Bill Cosby …

… at the Majestic: Simply Hilarious. We thoroughly enjoyed his show this afternoon at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio.

What I’m missing here …

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… are sausage cold cuts as in the picture above, taken from a display at a German butcher’s. As far as cold cuts go, Texas has absolutely nothing to offer – and I believe that holds true for all of … Continue reading →

Update on Sally

I just had a call from Dr. Patton to let us know that he’d finished treating Sally and that some of the wounds were more serious than the first look had shown. There were two on her back, he said, … Continue reading →

Sally …

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… … had a run-in with javalinas yesterday afternoon. We had been in San Antonio and, as usual on these occasions, left her outside so that she wouldn’t have an “accident” in the house. When we came back at around … Continue reading →

Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap” …

… is what we went to see last night at the Harlequin Dinner Theatre in San Antonio. The Harlequin Dinner Theatre is a small – I guess it might have about 150 seats – theatre on the grounds of Fort … Continue reading →

The Well across the Highway …

… is not quite as loud as we had originally been afraid of, but, when the wind is from the southwest, we sometimes get quite a whiff of the exhaust fumes of the diesel engines there – mostly in light … Continue reading →

New Passport

Today I was in Houston, at the German consulate, to apply for a new passport as my old one expires at the end of April. And since it may take up to 12 weeks to get a new one I … Continue reading →

Texas Droughts

Just found the following quotation in Elmer Kelton‘s “The Time It Never Rained“, which I’m reading – with much pleasure – at present: “Other places might have several drouths in a single summer. Texas was more likely to have several … Continue reading →