Monday, October 31, 2011
My daughter Rose and her Uncle John, both born today.
It is also Rose's husband Juan's birthday. Pretty spooky.
Here is Rose, Juan, and Coraline with Mary and Miguel.
Halloween is also was Granny Wallace's birthday.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Open Mike at the Standpipe Coffee House...


I sang my most soul baring sensitive emo material. The subject matter was a kind of a song cycle that dealt with the self discoveries that boy genius made one morning when he woke up and looked in the mirror and noted that he was not all that smart. He also noted that he was not really a boy anymore. 

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Big Slough Photo...
This is a pretty good spot to shoot some ducks. It is a hard spot to retrieve those that you have killed, usually the water is high, and as I sat and studied the lay of the land it would still take some care on a cold winter morning even if the drought is not relieved. I did not test the water depth, but sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas I'll let you know. 

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Otober is Cat Fest Month...
With the fishing hot and I am expecting the size of the fish to pick up with the cooling of the season one
ramp at Hank's Creek is closed due to low water. Hopefully the other one stays open, be a shame for all these fish to be out there dying of old age if we can't get a boat launched.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Some One Shot an Arrow in the Air...
Cathy noticed this on Saturday. An arrow embedded in our roof. Fortunately penetration was limited by the metal roof, the old layer of singles underneath and thick rich lighter pine boards that put the capital "R" in roof.
Don't really have any good clues where this came from. There are neighbor kids down the road, possible suspects, but all pretty skinny and one currently has a broken arm, kind of hard to imagine one of them having the power for a shot traveling this distance with the appropriate elevation to end up at this angle of impact.
Of course I am old and the last bow and arrow I had my hands on was one I made from the switch cane in my parent's neighbors yard when I was a kid so like most modern devices there may be developments in bow and arrow technology that multiplies power with miniaturization that makes this possible at a price point all can enjoy. 

Sunday, October 16, 2011
Hunting/Fishing Weekend...
Here is Cathy
and Morgan with some fast catfish action catching a double. Total for the day is 18 cats. We fried them up with my Mom, brother and Mary coming to eat.
Here's Cathy with big fish of the day.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tried This to Make it Rain...
Usually that kind of thing does it. You get out of good habits for what ever reason, such as putting your stuff up and it bites you in the butt. Not so this case. I left it out on a Friday evening while sitting in the dark, in the hot tube catching up on high school football scores. I laid it down and forgot it. Several days past before I was on the deck in the daylight and noticed my mistake. We need the rain but I was glad my radio was not ruined.
This has been a great little radio. It's not the fable silver plastic nine volt heart sung about by Dave Alvin and the Iguanas on their respective recordings but just a black Radio Shack three battery double A job. I keep track of the sports with it even though the cable networks are making it harder and harder for the little guy without the big cable package to listen to his or her favorite games. I use this radio while beach front fishing. Nothing says fun like sitting on a sandy Texas beach with your big surf rod out listening to the dirty white boy rock station and just to show I can change with the times I sometimes listen to the Spanish electronic tuba station.
I don't know what the replacement for this radio would be. If I judge from the apparatuses on a new Ford F-150 truck a radio these days probably gets (for a fee of course) satellite stations, plays MP3s, makes phone calls, does your taxes all while making you a sandwich. To get a radio like the one pictured I suspect you might have to go to Mexico and I am not talking right across the border, I am thinking may be some where deep down in the interior where the lights are not so bright, where the static is a bit more troublesome and there are not so many choices. 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
New Truck Day...
Monday, October 10, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
Monday, October 03, 2011
Scattered Weekend Thoughts...
It started Saturday. I'm at the Monastery Bazaar. I do go to other things as well as parties where all take of their shirts off and as I sign up to have a copy of the Nun's newsletter, The Monastery Bells, mailed to my home. I note that the name above mine on the list is Suzi's, who with coincidentally I have some New Orleans connection. Spelled the same, first and last. Just has a Lufkin address. When did she move?
Later on Saturday night I am listening to WWOZ, the New Orleans Public Radio Guardians of the Groove streaming over the internet waves and the announcer says "Waiting to take your calls and pledges are John and Matt." That's, Cathy's brothers. What are they doing in New Orleans, take me with you guys.
I guess it's Biblical, Time for a road trip.
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