Longhorns & Bluebonnets
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mrdreamjeansMy friend Casey came out from Houston yesterday and was my first overnight guest. She accompanied me to a concert last night at Texas A&M. The Singing Cadets is the group where I learned to sing; I didn't sing before college and the 8 semesters I spent in the group served as my master class. Attending the concert with us were my folks, my sister, my niece and her boyfriend, my twin nephews and our family friend JJ who heads back to Iraq in May. (Yes, he was in town from Georgia as he was last week on Easter:) For the final number, the director always asks any former Singing Cadets in the audience to join the current group on stage. I looked around me ... there were about 25-30 Formers on stage. With one exception, I was the oldest person on stage. Funny ... unless I look in the mirror, I don't feel much older than these college students ...
Casey and I took a bit of a road tour this afternoon. We headed 15 miles North to Lake Somerville, cut across Old Bahia Road to Independence and back to Brenham. Notable sites ... the lake, full and a vivid blue in the sunlight, a church in a storefront in Somerville for bikers, (There must have been 200 motorcycles lined along the single main street for services.) and the 50's-style diner at the Brenham Airport. Casey and I stopped for lunch, but there was an hour wait. It's an unique experience. People fly in for a meal and fly out. The waitresses wear poodle skirts; there's a juke box where you can play a nickle tune or two, a nice porch where you can dine, watch the sun set over the small lake and the planes come and go.
We ended our day excursion by having a late lunch at Las Fuentes, my favorite of Brenham's four Mexican restaurants and then Casey headed back to Houston. Tomorrow, I start my job with the communications training firm and head to Louisiana to conduct a drill. I'll end this little update with the most wonderful of the day's sights ... I took these photos of a herd of Longhorn cattle sunning themselves in a field of Bluebonnets. Amazing!
...And Baby Makes Three ...
... Hey, Big Guy! ...
... I'm Ready For My Closeup, Mr DeMille ...
... Longhorns and Bluebonnets ... Two Examples
of the Best of Texas!
Casey and I took a bit of a road tour this afternoon. We headed 15 miles North to Lake Somerville, cut across Old Bahia Road to Independence and back to Brenham. Notable sites ... the lake, full and a vivid blue in the sunlight, a church in a storefront in Somerville for bikers, (There must have been 200 motorcycles lined along the single main street for services.) and the 50's-style diner at the Brenham Airport. Casey and I stopped for lunch, but there was an hour wait. It's an unique experience. People fly in for a meal and fly out. The waitresses wear poodle skirts; there's a juke box where you can play a nickle tune or two, a nice porch where you can dine, watch the sun set over the small lake and the planes come and go.
We ended our day excursion by having a late lunch at Las Fuentes, my favorite of Brenham's four Mexican restaurants and then Casey headed back to Houston. Tomorrow, I start my job with the communications training firm and head to Louisiana to conduct a drill. I'll end this little update with the most wonderful of the day's sights ... I took these photos of a herd of Longhorn cattle sunning themselves in a field of Bluebonnets. Amazing!
...And Baby Makes Three ...
... Hey, Big Guy! ...
... I'm Ready For My Closeup, Mr DeMille ...
... Longhorns and Bluebonnets ... Two Examples
of the Best of Texas!
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Date: 2007-04-16 01:06 am (UTC)Your Singing Cadet tradition reminds me a little of the BYU A Cappella Choir. At the end of each concert, we would sing a lovely setting of the Mormon hymn "Abide with Me, 'Tis Eventide" (not the tune most people know), and all the former members in the audience were invited to come up and sing with us. We would do this when we toured, too, because there were often alumni of the group in the western U.S. cities we performed in. As it happens, I was in the group the year the director retired, and the choir (and its name) were retired with him... so I never got to join the choir as an alumnus at the end of a concert. :-S
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Date: 2007-04-16 01:48 am (UTC)I'm so sorry now that I missed going up there this weekend.
I'm still hoping next weekend the bluebonnets will still be in bloom :-)
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Date: 2007-04-16 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-16 04:18 am (UTC)Thanks for sharing a delightful day. I bet that joining in song with the chorus must have been an emotional high for you.
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Date: 2007-04-16 02:53 pm (UTC)Hugs!
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Date: 2007-04-16 04:25 pm (UTC)Anyway, later we sold of the Angus cattle and my dad wanted to get into Longhorn cattle for show. So we ended up having a small herd of those. I had my own calf named Misty. She was adorable and very well behaved. My two sisters each had a calf and they couldn't even get them to be led around but Misty was my girl!
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Date: 2007-04-17 02:24 am (UTC)You're strongly in my thoughts as Coram Boy comes to its opening! HUGS!
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Date: 2007-04-17 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-17 02:28 am (UTC)A Fine Example of Indolent Behavior
Date: 2007-04-17 02:33 am (UTC)It was a truly wonderful day with one of my closest friends!
Big Hugs, my friend!
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Date: 2007-04-17 02:34 am (UTC)HUGS to you!
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Date: 2007-04-17 02:38 am (UTC)Here's to good memories of MISTY!
HUGS! Good luck with your move to Bowling Green!
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Date: 2007-04-17 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-18 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-20 02:32 pm (UTC)Let me know your schedule for tomorrow.
Cell number is 832-347-4120.