Category Archives: Mr. Boy

Lost Maples

Posted on October 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Lost Maples

meyerThis is not Lost Maples State Park. It’s Gastehaus Meyer in Comfort. But they’re touting the park as the perfect reason to come spend a fall weekend with them (then drive to the park near Vanderpool). Must consult with Mrs. Charm. Sounds nice. If we can make arrangements to park Mr. Boy with a chum for two nights.

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It’s biggerize, biggerize, people

Posted on October 7, 2010 | Comments Off on It’s biggerize, biggerize, people

Seems the lexicographers are all aflutter that “embiggen” is seeping into mainstream usage. It should be “biggerize,” I tell you. Mr. B.’s biggerize is the natural opposite of “minimize.” Embiggen is completely out of left field.

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View from the condo at Port A

Posted on September 12, 2010 | Comments Off on View from the condo at Port A

CondoPortASeems like only yesterday we were enjoying this panorama of the Gulf of Mexico from the condo at Port Aransas. It was, in fact, not quite a month ago. It was much more humid than usual for some reason, and Mr. B. got stung by a jellyfish, so he was less than enthused about the beach part of it. But, there’s always next year. So far. Still thinking of rare reader Snoopy’le, who is recovering from a heart attack. Wishing him well. And his wife and children, too.

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Mr. B.’s crowded classroom

Posted on August 19, 2010 | Comments Off on Mr. B.’s crowded classroom

His fifth grade class, which meets for the first time on Monday, will have thirty pupils. That’s eight more than his fourth grade class had. Seems the public school system has no maximum size requirements for fifth grade. Getting them ready for the crowded classrooms of middle school, I’d bet.

The school principal says she’s working on reducing the fifth grade class sizes, but is promising nothing. Figures. I bet there are two things at work here: the teachers’ unions keeping pay high so more teachers can’t be hired, and the swarm of illegal immigrants flowing across our Southern border.

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Back to the rancho

Posted on August 13, 2010 | Comments Off on Back to the rancho

It was the usual long haul back this afternoon. Coming back from Port A always seems harder than going down there. Anticipation is over, I suppose. We did stop for lunch in Cuero, for a change, at one of the town’s mainstay eateries, a 50-year-old burger joint called K&N Root Beer.

And we took pictures in Goliad of La Bahia, including the Fannin memorial, The Angel, Gen. Zaragoza’s statue, and the chapel at La Bahia, all of which I will explain in my own way when I get the pictures posted, one at a time over the next month or so.

Finally we stopped in Lulling to take snaps of the decorated oil pump jacks: a Killer Whale and two kids eating watermelon on a teeter-totter. Touristing, you might say, though we’ve seen it all a thousand times. Comforting, though.

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Getting back on the horse

Posted on August 12, 2010 | Comments Off on Getting back on the horse

Mr. B. has finally been convinced, on the last day of our annual Port A trip, that he needs to try and “get back on the horse” instead of letting his Tuesday bout with the Sea Nettles keep him out of the Gulf. He and Mrs. Charm and grandma from Fort Worth are just setting out. Updates on this important news item on the hour.

UPDATE:  He did it! Said he didn’t see (or feel) any this time. But the higher than usual heat and humidity (heat index of 105 F) finally drove him back inside.

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Sea Nettles at Port A

Posted on August 10, 2010 | 4 comments

seanettlesMr. B. said “it felt like it clamped on me and stung,” describing the Sea Nettle that got him in the water today at the beach. He said he ran away from it and it let go. Seem to be a lot more of them than usual this year. Really hot and high humidity, too, but it’s usually like that.

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