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By DEBBIE DENMON / WFAA-TV Nov. 19, 2008 DALLAS - Police are investigating after a man walked into Dallas Animal Services with a bat in hand with the aim of getting his cat back home. Surveillance video showed Roger Booth walking out of the animal shelter with his cat in its carrier and a baseball bat in his hand. "I went prepare… read more

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Well, yesterday, we made our second trip to the beach. We took trash bags, rakes, shovels, etc. We picked up several bags of trash. We put salvagable items in piles. Piled trash lumber and bushes and trees together. In return, we got to watch the pelicans float on the water and wait for fish and do their fly-bys. There just aren't big groups … read more

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I tried putting 2 pictures on my original journal entry but I guess you can only have one picture - anyway the second picture erased the first one. This is a picture of one of the debris fields. read more

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We made our first trip to the Texas coast yesterday. It was both good and bad. Sooo much destruction - one the other hand, new power lines are up, a lot of clean up done/underway. People working and helping each other. Right after Ike went through, there were reports of the beach birds being gone. I'm glad we waited. One the beach, we saw all… read more

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For the past 4 years, I've spent Halloween in Texas. Our house in Illinois is on the edge of town, on a state highway. No sidewalks, no street lights, etc. Not very good for trick-or-treaters. In Texas, we're on the highway, however we're only about 3 blocks from the courthouse. First year, we had 5 tirck-or-treaters. The next year, 12. Last… read more