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Red light, warmer weather.

White light, cooler weather.

Green light, no change in view.

Blinking light, rain is due.

Aw, he didn't mean it. He doesn't mean anything he says. He just says things 'cause they sound good.

Total acreage comparisons only skim the surface of how cities' parks serve their citizens. Massive tracts of land are one thing, and are good for wildlife and mass recreation, but a city should have an abundance of neighborhood parks, parks that don't require a weekend outing in order to enjoy them, like bike trails and pocket parks, which don't add up to much size-wise but pound for pound, might mean more than the huge parks that are mostly unused by people.

I was just about to post the same thought.

Who cares how many total acres of parks we have? Maybe the relatively few who actually use these areas. But I would prefer we broke up the large parks into many smaller ones.

When I was a kid, a vacant lot or easement was sufficient size for a game of baseball or football, or even someone

Subdude, I'm going back some 30 or 40 years, and possibly more, but if I recall, it would have been on the south side of old 90 between Pitts and FM359. I seem to recall it was at or just before a curve in the road right before you crossed the (very scary and dangerous) Brazos River bridge at Richmond. Looking at an old Key Map, the above location seems right.

My granddad knew Williams pretty well, and we went to that location many times, usually on the way down to Granddaddy

Though their runways may not have been long enough to accomodate a B-29.

The problem with the B-36 was not so much its runway length, but its weight. Very few airports, military or civilian, could handle the 36's weight. Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls was one of the few that met the requirements, and that is why it was chosen as a B-36 base.

The best!

If you like Penzey's, just give Flores a try. You won't be disappointed.

This may not be a big deal to many of you, but it is huge to me.

The Hwy 71 overpass at 304 was opened last Saturday. Since I live off 304, this is a great benefit for me. It will also eliminate a big slowdown for those traveling from Houston to Austin.

Work should begin soon on the overpass at 969, which is just a few hundred yards west of 304. So that will slow through traffic again for a while. Not sure what plans for the Hwy 20 intersection. 20 is not that well-traveled, but it is a very dangerous intersection.

Listen to MarthaG. She knows what she

Does anyone remember the golden voice of Anita Martini? It was like the tinkling of golden fingernails on an amplified chalkboard!

I sure hope the Democrats don't live in glass houses. How quickly they seem to have forgotten about Slick lying to a Grand Jury and getting away with it.

And, please save me the rhetoric about what he lied about. If you lie to the Grand Jury about committing a triple murder, or you lie to the Grand Jury about jaywalking, it is still lying to the Grand Jury.

Clinton lied. He admitted he lied. He got away with it. The Dems

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J Edgar Hoover was the FBI, and Hoover kept files on everybody so he could use the information to get whatever he wanted. Why wouldn't he keep files on Hughes?

Somebody should have investigated J Edgar and his wife, Clyde Tolson.

OK, so who is Norman Baxter? His name is very familiar.

When I worked for Gulf Oil in the reproduction department, I got a poster-size copy of a drawing of downtown similar to the style of the old phone book drawings. Although the styles were strikingly similar, I do remember that my drawing was done by a different artist.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him show up on AI.

Yeah, that green chili stew was one of their stable dishes

I don

But it was really GOOD horse meat!

. . . from the horse meat they served. The entire chain was closed down for months but eventually reopened. I am surprised Pancho's survived that event and is still in business.

It's comments like this that perpetuate the myth about Pancho's.

I remember the very first one. It was a normal drawing of downtown, and somewhere in the drawing was a mother cat and her kittens crossing the street. You really had to look hard to find them.

The next year, the cat and kittens were there in a new drawing, and there were a couple of other

There was a restaurant on NW Freeway (290) near where Black Eye Pea is now days... It was a pretty nice place... had these HUGE paper mache animals. The food was pretty good.

Don't know if I or anyone mentioned Vliiage Inn Pizza on Westheimer near Chimney Rock. Dean Scott used to play there in the early 70s.

Walker's Ice House.

Back in the 50s, there was an icehouse called Birdie

My first Pancho

I've done 90 from Lafayette to New Orleans, and that's a tremendous drive as well.

We also did 90 from New Orleans to Biloxi many years ago.

Many people will go to a restaurant for the first time and order something they don