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Texas State Parks is kicking off the holiday season with close to 100 special seasonal activities happening across the state. Starting this month, visitors of all ages can enjoy themed guided walks, crafting events, educational opportunities and more.

Do not go to see this movie if you want to think Elvis Presley was wonderful and perfect! Do not go if you are expecting to see a movie mostly about Elvis’s wife, Priscilla! Do not go if you are expecting to see what happened to Priscilla “after” being married to Elvis!

THE OLD MAN’S SHADOW

As the temperatures begin to head downward, Texas gardeners need to start planning and preparing their gardens for seasonal changes.

Eggnog is a rich and delicious beverage that has become synonymous with the most festive time of year. This milk- and egg-based concoction is tasty on its own, or it can be dressed up with other flavors and spiked with a favorite spirit when celebrating the holiday season with other adult partygoers.

There Is No Such Place!

Pub Day, it’s called. That’s what the publishers call it when your book gets published. They call it Pub Day.

My mom was a great cook. Growing up during the Great Depression and learning from her mother, my Gramma Nano, Mom honed her skills in the kitchen feeding her family for many years. Give her an onion and a few basic ingredients and you could eat well. She was known for her banana pudding, a staple at every 4-H potluck when I was a kid. Her Depression Era tomato soup was also a favorite and hit the spot on cold rainy days. Mom’s turkey dinners at Thanksgiving were legendary. I have never tasted cornbread dressing that could compare to Mom’s. Not only would she stuff the bird, usually the biggest one she could find at our local Safeway, but she would make additional pans of dressing, so we had plenty to go with our turkey sandwiches after the holiday. But nothing compared to her to her amazing Christmas fudge. I am convinced that Mom made the best tasting fudge ever consumed on planet Earth.

Being part of UIL journalism – or as my dad calls it, the Brain Olympics – isn’t easy.

Driving on a highway, you might notice the twisted wires that the highway department uses to create a safety barrier. The placement of the barriers is determined by a number of factors–angle of roadside, approaching curvature of the roadway, number of accidents per direction– which all have been carefully studied. In other words, the relationship of driver to road conditions determines placement of the barrier cable. Another interesting fact is that while the cables are strong and flexible (much like a teacher), the steel supports are meant to break and give way to protect the driver in case they accidentally veer off the road into them.

Every Forney citizen who had made the one-hour trip to the Wilkerson-Sanders Memorial Stadium watched the field with bated breath.

“Social Center for Affluent GALVESTON Residents/Visitors”

Photos Courtesy of Larry Golden