Soap Box

Things are quiet here for the most part.  We have been limiting any thing we are or may be doing that can cost us $$'s.  What with doctor visits a trip to Arizona for a wedding and then a reception for Son #2 and his new bride we are tapped out.  Unfortunately it's still a long way to payday.  Oh, we are alright, just trying to be more frugal since the wife is not visiting the resort with her wares these days.  We still haven't heard from them about the 'contract' they will require her to sign.  It will determine if she continues her work there or it ceases completely.  Since the busy season is only a month away we need to get this figured out sooner than later.  A phone call follow up shall be made shortly, but they have been pretty slow in responding before.  We shall see.

Since we are staying at the house more, I have been hitting the leather work a bit.  K gave me a list of items she wants me to make for her inventory.  Nothing real big or detailed.  She sells deer antler tips on a leather thong (necklace) and has me make a tooled leather fastener that holds the antler tip.  It has been a good seller in the past.  Also there are hair barrettes that I tool and those sell pretty well also.  They are not hard to make but are time consuming.  I also don't work on them more than a few minutes at a time in order to spare my neck.  She will be going to a show at a home on Nov. 4 and will have a chance to sell there.  It's not usually a big money maker but anything is better than nothing and I need to pay for that side of leather I bought.

Saturday is another big game for my Longhorns.  Okie lite is coming to town.  They have a very good team.  They have won four or five of the last home (in Austin) games against my Longhorns.  I hope these young fellas can step up and stop that streak for a change.  So I will be planted in front of the TV for several hours.

Now for my Soap Box

The controversy around the "Reimagining of the Alamo" continues.  IMO the hiring of some outsiders that have no earthly idea what it is to be Texan and what the Alamo means to them is the root of the problem.  (For those that weren't born here, you can't possibly understand what it is to be a Texan/Texian.  I could try to explain it and you may think you understand since you may have lived here, but you would never really 'know.'  As we say here, anyone can become an American, but you have to be born a Texan)  It(the controversy) is also fed by the left wing mayor and city council that has their own PC agenda.  The idea that the Alamo must be all inclusive of it's entire history as a major part of what the new Alamo will be is insane.  Yes, I do believe that some of the prior history should be part of the interpretation.  However, to have it on an equal footing with the sacrifice made in March 1836 is moronic at best.  The Alamo would not even exist as it is today had that battle not taken place there.  Those ladies that saved the Alamo, Clara Driscoll and Adina De Zavala didn't do it because of anything other than the sacrifices made there, not due to some unknown native Americans that were there at one time.  However, the atmosphere of today, with destruction of monuments, renaming of schools etc. the Alamo is also under attack.  This really pisses me off more than any other issue.  I live and breathe all things Texas, and to think that MY ALAMO can be reduced to something less than what it is gets my neck hairs up.  There is much misinformation being spread by those that want to make these changes trying to cover their tracks since the backlash has been so harsh.  The Land Commissioner, George P. Bush, (yes, those Bushes) is in charge of this mess.  It has been found out he was 'selling' influential positions to those interested in being on the board that would help determine these Alamo changes.  As much as 250K for these positions.  They are said to be donations to his reelection fund, but we all know what it really is.  This stink may defeat his reelection bid.  I know he won't have my vote, the scalawag.  He poses himself as the veterans friend yet he plans to remove the Alamo Cenotaph that memorializes those Texian Soldiers that sold their life at the Alamo.

You can find online petitions to sign that oppose these issues if you have a mind to.  Petition

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