With Gustav bearing down on the coast, and evacuations in progress, one of the major problems is finding stabling for those whose evacuees include their equine family members. A lot of arrangements are made on a one on one basis, or on equine lists at YahooGroups and such. However, the Horze Ga
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08/30/2008
We love to talk on here about the beauties of our communities, the parks, the businesses, the homes. We introduce you to the pretty side of where we live, and that's as it should be. However, when moving into a community, there are some things that are not so pretty, that are more mundane, that
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08/30/2008
On another forum I was led to an article about Tiny Texas Houses, which led me to the website of Discovery Architectural Antiques in Gonzales, Texas. This company sells salvaged architectural items for restoration. They've come up with a new project that I think is just awesome! The Tiny Te
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08/11/2008
Today was the 2nd Annual Ice Cream Festival in Austin, Texas. (Yes, as I've said many times before, any excuse for a party!) Given that we're having a record string of 3-digit temp days, my Meetup group that attended the event scheduled our attendance for opening, at 10:00 a.m. (The eve
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08/09/2008
Our local newspaper here in Georgetown, Texas, is the Williamson County Sun. It has news about the area (rarely national news, unless it pertains to a local), when and where the next fundraiser with good food is going to be, news about local businesses - your typical small town newspaper. For q
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08/07/2008
Here in Austin, sometimes traffic gets - interesting. It's not that Austin drivers are particularly bad, or that traffic jams are bad in the overall scheme of things (though sometimes locals bemoan how horrible the traffic is, it's not comparable at all to the places where traffic jams are a 24/
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08/01/2008
A couple of days ago, I rose early. My reward, when I went to the porch, was to get to enjoy this lovely sunrise: It got me thinking about a saying that I've had for years, a saying that my daughter once told me was the most valuable thing I taught her when she was growing up: "No matter wh
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07/22/2008
Your Secluded Hill Country Retreat 510 Greystone Drive, Dripping Springs, TX 78620 View Map This secluded log home retreat tucked away in the Hill Country just outside of Dripping Springs is a perfect place to get away from the rush-rush-rush of the city and relax, listening to the wind and the
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07/22/2008
It's summer here in Central Texas, grass is growing (well, it's struggling due to the lack of rain for the past month or so, but there's still forage for the critters), animals are eating, we're not having to feed any hay. But that's now. Living in the country, we need to look ahead to winte
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07/13/2008
As those who have been around a while may know, my new name, after frying two hard drives (and making an external backup hard drive not work) within five months, is "Dances on Hard Drives". So you can imagine my chagrin when I went to turn on my computer yesterday morning, the computer that had
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07/12/2008
