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I believe this was my great-great-grandfather.  I remember seeing pictures of this chapel in the geneaology work my aunt did before she died.

This is at historical marker ​17815 in Comal County.

Marker Text: ​Located in the Mission Valley Settlement, Walzem Chapel was built to serve Catholics in this once remote area. In the mid-1800s, German immigrants came to Texas under the auspices of the Adelsverein in search of freedom and economic opportunity. Johann Joseph and Anna Gertruda Walzem settled in the Mission Valley Settlement in the 1850s and built a home. Mr. Walzem was a stonemason and has been credited with building several houses in the Mission Valley Settlement. Walzem and his family were important members of the community in the early days of New Braunfels’ development.

    Johann and his sons built the chapel (also known as St. John Chapel) located on an acre plot in the north end of their original 160 acre tract. Legend has it that after working for several years, Mr. Walzem visited his homeland and upon returning to Texas, built the chapel in thanksgiving for a safe trip. The chapel is also mistakenly referred to as “Walzem Mission,” due to its location in the community. A stone at the top of the entrance to the chapel is marked “1870,” indicating the completion date. The walls were made of limestone locally quarried and cut by Johann and his sons with mortar from a local kiln, demonstrating pioneers’ ability to survive in the wilderness.

​    Johann gave the land and chapel to the Right Reverend Bishop C.M. Dubois of the Catholic Church in 1871 and it eventually was purchased by a developer. The homeowners of the subdivision now care for the chapel and property. While the stone walls of the chapel are all that remain, a reminder of the challenges and isolation of the early frontier still linger.

Marker No: ​17815
Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker
Geographic: 29.731480, -98.201126
Location: 597 La Bahia Loop, New Braunfels

For more complete history: https://www.co.comal.tx.us/Historical/Markers/Walzem_Chapel/WALZEM_CHAPEL_narative.pdf

 

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51 responses to “Thursday Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    did you break out your best bottle of Boone’s Farm that’s been aging in your favorite socks drawer for the last couple of years?

    Actually, we took a detour through Katy and had a fine supper at Dimassi’s Mediterranean Buffet. (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

    Then back home, where the special wine selection was Johnson Brothers Argentine Malbec – a birthday gift made by Fay’s son for my last birthday.

    1. Dooood Avatar
      Dooood

      Oh yeah, used to eat at Dimassi’s Willowbrook location frequently. Great place. Mostly avoid eating out these days ($$$) but I do keep Dimassi’s on my short list of places to go. Y’all enjoy the visit.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Glad the Johnson brothers reunion is off to a good start.
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The cops are moving in on the UCLA “protesters ” right now. Hopefully there will be lots of free hickory shampoos for those who choose not to leave.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The cops are shooting lots of tear gas into the crowd, arrests have been made and lots more expected.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    In a sane world, these protesters would stay in custody for at least a week. Those arrested at the scene who are not students need enhanced interrogation.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I get SO damn tired of this. And NO I’m not a racist it’s just that the only couples in ads that you ever see are mixed OR the same sex! If you don’t know, THIS IS IN THE MINORITY!

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      It is rampant. Perhaps one of the most diligent, long term, gas lighting/hard sell, astroturfing programs I have ever seen.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mercy its coming down! Welcome back to Texas Texpat!

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well that was weird! I got a “commenting is closed” message and when I refreshed I had to log in and now it’s working?

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mmmm K let’s try this again.

    Nope! You can’t make this S#!T UP!
    ‘s try this again;

    So, it appears that the pro-Hamas “protestor” who demanded the school bring her food to her because she was too busy illegally occupying a building is employed by the school while she works on her PhD. This is what her dissertation is about.

    What a “Word Salad” I can’t make any sense out of it but if this Clap-Trap will get you a PHD Columbia, the college needs to be shut down and turned into a Community College/Trade School……. ~SIGH~
    H/T Sarge

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, you must baffle them with your bull$#!t.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I’ve refueled, oiled and sharpened my new Gumbi Dammit Stihl and I’m off to do more mayhem on the huge oak that fell over. Yesterday I used up the third tank of fuel in my new saw so it’s now officially “Broke In”. FWIT: That sucker is a cutting machine! 😉

  11. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s about to get a bit stormy all throughout greater Houston.

  12. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Good Morning all. Another damp and grey day here. Raining slightly and cool. 36F.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally a the ‘puter. The doc was right when she said the meds would make me sleepy. Between that and the gloom outside, I ended up falling asleep briefly this morning, which is not my norm. Anyway, I’ve been trying to make an appointment with my old pastor for a coupla days, but the phone calls just dropped. So just before the rain hit, I made a run for it. I was hobbling out of my car (the shot worked for just one day, dangit! ) to find a pest control guy hanging over the edge of a roof, asking me to hand him his ladder from below, which was just beyond his reach. Trying not to shake my head, I handed it up to him before going inside to make the appointment

    Fr. C. looked annoyed to see me. They were busy, busy, so I didn’t stay long but I got the appointment set so I can meet with my pastor and report that I at least have a time set to discuss his rosary center work with my former pastor. Got home just as the bottom began falling out of the clouds.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s C&C roundup – the O’Keefe story I’d seen bits of yesterday, what a bombshell!

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! This morning’s jam-packed roundup of everything you need to know includes: controversial new OMG exposé video blows the CIA’s socks off; Governor DeSantis bans fake lab meats from Florida markets; New York arrests three hundred radicalized student agitators; first criminal recommendation against covid architect comes from the House Covid Committee; new Hersh tell-all suggests Team Biden is even dumber than they look; House rushes through new antisemitism bill, but is it helpful?; the Matrix glitches, perhaps for good this time, on new Billboard song rankings; and a new generation of heroes plans the biggest frat party in history.

    More to follow…

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From the O’Keefe story:

    Intrepid undercover (under covers?) citizen journalist James O’Keefe has done it again. Yesterday he broke a massive new exposé story, perhaps second only to the story that derailed Project Veritas, of the amorous gay Pfizer VP explaining how the pharma giant experiments with illegal gain of function research all the time. This time, James and his citizen volunteer journalist catfished a CIA agent

    CLIP: OMG American Swiper dines with chatty CIA agent (27:20).

    As a result, Matt Gaetz is already calling for an investigation.

    The CIA responded with innocent eyes and “What? Us? I never!” and clutched its pearls. And fired the guy from the video.

    You can watch the whole OMG video, but if you’re in a hurry, here’s the gist of what he said:

    • Amjad officially works for Raytheon as a ‘contractor’ but really works for the CIA. This is a classic dodge used by the Agency to skirt Congressional oversight.
    • The aging lothario currently works — sorry, worked — in the CIA’s Chinese Mission Center.
    • He has been passed around various U.S. intelligence agencies since 2008, and while cheerfully babbling about undermining the former President, bragged about holding a top-rated security clearance: TS/SCI.
    • Getting to the bad stuff, Amjad happily prattled about an informal CIA policy, observed in the Agency up through two consecutive CIA directors, to deliberately mislead President Trump by withholding key information and critical details.
    • He called Trump a “f-ing idiot,” claimed Trump never deserved to get real intelligence details because Trump would just give them away (translation: President Trump would actually use the information).
    • Without providing details, Amjad claimed Trump gave away — that is he, Amjad, the genius, felt it was a bad trade — classified information to Russian President Putin.
    • Amjad said he was 100% sure that Trump is a Russian asset but admitted there’s no evidence.
    • He said “of course” the CIA is still constantly watching Trump, even specifically mentioning Trump’s ex-wife (Marla Maples?) as being under surveillance.
    • Ironically, while on a random internet date with a stranger, he gloated about how well he was trained to leave a “low social media footprint.”

    /snip

    Last month, independent journalists and “Twitter files” veterans Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi published a shocking Substack describing a very interesting narrative about how the Russia-collusion hoax was created by US intelligence agencies. In the story, the journos claimed that anonymous Agency sources told them how the CIA bootstrapped Trump’s wiretapping into a gloss of legality.

    I’ve been trying not to copy too much from the C&C here, despite my great delight in reading Mr. C.’s stuff every day, but this is, I feel, unusually important. There’s more discussion about how the American “security agencies” farmed out their dirty work to foreign actors, and the Hurricane Binder that’s still buried out in someone’s field, waiting to be found and exposed.

    And then Mr. C. finishes with this:

    I will perhaps be accused of over-dramatizing my conclusion, but to me, what all this amounts to is a rogue intelligence agency hell-bent on becoming a government unto itself. The new OMG video is walking, talking verification of the growing body of evidence suggesting the CIA is totally out of control.

    How to regain control of the CIA is a different, thornier question. [emphasis mine]

    Great job, OMG citizen journalists, who aren’t owned by the CIA.

    And that is why they can’t let Trump win. He’ll start to clean house and (hopefully) heads will roll. All of their work to become dictators behind the scene will suffer setbacks. I have no expectations that all of the weeds and briars will be completely rooted out.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the frat boys who saved the American flag from being desecrated even as they were being screamed at and pummeled by debris being thrown at them by protestors? And who responded to the attack by singing the national anthem as they held the flag aloft until the police arrived?

    So far, the GoFundMe for their “rager” party fund, said party being their reward for being patriotic, is almost $350K, with over 100,000 folks contributing.

    Message sent.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    “If Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel” —Golda Meir

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    How to handle a protestor in Georgia.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I’ve seen that a hundred times and it’s still worth seeing again.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. Pomerantz takes the Fifth when asked if he broke laws prosecuting Trump.

    /spits

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      When Trump is re-elected (please ELOHIM) I really hope his new AG goes after these scum with every legal tool available. Unless and until these people face real prison time, this crap will continue.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I think it’s time to start running shrimp through Elsa. I was by Sam’s yesterday; going to the doctor is about the only reason for me to be in that area. The big bags of shrimp are about the only thing that’s worth me stopping by there. I bought some other stuff, like coffee and tea, but I don’t think it’s worth the annual membership. I need to put “cancel Sam’s” on my to-do list.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Go by H-Mart or any other Asian grocery store/supermarket. They have dried shrimps, dried anchovies, dried seaweed, dried mushrooms, dried everything.

      In large packages.

      1. Tedtam Avatar
        Tedtam

        There is a Chinese grocery not far away…I remember buying a big jar of turmeric there for about $5. I had problems getting the dried mushrooms to rehydrate, though. Weird. Stayed hard, even when I boiled them.

        1. wagonburner Avatar
          wagonburner

          I usually let them steep in very but not boiling water.

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Even the man who almost had everything couldn’t get what he wanted.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I learned a new acronym today: LARP

    Live Action Role Play(ing): in today’s discussions, it describes the skulls of mush who are feeling proud of themselves by dressing up in keffiyahs and play-protesting. They are pretending to be protesting but have no real idea what they are protesting against/for. Doing it because it’s fashionable or cool or whatever.

    Idjits.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Don’t forget about those who are not students, but are paid to be there.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Greetings from Weikel’s Bakery in La Grange, TX.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Be sure to pick up a jar of their pickled Quail eggs. DELISH

    2. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      yo uncklo.
      glad you saved the boone’s farm for me.

      before the Jersey boss man goes back you need to have a bottle of DAOU Cabernet Paso Robles 2022 with him. You can purchase at heb.
      Dr phil Good gives it a 97.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I can’t even imagine being a 9 year old boy, running through the dark and aftermath of a tornado, trying to save his mom and dad who were still pinned in their truck.

    “Just don’t die, I’ll be back.”

  25. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well my wife’s plane is taxing out to take off out of Burbank headed to Houston Hobby and the weather looks nasty there.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Hope she’s going to be okay. Not just successfully completing the flight, but also not getting tossed around up there in turbulence.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Science paper discussing the cancer promoting elements of the jab.

    Heads should roll. ™

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I read the abstract. Its devastating.

  27. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Afternoon Hamsters,

    Rain here has been much less nasty than what the good folk north of Houston have been coping with. This surely reminds us of Havrey’s deluges 5 or so years ago when our home got about 2″ of water in it (thank God it was not more) when the Brazos went way overbank due to the huge rainfall on us combined with worse that fell north and west of us coming through on top of that to break all records.

    Prayers for the folks who are having to evacuate their homes and those who are able to stay and worry about what their homes will need to be put right. Happy for the folks who can take their pets with them.

  28. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Ooops, that was Harvey

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Not much for hard boiled eggs, Bones.

    Hoping that doesn’t force me into the Commie column.

    If offered deviled eggs I will certainly eat a couple, but doubt I would ever go to the trouble to make them.

    Super Dave’s jalapeno version sounds intriguing though.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Straight hard boiled eggs are kind of boring; pickled quail eggs are a delicacy. For someone who likes his eggs fried over hard, it is curious that you don’t like hard boiled eggs.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looking at the radar, Houston looks clear to me. Except for a little cell on the north side of the bay.

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam
    Finally got a breather and checked out the OC.
    Very cool.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Texas from Katy to Brookshire to Columbus to Bastrop is mind- boggling.Austin is unrecognizable even from 7 years ago.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I spoke with MHarper just a little bit ago. She’s without power and hoping to get it back soon. I said she’s lucky she didn’t lose it in the middle of August! She is still working on Billy Cat, trying to tame him and he’s still resisting. Her other kitties are doing well. She was hoping to get out today to pay her overdue taxes, but without power she can’t open her garage door. (Yes, I asked about a manual method, but she had no idea. We laughed.)

    She said she’s without a computer since her ten year old trusty device told her one day that it “had timed out” and wouldn’t run any more. That left me scratching my head, but I suggested going to Best Buy to have their geeks transfer her data to a new machine, at least. She said she has a new one but doesn’t know how to set it up, and without power…well, it won’t be today.

    But she’s doing well and appreciated my checking in on her.

  34. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Tedtam,

    Thank you for the update on MHarper. I can imagine she feels lost without home energy and hope she gets it back soon. What happened to shut it off? Good idea to try manually getting the garage door open. Perhaps a neighbor could help with that.

  35. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    “When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
    ― Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    50

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The motorcycle chase at the beginning is something else.

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