Seek The Substantial

Curly is muddy. It’s pretty quiet on the homefront. Work is going well, slowly, but surely I am crossing things off of my wife’s “to-do” list with the house. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not crossing them off quickly enough, but things are slowly but surely being completed. I am…

There’s this building in Terrell, where I live, that is currently being remodeled. The building used to have plain stucco on the front and it appeared that someone was really covering up the architectural detail of the building itself. The first thing that was done was the stucco was removed…

Randy and Ann are off on vacation again, thus we dog-sit Curly, Randy’s Jack-Russell terrier. Yes, he’s a handful, but luckily my wife has been home for the first three days of this week (school holiday, and yes, she has quite a few of them). Remember last time he stayed…

We knew that my grandfather was not doing well. Over the last year or two his physical condition had detiorated to the point that he was probably not a happy person. My grandfather loved to ranch and if he was unable to, at the very least, get out and look…

The weekend could not have started any better. Hat Day came a day early as I had taken the day off on Friday to visit Ben, Beano and Big Time for a little bit of fellowship. As all things with my law school group it is always a good time.…

Friday is hat day for me. It’s the first day of the week that I allow myself to wear a hat. It signifies that it’s the end of the week and the weekend is here. This past week has been incredibly trying and difficult and it will take at least…

I don’t think that anyone’s noticed, but I’m trying to stay on schedule to blog twice a week. This of course does not take into consideration the exception weekend happening which usually deserves a post or two of its own. As I said before, I’d like to get paid for…

When I was single, I could save my duckets with the best of them. In fact prior to marriage and prior to renovating a house I had a really nice chunk of change put away. I’ve always been a saver and my wife will tell you that I’m obsessed with…

Last week, Thursday I think, Ashley F. notified me that there was something in one of our trees that was causing the dogs to go beserk. In the back, inside a cavity of one of the trees along our fence was a possum. Notice how menacing this sucker is, you…

We spent the day, literally, in Fort Worth yesterday at the Texas Tech and TCU football game. It was hot, and a bit windy but otherwise a really good time, despite the fact that Tech didn’t play very well at all. We have some house-cleaning issues to consider before getting…