I spent all night playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Okay.

I talked with Alison a bit, and decided to bring back the Texana pages. This time, I'll take a little more time with them.

To celebrate the revival, here're some neat things I know of coming up in February and March. If you happen to be in Texas, give these events a whirl. I haven't been to most of them, but plan to sometime in the next millenia or so:

Gruene Market Days - 3rd Saturday of each month until the role gets called up yonder - Arts and Crafty type thing, with music and food. Tourist trap. Gruene was a wonderful old ghost town, that has since been restored (yay!) and brutally exploited (boo!). The Gristmill, Gruene Hall, and the buildings themselves are wonderful, though.

Fredericksburg Easter Fires - Saturday before Easter - In the 1850s, a young woman and her children looked out onto the hills of Gillespie County and saw hundreds of Indian fires. The children, on seeing this became frightened. The woman, whose husband was on a month long trip to Indianola, told her children that the fires were the easter Bunny, boiling and dyeing eggs for teh next day. No, I'm not joking. The festival recreates the the story, but I'm not sure if they recreate the fire up on Cross Mountian (or Bear Mountain, or even burn a fire at all). I plan to visit this time around, cause it sounds really really cool.

Taylor Rattlesnake Sacking - March - Just what it says...well...without the ratllesnakes. Watch as genuine cowboys race the clock to put as many snakes in a bag as they can in 60 seconds. Each bite adds 10 seconds to the timer. Again, this is no joke. If they sell rattlesnake meat, I'm so there.

Winedale Spring Festival - 3rd Weekend in March - A nice little Arts and Crafts show, and a German play to boot.

Yes, I have nothing to report in my journal today. Why? Cause it was BLISSFULLY empty in this house. I just drank in the solitude. :)

I spent all night playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Okay.

I talked with Alison a bit, and decided to bring back the Texana pages. This time, I'll take a little more time with them.

To celebrate the revival, here're some neat things I know of coming up in February and March. If you happen to be in Texas, give these events a whirl. I haven't been to most of them, but plan to sometime in the next millenia or so:

Gruene Market Days - 3rd Saturday of each month until the role gets called up yonder - Arts and Crafty type thing, with music and food. Tourist trap. Gruene was a wonderful old ghost town, that has since been restored (yay!) and brutally exploited (boo!). The Gristmill, Gruene Hall, and the buildings themselves are wonderful, though.

Fredericksburg Easter Fires - Saturday before Easter - In the 1850s, a young woman and her children looked out onto the hills of Gillespie County and saw hundreds of Indian fires. The children, on seeing this became frightened. The woman, whose husband was on a month long trip to Indianola, told her children that the fires were the easter Bunny, boiling and dyeing eggs for teh next day. No, I'm not joking. The festival recreates the the story, but I'm not sure if they recreate the fire up on Cross Mountian (or Bear Mountain, or even burn a fire at all). I plan to visit this time around, cause it sounds really really cool.

Taylor Rattlesnake Sacking - March - Just what it says...well...without the ratllesnakes. Watch as genuine cowboys race the clock to put as many snakes in a bag as they can in 60 seconds. Each bite adds 10 seconds to the timer. Again, this is no joke. If they sell rattlesnake meat, I'm so there.

Winedale Spring Festival - 3rd Weekend in March - A nice little Arts and Crafts show, and a German play to boot.

Yes, I have nothing to report in my journal today. Why? Cause it was BLISSFULLY empty in this house. I just drank in the solitude. :)

Bite me, Frodo.

Wierd Texas Fact off the top of my head:

My favorite town in the whole world is Fredericksburg, Texas. Fredericksburg, when it was founded was basically the last stop on the frontier until you hit California. Once you left Fredericksburg, there was nothing but desert and Indians waiting for you for some time....and even when El Paso became a townthe size of Fredericksburg, it was some weeks away. When they laid out the town, they knew they would be the gateway for Eastern Travelers going to the Western Wilderness, and Western Teavlers headed for Eastern Civilization.

If you were an Easterner going west, you'd pass the following streets.

Crockett Street
Orange Street
Milam Street
Edison Street
Bowie Street
Acorn Street
Cherry Street
Kay Street

If you were a westerner going to the East, you passed the following streets.

Adams Street
Llano Street
Lincoln Street
Washington Street
Elk Street
Lee Street
Columbus Street
Olive Street
Mesquite Street
Eagle Street.

Can't figure out where I'm going with this? Read the first letters of all those streets. :)

And now you know...
...the rest of the story...
...good day!

Bite me, Frodo.

Wierd Texas Fact off the top of my head:

My favorite town in the whole world is Fredericksburg, Texas. Fredericksburg, when it was founded was basically the last stop on the frontier until you hit California. Once you left Fredericksburg, there was nothing but desert and Indians waiting for you for some time....and even when El Paso became a townthe size of Fredericksburg, it was some weeks away. When they laid out the town, they knew they would be the gateway for Eastern Travelers going to the Western Wilderness, and Western Teavlers headed for Eastern Civilization.

If you were an Easterner going west, you'd pass the following streets.

Crockett Street
Orange Street
Milam Street
Edison Street
Bowie Street
Acorn Street
Cherry Street
Kay Street

If you were a westerner going to the East, you passed the following streets.

Adams Street
Llano Street
Lincoln Street
Washington Street
Elk Street
Lee Street
Columbus Street
Olive Street
Mesquite Street
Eagle Street.

Can't figure out where I'm going with this? Read the first letters of all those streets. :)

And now you know...
...the rest of the story...
...good day!