A salad’s a salad…or is it?

Marci and I worked with the kitchen team yesterday doing some major cleaning and reorganization, . I was struggling to move a large shelving unit in the pantry to get behind and clean (the result of which today is a very sore back) when Julia walked past me.  She stopped in her tracks, fixed me with a…

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HE-HAW, Con’t.

Kelly tours around the Village Loop Well, we’re in our sixth month of Weight Watchers. Each week we have cheers and moans at weigh-in, but we’ve learned that if you make a decent effort overall, you lose weight over time.  At Jim’s memorial on Tuesday a weekend staffer we haven’t seen in a few months…

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Fields of Dreams

What an amazing April—the best Texas has to offer. Cool nights, warm days, a real spring as opposed to our usual “wham bam thank you m’am” transition from winter to summer.Don, Phil, Jerry and I went for lunch Friday at the East Side Café in Austin to look at Dorsey’s gardens in the back where…

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Yesterday I took daughter Kelly to Wal-Mart to buy a new dvd player since hers had broken. (In case you weren’t aware, an emergency of the first order!) Half-way there Kelly asked me, “Why are we eating so healthy?”  So we started talking about weight, and health, and exercise–not for the first time by any means.  Most…

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