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Classic sports moments
Posted on February 16th, 2010
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
Last week was a great time for classic sports moments. Of course, there was a game on Sunday evening that may qualify. Reports are the Super Bowl was the mostly highly viewed television program of all time, surpassing the final episode of MASH in total viewer numbers. It was also a pretty good football game and a testimony to the resiliency of New Orleans. It is a pretty good feel good story.
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Rocky Mountain High
Posted on January 14th, 2010
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Laura Finley, Bree Griffin, Michael Griffin and John Griffin make their way to the Steamboat slopes for a day of skiing.
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
You just can’t say it any better than John Denver did. I am still buzzing from a Rocky Mountain High a week after returning from Steamboat Springs, Colo.
My bride, myself, our two sons, one’s wife and the other’s girlfriend all went to Steamboat for the Texas Music Fest to listen to our daughter, Jamie, sing. We were also joined by Jamie’s husband, Roy Wilson, for the week.
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Christmas Spirit
Posted on December 25th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
I really enjoy Christmas. As the season progresses, I realize how many family and church memories seem to center on the Christmas Holiday. I’m really starting to feel it now.
I do believe we are all guilty of a little too much commercialism for Christmas and the true reason for the season gets set back sometimes.
In the last week, I attended the annual Cantata at our church, Trinity Lutheran in Sealy, with its theme, God Speaking. I read the wonderful letters from local pastors appearing in this issue and also celebrated the 90th birthday of my mother on Saturday.
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A giving spirit
Posted on December 25th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
Last Thursday I was blessed to be able to move bicycles around for the Austin County Outreach folks at the American Legion Hall in Sealy. Every year, it amazes me how the community responds to bring some joy to needy children in our county.
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Thanksgiving Tree
Posted on December 8th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
For the first time in my life, we put up a Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving.
We have never not put up a tree and we have never had a fake tree in the house, but we have been known to put up a tree on Christmas Eve. A few of those really late ones were cedar trees cut out in our pasture.
I have always thought that people who put up a Christmas tree or started buying Christmas presents at Thanksgiving were really pushing the envelope. Joanie has tried to convert me for years.
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Busy day in Wallis
Posted on November 24th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
There were a lot of extra people in Wallis on Saturday. It was a very busy day. There were a lot of photo ops for our newspaper; a lot of interesting people to talk to and most of all, a lot of people got another favorable glimpse of Wallis and our citizenry.
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Rain is good, right?
Posted on September 22nd, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
For the first time in a very long time, I woke up early Tuesday morning to the sound of rain spattering on the windows. It was a little before 5 a.m. and the sound and smell started my day wonderfully.
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The fun part of the job
Posted on September 16th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
This weekend I got to celebrate the fun part of my job.
A great football game on Friday night ended in excitement with the good guys (Brazos) winning and we had a wonderful cross country meet on Saturday morning at Brazos High School. There was also a junior high volleyball tournament happening at the middle school.
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Anniversaries
Posted on September 13th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
Several anniversaries come to mind this week of the year. Personally, a big one for me is it has been one year since I left the hospital after 18 days in ICU and another week in general care. I’m glad to report the doctors were correct in their predictions and I have recovered to full health.
I was released from the hospital the day before Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Coast. That brings up another anniversary. I was informed this week that was the time period the pole I wrote about last week was really broken. (more…)
Dog Days of August
Posted on August 13th, 2009
By Johnny Griffin, Editor
When I was in high school and heard the phrase Dog Days of August, it brought to mind hot summer days after the first rice harvest was done and before school started in September when all we had to do was work some during the day in the hay fields and head to the rice wells in the late afternoon for a bone-chilling dip before relaxing in the relative coolness of a summer evening.
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