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July 16, 2011

Razzle-dazzle the Red Hat Ladies in San Antonio with a homemade bottled Easter egg basket gift

Bottled Easter Basket

by Julia Hayden
 

Having as we do a monthly Red Hat Ladies in San Antonio event where we are expected to razzle-dazzle the other members with our skill and creativity when it comes to doing a token gift, my daughter and I have gotten very, very …

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July 16, 2011

The Royal Wedding - A Wedding in the Old Country

A Wedding in the Old Country

No, of course I did not get up hours before the crack of dawn on Friday to watch the royal wedding. I wouldn't get up at four o'clock in the morning for my own wedding. But we did watch the highlights Friday …

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July 16, 2011

Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South

The Cowboy Way

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I never quite understood the appeal of the cowboy, when it came to the whole western-frontier-nostalgia-gestalt, even after coming to live in Texas and write whole books about the frontier, and Texas. How …

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July 16, 2011

The Black Swan Inn and the Battle of Salado

The Black Swan Inn and the Battle of Salado

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So, this was a place that we found by accident, on our last weekend walk, doing another leg of the Salado Creek Greenway- the portion from Tobin Park south, following the line of …

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July 16, 2011

Edible Arrangements

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Through the good offices of one of our Red Hat friends, my daughter has been working as a back-up delivery driver for Edible Arrangements on Blancofor the last couple of years, on those holiday periods when the rush of orders for arrangements of fruit cunningly cut up to …

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July 16, 2011

Tobin Park thickets of blackberry brambles

 

Blackberries and Yogurt Cream

So, last week when we hiked the Salado Greenway Trail along the stretch between Tobin Park and Rittiman road, we noticed that there were a great many thickets of berry brambles, especially in the sunny stretch along Holbrook Road. We had seen a man standing …

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July 13, 2011

HEB Groceries rule in South Texas

 

HEB-domain

 
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Pretty generally and for as long as I have been paying attention - and it first came up in the 6th grade when Mr. Terrenova was explaining about company stores, and went all the …

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April 25, 2011

A void in the catosphere - Moo the Closet Cat

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Moo the Closet Cat

 
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When my younger sister's parakeet, known as Bird - my sister did not have much of an imagination when it came to naming …

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April 7, 2011

The San Jacinto reenactment is April 16, 2011. This is the 175th anniversary of the war for Texas independence

Annals of 1836: The Runaway Scrape

 

The 175 anniversary of the war for Texas independence is being observed this year, I've been to commemorative events at the Alamo, and at Presidio La Bahia . With the price of a gallon of gas already reaching towards $3.50, I'll …

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March 17, 2011

Meat, potatoes, and several kinds of veggies make up this full meal salad

 

Dinner Salad - Salade Nicoise

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This is one of our favorite full-meal salads - being that it's three out of the four food groups in one, and in fairly generous quantities: there's your …

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