Josh made this recently and we loved it so much we ate the entire bowl (if you follow the recipe, you'll realize just how much that is) and then made it again the next night.  It sounds strange, but it's oh so good. 

Watermelon-Feta Salad with Fresh Herbs

My brother just uploaded this to youtube - a video he took a week ago of a major electrical storm that they were having in the DFW area.  His reaction is priceless.  Watch to the end, it gets good.

Flickr has video now so I thought it only appropriate that I upload this of Mac attacking himself.

Hm.  I'm having trouble embedding this video.  Let me try something else.

When my brother was just sixteen he started to complain about his eyes bothering him, but we thought, teenagers, they complain. But then we noticed that he wasn't making baskets like he used to in his basketball games and maybe there was something to this. I was in college at the time and didn't know much about what was going on. I randomly decided to call home one afternoon to chat. My parents had just come back from a string of doctors, and they said, your brother, he has a brain tumor, and it could be really bad. I can't describe the feelings that I felt at that moment, you can't put pain into words. But I remember going to sit on the bathroom floor and crying uncontrollably. I lived with a wonderful person at the time and she just stayed there holding me until I stopped. Over the next year my brother had intensive brain surgery, several rounds of chemo and radiation. I moved home for the summer and remember driving him to Dallas every day for his radiation treatments. At the end of the year it appeared that he was cancer free and still is to this day.

I wanted to write about this because this coming Saturday he is getting married and I just can't express how happy I am to see this day. Life can be hard, but beautiful things do happen.

You should make plans to go to the 9:30 Club on March 29th to hear Ghostland Observatory.  They are awesome and put on a great show.  Do it.  

I sewed some purses on Monday when I was bored.  I think they are cute, and I must thank Cyndi for some of the inspiration.  A few years ago she gave me an awesome clutch/wrist purse and I kind of copied the idea.  I can't believe that I actually finished them.  Sometimes the sewing machine and I do not see eye to eye.

I've posted my Big Bend/Marfa/Fort Davis pictures on flickr here.  I am writing about the trip on my blog here.  It was a good trip, if not a bit scary.  There's something about being in the middle of nowhere that can be sort of terrifying.  I really loved it though.

Chisos Basin Sunset

Seeing Forever

We have decided to take a last minute trip to Big Bend starting on Friday. So far the plan is to head to Austin then Fort Davis and Davis Mountains State Park then to Marfa then to Terlingua ghost town and Big Bend. Heading back sometime on Wednesday or Thursday. According to my google map, it will be about 1300 miles if we don't take any side trips, which is not likely to happen. I can't wait. I've been wanting to go here for quite some time and I'm really looking forward to hiking with the rattlesnakes asleep. Just thinking about the ones we saw in Palo Duro Canyon this summer gives me the shivers. Here is the link to our proposed trip, although, I put the stuff in backwards. I think we will head to Fort Davis first.