sunsets & rainbows

    Light My Fire

    Herby always hummed as he worked in the yard, sometimes one of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos–say, #6 in B flat–or Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”, or the Rolling Stones’ “Harlem Shuffle”.  For some reason, he just couldn’t get Jim Morrison and the Doors’ “Come On Baby, Light My Fire” out of his head tonight . . .

      Worst Insult

      Burt was glad the sun was setting on this day–first he had a flat tire on the way to work making him over an hour late, then his boss berated him for someone else’s mistake, then he got a speeding ticket on the way home (he was in a hurry to get his wife the groceries she needed to make dinner), and when he had gotten some items wrong, she told him that In addition to everything else, he was stupid and useless, and he wasn’t any good at either of those either . . .

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        Not a Red Sky

        As Captain Percy watched the sunset, he was pretty sure that the old “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight” thing wasn’t going to work out that night . . .

        By |June 2nd, 2014|Categories: sunsets & rainbows|Tags: , |Comments Off on Not a Red Sky

          Promises

          David Paul, the Channel 11 weather guy, said that he had it on good authority that the flooding would be temporary  and limited to only parts of Texas . . .

          By |May 27th, 2014|Categories: sunsets & rainbows, Texas|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Promises

            Fired Up

            When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told Texans the BLM wanted to take about 50,000 acres of land owned by Texans on the banks of the Red River by an Eminent Domain procedure, they got a little fired up . . .

            By |April 24th, 2014|Categories: Politics, sunsets & rainbows, Texas|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Fired Up

              War of the Worlds

              Some evenings, as Esteban watched the Texas Gulf Coast sunset, he thought if they ever did a remake of War of The Worlds, here would be the place to do it. They wouldn’t need a lot of special effects, and he wanted to be the Tom Cruise character. . .

              By |March 17th, 2014|Categories: Old Movies, sunsets & rainbows, Texas|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on War of the Worlds