In a nail-biting race which saw the lead change a great deal more times than usual in Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG Petronas won the United...
The Texas Book Festival is in full swing right now with the whole area around the State Capitol closed to traffic and filled with tents offering the latest...
Yesterday was the Westlake Marching Festival in Austin and the Dripping Springs Tiger Band took second place overall. Before their finals performance,...
Here’s another fast and furious event that you’ll find at most rodeos. Bulldogging or steer wrestling tests a cowboy’s ability to catch...
You’ve heard me talking about “NxNW” quite a bit over the last few months but I realised yesterday that I had never posted our group...
51m (167ft) mega-yacht MySky passes under the railway lift bridge at Seattle’s Ballard Locks before heading out into the Puget Sound. MySky was launched...
School is almost ready to restart after the summer break so that means we are back to early morning and late evening band rehearsals. I spent a couple...
A reasonably new addition at Dripping Springs Ranch Park, home of the town’s rodeo arena, is an elevated row of VIP and press boxes right over the chutes....
While in the Palouse, we saw quite a few crop dusters in operation. Dusting fields in other parts of the country may seem pretty straightforward but to do the job in the rolling...
If you’ve hung around me for any length of time in the last couple of years, you’ve no doubt heard me raving about how wonderful Pieous, our local...
A detail of the barrel and front grip of one of Jesse James Firearms Unlimited’s AR-15 assault rifles.
Off San Jacinto as it passes through the north end of the University of Texas, there’s a rather nice section of Waller Creek which contains several...
A collection of aliminium assault rifle pistol grip parts after coming out of the CNC mill at the Jesse James Firearms Unlimited workshop.
Hanging on one of the large metal-working machines in Jesse James’ workshop, I noticed this jacket covered in patches from police departments from...
Lower receivers ready for assembly into JJFU’s NOMAD AR-15 assault rifles. These parts are machined out of blocks of solid aluminium on one of the most...
A Cisco 911 from Jesse James Firearms Unlimited and its carved wooden presentation box.
Rippy’s Feed Store sits on Mercer Street in the heart of Dripping Springs. We were wandering around it on Saturday as part of a 4-H photography group...
Ah, the delights of festival food! Frog legs are fine by me but do people seriously eat “Garlic Parmesan Pig Ears”? Yuk! This was one of the more...
I mentioned a couple of days ago how seriously people take their barbecue (which, for my British friends, refers to the cooked meat, specifically brisket,...
