Month: May 2006

Y’all come back now, ya hear?

People here in Texas have trouble with all those “shalls” and “shall nots” in the Ten Commandments. Folks here just aren’t used to talking in those terms. So, some folks out in west Texas got together and translated the “King James” into “King Ranch” language: The Cowboy’s Ten Commandments (posted on the wall at Cross […]

Baby steps

So, I bought a heart rate monitor!  Isn’t that great? (uh, sure, is what you should be saying now) So I went for a walk with it.  With the dogs.  We didn’t dawdle, but we didn’t run either.  I was pretty impressed, I averaged 125 bpm (“beats per minute,” I had to look that up) […]