The Most Boring Day in History

May 31, 2015

The storms are gone from East Texas for the time being.  Tree Service companies are busy as beavers cutting up trees.  School is out for the summer.  SO…on to other things. 

In East Texas it's the bees and the blooms.

Because it was a very slow day here in Miller, this blogger had to turn to the internet for inspiration.  If you google May 31^st, which you will most likely do now that it has been suggested, you’ll find a whole list of things that happened on this day in history—a whole list of things that nobody cares about.  So it might be appropriate to dub this day, May 31, with the title, THE WORLD’S MOST BORING DAY.  Really!!  

However, there are two things that keep this blogger from issuing that proclamation. 

These boots were made for riding.

First, Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930 AD.  Imagine, The Man With No Name is 85 years old.  He has to ask himself one thing every morning, “Do you feel lucky, punk?”  If he is able to get out of bed, the answer is yes.  Ha. Ha.  Why aren’t you laughing?  Okay.  Okay.  All kidding aside, the world will never know another actor quite like Clint Eastwood.  No, this isn’t a eulogy.  As far as this blogger knows, Eastwood is alive and well and celebrating his birthday with his family. It is fair to say even if you aren't an Eastwood fan that he’s one of a kind and an American Icon. 

Forget Kilroy, Rameses II was here.

Second, in 1279 BC. Rameses II became the pharaoh of Egypt.  According to some historians, the only real mark that Rameses II made during his sixty-seven year reign is akin to that of a graffiti artist.  It seems he “tagged” everything from buildings to statues, no stone was left unmarked. It must have worked because if you ask anyone today to name an Egyptian pharaoh, Rameses II will likely be the name they give you.  What makes him so memorable?  Most people think he is the pharaoh that went head to head with Moses before the Exodus.  Bible scholars have debunked this myth, but Hollywood has more pull with the public, so the misconception remains.  Few people know that the name of the pharaoh during the time of Moses was more thatn likely Thutmose III.  Possibly Thutmose should have written his name on a few more stones. Just a thought.

Cornflower with Bee and Cowboy Boot with Spur courtesy of Franky 242 at freedigitalphotos.net   

Egyptian Character Design courtesy of boylemonademoon at freedigitalphotos.net

School could be out for the summer.

May 27, 2015

Tomorrow will be day three of no school.  Parents and teachers in Miller are beginning to despair.  The storm that blew through East Texas Monday night knocked down trees and power lines and interrupted electrical services to most of the northern half of Cherokee county.  All three of the schools in Miller are without electricity.  Every day at four o’clock the school officials meet and make a decision as to whether or not to have school the next day.  With seven and a half days of school after Memorial Day, (three of which have now been cancelled) parents are in a quandary.  Do I hang in here day to day, or do I ship the kids off to grandma’s house for the next two weeks?  


Crews are hard at work trying to get the trees off the roads and electricity restored, but evening thunderstorms hamper their efforts.  Teachers, the very people who are normally ready for school to be over, are chomping at the bits to get back into the school so they can get those end of year chores out of the way.  The fear is that these days missed will have to be made up, dragging out the end of school into the second week of June.  Nobody wants that.  It could be worse, flooding is minimal, and there have been no casualties.  Compared with other parts of the state, the damage here in Miller is not so bad.  


You hear that a lot around town, usually accompanied with a head shake and a sigh.  Don’t think us ungrateful, but knowing that someone else has it worse, doesn’t really help when you have been without electricity for two days, or have a tree uprooted and smashed into your living room, or water standing three feet high in your house.  The storms will pass, the sun will shine, and the school issue will be settled—eventually.  In the meantime, this intrepid blogger thinks that we should all get out and lend a hand to help get out community back on track.

Scenes from around Cherokee County.


blog entry is based on actual fact, but names have been changed to fit the fictional series @the Double D.

A Day to Remember the Fallen

May 25, 2014

Politics.  No, it’s not a four letter word, but perhaps it should be.  More lives have been ruined by, families destroyed by, countries torn apart by the games politicians play.  Yesterday was the anniversary of the Fall of Saigon—the end of the Vietnam War, or maybe Churchill had it right when he said (after the WWII victory in North Africa), "the end of the beginning." There are many things about the Vietnam War that were controversial.  It was the war that changed American’s perception of war because television allowed reporters to bring the war into the living rooms of the viewing audience.  The old timers talk about gathering around the television each night to see the pictures of the war and listen in horror to the names of the men and women killed in action that day, praying that no one they knew made the list.  Reporter David Hume Kennerly was quoted as saying, “the whole arc of the war is really captured in photographs. And they go right to your soul.”  There is no doubt that he speaks the truth.  It is also true that for every picture taken, there were millions of images not captured.  No one picture no matter how skillfully taken could hope to tell the whole story.  But…that is fodder for another day.  

A Day to Remember the Fallen

Today this blogger will turn the spotlight on the Vietnam Memorial, as is fitting since tomorrow is Memorial Day.  Here are 6 things you might not know about this national monument.  

• First, it was built without government funds.  The 8.3 million dollars raised came from private donations.  
• Second, the design of the wall came from a 21-year-old Yale student rather than a professional architect. 
• Third, although popular today, the wall created a storm of controversy when it was first constructed.  
• Fourth, names are still being added to the wall.  
• Fifth, the offerings (letters, flags, dog tags, photographs, and even a motorcycle) left at the wall are collected by the Rangers of the National Park and stored.  
• Sixth, all the names on the wall have been read five times.  The last time, November 2012 it took from Wednesday afternoon until Saturday night to read all 58,282 names.  

Remember those who have given their lives for our freedom tomorrow.

Vietnam Memorial

photo shared courtesy of holohololand at freedigitalphotos.net

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Happy Mother's Day, With Love

May 10, 2015

Mother’s Day!!

This blogger will begin with a "hi dee ho" to all the mother’s out there, and a special shout out to the woman who gave birth to this blogger once upon a time.  Yeah, it sounds like I’m going to tell you a fairy-tale, someday maybe, but not today. 

January 14, 1930 to April 27, 2015
Tonight, she is resting with the angels and the man who has been waiting on her for 17 years.

Today this blog will be dedicated to the self-less women who work so tirelessly to make sure that their children go up strong, healthy, and happy.  There are all kinds of mothers--working mothers, stay-at-home mother, birth mothers, adopted mothers, foster mothers, step mothers, and grandmothers (listed in no particular order).  Regardless of where you fall in that list, you deserve this day of celebration. 

For all the nights you got up to care for a sick child when all you wanted to do was sleep, for all the hours you sat at practice (ball, dance, band, etc) patiently waiting for it to finish, for all the dinners you cooked, dishes you washed, floors you mopped and vacuumed, for all toilets you scrubbed, for all the teacher/parent conferences you attended, for all the PTO committees you worked on, for all the free time you gave up to go to games, concerts, and recitals, for all the costumes you created with little more than imagination and safety pins, and for all the things you wanted and sometimes needed that you gave up so your children could have more--YOU DESERVE TO BE HONORED.  

Not just anyone can be a mother, nor or all women called to be mothers.  But those of you who are, we, the children of the world, send you our undying love and appreciation. 

rose image courtesy of antpkr at freedigitalphotos.net

CC said YES!

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Winning drawing from MCMS art contest: The Best of Miller, Texas
  Congratulations, Randy Rollins

May 4, 2015

Well, would you looky, looky here.  The Houston Chronicle’s food editor featured the Double D Roadhouse Houston in the Sunday edition. As the Chronicle is the largest newspaper in Texas, that’s a pretty big deal and well worth mentioning.  The people of Houston are really digging the down home cuisine of our own Chef M.  Not that’s so surprising really, good food is good food no matter what city you are in.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that the roadhouse is technically in Katy, but it’s close enough to Houston for the Big H to claim it. The motel will be open for business on Memorial Day weekend.  Check out the Double D website for pictures.  It’s pretty amazing.  Guess it’s obvious that this intrepid blogger is a die hard fan of the Double D.  And no, Bruce Willis isn’t the one writing this blog.

Speaking of our own, if you haven’t heard, Mr. DD finally got around to proposing, not that this intrepid blogger is surprised that he did.  But what you might not know is that he proposed in the middle of a CVS parking lot.  Really?  Where is the romance in that?  I know his momma raised him better! Rumor has it that CC may have proposed to DD first.  Whatever.  The good news is that they are finally getting it right.

Meanwhile, what happened to spring?  Is it just me, or does it seem like we skipped straight from not so cold winter to hotter than blazes summer?  It’s April for crying out loud.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  April in Texas. So what’s your point?

Don’t forget to check out the snapdragons in front of the Double D Roadhouse and Motel.  They are spectacular this year, but aren't they always.

Oh BTW—she said YES, so wedding bells once again will be ringing in Miller. When is the wedding?  No wedding pool this time. According to the MOS,  July 17^th is the day, a year to the day after the BB walked into the DD.  I guess the boy has a little romance in his soul after all.

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