Seek The Substantial
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Category: family
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How long is it appropriate to wait before writing about something? I don’t know that I can answer that, but I’ve delayed, for whatever reason, about writing about Sweet Sweet’s half-marathon for quite some time. Sweet Sweet entered into the 2010 Rock and Roll Half Marathon, which was run on March 27, 2010. Yep, these…
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It’s been a while, but I went fishing with Randy, Justin, Clay, Francis, Brandon and Donny. Lots of pictures and lots of fishing. Justin, Brandon and myself drove down, while the rest of the group (sans Donny) drove down first. We arrived at our beach house and it was pretty danged nice: That night, there…
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We’re going to break the Cozumel vacation into a couple of parts, building to a crescendo of fun and excitement. Up first is the trip to Galveston. We’re all excited about the drive: This is us driving over the bridge between Houston and Galveston: We checked our bags first thing (we actually arrived a bit…
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I’ve got some serious catching up to do. Last month we had Jenson and Thea’s birthday parties and as you might imagine, good times ensued. Sweet Sweet and Ryan: Darius taking a break: The incredibly large slide: The birthday boy goes up for yet another slide down: On to Thea’s Birthday as we had a…
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Sweet Sweet was out of town last weekend and as a result, I had a little bit of time to kill. Earlier in the week I was wondering if someone could smoke ribs or brisket while using a simple charcoal grill. Turns out that you can. But before we get to that, I did snap…
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No apologies, just been a tad busy (not really). So these pictures from probably a month ago of the garden in no way represent how it looks today. It’s gotten to the point that the tomatoes were tilting the cages, to the point that they were falling down and I had to tie the cages…
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We had Grace’s B-Day over at Marilea and Blake’s house during Easter weekend. Here’s Grace opening presents. Grace, Saralyn, Jensen and Darius. Dad, Hogan, Thea, Marilea and Sweet Sweet: Mom makes Grace a new dress, complete with bonnet.
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This is a yearly ritual for those of us who have dogs that are Blue Healer, Husky and Australian Shepard mixes. Blue, just so happens to be one of those dogs and it is time that she starts to shed her undercoat. We are not killing chickens here, this is dog hair, and this amount…
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Sweet Sweet and I traveled down to Castroville a few weekends ago to attend my Grandmother’s birthday and family reunion. We stayed at the Landmark Inn in Castroville. This was our room. This was the sink in our bathroom and Sweet Sweet wanted me to take picture of it for future reference. This is inside…
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A couple of weeks ago I decided to take the day off from work and Sweet Sweet and I decided to take care of some bidness in Dallas and then take a walk around White Rock Lake. I really don’t have a double-chin in real life: Boy on a bridge: Boat docks: That weekend, I…
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