Maybe I should have sent her to a link and made a dollar from the sale but I didn’t. For the foreseeable future, don’t worry about being bombarded with offers from everyone and their brother….it just won’t happen. There is only a general plan to monetize the blog with possibly an eBook here and there or some really fantastic Texas product. If you have a Texas based product in mind….let me know.
Not a lot of people know about my other endeavors. Those endeavors don’t really fit in with my Texas hick persona that pretty much is me in person. I really am kinda like my friend Jim Bob who moved off to Houston and went into a Starbucks and couldn’t figure out how to order a plain old cup of coffee. The city coffee shops aren’t like your local Dairy Queen. Jim Bob has since moved back to Real Texas.
My blog that IS monetized….moneymaking that is…..is in the health related field. If you have an iPhone you can download my Healthy Heart Numbers app now and see what I am up to and if you have an imagination, you can see where I am going. You can click on the link to go take a look. Yes, an Android version is coming soon. The new website associated with the app is not live yet, but I’ve been doing lots of work behind the scenes and the new site will go live by the first of the year. The app sells worldwide and today when I checked my sales and marketing records, I noticed I had a download from South Africa and Switzerland…..as well as several from the USA. I guess after a certain age, you start thinking of living a more healthy lifestyle and with all the baby boomers making a large market segment, the app and website should be successful to some extent. It’s the best wellness tool out there…imho.
But back to Texas.
When you subscribe to Real Texas Tidbits, you will get a Texas History cartoon by Roger Moore and often a little blurb about the event depicted. And sometime during the year, I will tell you where you can buy Roger’s famous Texas Calendar that starts on March 2 instead of January 1. All Real Texans know that March 2 is Texas Independence Day and that is when Roger starts his calendars. I assume that is how Roger makes part of his living and I enjoy his calendars too!
You won’t be put on any list so spammers can get you. I hate that sort of thing as much as anybody. I almost quit AOL because of so much spam, but couldn’t figure out how to drop it. There is always a big unsubscribe link on every Real Texas Tidbits post and if for some crazy reason you don’t enjoy them or if knowing more about Texas is just not your thang, you can unsubscribe at any time, just hit the unsubscribe link. It really works.
There is also a double opt-in process just to make sure you want to receive the Texas Tidbits. You will receive an email from me that asks again if you really want to get your Texas Tidbits. Just reply ‘yes’ and you are in.
I am making a subscriber push to see if I can get more subscribers here on Texas Tidbits and Real Texas Blog than I had with my newspapers a few years ago. Go ahead and subscribe to Real Texas Tidbits. I guarantee you will enjoy. I have been working on a whole new batch of Texas Tidbits getting them ready to upload for you to enjoy.
And if any of you current folks who receive Texas Tidbits want to say anything pro or con about the ‘Tidbits’ feature for others to read, go ahead and make a Comment in the Comment section. Tell us if you enjoy them….or not.
I’m David out in Real Texas
Enjoyin’ my ‘Tidbits’ every week
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WHATEVER BECAME OF ENOCH ESTES???
David…I thought that, perhaps, you’d be interested in my website. Like you I’m a former newspapering man. My grandfather and his brother owned the Tulia Herald. My Dad owned the Edinburg Daily Review. I was on the news side at the (late, great) Dallas Times-Herald, Associated Press, Denton Record Chronicle (managing editor) and at the Dallas Morning News where I wrote an editorial page column.
I post a new chapter of my “alternative historical” novel, Finding Home, on the site every other week. It’s the story about Texas Rangers in South Texas during the late 1800s.
What a coincidence! I was just thinking about checking in with you…hadn’t heard anything in a while. As I remember, we are old ‘hell box’ buddies, not that anybody else would know what that old hot metal term would mean. I’d love to read your blog and I’m headed that way….
Great to hear from you and all my readers!
David, I enjoy your Texas tidbits very much. My sweetie lives in Texas and I visit as much as I can (I’m from Kentucky). During my visits, we always take day trips on the backroads and ones not traveled much. I love visiting the old cemeteries. I have noticed that there have been a lot of Kentuckians who have come to Texas. Maybe that is why i feel at home when I visit..lol. Was wondering if you have any history of Ky. settlers in Texas?
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