New Blog-Please Visit

Hello all. I have just published a new blog. It is called Visions of My World. On this blog I plan on sharing some of my photos that I've taken through time. Please visit when ever you have a few moments. I will endeavor to post weekly. Which is better that weakly posting. Thanks all and visit now since all you are doing is just reading my blog.© 2008 Barry T Horst


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Retro Saturday, April 19, 2008

I took my class on field trip to the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco yesterday. I will have some pictures to post later but today is Retro Saturday. A trip to the zoo yesterday isn't quite retro today. But in keeping with the retro theme and the zoo I have a few clips from Captain Kangaroo and then an extra special clip. I know it's a stretch but I watched this when stuff when I was young and had great fun.

Here they are.

This is a clip from the very first episode in 1955.

And now the intro to a Tom Terrific cartoon from Captain Kangaroo.

And now let's stretch the theme one more time. I have a commercial from Beech Nut Fruit Stripe Gum from the 60's. Yep, animals in the commercial help me tie this back into the zoo theme.

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Honesty, You Gotta Love It

As you know I teach kindergarten. When you have a classroom full of 5 and 6 year olds you never can tell what will happen or will be said. The other day I had a student come to my teaching table while I was teaching reading. He insisted that he needed to tell me something. I tried to have him go back to his station and continue working but he would have none of that. After all, he needed to tell me something. I finally relented and asked what he need to say to me.

He began to apologize and say, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry I did that. I didn't mean to."

Now I'm curious. Real curious! I told him, "That's okay, but what did you do?"

His reply was, "I peed on the wall!"

Now this got my attention. I asked him what he said, and he apologized again. I then told him to show me what he was talking about. We went to the restroom and sure enough, there it was on the wall, on the seat, and on the floor.

I then had to ask how. So I said, "How did you do this?"

"I don't know it just happened."

Honesty! You just gotta love it!

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More Texas Flag Fun

I was going through some old pictures the other day. I came across some pictures I took in De Leon, TX in 2003. At that time we lived in De Leon and I worked for the school district. The district served as the fiscal agent for the Special Services Co-op that oversaw all special education functions for Deleon, Comanche, Gustine, and Rising Star ISD's. The main office for the co-op was in a storefront in downtown De Leon.

De Leon is a small town and the downtown merchants were always decorating their store front windows for various holidays and other local happenings. I was driving through town around the 4th of July and I noticed something a little off (no offense meant) at the Special Services Co-op.

Now, for those of you who do not know what "Special Services" are in the education world, we are talking about the services for students that meet Federal guidelines for additional educational services due to physical or educational needs.

So any way, I'm driving through town and this is what I see:

How about a closeup.

That's right. The Texas flag was painted upside down, on the Special Services office window. these are the people that we entrusted our children to. Notice though that the star is painted correctly. Only the red and white colors are switched.

In all fairness to the co-op, they did not do the painting. They hired the job out. But it was amazing that no one noticed it and got it corrected.

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Jogelen

For those of you who spent last night juggling figures for Uncle Sam, I've found a couple of other fellows who were juggling. The first video is a juggling finale by Chris Bliss. I've had it for about a year now and have not tired of it yet. The second video shows a fellow "juggling" billiard balls.

For more information visit the International Jugglers' Association.

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Tuber Time or Perhaps Ramblin' Tater

It is interesting the way things change with time. Wheat has been known as the staff of life. Keeping company with wheat is corn and rice. Altogether these crops help to give sustenance to the worlds population. Now we are turning to these same crops to help break our dependence on oil. Thanks to this and increased development in China and India the price of these staples have skyrocketed. In turn, we have witnessed double digit inflation in grocery prices recently.

Enter the potato. I read an article on Reuters about potatoes last night. It seems that people are rediscovering the benefits of potatoes, but thus far speculators in the market have not "bitten" the potato yet. Read the article here, it is interesting.

Potatoes are native to Peru and will grow anywhere from the frigid slopes of the Andes to the flat lands of tropical Asia. Not only that, but potatoes will yield more per acre that rice or wheat. Potatoes also yield a flour that can be used in baking bread. It has been used in donuts for some time. There used to be a Spudnuts Donuts shop in Waco a long time ago. It seems that it was on 25th Street, just across the street from O & H Rare Foods. (You could by chocolate covered ants at O & H by the way.) But that was long ago. It seems that I recall my brother working there for a time delivering for them. But, that too was a long time ago.

There still seem to be some Spudnut shops around, but I am not sure they are related to the one Waco had. Here is another article about Spudnuts that is very interesting. Need a recipe so you can try the Spudnut donut? Here ya go.

How I ended up on a donut recipe I'm not sure. I guess that's what happens when you don't have a GPS unit to give you direction in life.

I don't know if any of you care, but I used to buy some pretty good sandwiches and O & H. I seem to remember pastrami on rye and other good deli sandwiches. I didn't get the ants though. Another place that had good sandwiches was Antone's in Houston. I reckon I should change that to "still has good sandwiches." When I lived in Houston I loved them. Check 'em out here.

Guess what? Still no GPS. Can ya' tell? © 2008 Barry T Horst This work is licensed under a
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