Archive for 'Rancho Roly Poly'
IEATAPETA
It’s the Eighth Annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Hamburger, I expect, will be on the menu at the rancho where we seldom miss an opportunity to mock a pretentious person or organization. Especially an obnoxious one like PETA, which so richly deserves all the ridicule it gets.
Not that we have anything [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Site building.
Tags: IEATAPETA, International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day, PETA, SimplyJews.com, vegetarians, Yourish.com
Comments: 1
Do you really need a college degree?
When I was young, the answer was unambiguously yes. And, indeed, in terms of future employment, as recorded here, with one you have been much more likely to be employed and remain so since 1992. Leaving aside how long it took you to recoup the money spent on getting one in the first place.
Now, ideally, [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2010 under Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles.
Tags: Ace of Spades, Chart of the Day, do you really need a college degree, electrician, employment
Comments: 2
Ready for Comfort
Let’s see, I plan to make stuffed salmon tonight for me, Mrs. Charm and her mother, who is descending from Fort Worth this afternoon to stay with Mr. Boy for the weekend. This being Thursday, he gets his favorite macaroni and cheese. For grandma I still have to change the bedsheets and tidy up the [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2010 under Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Angora goats, Comfort, Freethinkers, Jimmy Doolittle, Texas, Tokyo Raiders
Comments: 3
Bluebonnet bonanza
This is a snap from last year by friend Chris White who lives out near Washington-on-the-Brazos, It’s a small preview of what’s expected in a week or so along most Texas highways. Winter’s slosh and splash, after several years of dusty drought, is expected to raise anew our beloved blue bonanza.
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate.
Tags: bluebonnets 2009, bluebonnets 2010
Comments: 2
Winter to linger, flood chances increase
Rainfall has been above normal across Central Texas since Jan. 1, according to the National Weather Service. That’s expected to continue, with a consequent risk of significant flooding, especially on area rivers and lakes.
Forecast rain & storms today through Monday will only add to the problem.
Meanwhile, LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose says one of the coldest [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate.
Tags: cold winter, cool spring, flooding, wet year
Comments: 1
A! Elbereth Gilthoniel!
So we stood on the quay with Sam and Merry and Pippen and watched Frodo and Bilbo sail away with Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel, at the end of The Return of the King. For my son’s second time and my thirteenth or fourteenth.
And when I reached the last sentence and the trilogy we’d [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Library, Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles.
Tags: J. R. R. Tolkien, Narnia, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Treasure Island
Comments: none
Hill Country B&Bs
Of all the B&B’s in the Hill Country, Gasthaus Meyer is the only one I’m aware of that began as a stagecoach stop more than a hundred years ago. Today it’s a collection of buildings, most old, but a few new, backed up to Cypress Creek in the historic little town of Comfort. Mrs. Charm [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2010 under Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana.
Tags: B&B, Comfort, Cypress Creek, Gasthaus Meyer, Hill Country, stagecoach stop, Texas
Comments: 7
Bye, bye single digits
Mr. B., celebrating his 10th birthday today, is, as his Aunt Lynne has pointed out, officially a member of the double-digit age club. Only a few get into the triple-digit club, so his elevation to that one remains to be seen. But for now, welcome to the club.
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly.
Tags: 10th birthday, birthday, double-digit age club, triple-digit age club
Comments: 5
Snowfall
Started up at the rancho about twenty minutes ago. Already lots of pictures people are taking around the area. This doesn’t happen often.
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Central Texas, snow
Comments: 4
Change, and even some hope, for a change
Like the teleprompter reader-in-chief always says, “Change is never easy.” So the weekend shift from my old Dell Dimension 3000 with its dying audio to this new Dell Inspiron 546 has been a trip. Mostly finished now.
Thanks to a $19 Cruzer Micro 8GB flash drive, it was relatively painless. Along with ninety-nine percent of my [...]
Posted: February 22nd, 2010 under Blogosphere, Obamalot, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering.
Tags: Cruzer Micro 8GB, Dimension 3000, Inspiron 546, Skype
Comments: none







