Monthly Archives: August 2011

The One Where I Interviewed My New Best Friend Wendi McLendon-Covey.

August 31st, 2011

Did I ever tell you about the day I met Wendi McLendon-Covey and she said that she would be my best friend forever? Well, that shit happened, y’all. After some negotiation, I said she would have to share the spot with my other BFF Jenny…(if only because Jenny helped me come up with my questions [...]

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Summer: Day 71. Rethinking the Landscape

August 31st, 2011

In the midst of this summer of dumb drought, I’m thinking of learning more about xeriscaping, which is basically a landscape design that minimizes water use…which is good when you’re only legallys allowed to use water on Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. It’s impossible to grow anything with that little water and this [...]

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Summer: Day 70. Headgear.

August 30th, 2011

After school (which is currently over at noon), we head outside. And with this heat, we like to cover our heads. Harry and I have quite different ideas about how to do that. (FYI: Mine are on the left).

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A Voice From the Past

August 30th, 2011

Yesterday, Jenny sent me an email full of ghost voices. (After she wrote this lovely thing here.) If you know Jenny, it isn’t all that surprising that she found an oddity, but this one stopped me. With her superhuman internet search powers, she found an obscure interview that my great uncle PJ did in the [...]

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What? You Don’t Have Five Barns Full of Parade Floats? Weird.

August 30th, 2011

My Great Uncle PJ Allen was a man who danced on Broadway in the 1930s and early 40s, but then moved back to Texas in the late 40s to be closer to his family and start a Parade Float business. Because of course he did. We are now lucky enough to now be the caretakers [...]

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This Is What My Great Uncle’s Barns Sound Like

August 30th, 2011

We’re in the process of cleaning out seventy years of stuff…a lifetime of work…piled up high into five barns. I’m spending a lot of time in these barns. Looking through the artifacts of love ones’ lives. And even though it’s stupid degrees outside, I feel so lucky to be given the task. It’s a sober [...]

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Tomato Pie

August 30th, 2011

Last week, when I was at the beach with the fancy kitchen, I made this recipe that I found in Southern Living. Or, I should say, I adapted this recipe to accommodate my laziness and lack of ingredients. Or maybe I added some ingredients. I can’t remember. But in the end, I discovered this fantastic [...]

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Summer: Day 69. Catch Up.

August 29th, 2011

I’ve been so busy living this last bit before school, and then starting school, and then recovering from starting school, that I haven’t posted my daily posts in 11 days. So I just posted them. All 11 of them. Gah, don’t ever let me do that again. I keep saying, next week is the week [...]

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Summer: Day 68. This Is Your Brain On Heat.

August 28th, 2011

Okay, so today was Day Number 75 above 100 degrees…and an over-achieving over-100 day it was…at 112. Records are breaking, animals are thirsty, I am insane. I feel that all I do is talk about the heat now. Because my brain has melted, y’all. Also, on a related note, that frying an egg on the [...]

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Summer: Day 67. Heat Advisory.

August 27th, 2011

Today was hot. Like 108 or something. So we swam with our cousins. We might have had some heatstroke. We can’t really remember because of all the heat. And the strokes. And also it was hot.

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