Jack

Global Warming?

My brother Jack lives in Dallas, and has been below freezing since Thursday. He hasn’t left the house since Thursday night. Luckily he works from home on Fridays, and yesterday was President’s day, so he had the day off. The power has been out a couple times, the last time for 15 hours. Not having gas heat, his house dropped down to 55 degrees. One pipe frozen, but global warming isn’t real!

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Texas

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Jack’s house

Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo!

Went to the "granddaddy of them all" the Cheyenne Frontier days rodeo yesterday.  My brother Jack is out here from Texas and he loves Trisha Yearwood so we took him for his birthday present.   We  had standing room only seats so were only about 15 people deep from the stage.    Our feet were so tired after standing for 4.5 hrs straight on the dirt infield of the track.

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more pictures @

http://picasaweb.google.com/MullenPhotography/Reba_Trisha

Prior to that we SAT (thank god!) in the stands and watched the rodeo for a bit.. I got some GREAT photos of that which was surprising since we were sitting so far away in the grandstands. 

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Cheyenne is about 85 Miles north of us.

Dallas, TX

Went out to see Jack for the weekend. First time for Janis to visit, I’d been there early to watch a hockey game there.

We went to see the mothership, AKA Dallas Cowboys stadium. It’s about 10 miles from Jack’s house, and we can see the building from the backyard!

We also went to see Dealey Plaza, where JFK was assassinated, and did a tour of the Texas Schoolbook building. Being a history buff of the assassination, it was good to finally check this off the bucket list.