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abuelo gringo

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  1. Always one of my favorites
  2. Reveille?
  3. Obligatory: "that's not chili".
  4. St. Joseph's Island (aka St. Joe's Island) is the island the north jetty runs along on the other side of the entrance to the inter-coastal waterway at Port Aransas. It's unoccupied, but a jetty boat takes fishermen across to fish from the north jetty several times a day.
  5. OK, I'm old -- sue me.
  6. Is that on a subway stop wall?
  7. Wife likes their fried shrimp and I like their fried oysters. Not fans of the garlic fish so many rave about. Differences in taste, I guess. Agree on their stuffed avacados.
  8. Second the rec for La Playa. Great food. Be sure to have cash - they don't do cards. They do have an ATM, but I don't know the charge.
  9. Launched by a team of young entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas, Rev Gum™ was created with one goal in mind: to make energy products more portable and better tasting. One pack contains 6 gems, the caffeine equivalent of 6 cups of coffee in a better tasting, more efficient form. No matter where you are, what your goal is, carrying a pack of Rev Gum™ enables you to be Be Intensely Here™. Maybe friends or relatives?
  10. Certainly one of the highlights of my trip also. Well worth the journey to the outskirts of town. And don't forget Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, and Mezz Mezzrow. We could have spent all day, but had to get back. No crowd at Morrison's when we went, but that was in the fall of 2002. He'd only been dead 30 years.
  11. We generally do cereal every other day, alternating with a cooked breakfast. Wife does most of the cooking, so I'm good with whatever she wants. We usually doctor it up with fruit, fresh strawberries or peaches, frozen blueberries from Sam's, etc. In Winter, we often have instant oatmeal, to which we add apples or other fruit. I love a good breakfast of sausage and eggs, breakfast tacos, pancakes, or mcmuffin type breakfast sandwiches, but the quick and easy cereal is good. When we have grandkids over (often during summer) they always get a cooked breakfast, so I eat less cereal. I would probably eat more cereal if I was doing the cooking.
  12. That was Harrell's. That and Deutchman's on S. First are greatly missed by fix it yourself guys. We are a throw away society.
  13. Hope you're not staying on ground level. Looks like a lot of water went through there.
  14. Kenneth Threadgill
  15. Yep. Had breakfast at Cancun a week ago today. Pretty crowded, but good to see a lot of people on the island (other than contractors.)
  16. Only for the senior players.
  17. The Laughing Horse Lodge on Avenue G is being taken down
  18. Called both grandmothers Mommee (both syllables same accent, not first like Mommy). Have no idea where that came from, but all the other cousins used the same, and had much older cousins on both sides. I was raised in Dallas, but parents, aunts, and uncles raised in Sherman, where my grandparents lived until they died. Maternal grandfather was Grandad, paternal was Poppy. Called step grandfather and step grandmother by their first names, Arthur and Frankie. Wife is Granma. DIL wanted something different for me. Oldest grandchild born about when Sean Combs changed his name from Puff Daddy to P Diddy, so she started the granddaughter to using G-Daddy. That's evolved to Gee. All grandkids use that for me. As a side note about adults using childish monikers, my dad and his sister called and referred to each other as Bubba and Baby until their deaths (age 82 and 90) Grandmother (Mommie Reynolds) called them that until her death, in her eighties.
  19. A couple that remind me of the reprobates on this site:
  20. I loved this song on the Kiko album: And, as a gringo, also liked the longer version on the Los Super Seven album with Rick Trevino and Doug:
  21. One of my favorite albums.
  22. Never really worked with any LDS scouts, as their troops were homogeneous. I know in years past, some LDS troops attended summer camp at LPSR. Instead of attending Sunday through Saturday, they didn't arrive until Monday. Not sure when this changed. I did work with two LDS scouters in WoodBadge courses, one a member of a patrol I counselled, another as a fellow course staff member. Both were good to work with. The staff member was an especially hard and innovative worker. The only restrictions I remember them having at that time was they couldn't participate on Sundays (had to be at their own services at home) and they couldn't wear shorts (immodest, I guess.) Although shorts are part of the standard WB uniform, they were exempted. They were able to camp the same as the rest of us, bar Sundays.
  23. Abuela Gringa and I were at Willie's first also with our 5 yr. old son and 3 year old daughter (her first). It was his second as he made the first night of the Texas International Pop Festival outside Dallas on Labor Day weekend in 1969. He spent the other two nights at his grandma's. KOKE FM was on at our house or in our car much of the time for its existence. I think it helped shape my son's musical taste. Not so much the daughter's. My first was either Pete Fountain or Ray Charles. I won the tickets to Fountain and took my mother. The Ray Charles concert was my first unattended by an adult and was in 1961, 1962, or 1963. Mom dropped me and a date off and picked us up afterwards. I thought it was the State Fair Music Hall, but could have been the Dallas Memorial Auditorium. As was common in that time and place, mom was worried our safety, as most of the audience were "not like us." Much of Dallas was still openly racist in those days. It didn't bother me or my date and we had a great time. People were dancing in the aisles and their seats, unabashedly enjoying the music. Ray was great. Few concerts I have been to since have lived up to that one.
  24. I haven't been following the changes. Weren't Venture Crews and Sea Scouts already gender integrated? I wasn't familiar with STEM Lab, so I haven't any clue. Is the cub program the only major change? Of course, I expect it will gradually become more fully integrated in time.
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