Category: Life It’s Ownself

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    Thursday Thirteen #11

    Thirteen Things about Semitough:Happy Thanksgiving everyone! On Thanksgiving Day we all have much to be thankful for. We have our families, our health, fine food and fellowship. Many thoughtful and contemplative bloggers will no doubt be documenting their blessings in great detail all over the Interwebs.However, in fine Texas tradition, Semitough turns to that most Holy of Texas Holies, High…

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    Thanksgiving Eve

    Thanksgiving means two things here at the Semitough Love Ranchita, food and football. Esposa is already at work in the kitchen baking up the cornbread for the dressing. She uses her grandmother’s recipe, which is much the same as my mother and grandmother used. Crumbled cornbread mixed with crumbled white bread crumbs (what my grandmother, Big Momma, would have called…

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    UPDATE: Close to the Heart

    A little over a month ago I posted here regarding an accident that involved several local high school students, including my daughter, who was a rear seat passenger in one of the cars. As a result of the accident one died and another was seriously injured. Thankfully my daughter was not hurt. The car she was riding in, according to…

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    Contradiction In Terms

    There are some things that just go together:  Peanut butter – Jelly Some things do not: Caviar – Colt 45 Malt Liquor There are things you see that are imbued with certain qualities while others are not: Cadillac Escalade = Class Cast metal, chrome plated bull testicles hanging from your trailer hitch = Not so much. Imagine my surprise to see the former…