A Visit to City Meat Market in Giddings
It’s always a good day when I make it to City Meat Market Giddings TX early enough to get some pork shoulder (and hot guts and brisket too)…
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Trunk or Treat at Immanuel Giddings
Immanuel Lutheran Giddings put on a community Trunk or Treat tonight. The turnout was fantastic… and James had a great time! Looks like the other folks in attendance did too. You really can’t beat an event that has candy for the kids and brats for the adults!
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Brenham Fire Museum
I’m about to embark on a two-week trip to visit my older children… and this time I’m driving. We drove out to Brenham to pick up a rental car for me to use, and while we were in town we stopped by the Brenham Fire Museum. Several months back, we’d happened by it when they
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The Roadtripper Visits Serbin, Texas
On October 4, 2023, Chet Garner, host of The Roadtripper, visited Serbin, Texas. He (of course) learned about the history of the Wends and their immigration to Texas, and was also treated to a tour of the church and a hearty serving of Wendish noodles and sausage, and then sampled some Wendish coffee cake. From
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Neighbor’s Night Out in Giddings, Texas
Tonight… uh… well, yesterday (since it’s now after midnight) the Giddings Police Department held its National Night Out event at Veteran’s Park here in Giddins. There was a nice turnout for the event, and the weather was perfect… not too warm, and it was dry… though it looks like that’ll change on Wednesday!
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The Immanuel Lutheran Belltower is Coming Together…
These photographs were taken on Tuesday, September 12 and Monday, September 25, 2023.
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Holy Cross Lutheran Church Picnic – Warda, Texas
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 have changed since the early picnics (for one thing, there were actual pits dug into the ground to cook the barbecue), but
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Wendish Coffee Cake Baking Class in Serbin
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 folks in the class through the process of making a coffee cake. During the class, she baked two streusel coffee cakes (one
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Immanuel Giddings Construction Update – Belltower Bones
Well… the bones of the narthex expansion are up… including the new belltower!
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