prairie point

Have you ever made an expensive mistake?
I’m afraid maybe I just did. Yesterday we had this set of doors installed to replace the garage doors. This is going to become Tricia’s sewing studio and one of her requirements is to have lots of natural light. There is only one small window in […]

I was outside sowing wildflower seeds this afternoon while the cold front was moving in.
No wild oats. I had a mixture of “deer-resistant” seeds, and also a bag of standing cypress, which Tricia is fond of. I also sowed a bag of bluebonnets, just because you have to have bluebonnets in Texas.
I sowed some of […]

At White Sands I saw three nuns walking over the dunes.

I’m back at home tonight after spending ten days on the road in Arizona and New Mexico. Visited several national parks and other tourist attractions and I’ll post pictures after I’ve had time to download and sort through them.  I spent most of my time though visiting with old friends who have moved away from […]

I am sitting at my desk typing and sipping a glass of “Crazy Water.”
What is Crazy Water? It is a bottled mineral water that I bought yesterday at a “water pavillion” in Mineral Wells. In fact this is the stuff that gave the town of Mineral Wells its name if I understand correctly.
It […]