Category: Life It’s Ownself

Block-T Originally uploaded by cuppycup. The Semitough Fightin’ Texas Aggie Megabus will be pulling out shortly heading south. Dixie Chicken and Midnight Yell Practice tonight, Citadel game tomorrow. We’ll be watching the Fighting Texas Aggie Band perform the famous Block T formation as shown in this great pic posted by cuppycup over on Flickr. Hope to have some great pics of…

Went to my uncle’s funeral today. He was 82 and had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for the last few years of his life. And what a life it was. WWII veteran of the European war serving in the Army Air Corps, married 62 years, member of his church for 56 years – 44 of those serving as a deacon. Retired…

So we got rain this weekend. Good soaking rain. And the temperatures have dropped significantly, the string of 100+ degree days broken…perhaps for the year. So I’m feeling pretty good about it. Until yesterday when the water bill came. Now let me back up just a bit. We’ve been under Stage 3 water restrictions all summer. The rainfall deficit is…

Another weekend in the suburban jungle. Sometimes the most difficult thing about the guerrilla lifestyle is the boredom. This time of year we’ve survived the whole back to school battle with the associated skirmishes to get the little guerrillas clothed, feet properly adorned with the latest Shox, school supplies bought, rebought, and then bought again. I’m not sure why they…