Tag Archives: Texas

Spring Pictures (1)

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With the warm weather and the good rain earlier this year, spring flowers have really exploded – a few pictures from our property: Related articles Spring Is Here (pitstexasexpatblog.wordpress.com) Texas Bluebonnets (texasgaga.wordpress.com) Texas Insanity is Contagious (danceswithchaos.wordpress.com) 61 Miles of … Continue reading

Spring Is Here

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Much nicer than all that drilling and fracking stuff on the other side of the highway is our driveway, after – caused by a wet January and February – the wildflowers are springing up like … well, like wild: The … Continue reading

Our House

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For quite some time I have meant to upload pictures of our house, and here’s one: On the evening of November 30, 2009, the sun was setting when I took this picture. The view is from the south west, and … Continue reading

Tracks in the Sand

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Which animal might have left theses traces which I found this morning when I went to the cattle guard at the highway to get our mail and the paper? I can really imagine that it was a snake that crawled … Continue reading

Drive-in

Of course, I have always known from experience, that drive-ins and drive-throughs are very frequent hereabouts, where it’s a common habit to do as much as possible in/with your car, as getting out is not much liked since it might … Continue reading

What do recycling and Mexican beer have in common?

Quite easy – or maybe not? Well, since here in Texas there’s practically no recycling [we're happy that our local Wal-Mart has started accepting paper, cardboard and plastics for recycling] and since I can get the beers I like, that … Continue reading

At the Prison

Well, luckily there is a difference – which you can’t, in the same way, express in German – between “at the prison” [meaning just being there, as a visitor, e.g.] and “in prison” [meaning being there as an inmate]. Well, … Continue reading

What a footprint ist that?

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This is the footprint I discovered yesterday morning, when I went to get the newspaper, in our driveway: This footprint might have been left one might earlier, that is Friday night, but definitely not earlier as otherwise we would certainly … Continue reading

Reposted: “Springlike …” [originally posted as "Fruehlingshaft ..." on January 21, 2010]

… that’s what the weather was like today with [after some early fog] the sun shining cfrom a bright blue sky, 75 degress at noon already and barely any wind: absolutely great for a bicycle ride, in a short-sleeved jersey … Continue reading

No More Miller-Time in Minnesota

How lucky I am to be living down here in southern Texas, considering that – due to the government shut-down – the Miller-Coors brewery conglomerate will have to recall all their beers from being sold in Minnesota. According to what … Continue reading