In the category of “I sincerely hope so…”
I know there’s probably someone out there who does not equate the term “trout” with “fish”, but that person having fish allergies is a prime example of Darwin cleaning the gene pool. -RabidAlien
View ArticleQuorum Park, Addison Tx
Went out and met with some friends in Addison this afternoon (hopefully, many pics and much fanboy squeeing tomorrow after we go to Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, who happens to be hosting Glacier...
View ArticleCavanaugh Flight Museum, May 18, 2014
As promised, we went to church this morning, hit Central Market for some grub, had a quick(ish) lunch at home (nothing is “quick” with a 5 year old), then headed over to Cavanaugh (detoured by REI in...
View ArticleFtWorth Nature Center, 5-25-2014
Went and did a little bit of hiking today. Trail is roughly a mile loop, but close to half of it is in open prairie, so unless you brought your own shade (LOVE boonie-hats!!!), there’s none to be had....
View ArticleSaturday, June 14, 2014
Spent a couple of hours at the range this morning, sent a few mags downrange, enough to know that more frequent trips wouldn’t hurt. One of these days, when funds aren’t so tight, maybe I can manage...
View ArticleNecessity.
As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Or the weird-uncle-on-mothers-side-whom-we-never-mention-because-he’s-Methodist. Something like that. So, anyway, we’ve got a yard full of Texas...
View ArticleBorked
Borked: (adj) When something is broken so bad that even the spelling is affected. See also: this blarg. Jennifer, of InJennifersHead fame, somehow or other also administers this measly little...
View Article**crickets**
Yeah, I know…its been kinda quiet around here. Well, between working 11+ hour days for pretty much the last month solid (including weekends), I’m sorta wiped out. Serenity has been dealing with the...
View ArticleSunday, July 27th…
SeaLife Park in Grapevine Mills Mall, Grapevine, Tx. Lessons learned: *Monopods rock, I need to start carrying mine more often. *Kids. They will ALWAYS find a way to stick an arm or leg into someone...
View ArticleRandom musings
They call it “The Game of Life” (heck, there’s even an actual board-game called “Life”). Nothing illustrated this better than the epiphany I had in the car this morning following church. K-bug was...
View ArticleMad-science performed here!
So I follow a FB page called “Knowledge Weighs Nothing”, which has some handy tips for anything from surviving the zombie alpacalypse to raising bees to wiring up solar panels in your reclaimed-wood...
View ArticleLast-minute outing
Due to some willful disobedience/defiance and general misbehavior earlier in the day, we almost didn’t go out hiking this afternoon. However, 79-degree days with high-overcast are rare in Texas in...
View ArticleHikin’ wit’ da boyz
Well, it was a beautiful, perfect Texas hiking day: 65 degrees, slight breeze, and some overcast moving in. So, we packed up the truck and toodled our way on over to our favorite hiking spot, the...
View ArticleVisitor
After spending the afternoon at our nephew’s birthday party, we came home, ran a couple of errands, then went out and hit Panera for dinner. It was dark by this time, so our porch light/Christmas...
View ArticleA Date Which Will Live In Infamy
73 years ago, on this date, the Nation of Japan finally woke up the United States and propelled us into World War 2. Their sneak-attack brought the Isolationists around to the fact that, despite being...
View ArticleDog-gone smart!
So everyone tells me how smart Great Danes are. After we brought Rebel home, I started to understand it, when he would “lead” us to the door or his food bowl or a sink for water, or just plop his head...
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