Sissy Spacek Born Christmas Day 1949
Sissy Spacek Born Christmas day 1949 in Quitman, Texas. Quitman is in E. Texas, N. of Tyler. Nominated for an “Oscar” six times, Sissy won a best actress “Oscar” for playing Loretta Lynn in...
View ArticleTexas Best Ranches
Check out Texas Best Ranch website. Very nice intro video. This site lists upscale ranch properties primarily in Central Texas. This is a relatively new website. Please give me feedback in the...
View ArticlePower Emergency – Conservation CRITICAL–Rotating Outages Have Begun
Feb. 2, 2011, Austin — The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has instructed utilities to begin rotating outages to compensate for a generation shortage due to numerous plant trips that...
View ArticleTexas Rolling Power Outages Update
Mid-morning Update: During the early morning hours, the ERCOT grid began experiencing numerous forced outages of generation due to the cold weather. As of 9 am, more than 7,000 MW of capacity was...
View Article175 Years Ago Today
Colonel Travis letter read by Willie Nelson. Click here to see the YouTube Video
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Texas-Best BBQ Restaurant
Kreuz Market 619 N. Colorado St. Lockhart, Texas 78644 512-398-2361 Beef or pork on butcher paper, no plates, no trays no forks and no sauce, in the purist Texas tradition. 1/2 pound of beef brisket...
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TexasGrands Blueberry Pecan Cake
TexasGrands Blueberry Pecan Cake Blueberry pecan box cake This is no lightweight. Eight inch cake with four pounds of blueberries and pecans. This cake was baked the old fashioned way in a wooden cake...
View ArticleTexas Daffodil in Bloom
The daffodil’s bloomed in North East Texas in the last few days. Most of these were planted ages ago and reproduce adding more bulbs in a clump. You can dig them in early summer after they have...
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The Texas Armadillo Did Not See His Shadow! Winter Will Soon End.
Armadillo Day February 2, 2012 Armadillo Day is a holiday celebrated on February second every year. In the traditional celebration the Armadillo sticks his head out of the Armadillo hole and if it is...
View ArticleFirst Anglo-American Texas Ranch
James Taylor White established the first Anglo-American ranch in Texas. White is thought by many to be responsible for the establishment of the longhorn cow in the third oldest town in Texas, Liberty,...
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