Texas Hill Country

Proposition 6 Passes: 73 Percent of Texans Vote "Yes," With Pockets in East, West, and Central Texas Against

By Joanna England / November 6, 2013 /

  The results are in, and while many agreed that Proposition 6 was the best plan available to secure the future of Texas water, it garnered 73.37 percent of the statewide vote — a considerably safe margin.  Among constitutional amendment propositions on the statewide ballot, Proposition 6 garnered more votes that Propositions 3, 5, and…

A $7.9 Million Vacation Home Versus Barton Creek in Austin: I’ll Take 40 Years of Reservations…

By Candy Evans / May 17, 2012 /

Not that every vaca home has to cost this much, but when you get right down to it, would you rather pay $7.9 million for a fancy-pants second home and staff to maintain it, cater to your every whim, or would you rather just stay at, say, Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin? I…

Happy Thanksgiving: Should the Town of Turkey, Texas Change its Name to Tofurky?

By Candy Evans / November 23, 2011 /

One of the most charming things about Texas is the names of it’s towns. Gun Barrel City, Cut and Shoot,  Jot’Em Down, Fate, Dimple, Dripping Springs, all in Texas. I once made my husband drive through Oatmeal, Texas, down near Austin because I loved the name of the town and wanted to own property there.…

Gross House Department: Would You Buy A Mattress Boasting a Heart-Shaped Placenta Stain?

By Candy Evans / August 24, 2011 /

If this doesn’t cement the fact that Duxiana is the best bed ever,I do not know what will. OK, kind of weird-ass here, but bear with me. Have you ever slept at someones’ house (as I did recently) and changed the sheets, only to find the mattress pad was grotesquely stained? Now I am married to…

Former Dallas Mayor Steve Bartlett’s New Second Home in the Texas Hill Country

By Candy Evans / July 11, 2011 /

Steve Bartlett, remember him? He was on the Dallas City Council from 1977 to 1981, represented some of us in Congress, and is now President and CEO of The Financial Services Roundtable, a lobbying group for several prestigious financial services companies. OMG, politics to lobbying, who’d a thunk it? Membership consists of 100 financial companies including Wells Fargo,…