March 6, 2020 (Friday) Today is an important day in Texas history. It is the anniversary of the battle of the Alamo. The army of General Santa Anna attacked the Texians for 13 days before breaking through and killing all but a handful of women and children who were sent to Sam Houston as a […]
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Encore-Please Read it Again
March 5, 2020 (Thursday) August 30, 2010 (Monday) Yesterday I watched “Great Perfomances” on PBS. Classical music was played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for a summer concert outdoors and attendance was 100,000. The setting was absolutely beautiful, with a palace in the background behind the orchestra. I marveled at the idyllic beauty of the […]
Learn to Improvise
March 4, 2020 (Wednesday) Sometimes we have to improvise. For example, if our recipe calls for buttermilk and we have none, we can add a little vinegar to sweet milk, and the baked goods will believe it’s buttermilk. There have been times when we learned to “make do” with what we had because we didn’t […]
Tent Maker, etc.
March 3, 2020 (Tuesday) The Apostle Paul trained from early childhood to become a Pharisee. Part of his preparation for religious work was learning a trade. Paul (known then as Saul) chose the vocation of tent maker. We can deduce from some of his writings that he found that ability very helpful at times as […]
March 2, 1836 !
March 2, 2020 (Monday) IMPORTANT TEXAS DATES On this date, March 2, in 1836, the Texas Declaration of Independence was adopted at Washington-on-the-Brazos. On March 6 the brave defenders at the Alamo gave their all in the fight for independence from Mexico. On March 10 Sam Houston left Gonzales and led brave Texians eastward to […]