Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Day One Hundred Eleven...

I do not know about you, but this truck looks perfectly fine to me. The only thing about it that could be considered unusual is that it is at a complete stop in the middle lane of traffic on IH-35 (southbound of course) at about 7:30 AM on an otherwise very fine Tuesday morning. The police cars (with flashing lights for that disco effect) and the motorcycle cops (ditto on the flashing lights) give it that feeling that one should pay attention, as if anyone trying to get into the city could ignore this behemoth in the middle of the road. No blood, no guts, and obviously no glory, just stopped there, for all to see. Kind of like a beached whale, waiting to be carted off to the morgue, bit by stinky bit!

A couple interesting things have happened since I posted last night: First, while we were having dinner, we saw two squirrels up at the front of the property where there is a little grove of old trees. I know this may not sound earth shattering to you all, but this is farm and pasture land, relatively devoid of trees (no trees around that are nut producing), and we have been here since October, and they are the first squirrels we have seen around here, PERIOD. There were two of them, having a big old time running up and down the trees just like squirrels do. SO that is a good thing. Second, the little boy calf (Orchid's Square Dude) made a break for it. Jody and I were sitting out by the pool, and I had just finished watering container plants, and our neighbor (Randy) called to say the calf was in his pasture, and we needed to go and try to round him up. He had made a break for it (just curious, the grass is always greener scenario) probably an hour or so earlier, and he was not too hungry yet, and his mom (Orchid) may not have even known he was out of the pasture. Well, I had absolutely no confidence that we would be able to corral him back into our pasture, but after about 20 minutes of coercing, he kind of made a really ungraceful leap through the barbed wire and was back with his mom. All the cattle in our pasture were very interested in this development, and had to gather around to see what all the commotion was about. A relatively good time was had by all. Thanks for the notice Randy, and thanks for all your help in getting the little booger back to where he belongs!

Today will be a busy day...I have about four appointments on the books and three of them are outside the office. Starting at 9:30 AM, I should not get back to the office until about 2:00 PM, and should be finished with everything by about 4:00 PM. We will see how this all works out.

Just as I suspected, the day was a busy one, and tomorrow will most likely be devoted to office work. There are lots of details to be attended to, and I enjoy a good day in the office every now and then. Suddenly we are in the middle of a heat wave as well. Spring is on a break right now, the temperatures were in the mid-90's this afternoon, and that kind of took me by surprise. BUT, the worst day you can imagine in the Austin area, is better than the best day in many other places.

Do you best to be a good citizen tomorrow, it is earth day. Oh, and today is San Jacinto day in Texas. Look it up. But really folks, do something kind for the earth tomorrow, maybe install a compact fluorescent light bulb (or better yet a LED light) in the place of an incandescent. If you do that enough, you should see some real improvements in your energy bills. Be kind to mother earth, and she will still be around for all your descendants. Have fun!

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