All things happening in and around San Antonio and South Texas. San Antonio Real Estate and other general information. From Randy Watson of Mission Realty, 210-744-4514.

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Last news: May 1, 2011 05:27:08

A Wedding in the Old Country No, of course I did not get up hours before the crack of dawn on Friday to watch the royal wedding. I wouldnt get up at four oclock in the morning for my own wedding. But we did watch the highlights Friday evening when the BBC news wrapped up with the highlights. Just as a personal observation, it all seemed rather...

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Moo the Closet Cat For all your San Antonio Real Estate Needs Call Randy Watson, 210-744-4514 Texas Real Estate Agent Mission Realty, Inc. When my younger sisters parakeet, known as Bird - my sister did not have much of an imagination when it came to naming her pets - was accidentally killed, my father immediately took Pip to the pet store to...

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The Black Swan Inn and the Battle of Salado Please feel free to leave an on-topic comment   So, this was a place that we found by accident, on our last weekend walk, doing another leg of the Salado Creek Greenway - the portion from Tobin Park south, following the line of the nearly-dry creek south from 410, past the Oakwell stables, through a...

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Texas Wildfires - A Firefighters Perspective By Stephanie Teskers In the past week alone over 1 million Texas acres have been burned by wildfires. The Lone Star State is experiencing a record drought, and 98% of Texas is currently under a burn ban. Not only are thousands of residents statewide threatened with the loss of their homes, but the...

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Walking for Autism Awareness Brought to you by: Randy Watson 210-744-4514 Texas Real Estate Agent We try to get out and about on weekends, since I seem to spend a great deal of time during the working week, chained to a hot computer, working on an editing job, or my next book, or composing entries for various blogs. Sometimes its an event...

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Bottled Easter Basket by Julia Hayden Click photos to enlarge Having as we do a monthly Red Hat Ladies in San Antonio event where we are expected to razzle-dazzle the other members with our skill and creativity when it comes to doing a token gift, my daughter and I have gotten very, very good at creating something out of nothing . . . well,...

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Along the Salado Greenway Looking to buy or sell real estate in South Texas or a San Antonio Home? Call Randy Watson of Mission Realty at 210-744-4514 So when we first went walking with the dog along the Salado Greenway from Hardberger Park a couple of weeks ago - that was about the first time that the very existence of the Salado Greenway...

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Sweet Poteet So, my daughter and I went down to the Poteet Strawberry festival this last weekend; weve been to it before, at least twice - but it now seems to have grown, and grown on steroids. Wow - we didnt recall having to wait in a line of cars for about a mile outside of Poteet to get up to one of the parking lots. There werent near...

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Annals of 1836: The Runaway Scrape The 175 anniversary of the war for Texas independence is being observed this year, Ive been to commemorative events at the Alamo, and at Presidio La Bahia . With the price of a gallon of gas already reaching towards $3.50, Ill probably have to give a miss on the drive from my San Antonio home to Houston to...

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Along the (Other) Riverwalk Looking to buy or sell real estate in South Texas or a San Antonio Home? Call Randy Watson of Mission Realty at 210-744-4514 So in the process of exploring Phil Hardberger Park a little bit at a time over the last three or four Sundays - being that we have taken the dog to the dog-park there for a vigorous romp,...

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By the Rivers Edge The rivers that run through Texas were not historically reliable enough to facilitate heavy transport in the way that the Mississippi and its various tributaries were and still are. The various rivers - Rio Grande, Nueces, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Sabine, Brazos and Trinity - were at times and in places navigable by...

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Dinner Salad - Salade Nicoise Looking to buy or sell real estate in South Texas or a San Antonio Home? Call Randy Watson of Mission Realty at 210-744-4514 This is one of our favorite full-meal salads - being that its three out of the four food groups in one, and in fairly generous quantities: theres your meat, potatoes, and several kinds of...

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Open Air History - The Alamo Click photos to enlarge Im not alone in this mad love of history, in being so besotted by events and eras to the point of studying certain aspects down to the sub-atomic level. I only write about it, which is the traditional venue for those like Miniver Cheevy, who wistfully believe they were born too late....

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Blue Star and South Town So, after we scoped out the elaborate series of reenactor events on Alamo Plaza last weekend - uniforms and long rifles and cannon -oh-my! - we decided to venture into South Town and check out anything interesting going on at the Blue Star Arts Complex . . . which since it was the day after First Friday - not very much....

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The Old Spanish Mission at the Edge of Town And thats what it was - a hundred and seventy-five years ago this spring - when the Alamo achieved fame immortal, just before sunrise in the spring of 1836. Visitors are usually taken back to discover that it is so small. I was, the first time I visited it as an AF trainee on town-pass in 1978; a...

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San Antonio Real Estate and San Antonio Homes For Sale We Support Our Troops! Randy Watson and team are fulltime Texas Real Estate Agents with Mission Realty. Randy and team are positioned to help with you every step of the way through your South Texas real estate property investment transactions and exchanges. Our comprehensive...

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Winter Doldrums For all your San Antonio real estate needs contact Randy Watson of Mission Realty Call 210-744-4514 Free online homesearch Now you may see in my own San Antonio home those aspects of winter which always made this part of the year - late winter, early spring - positively the dreariest of seasons in those places which...

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Addition to the Catalog If its covered in fur or feathers, my daughter is immediately taken. She has one dog and a cat-a-log and by dint of saying "no!" in an increasingly firmer tone of voice I have kept the numbers down to a manageable level. Sammy, the three-legged, cross-eyed flame-point Siamese was full-grown, and belonged to some neighbors...

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Essential Dog My daughters dog, better known as the Lesser Weevil, lives for walkies every day . . . and for a special treat, a trip to the McAlister Park Dog Park. Shes a social creature, and rather outgoing; every human she has ever met has been instantly and utterly her bestest BFF. I do so hope that I would never have to depend upon the...

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Land of the Lotus - Eaters By Julia Hayden Ive been back for three or four days in the place which - if you bend down and squint sideways at it - is the place that I came from. That is, back-country Southern California; not the glitzy, glittery and glam 90210/Hollywierd/Sunset Boulevard So-Cal, but the other part of it. This is the hills and...

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