Christmas Day with the Extended Family

Our Family celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus on Christmas Day, 2015 in Texas at beautiful warm day of 82 degrees F outside and cool air conditioner on inside.

Enjoyed delicious turkey, mashed potatoes, grits casserole, green beans, yeast rolls, cranberries, scalloped oysters, brown gravy, pecan pie, and pumpkin pie.  Accompanied by delicious Becker Vineyard Tempranillo wine.

Hideaway for Christmas

We stayed the night at an AirBnB in Brookhaven, MS with horses, fountain, lovely cabin, campfire, frost, and walking.  Sleeping double in a single bed and stayed warm sharing body heat.

Cooking pizza in a gas stove for dinner, S'more by the firepit, and enjoying scrambled fresh eggs, thick bacon and toast for breakfast on a cold, frost-covered morning.

Dickens on the Bayou

Mosquito Fleet Powering up at Moody Gardens

Boats at rest at Moody Gardens 

Terlingua, Spicy Chili and Dry Cold Winds

When the option of driving to west Texas came up for the famous Terlingua Chili Cook-off with other Houstonians, the answer was yes!  We pulled together our camping gear, watched the weather reports, and booked a hotel room before we left.  It is a ten-hour drive if we are lucky.  First stopping in Kerrville for the night, we stayed in dog friendly hotel, La Quinta, for an early rise in the morning before headed to Terlingua.  Lots of dogs and hunters stayed at the hotel that night. The parking lot was full of trailers with four-wheelers since deer season began that weekend.  We made it to Alpine for the last grocery store for bread and cheese, and saw lots of blue haired, tattooed people going into this local store.  Finally 2 more hours until Terlingua on TX 118, enjoyed a beautiful drive through old rock formations, mountains, desert, but saw no live wildlife.  This is a geologist dream location, once with seven volcanoes in the area.

Mosquito Fleet Everywhere

Introducing the 2016 Mosquitodore and Mosquito-adorable, and canine crew for the Mosquito Fleet of the Houston Yacht Club

Last Thing that Bud Saw

October 16, 2015 at 6:00 pm, sailor, hiking, ballchaser, protector, lover Bud died.

For an hour or two we lay down next to Bud, feed him sweet potato chips, gave him water, held him, and kissed him.  The only thing that he would eat was crispy stuff like tortilla chips, carrots, and pieces of pumpkin snap cookies, no more egg, salmon, or tubed beef.  Lot of sick people in pain like to crunch ice so maybe that helps Bud forget about his pain too.

Burlesque Anniversary

We celebrated eleven years of marriage at a Burlesque show, and got to perform on stage. The Prohibition Supper Club in downtown Houston offers three nights a week (twice per night), a real burlesque show by the Moonlight Dolls.  

Six lovely ladies show up in beautiful beaded gowns and lingerie with delightful talents of skilled singing, playing with flames, lively dancing, and acrobatics.  Transformed the room back to the roaring 20's.

Wild Flowers blooming in Texas

Whitley in the Texas Blue Bonnets

Rear Ended Accident Awareness

November 14, 2014 in Timbergrove:  This is what a little sedan can do to a stopped SUV.  Well it happened.  The matriarch who is so safety conscious was hit at a stop light.  Thank goodness that we were not in the vehicle.  There may not be a Mr. Bud anymore because of the wreck and illness.  

The guy was a real weirdo, scary.  Momma is still shakin by the whole episode.  The guy could not figure out how to leave the apt complex and now slammed into her.  Refused to call the police because apparently did not have an insurance card, because he fled.  He returned 10 minutes later with the card and his hood tied down.