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The End of the Yellow Brick Road
When One Door Closes, Another One Opens When you go Over the Rainbow, you find yourself on the Yellow Brick Road. It is high adventure. It is also perilous, dark in places, and beautiful beyond imagining in others, and always a Challenge. I find myself, and our little shop on the Edge of Eternity, reaching the end of that Road before long. I think I’m ready to go Beyond the Yellow Brick Road [Thank you, Elton John!].
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Texas Style
July Fourth Celebration~ Who doesn’t love a Parade? And there’s nothing like the kind of celebration that gets repeated all over Small Town America every Fourth of July. There’s something about a Summer Holiday— think Watermelon, Hot Dogs, Beer, Popsicles and Hamburgers. Fireworks on a hot, sultry night, and a Parade that goes right down the Main Street of Town. Let traffic wait while sirens sound, horns blat and people line the Street in folding chairs and the beds of pick-up trucks.
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Happy Birthday To Us
Celebrating Over the Rainbow's Third Year. While we are now closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, we’ll be back on Thursday and ready to Party. Through Saturday this week, everything in the shop is discounted 30%. We’re also excited to Give Away Some Birthday Gifts. Just stop by and fill out an entry slip, and we will be drawing names on Saturday afternoon.
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Turning Corners & New Directions
Thoughts as Spring 2024 Arrives: I’m not going to say that the winter has flown by, but I have skimmed through it in a daze of busy-ness and extra paperwork [or data entry anyway] brought about by the necessity of switching POS system part way through last year, and maybe just plain winter blues, I don’t feel that I have accomplished a lot so far. If you read my New Year’s post [the first of 2024— Make Time]then you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say I haven’t. I haven’t made Time for much…
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From Our House…
To Yours! Merry Christmas Here it is the most Wonderful Time of the Year, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone— friends, family and community as well as our amazing customers. We appreciate and are grateful to and for each and every one of you. We are wishing all a merry Christmas and a New Year filled with fresh promise and hope. If there was one Gift I could spread around to the whole world this Christmas Season, it would be Hope. Too often in our busy and complicated lives, hope gets…
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The Prickly Patch in Fort Davis
Shop Local... Neighbors Located in one of the small shops of J Davis Emporium [211 N State St, Fort Davis, TX], the Prickly Patch is a cute and very interesting antique, vintage, collectible and Fun store run by Rhonda Honeycutt and Marlen Gray. The store is open primarily on Fridays and Saturdays. Rhonda often posts on Facebook (Fort Davis Community Chat) when they will be open. Check it out for all sorts of vintage and antique glassware, home decor and furniture. Locally taken photos and cards of Texas landscape and wildlife. There are beautiful and…
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A Holiday Gift Guide…
From Over the Rainbow It is just weeks until Christmas, and what better time to Shop Local, to explore the businesses that help to keep your community thriving and vibrant. You don’t have to go far to find all sorts of lovely and unique gifts and stocking stuffers. We are lucky in Fort Davis to have a great selection of small businesses to explore and treasure hunt in. Check out my Neighbors Posts for information on small shops in the Fort Davis, Marfa and Alpine area.
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Terlingua Rain
A Few of Our Favorite Things! With Christmas right around the corner, I have been thinking about some of my favorite things at Over the Rainbow. Many of our products are just made to be Stocking Stuffers, and I can’t think of anything much better to find in the big sock on Christmas Morning than a tin of Terlingua Rain Creosote Salve or Lip Balm. Both of these products are essentials for dry winter weather, particularly here in the West Texas desert. It’s so satisfying to carry products that we believe in, that align so…
