on August 12th, 2010 at 12:05 am by MJ

This morning, I left my sister’s house and headed back to “historic” Grapevine (the little downtown tourist district) not far from the campground.  I was on a mission to find another stuffed armadillo for my friend, Anne’s, other son.  While I was there, I also planned on finding a few geocaches.  The souvenir shop was [...]

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on August 10th, 2010 at 11:53 pm by MJ

I woke up this morning with yet another migraine.  Urgh!  This is becoming a habit.  The hotter the summer gets, the worse these things are.  I did pull myself out of bed to spend some time with Lex and my sister before they both went to work.  I spent a little time puttering around the [...]

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on August 10th, 2010 at 12:10 am by MJ

Sunday was Lynn and Shay Day.  Since we didn’t make it over for dinner Saturday, we showed up for breakfast the next morning.  Lynn cooked, and we all sat around and chatted and ate.  It was our first time being in their “new” house, so we got the grand tour.  Oh. My God.   Their place [...]

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on August 8th, 2010 at 12:10 am by MJ

Chris and Jason brought us breakfast this morning and saw us off, so they got to see what hitching up and getting the rig ready to roll looks like. It always tickles me to show people how the slides work.  For some reason, folks are really captivated by that. Site built houses just don’t have [...]

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