November 1, 2008

  • Another Halloween with no trick-or-treaters. :^(

    Had the bowl of miniature Snickers and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups all ready, but no takers.   e-cry

    Dmitry and Dan have eaten the Snickers, while Don and I are munching peanut butter cups.

    That's one of the few problems with our location....it's a trick-or-treat dead zone.  In the almost thirty years we've lived here, we've had exactly ONE decent Halloween in that regard.  Can't think why they came that year, but they did.  Next year it was back to normal, with at best one or two visitors, and mostly none.  e-fingers_ears

    However, this is a whole new month and isn't it astonishing how the trees turn color seemingly overnight?  All of a sudden where there had been occasional flashes of fall hues, there are now grand splotches of yellow, orange and burgundy!  Entire trees turned color in the past day or two.  How on earth do they do that? 

    Well, it's thirty minutes from The Game Of The Year for our family:  The UT vs. Tech game.  Charles is on the phone with his father right this minute, indulging in some intense pre-game discussion.  He (Charles) told me the anticipation is killing him, and he just wants the game to be o-v-e-r.  The primary "house divided" is my sister, Elaine's, as she's a Tech alumnae and her husband is a devout Texas-Ex.  Tonight, wouldn't you know it, they are at a debutante ball where Elaine assures me a television will be available and the men will be crowded around it.  As she pointed out, nothing like getting gussied up in a tuxedo to go watch football! 

    We have a mild case of divided-house syndrome over here, as I'd rather see Tech win, while Don apologized to Charles but admitted he's backing the Longhorns.

    Good thing we have a television with split-screen capability, as the TCU game is being televised at the same time.  Now there my allegiance is firm!  Go FROGGIES!  e-cheerleader

Comments (7)

  • What an exciting football game! Well worth the watching even with no particular care as to who won.

  • Could you believe that final TD? And those dumb people streaming onto the field even though the game wasn't officially over!

    However, all's well that ends well. Didn't that Longhorn player look shellshocked after that TD by Crabtree to win the game?

    Amazing how Texas faltered through three quarters then roared back to life the last twelve minutes. I was sure Tech had lost!

  • Any chance you taped the game? It's on again, but I wanted to see the post-game celebration again. I was surrounded by hundreds of angry Texas fans. Not really the best place to celebrate.

    GO RED RAIDERS!!!

  • Oh dear, I'm sorry, but no. I'd have thought surely there were some other Red Raiders there at the Assembly. See enough of 'em around here, anyway, based on license plates and such.

    That's a shame, how Charles watched it by himself at Aaron's, and you watched it surrounded by angry Longhorns. Pity y'all couldn't have watched it over here! You'd have had a fine time. ;^)

  • Hook 'Em Horns!!!
    Who won?

  • We were rooting mightily for Tech so that Penn State would be one of the two unbeaten teams left standing.  The last couple of minutes were heart stoppers, and I'm not even a Texan!

  • Since it's Tech that's #2 and Penn St. that's #3, I'm not sure the plan worked quite as it was supposed to, from the POV of PSU fans. :wink-wink:

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