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Summertime and the neighborhood pools are open!

When my wife Karen and I built our house we decided not to build a pool. It seems not a year passes by in Houston without several children drowning in pools. With our son only two years old and the time and our daughter minus 4 months old when we moved in, we’d decided we just didn’t want the risk. Fast forward eight years and both kids look forward eagerly to Memorial Day when the neighborhood pools open and we […]

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It’s HOT in Texas!

It’s HOT in Texas at this time of the year! Having lived in the Houston area for all but two of the last 15 years, you’d think I’d be used to it, but I’m not. Sure it was hotter in Libya, I recall a few days when the thermometer showed 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) but that’s only because that was the top of the range for the thermometer at the airstrip. I’ve no idea how hot it really was those […]

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