Nina is: Tiger Shark in "Oceans of Fun"

Sunday Nina

Sunday Pablo

Listening to Harry Potter audio books. All day.

Across the Red River for Across the Himalayas

Grandmother and Granddaddy came to Ada for "Across the Himalayas," which inluded the first screening in ECU's seventh annual foreign film festival--a film from Nepal, "The Black Hen,"--a book discussion about "The Inheritance of Loss," by Kiran Desai, and hand-made Nepalese dumplings.

World Citizens in the Bear's Den

The "loser" gave away all his money to a non-profit organization supporting the musical arts and retired in Paris.

Women's March in OKC

Happy Birthday, Dolly!

Dolly turned 71 on Thursday.

Wintersmith Women

The Family's First Cougar of Excellence

This is a once a month award, given to two third graders who go "above and beyond;" who model exemplary character traits, including friendliness, kindness, and responsibility; and who "do their best, even when no one is looking."

Hello, 2017

Beautiful Days: 2016 in Seven Minutes, Forty-Seven Seconds

With one photo borrowed from the first hour of 2017.
Click here for last year's Six Minutes, Thirty-Seven seconds edition.

Longhorn Tower

After checking out aFrida Kahlo painting, a Gutenberg Bible, the first-ever photograph, and the Elliot Erwin photography exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center on the campus of the University of Texas, we set off on a self-guided campus jaunt. Not long in, Nina has to turn back due to a shoe malfunction and Mari accompanies her. I take a photo of the survivors in front of the Clock Tower.

Destination: San Antonio

First stop: the Alamo.
In the Long Barracks--formerly the Mission Convent, constructed in 1723.
A walk down Houston street.
Delicious beans at The Original on the River Walk. And Dad springs for a Mariachi serenade: "Dos Arbolitos."

The San Fernando Cathedral.

Back on the River Walk.
Belgian ice cream.

At LBJ's Boyhood Home

Granddaddy and Norah joined us for a two-night vacation trip to San Antonio. We took the Burleson, Cleburne, Meridian, Cranfills Gap, Hamilton, Lampassas route to Johnson City and our first destination: the boyhood home of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Pablo and Lisa: Remembering the Alamo

2016: The Tree at Aunt C's

2016 Tree

Starting with the big ones: to Nina and Pablo from Grandmother and Granddaddy . . .

Bean bags!

A recommended reading list for Norah from Emilio, Pablo, and Norah.
First the art, then the t-shirts.
Pablo was very pleased with the singing machine Brian and Lyndsae gave him.

He was also very happy with the Pokemon cards Grandmother and Granddaddy got him.

Charades.