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Wednesday Wit: Lindale CountryFest aka the Vendor Scramble
Like many small towns, Lindale, Texas hosts an annual festival otherwise known as Lindale Country Fest. On the second Saturday of October a Main Street parade closes off State Highway 69 for a half hour or so and kicks off the festival. After the parade, participants, parents, and patrons descend upon the festival grounds…
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Thrifty Thursday: Shopping and Prom-ming
As promised, here is the tale of our day of shopping and going to proms in Warrenton, Texas during Antiques Week a couple of weeks ago. After my daughter Natalie and I feasted our senses on the junky wonders at the Junk Gypsy World Headquarters, we found a place to park in a field just…
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Soggy Wet Wednesday: Scamping to Gypsyville
We have had two solid days of rainy weather, no storms, just slow and steady rain, the kind I’ve heard Washington state has all the time, the kind that I absolutely love. Hubby tells me I wouldn’t like constant rain, and he is probably right, but this is wonderful after a long, hot summer. The…
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Monday Mumblings: More of our Scampventure revealed!
Have you ever seen the 1953 flick, “The Long, Long Trailer?” I hadn’t either until my parents called one rainy Saturday to tell me that it was coming on TCM if I wanted to see it. Since I had been working on my little camping trailer, they thought I might be interested. It was a…
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Monday Musings: Back from Scampin’! And two dreams realized. . .
They say when you stop dreaming you stop living. I can’t imagine not having a dream, not having some kind of goal ahead of me. God help me if I get to the point where I can’t dream. This past week I realized two long-held dreams of mine, or maybe even more! Dream 1: My…
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