Crossed Purposes - we reap what we sew

Cross-stitching is a hobby which is a passion. While stitching, I feel a Great Peace and as with reading, it is as necessary to me as breathing.

http://hopecrossstitch.blogspot.com/

I prayed

Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid
(as we’re inclined to do),
I do not need a handsome man
but let him be like You;
I do not need one big and strong
nor yet so very tall,
nor need he be some genius,or wealthy, Lord, at all;
but let his head be high, dear God,
and let his eye be clear,
his shoulders straight, whate’er his state,
whate’er his earthly sphere;
and let his face have character,
a ruggedness of soul,
and let his whole life show, dear God,a singleness of goal;
then when he comes
(as he will come)
with quiet eyes aglow,
I’ll understand that he’s the man
I prayed for long ago.
(From Ruth Bell Graham’s Collected Poems, p. 35)

A great restaurant closes its doors

The Badu House in Llano, Texas had great food, excellent service, AND across the street is a most interesting museum connected with the restaurant. Unfortunately, this restaurant closed its doors October 21, 2008.

The Badu House was built in 1891 by the Austin architectural firm of Larramour and Watson. It was originally constructed to serve as the First National Bank of Llano, with office space on the second story. In March 1898, the bank became defunct and the building was sold to French native N.J. “Professor” Badu, a noted local mineralogist. Professor Badu and his family made a home of the Badu House and the building was passed down for generations.

Even until 1980, the Badu House was still owned by Mrs. Robert (Carrol) Phelan, granddaughter of Mr. Badu. In 1980, Ann and Earl Ruff of Houston, Texas purchased the Badu House and restored it as a restaurant and country inn. Throughout the last 20 years, the Badu House has had several different owners, but most often it was known as a lovely restaurant, bar and bed and breakfast.

A Novice at Blogging

I am a total novice at blogging (which will be evident!); however, I wanted to share photos and news with family and friends and rewire the synapses in my brain at the same time. Learning something new at my age! Here we go . . .

This snapshot of the fireplace was taken at a local Mexican restaurant in Seguin (good food - good service): El Ranchito. The restaurant was so festive this Christmas season.

I miss the Tattered Cover Book Store!

I loved going to the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver. This store was initially a very small bookstore on 3rd Avenue in Cherry Creek. When they moved to a larger building (a former department store) a few blocks from this first site, all of the customers helped move the books. I think that I had one of the first 100 numbered accounts at this delightful bookstore - and treasured it! Of course, hubby was not so pleased that I established this account - especially at the first of the month when the accounting came due! Later another Tattered Cover opened in LoDo (Lower Downtown Denver). Shortly after we moved, a Tattered Cover was built in Highlands Ranch (outside Denver).

Since we moved from Denver, The Tattered Cover in Cherry Creek moved yet again (with all of the store's customers helping to move those thousands of books). I've not yet visited this store on Colfax - in what is called Greektown. I MISS THIS BOOKSTORE! Hopefully, Seguin will one day have a friendly bookstore such as The Tattered Cover. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

http://www.tatteredcover.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattered_Cover

Seguin Youth Services

Seguin Youth Services is the non-profit organization on North Guadalupe Street run by former probation officer Sheryl Sachtleben for at-risk or underprivileged school children who attend Seguin Independent School District schools. The program tries to guide kids in a positive, successful direction through literacy and educational assistance with recreational features designed to help develop team-building, responsibility and social skills. Sheryl has a heart for these at-risk kids and she puts that heart into working with them.

There are MANY opportunities for volunteers in Seguin and there are many volunteers who take advantage of that opportunity. I do believe that volunteerism (is that a word?) keep the wheels turning in Seguin and our City helps in so many ways.