Christmas Tree 2009

Put up the Christmas Tree today. We've been using an artificial one the past several years, but we got a real one today. It's a Douglas fur and makes the house smell great.

Pittsburg, Texas, Trip

We made an interesting trip today. It was nostalgic for me because I haunted these towns a lot when I worked at KLTV in Tyler. We went through my grandfather's home town, Winnsboro, then on the Pittsburg, where we ate at the famous Pittsburg Hot Links restaurant. The picture is not very good, I admit, but I was trying to get the Pilgram's Pride factory in the background of the shot. That telephone pole is right in the way. At the restaurant, they serve the links on paper with crackers and it's really good. Then we went to the museum to see the Ezekiel Air Ship. Supposedly, a preacher made an aircraft based on what he read in Ezekiel. They say he flew it before the Wright Brothers, but it was destroyed on a train taking it to a world's fair, so he never got credit for it. The nice lady at the museum let me take a picture, as you can see. This is a recreation of the original, but we can't see how it would ever fly, unless a good wind happened to come along. On our trip, we went through Tyler, Winsborro, Mineola, Quitman, Gilmer, Big Sandy, Pittsburg, Wynona and Frankston. It was more than 200 miles, round-trip.

Shower The People

James Taylor performing "Shower the People" at the Colonial Theater in Boston in 1988. This is from a VHS that was released in 1991

Beautiful Fall Weather

Wow, have I been enjoying the weather this past week! It's been just about perfect. Cool at night and warm during the day. I've been sitting on the patio today enjoying the blue sky and colorful leaves. Did a little mowing earlier, but even that was enjoyable. God is good.
Last Saturday, the day began with a parade (You can see Savannah watching through the band members in the photo) and ended with a hay ride. In between, we went downtown to a festival and ate extra-long corn dogs and had a great time. Blessings. In the pictures, you can also see the rocking chairs on the patio (that's my sweet tea glass in the bottom right corner) the beautiful tallow tree in the front yard and my laptop on the patio table, where I'm writing this.