Travelling We spent this past weekend in College Station, Texas. As usual, I am posting a view from my hotel room taken in the very early morning hours on Sunday: In other travel news, many people may have noticed that states are closing down highway rest areas right and left. MSNBC has addressed that very issue in a recent article. Basically, in order to save money in their budgets, states have been closing down rest areas Read More »
We spent this past weekend in College Station, Texas. As usual, I am posting a view from my hotel room taken in the very early morning hours on Sunday:
In other travel news, many people may have noticed that states are closing down highway rest areas right and left. MSNBC has addressed that very issue in a recent article.
Basically, in order to save money in their budgets, states have been closing down rest areas
Earlier this week I almost ran into a pelican who was hanging out in the street here in town. I wrote about it on Facebook which prompted a small flurry of reminisces about road kill. But my encounter with a pelican was nothing compared to what happened to this guy and his million dollar car: Read More »
Earlier this week I almost ran into a pelican who was hanging out in the street here in town. I wrote about it on Facebook which prompted a small flurry of reminisces about road kill. But my encounter with a pelican was nothing compared to what happened to this guy and his million dollar car:
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Aggie Station Yesterday evening we attended a "town hall" meeting at my daughter's school. We were sitting at a table with some friends of ours and their children. Their youngest little boy, who is 4 years old, was sitting directly across from me. He overheard me talking about a trip we have planned to College Station, Texas in the near future. He jumped right into the conversation and here's how it went: Little Boy: "Where are you going?" Me: "College Station. It is where your dad went to college and where lots of the Aggies live" Read More »
Aggie Station
Yesterday evening we attended a "town hall" meeting at my daughter's school. We were sitting at a table with some friends of ours and their children. Their youngest little boy, who is 4 years old, was sitting directly across from me. He overheard me talking about a trip we have planned to College Station, Texas in the near future.
He jumped right into the conversation and here's how it went:
Little Boy: "Where are you going?"
Me: "College Station. It is where your dad went to college and where lots of the Aggies live"
Last night we attended the holiday potluck dinner at our church. It is sponsored by the Men's Club at our church. The food is always fantastic at these potluck events. Everyone brings their best dish. I brought my ever-popular Hot German Potato Salad. One item in particular was noteworthy: stuffed jalapenos. The elderly gentlemen who makes these wouldn't give out his recipe. But those jalapenos were really really good. Right before the dinner began, two of the Men's Club members came and sat at our table with us. They were trying to recruit Dan into the church Men's Club. Their descriptions of the Men's Club meetings was hilarious. Their recruiting strategy went like this (pretty much the elderly gentleman's exact words): "We'd like t Read More »
Last night we attended the holiday potluck dinner at our church. It is sponsored by the Men's Club at our church. The food is always fantastic at these potluck events. Everyone brings their best dish. I brought my ever-popular Hot German Potato Salad.
One item in particular was noteworthy: stuffed jalapenos. The elderly gentlemen who makes these wouldn't give out his recipe. But those jalapenos were really really good.
Right before the dinner began, two of the Men's Club members came and sat at our table with us. They were trying to recruit Dan into the church Men's Club. Their descriptions of the Men's Club meetings was hilarious.
Their recruiting strategy went like this (pretty much the elderly gentleman's exact words): "We'd like t
I was just reading a blog post about food that cited these statistics: Research says that we cook the same 20 dishes again and again. Well, that would not be the case at my house! I try new recipes all the time. I am a huge fan of Food Network and watch the shows on there as often as possible. And I subscribe to Bon Appetit magazine which is my favorite magazine of all. Each month when I get Bon Appetit, I scan through it and take in the pictures and read some of the captions. Then I decide on the first recipe I plan to try out of it. The rest of the month I refer back to the magazine and I cook as many recipes from the pages of Bon Appetit as I can fit in. True, sometimes there are things in there that I am just not that interested in cooking and so I will pass them by. Recipes that use fennel seeds I tend to leave u ... Read More »
I was just reading a blog post about food that cited these statistics: Research says that we cook the same 20 dishes again and again. Well, that would not be the case at my house!
I try new recipes all the time. I am a huge fan of Food Network and watch the shows on there as often as possible. And I subscribe to Bon Appetit magazine which is my favorite magazine of all.
Each month when I get Bon Appetit, I scan through it and take in the pictures and read some of the captions. Then I decide on the first recipe I plan to try out of it. The rest of the month I refer back to the magazine and I cook as many recipes from the pages of Bon Appetit as I can fit in.
True, sometimes there are things in there that I am just not that interested in cooking and so I will pass them by. Recipes that use fennel seeds I tend to leave u ...
Here we are entering Day 3 of National Novel Writing Month and I will be discussing it a lot on this blog for the month of November. I am still ahead on my word count even though we are only in day 3. Sometime today I will figure out how to add the updating word count feature into my sidebar on this website. I am on Chapter 5 of my novel. I did not completely outline the entire thing ahead of time like many writers do. I wrote out my characterizations and plot. I have tons of stuff sitting around in my mind waiting to come out. I made a list of approximately the number of chapters I plan to write and I am filling in the information as I write each chapter. I have my usual busy week of work and personal acitvities. Having a child means that their schedule becomes your schedule and my daughter normally has a full roster of birthday party invitations, play dates, Girl Scout activities, church stuff, school stuff, and the list goes on and on. You need goo ... Read More »
Here we are entering Day 3 of National Novel Writing Month and I will be discussing it a lot on this blog for the month of November. I am still ahead on my word count even though we are only in day 3. Sometime today I will figure out how to add the updating word count feature into my sidebar on this website.
I am on Chapter 5 of my novel. I did not completely outline the entire thing ahead of time like many writers do. I wrote out my characterizations and plot. I have tons of stuff sitting around in my mind waiting to come out. I made a list of approximately the number of chapters I plan to write and I am filling in the information as I write each chapter.
I have my usual busy week of work and personal acitvities. Having a child means that their schedule becomes your schedule and my daughter normally has a full roster of birthday party invitations, play dates, Girl Scout activities, church stuff, school stuff, and the list goes on and on. You need goo ...
I am off to a smashing good start on my participation in National Novel Writing Month. I have written my quota for word count today and I am still in a writing mood. So I'll keep writing! I am sure there will be one or more days this month when I don't have the time or creativity to write so it is best that I get ahead while the muse is visiting. We survived another Halloween last night. We took Toot collecting candy around the block and then settled down at our friend's house to help give out candy. She had a small Halloween party going on and we had good food and good fun. One thing that continues to bug me each year about giving out candy is the advanced age of the trick-or-treaters. There were many teenagers out trick-or-treating and I feel like Halloween trick-or-treating is for the smaller children. Maybe up to 12 years old at the most.
I am off to a smashing good start on my participation in National Novel Writing Month. I have written my quota for word count today and I am still in a writing mood. So I'll keep writing! I am sure there will be one or more days this month when I don't have the time or creativity to write so it is best that I get ahead while the muse is visiting.
We survived another Halloween last night. We took Toot collecting candy around the block and then settled down at our friend's house to help give out candy. She had a small Halloween party going on and we had good food and good fun.
One thing that continues to bug me each year about giving out candy is the advanced age of the trick-or-treaters. There were many teenagers out trick-or-treating and I feel like Halloween trick-or-treating is for the smaller children. Maybe up to 12 years old at the most.