Wade in The Shade Cont. bed....they have it.....need a pool table.....they have it......need some flooring for your house....yep, they have it.....how about a lawnmower...... you guessed it, they have it. That place is so big that you could spend a week inside of it and never really see everything, but we gave it our best shot. A
late lunch and then a little power nap before heading out to Oklahoma to visit the world’s largest casino. This is another place that’s huge......I think that you could put all of the Louisiana casino’s inside of this place and still have room for a small State like maybe Rhode Island. My friend had
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one of those fancy watches that counts your steps and we walked 10,000 steps.......inside the casino. Saturday was another exploring kind of day as we traveled to Grapevine to visit the Gaylord hotel and resort. That’s another great big place with all kinds of things to do inside, includ-
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I am sure many would argue this, but at 53 I don’t think of myself as old. But I find myself wondering quite often what has happened to my America. Don’t get me wrong. My life as a kid wasnt perfect. I remember forced integration in the early 70’s in Galena Park schools. I remember living in Baytown the Halloween that the Candy Man decided to poison his own son with pixie sticks.... that we had to throw out our candy because we didn’t know where we had been. And lived close. I had a dear childhood
friend hit by a truck walking to school, and I was convinced he was dead. By the Grace is God and Lifeflight, he lives today. I had a friend abducted and murdered. I had divorced parents before anyone else had a clue what that was. So when I say I miss my America, it’s not all roses and butterflies. Maybe because of those things, I chose early on to focus on the good. You see.... I also had the honor of celebrating July 4, 1976. I did it in fine fashion by laying my leg on a exhaust pipe on a dirt bike. That
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scar though still reminds me of 1976. When life wasn’t perfect but it was the America I loved. We shot fireworks. By ourselves, unsupervised.... just snag your parents cigarette lighter, right? We respected our parents, elders, teachers, police officers, and military. We respected the flag. We played outside. We rode bikes with banana seats, and made ramps out of wood. We were scarred, beat up, dirty, and tired at the end of the day. We didn’t care about hydration, when we got thirsty we grabbed
ing watching the river wind its way through the huge atrium at the center of the place. I tell you that I walked so much that I had leg cramps at night from using those muscles that hadn’t been pushed like that in a while. I also need to confess that I felt a little guilty on the first day because I was
taking off of work and I had plenty of things to do, but by the third day I was like.....this taking off of work is an okay kind of thing. However, all good things have to come to an end and I needed to get back to the working world and concentrate on putting a couple of newspapers together in
order to fund the little side trips that I think I may just have to indulge myself in about once a month. Where to next?????? I’ll keep you up to date as my plans begin to materialize. Till next time, I’m......... Wade in the Shade.
a water hose. If we were lucky we had koolaid, that was mixed with 5 lbs of sugar. We didn’t have phones or iPads or tracking devices, computers, or video games. We had our imagination. We climbed trees, we jumped out of trees, and broke bones, and lived to tell about it. We had great music. We had Wings, the Steve Miller band, Neil Diamond, Elvis, the Doobie Brothers, Queen, Marvin Gaye, and ABBA. We didn’t go out to eat all the time. We ate dinner as a family. We cooked. By 1976 I was 9, and already
cooking on my own. We bowled. We roller skated.... see above music.... we went to drive ins. We still had glass bottle cokes, and there was nothing better on a hot day. Was our government in turmoil? Absolutely. We were on the heels of the gas crisis, with Jimmy Carter as the president. And we had this little country over seas beginning to send out terrorist that were hijacking planes. Iran. So yes, the government was in turmoil even back then. But we had respect. We were excited to celebrate America’s 200th
birthday that year. Everyone had flags. We loved our country. We loved our lives. We were too young to realize just how much. And how much we would miss the simplicity. Of 1976. Happy 4th of July weekend peeps. On this most different of holidays, please take time to remember what you loved. What you miss. For me..... it’s respect. I don’t know how we get back to where we were. But it starts, with unplugging, talking, listening, family, faith, God..... and respect.
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Ok....I’m often guilty of questioning someone whenever they say they are on vacation. I often say......vacation.....I’m not familiar with that term......can you explain. I have to confess that I took
a few days this past week....not a whole week or more, but a couple of days. I took off the Thursday afternoon before the 4th of July and headed up to Ft. Worth to visit a friend of mine. I stayed Thurs-
day night, Friday, and most of Saturday before I had to return to shoot pictures of the fireworks in Huntsville Saturday evening. I have always liked the Ft Worth area and things have not changed since I last
E E R F visited a few years ago. We just messed around the area for a couple of days, doing pretty much nothing of any importance, but yet enjoying ourselves as we explored the area. We ventured out to Lake Lewisville and found a nice little bar and grill located on the water and did have a couple of adult beverages as we watched the really
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The late folk singer/songwriter, Steve Fromholz, penned a whimsical ditty that extolls the charms of bears and even encourages listeners to “take a bear to lunch.” If you live in Bowie, Titus, or Grayson counties in northeast Texas --or almost any place in the Big Bend Region and west or southwest Texas -- you might not have to look one up to invite it to lunch – that bear just might come to YOU! Bears were once thought to be extinct in Texas, but sightings in both these divergent corners of Texas located all the long way diagonally across Texas from each other scream that
“they’re baack!” Two of those northeast counties border each other, but the third one, Grayson, lies several counties away. It’s possible there could be bears in several other nearby jurisdictions. In west Texas, reports of bears sauntering into Fort Davis, Alpine, and Fort Stockton indicate a fairly wide range of territory. You might recall my hunting buddy and I found bear scat on the Big Bend Ranch State Park well over a hundred miles from Fort Stockton. It was confirmed by TPWD’s highly respected “Bear Lady,” wildlife biologist, Bonnie McKinney. My g r a n d d a u g h t e r, Laura Jefferson Heinen, also recently photographed one fairly close to her and her husband’s campsite in Big
Bend National Park. In the mid80s, we stopped for something cool to drink near Sabinal. Next to the restaurant was a small roadside wildlife park that had a caged bear. The custodian said they trapped it near Mountain Home in the western edge of the Hill Country. I worked in that area then but hadn’t heard of bears there. Sparsely settled, I guess it’s possible. “There’s been a flurry of bear activity in the Trans-Pecos recently,” said Michael Janis, TPWD District Wildlife Leader. A dry spring caused movement in search of food. “Bears and humans can co-exist,” Janis explained. “The key is preventing bears from accessing human related food sources.” That includes garbage, pet food,
and corn or pellets from deer feeders. If a bear continually finds food, according to TPWD, it can lose fear of humans, leading to trouble. In Colorado, where I led photo workshops for several years, a bear regularly raided the dumpster. TPWD suggests residents where bears have been sighted can purchase bearproof garbage dumpsters. As the attached photo shows, deer feeders are particularly attractive
to bears. Electric fencing may be a deterrent as long as it doesn’t repel deer. Bear sightings in northeast Texas have been increasing since April, according to TPWD. They’re thought to be entering from Oklahoma, Arkansas and possibly Louisiana. Through conservation, bears in Louisiana are no longer listed as federally threatened species. Black bears are protected species in Texas, but hunters occasion-
ally mistake them for hogs. That’s trouble. “Bears do not generally pose a threat to livestock or humans,” TPWD biologist Penny Wilkerson says. My sisterin-law in Minnesota has had stock attacked by problem bears, however. But whatever you do, don’t smell like food!
Black bears are opportunistic feeders and can easily become dependent on feed from deer feeders, pet food left outside, or garbage cans. There have been increased sightings in two areas of Texas since April. TPWD Photo by Tom Archer. July 14, 2020 • Neighborhood Net • 3