Lone Star Parson

  There it is, Texas, under a big blue sky. And I tell you, it was good to be out on my friend's ranch, which is pretty unreconstructed ...

  A young churchman called, "We're shooting skeet this evening at the ranch to knock the rust off before Opening Day. Are you in?&q...

  What's up? Well I'll tell you. A recce mission to the lake to see if the Piscine Adversary was biting. No, it was not. I think the...

  What a beautiful drive to Mission #2 for evening Mass as the sun tried to break through the clouds. "This," I thought gravely to...

  On Thursday evenings there's a Mass at Mission #2 and afterwards we decided to go down the road to Parson's Marina for a drink and...

  One of the things people like to do after Mass at Mission #2 is go out for lunch and I joined in today. We went to Shooky's, which is ...

  One of the things that happens here is that we meet at 5.30 pm on Thursdays to worship God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and no, this ...

  Thunder rumbled like a celestial artillery barrage as the heavens opened and rain lashed down with cascading fury. Seriously, climate chan...

There it was, another beautiful, clear, already ovenlike morning in country Texas, another day to shoot. This time at Chandler's range j...

  Movement, says the Philosopher, is a sign of life and that in mind I loaded a couple of rods in the rig and moved off to the lake. Yes, I ...

  One of the crew ended up in hospital the other day with a heart condition, but by the grace of God he survived and one pacemaker later was...

  "Dad, can we go fishing?" I thought for a moment, for maybe a second, "Yes, we can." Some coffee, two bacon and egg sa...

  Belle Starr on Venus Talk after Mass at mission #2 turned naturally to famous Bosque County outlaws, and I learned something. The famous B...

After a morning visiting the sick, I stopped off at Lake Whitney dam to test the waters. These were clear(ish), and apparently devoid ...

The air was clear, bright and for Texas at the end of August, pleasantly cool. So why not head over to the dam after visiting the sic...