The Good Life

July 30, 2009

Season 2 at Fiddlesticks Farms

Filed under: News — Ronn @ 12:46 pm

Fiddlesticks Farms’ Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch has announced that their 2nd Season will run from September 26, 2009 to November 28, 2009.

Fiddlesticks Farms is one of the premier fall attractions in the Permian Basin offering fun for the entire family, including the young, as well as the young at heart. You can enjoy wandering through the 13-acre cornfield maze, take a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch and pick out your own pumpkin or visit their Country Store.

In addition, they are well equipped to handle groups and encourage teachers to consider the farm for educational field trips.

The farm is located at 5610 East CR 120 in Midland.

To learn about all the fun stuff you can do at Fiddlesticks Farms or for more information, including directions and hours of operation, visit www.fiddlesticksfarms.com or give them a call at 432-687-MAZE (6293).

Commemorative Air Force Airsho 2009

Filed under: Events of Distinction — Ronn @ 10:28 am

Dates have been set for the 2009 CAF Airsho and tickets are on sale now for the annual event to be held October 10-11, 2009 at CAF Headquarters located at Midland International Airport.

For more information, as well as the opportunity to purchase and print your tickets online, visit www.airsho.org.

July 28, 2009

Davis Mountains Fitness & Training Camp

Filed under: Events of Distinction — Ronn @ 10:45 am

Here’s your chance to get away to the the Davis Mountains and get in a little exercise during this energizing week of training August 2nd – 8th, 2009.

There are programs designed for all levels of fitness from the serious athlete to weekend warrior to eager novice.

Find out more by visiting Davis Mountains Fitness & Training Camp.

For those who arrive early or just want an excuse to take a trip to the Davis Mountains, check out Prude Ranch Races which will be held on Sunday, August 2, 2009 starting at 7:30 am. There will be a 5K, 10K, Half-Marathon and Duathlon/Duahlon Relay categories.

Although pre-registration for the event has ended, you can register onsite the afternoon before and and on race day. The entry fee is $25.

You can find the Prude Ranch Race Registration Form (in pdf format), here.

Way Out West Texas Book Festival

Filed under: Events of Distinction — Ronn @ 10:31 am

The Way Out West Texas Book Festival is scheduled for August 1 in Alpine, Texas on the campus of Sul Ross State University. The event, hosted by Rotary Club of Alpine, is geared to promote literacy appreciation and benefit the Alpine Public LIbrary and its Marathon branch.

Authors who have written books on Western Non-Fiction, Texas Rangers, Natural History of the Big Bend, Humorous Fiction, and other topics will highlight the scheduled events at the festival. All presentations at the event are free and open to the public.

Also on Saturday, writers, publishers, and booksellers will be selling their wares to the visiting public.

For more info, visit the the festival site here.

July 25, 2009

Site Redesign

Filed under: News — Ronn @ 4:18 pm

Working on a site redesign for The Good Life…

Previously, we had a home page with a Twitter feed and links to our e-Newsletters. Not much, but it was a web presence.

With the redesign, we hope to provide a resource that allows us to share information with our followers much more efficiently and on a much more timely basis and provide more benefit to our readers.

One of these is the inclusion on the site of a calendar of ‘Live Music’ events. This is by no means meant to be all inclusive, but is rather intended as a listing of those ‘Let Your Hair Down’ type of events that caught our eye. While we include these in our newsletter, we felt having it available on the site would be beneficial to those who want a quick look at something to do for a night on the town and would allow us to do a little better job of keeping it up to date.

Another possible benefit is that this redesign may allow us to streamline the newsletter, although we don’t think it is all that massive to begin with. We’ll just have to see about that.

Other planned changes are listed on the ‘About’ page. Feel free to give it a look and let us know what you think and if you have anything you think is noteworthy for us to include. We always welcome your feedback.

July 1, 2009

Dinner and a Concert at The Garlic Press

Filed under: Good Eats — Ronn @ 4:43 pm

On Monday, July 27th, The Garlic Press will be hosting its once-a-season summertime dinner and intimate concert.

The menu is a pri fixe menu, which means “fixed price” if you aren’t brushed up on your French.  We got a sneak preview of the menu and just reading the menu made us salivate, so trust us when we tell you “It’ll be good!”  Fixed price, though, does not mean fixed options, so yes you will have choices, but from a specially prepared menu just for this event.  Wines by the bottle will be discounted 15% from regular menu pricing.  Hint, Hint!

The concert features the instrumental guitar artistry of Duology.  You might guess that Duology is a duo and you would be right!  Traveling from Nashville, Joseph Brunelle and Barry Coggins will perform an all-acoustic show that promises to deliver an intimate, personal experience for every person in the room.

Seating and dinner begin at 7 PM and the concert begins at 8 PM.  The concert is a listening room only environment, so you won’t find cell phones, talking and all the usual clatter of a barroom.  You might call it an “art” appreciation event–savoring the fine art of culinary cuisine and embracing the soul of song-crafted art.

This is a one-time only event and seating capacity is limited to 50, so don’t sit on this one too long!  Advance reservations are required and pre-payment is made at time of reservation.  Reservations are $70/person and tables will be sold in groups of four or eight.  To make reservations, call The Garlic Press at 570-4020.

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