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Good morning & good Monday to you and yours.
The weekend was brisk and lacking “tsk, tsk.”
Now I’m at work, dressed like a jerk.

On Saturday, Sweet Maggie joined her fellow members of Spank Dance Co. to perform at Eeyore’s 44th Birthday Party, a fine Austin tradition of odd folks in odd outfits. The ladies really classed up the joint, and we enjoyed people/pet watching afterward. That afternoon, it got warm enough for us to take our first leap of 2007 into Barton Springs. Refreshing and soul-awakening as always! I can’t wait for more sunny, summer days of floating and gloating.

Sunday, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of our first date with an Italian dinner and American ice cream. Maggie makes me happy, and being with her makes a lot of sense to me, so I apologize if today’s blog makes you want to gag.

Let’s now take a moment to update the Southpaw Jones Virtual Excursion des Pieds. I got 13 miles in last week, 12 on the trail, 1 on the treadmill. It’s up from recent weeks, but I’d like to report a bigger number than that. I’m trying to get across the state line, you see:

Week 1: 30 miles to Taylor, Texas
Week 2: 27 miles to Rockdale, Texas
Week 3: 20.7 miles to Caldwell, Texas
Week 4: 22.3 miles to Bryan/College Station, Texas
Week 5: 21 miles through Gibbons Creek Lake
Week 6: 24.4 miles to Hunstville, Texas
Week 7: 22 miles to Trinity, Texas
Week 8: 24 miles to Crockett, Texas
Week 9: 16 miles to Kennard, Texas
Week 10+11: 30 miles to Rusk, Texas
Week 12+13: 28.6 miles to Mt. Enterprise, Texas
Week 14: DUD
Week 15: 13 miles to Lake Murvaul, Texas
Week 16: 6 miles to Gary City, Texas
Week 17: 13 miles through…

CARTHAGE, TEXAS!

I virtually ran right through Carthage holding nearby Louisiana in my daydreams. They call it the Best Small Town in Texas, and its population hovers around 23,000. Carthage is home to the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame which inducted The Gatlin Brothers and Billy Joe Shaver in 2006.

It is also the final resting place of “Gentleman” Jim Reeves, who sang beautifully until dying in a plane crash on July 31, 1964. His favorite dog, Cheyenne, is also buried there in the concrete circle around Reeves’s grave. He rests to the side and slightly behind his master, following loyally even in death.

Join me next Monday, when I may just make it out of Texas!

Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

One prominent part of a living beast.
Highlight here for answer: [creature feature]

Online Museum of the Week
MoFA: The Museum of Food Anomalies:

Thanks for sharing, Jodi!

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:

Thank you, come again!
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