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  • Harvey Destruction Videos

    The pictures show just a portion of a near mile-long pile of debris that has been collected from our city and surrounding neighborhoods.  There is also a matching pile of trees and limbs/brush that has been accumulated. A few video links as a follow up to the Harvey the Horrible to give a better perspective of…

  • Harvey the Horrible

      WEDNESDAY— August 23rd and a typical south Texas day, HOT!!  Of course, as a coastal resident, I had heard that a tropical depression was in the Bay of Campeche, the bit in the Gulf that’s below the Yucatan Peninsula and a “birthplace” of some nasty storms.    The notices were going out on all the…

  • A Local Surviver’s Perspective of Harvey

    This was sent to me by one of our Rockport residents. I felt it warranted being passed on. AS PER MY DAUGHTER!! So by now, everyone knows that a horrific hurricane hit the Coastal Bend almost two weeks ago. Yes, it was horrific. Yes, it destroyed houses. Yes, it put some people out of a…

  • TEXANS – Just Different

    Most people don’t “GET” being a Texan–this guy is starting to. By Robert Dean: “I’m not a Texan. I don’t adore the Lone Star State. I’m a transplant who’s lived in Austin for the last four years. I can’t name the state fish, I don’t understand the thing with mums at Homecoming, and I think…

  • Choices in Life

    by Lovely G (found on internet) A man of 92 years, short, very well-presented, and takes great care of his appearance, is moving into an old people’s home today. His wife of 70 years has recently died, and he is obliged to leave his home. After waiting several hours in the retirement home lobby, he…

  • The Wild Ride

    This is just too funny a story not to pass along. It is not a kite story, but as the saying goes it involves breeze. “Knees in the breeze”, a term for riding morocycle, as a rider of a large cruiser bike, i can totally relate to the following…… Neighborhood Hazard (Or: Why the Cops…

  • Dang but it’s HOTTT!

          So here it is the first of August, well tomorrow is, and the summer pattern is being normal.    July is the month of mid nineties, and it was true to form this year, we’ve been just about 90-94 degrees for several weeks, and the humidity seldom below 60% makes it just…

  • A Journey, Remembrances

    As some may know, my son Eric Joseph Martin passed away on June 26, 2017. This was a major shock as he was not known to be ill in any way. Melissa, his soul mate of 18 years, was of course stricken. I was notified by an officer from our local PD at the request…

  • Memorial Weekend

    While most Americans are bustling about grilling, drinking, party making, and generally just “having a lark” there some who are seriously remembering what the day is all about.   The following was sent to me by a friend, and I felt compelled to share it. A large percentage of our country doesn’t know of, or…

  • Influences From My Youth

    While I was a buding teen, our family moved to a small West Indian island called Dominica.  It is here I recall making kites of palm fronds ribs (dried in the sun) and any bits of tissue paper we could scrounge or relieve from Mothers stash. There are photos of our house with the weathered…