Last weekend some good friends of ours came down from Oklahoma to visit. We spent one day at the beach, one of my favorite places on the planet. We walked out onto one of the jetties and there were two men down there fishing. Bethia and Joel are so great and have promised to come…

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Ok so more Rodeo. Seriously, its the best. Come to Houston in March, buy tickets (they start at $18), you can’t beat the deal. Did I mention there’s a carnival, I don’t think I did. But yeah, there is an insanely huge carnival too, and a live stock show, which I just didn’t have time…

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I started out telling you all about the Cook Off which kicks off the month long Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo. Be still my heart. Seriously, I’m a city girl grew up in the inners of Houston, I never rode a horse to school, nor have I ever worn chaps, but even still I…

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Introducing the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Annual Cook-Off, not only delicious but also a really good party and a grand site to people watch. It’s Texas at its finest and an event Bill and I look forward to every year. So, this is how it works: for a whole weekend several hundred teams of…

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Life, well it just keeps on movin’ and a changin’. Last week I said goodbye to my beloved 1988 240 Volvo named Bessie. She saved me on Monday. Because of her another car was not in my lap and I did not fly through the windshield. She treated me well over the last 10 years.…

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I however have the flu. This is the first time in the last four days where I have been able to sit upright long enough to type or even formulate cohesive thought. There will be no photos in the post, unless you’d like to see a very messy living room (where I’ve been living for…

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I left at 8:35 on a Sunday morning, spent an hour or so in Atlanta… jumped on another plane and arrived in Buffalo at 3:30pm and went straight to the wake. Day two was the funeral. Day three I flew back home. A flash, I feel, is a very good description of this experience. There…

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Pizzelle remind me of family and of the holidays. Over two years ago my dad found a Pizzelle iron at an estate sale and gifted it to me with the mandate that I make pizzelle every christmas until the end of time (I kid, I kid). This was the first Christmas since he gave it…

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Since…1993, we think, we’ve thrown an upside down christmas tree party. According to About.com upside down christmas trees are now, “one of the hottest fads of the season”. Who knew we were setting trends back in 1993. There are oodles of google found history about upside down christmas trees, some claim it dates back to…

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You have no idea how difficult it was to get this shot…tripod+crazy dog+patient husband+anal photographer wife+timed shots=what you see above.

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