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I will begin by saying I got dressed and drove to town to pick up my friend to go and watch the fireworks with me. Passing by the courthouse, I wondered why there was no candy in the street left over from the parade. Then I thought, "Boy this new group of people promoting Johnson City is really on the ball, they have already cleaned up the streets."

Well, here we are with a new month. I hope everybody had a nice July 4th. I became a great, great, grandmother once again. Her name is Samantha Charlene and she was born @ midnight on June 30, 2010. I hear that she is really beautiful. Despite continuing heavy rain in portions of southern Texas and northern Mexico, Alex was expected to dissipate Thursday night over Mexico’s high terrain.

Of course, life’s not fair, who ever told you that it was? I have told my kids this a million times. "That’s life", not to put them down or discourage them, but to prepare them for what is to come. You have to work hard to get what you want and sometimes that’s not good enough. My 16-year-old son came to me the other day upset about something that had happened to him.

Thimbleberries Quilt Class is always fun to go to but this week was a little different. We had our 5 at the Hive class first which is the $5.00 class. You start the first month by paying $5.00 for your block and each month after you get your block free if you have your block from the previous month finished.

*****4-H’ers from Blanco County placed in the D-10 Horse Show held in Gonzales, Texas on June 15 & 16. Rebecca Harlin placed 3rd in Grade Mares. Elizabeth O’Day placed 8th in Poles and 7th in Barrels. Amara Yachimski placed 7th in Hunter Showmanship. Rachel Harlin placed 5th in Hunt Seat Equitation.

The practice of inventing constellations, those imaginary patterns among the stars, predates recorded history and has been done by people around the world. In 140 CE, astronomer Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, in his book, The Almagest, listed 48 constellations which came to be the accepted list throughout the Mediterranean region for the next 1,500 years. During the 16th-18th centuries, as Europeans began exploring the Southern Hemisphere, they saw new and unfamiliar regions of the ...

Well, here we are at the end of June 2010 already. Where is the year going? Seems time just keeps passing, rather quickly I might add. Just think about this, July 4th is this Sunday. In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

If you are into praying, you might add rain to the things you would pray for today. I thought we might get some the day before yesterday but it went elsewhere. To be fair, I always hope that whoever gets the rain really needs it but doesn’t get so much that its dangerous for man or animals like recently happened in the New Braunfels area. I was coming home from Marble Falls the other day and noticed that the temperature there was 97 and that’s just too hot.

Jackie and I took off to the big city of Dripping Springs to pay a visit to the Wesley Gallery. They were holding the Austin Fiber Artist Show & Sale. This was such an unusual show. We did not know what to expect. We entered and were greeted by very enthusiastic people.

*****Bubba and Elizabeth Sooter spent 3 days in Galveston this past weekend. They enjoyed the beach, riding the Port Bolivar Ferry and walking around the Strand and eating seafood for every meal. You should also ask Bubba about his first time in the water on this trip? (His encounter with a crab).