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2024 Mayor and Council Inauguration

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 Below you will find our efforts at taking notes and photos at the 2024 Inauguration of the City of Houston Mayor and Council.  In my photos are photos of the program listing any names we may have messed up. For better photos you can visit: https://richardcarson.smugmug.com/HoustonInauguration2024  For now here are the rough notes. Mayoral Inauguration of John Whitmire Master of Ceremonies, Khambrel Marshall (formerly Channel 2 News), and performances by The Houston Symphony, Gonzalo Farias, Conductor; Presentation of Colors by HPD & HFD; Pledge of Allegiance, The National Anthem, Inaugural Blessing and song You’ll Never Walk Alone performed by Kenneth Gayle, Tenor and Reverend Michael Gott, Soloist Introduction of New City Council, Controller, and at large members and families, and past Mayors, Sylvester Turner, Annise Parker, Kathy Whitmire, and Widow of Bob Lanier Swearing in of John Whitmire, the 63rd Mayor of Houston, Texas Mayor Whitmire sworn in the new City Co...

Clam shaped sandwich

 Special made Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich. This the story of the black clam shell device that made flying saucer shaped grilled cheese sandwiches. Little dah went to university one two and three then worked at this and that then married a guy from a group she had lived with in the heights in his uncles house but he did not live with them just hung out with them. There was a cute little feinting dog and a huge dog and a little boy. They married and became a family. Eventually there is the grand dah. Somewhere in there the clam became my wife’s then little dah thought it was hers withoutfamilial transfer and nine years of wife and dah negotiations and exactly where it is are still a mystery. About the time grand dah was three.  Little dah gifted us a new clam and one which makes wedges. Three years later we maybe are going to start using the new devices.  My friend currently living in Switzerland mentioned / was having a blue sky conversation about making hot pockets of...