Will this year’s remodeling ever stop?  Not yet, I guess.  We upgraded our fencing to separate the front and back yards.  Cost?  $2200.  Ouch!  But it is a nice upgrade.  The main motivation was the fact the old fence was leaning over in two places!  Not enough support.  Holly found an gruff ol’ ex-marine to […]

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Okay, I schedule a visit to the dentist just for a cleaning, but find out I’ve got some serious issues pending.  I should’ve figure that out when I had some severe pain in my right-side upper jaw during this recent bought with bronchitis.  It was severe!  I literally couldn’t sleep one night just because of […]

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Our cousin George Bush Sr. died today.  I’m not surprised, really.  When his wife Barbara died several months ago I thought, you know, I bet it won’t be long before George followers her into eternity.   We’re related to both George Bush AND Barbara Bush, which is kind of unusual.  I’m not sure if they are […]

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Okay, off we go to Arkansas again for Thanksgiving.  But this time it is immediately interrupted by a head cold.  I felt kind of bad as we left out on Wednesday afternoon, and that only increased as the night progressed.   By the time we arrived at the hotel on Wednesday night, I was fully into […]

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I love these rope climbing things.  So scary and fun!  I’ve only done one, but loved it.  I thought about doing this one, too, along with Ivy, but by the time the birthday party activities got around to doing the rope course I had already consumed a couple of margaritas, so I figured it was […]

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Rainy day in Houston.  What to do?  How about drive down to San Leon and get some more chickens?!   We wanted to replace the chicken that died, plus get some meds for a hen that was sick.  We ended up bringing 4 more chicks home with us.  

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Well, one of our chickens died.  It was our favorite one, too.  The one with the feather hat.  I just found her dead on the floor of the coop this morning.  There’s no visible reason for her death, so I don’t know what killed her.  🙁 

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Like it says… Also made a little video of my trip to the dog park.  This Dog Park is FANTASTIC!  But it was destroyed in Hurricane Harvey.  Now it is back and better than ever.  

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About 1 a.m on Saturday morning. I am awakened by the sound of running water.  Not just water running from a sink or toilet, but the sound of gushing water.   I lay there half asleep thinking, “What is that?  Who left the water running?” Then I hear, “JOEY, HELP!!”   Holly had got up to go […]

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Charles called and asked if he could just come and hang out for the weekend.  I said, sure!  So he did.  Chuck likes history and nerdy stuff like that, so I took him, first, to the Buffalo Bayou Cisterns, a nifty place where downtown Houston used to store clean water.   Unfortunately, they had temporarily turned […]

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