Lone Star Parson

  Thanks to Hurricane Beryl crashing into our eastern shore it's unseasonably, blissfully cool here, only in the 80s. This is rare, reme...

  What, you say, the state of this great nation, which is apparently hellbent on going to Hell by the nearest available off ramp? No, that&#...

Do you go out for dinner? I don't, hardly ever, but tonight a kind churchman invited, "We'll be in town this evening where we c...

  What is this, some kind of UFO or "UAP" come to rest in the greensward of the Compound's vehicle park? No, it was not, just ...

  Here's the thing, an old wooden house needs looking after or it falls apart and doesn't work, not unlike a gun. That in mind, the ...

  A curious thing happened today. All the people from Mission #2 who like to go the increasingly popular Shooky's of a Thursday evening ...

  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 ...

  Don't you have anything good to say, so-called LSP? you ask, grimly. Well yes, yes I do. After Mass on Thursdays I stop off at a smal...

  Here in Texas we call it skywater, water that literally falls from the sky , and we haven't had any since May - until this afternoon. ...

  One of the things that happens here is we have a Men's Breakfast which meets once a month. The men of Mission #2 meet up for breakfast...

  typical Texas street scene Changes, I won't link to the Bowie song, but that's what this small aspect of rural North Central Texas...

  The sun rises over Texas, incandescent, unrelenting, invictus , unconquered. Do we back down and hide, skulking like so many knaves in our...

  Mad dogs and Englishmen, what do they do? They go out in the noonday sun, or so it's claimed. To test this theory I loaded up the rig ...

  A war rages at the Compound. The protagonists? An exotic duck. And a ferocious dog, seeking whom he may devour. You see, what happens here...

  Ye Olde Meth Shack Life at the Compound follows a rhythm, a pattern, and it all starts with a measured stroll to the Pick 'n Steal (PN...