THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Started up at the rancho about twenty minutes ago. Already lots of pictures people are taking around the area. This doesn’t happen often.

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 [...]