Lone Star Back Roads

The folks at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda have been having their annual picnic since before any of us were alive… this year was reportedly the 103rd one. Quite a few things…

This morning the Texas Wendish Heritage Society held a Wendish coffee cake baking class at the museum complex in Serbin. Joyce Jenke was the instructor, and she did a fantastic job walking the…

Well… the bones of the narthex expansion are up… including the new belltower!

Yawn… well this is a mundane post, ain’t it? Maybe so. There’s work going on over by the depots in town (one of which houses Sixth Street Spirits/Dime Box Distillery)… according to the…

Earlier today, Faith Lutheran High School of Central Texas held its opening service for the 2023-24 school year. This will be the school’s seventh academic year! A number of area churches support the…

This evening we drove out to Lincoln for a few hours to enjoy burgers and watch the live auction at the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department’s picnic. During the auction, James asked Margie what…

Today the South Lee County Volunteer Fire Department held its 43rd annual barbecue. I know I said something similar a few weeks back after we attended the Winchester Area Volunteer Fire Department’s fish…

These pictures have been taken over the last week… they’ve been working toward pouring the slab and finally got that done this morning! Pastor Tiner gave me a heads-up that they would be…

Well, we had another great afternoon at the ballpark today in La Grange. The Jackrabbits fought hard but ultimately lost 7-3 to the Shiner Clippers. That was disappointing, but it’s hard to go…

This afternoon we drove down to La Grange to watch the Serbin Jackrabbits community baseball team take on the Weimar Vets. The Jackrabbits won the game 11-1, and next week they’ll be playing…

This week has been pretty busy and I haven’t had an awful lot of a chance to get out and take pictures… but we did manage to make it by Immanuel to document…

I’ve been anticipating the Winchester Area Volunteer Fire Department’s annual fish fry fundraiser. I first heard about it last year, but we were out of town. Thankfully that wasn’t the case this year,…

I’ve wanted to go to Burton for their Cotton Gin Festival for some years now, but somehow I manage to always have a trip out of Texas scheduled about that time. But… we…

I have been to exactly three Lutheran ordinations in my (nearly) forty-eight trips around the sun. Of course, it wasn’t until my twenty-seventh year (a little over twenty-one years ago, in 2002) that…

Nothing super exciting here, but as of some time this past week, the last bits of the old bell tower are gone. I expect we’ll be seeing piers and a slab being poured…