@nuleafjhawk We've been blessed with bountiful rain and got these on a walk around the block, kinda getting to the end of the season.

Flower Friday!

Even this toad was trying to get out of the rain this morning. Perhaps he was getting suggestions from his mentor lol.
3-1/2" for us from yesterday and the cove is rising and all the floodwaters of the Pedernales River are going to drain into our lake. Flood gates at 2 damns will be opened soon. Some flooding in the same areas as last 4th of July.

England let Argentina control the ball all second half. Rested on their laurels. GO SPAIN!

Wasn't sure where to put this, but these segments by Greg Gurley (Fans Wanna Know) are a glimpse into the person. This one is Leroy Blyden, Jr.
https://x.com/KUHoops/status/2077422942107881845/video/1

Mike built many of these after seeing something similar at a gun show. He made fold away tables and sold them when he and our neighbor (Bob) went fishing all over east Texas. Bob was the co pilot when Nixon went to China. He knew and had mementos from several astronauts. Played football for Texas A&M and we celebrated with him the day we poured the slab for the house with a bottle of Dom Perignon. A true Texan. He was buried at the veterans cemetery in San Antonio and we went to his funeral.

When I got up earlier to bake a chocolate cake (just took out of the oven), saw the fox saunter across the back deck, go behind the solarium, and jump up on top of the wood pile in the wood shed to get out from the much needed rain we are getting. What a life LOL.

Ever have a flubbed shot turn out to be a surprise? This was our trip without Mike for the first time and I got a double shot of double the love without even trying!

This is well deserved!

@rockchalkjayhawk We always planted our climbers around the edge of the garden with a wire fence, for it to climb on. Picked many a cucumber and cantelope that way. Prop up some wire mesh behind them?

A couple of blooms for your Monday!

Reminds me of this monster on the girls' window 3 years ago, right after installing new windows!

Warning @nuleafjhawk !
This descendant has affixed himself to our window screen

The gentleman who lived across the street from me passed away earlier this year and his wife was here a couple of weeks ago getting the 3 story house ready to sell. The for sale sign went up last weekend. Being nosy, I looked it up online and it is for sale for $750,000. Couple of the pictures were actually great at showing what my cove looks like.

Happy Friday. I've been a bit occupied!!

Today I had blood work done in Marble Falls and stopped at The Bluebonnet Cafe for breakfast. Then I went and took a look at this beauty! After seeing the full size Bronco (gas guzzler at 18 mpg) that I could hardly get in because it was so high off the ground and it was just too big for me, I softened up to the Bronco Sport Outer Banks model (27 mpg). They are a much quieter drive than the full sized one. I can almost hear the sound of waves crashing along the beach because I will go if I have a reliable vehicle.

We are being outplayed. They hustled and took the ball away from us so many times. Lazy passes.

All the good will we earned from around the world these last 2 weeks was wiped out by this atrocious turnaround. The world hates us now more than ever and only us in the United States will be rooting for us. Just sickens me.

From the archives: Freeze 2021. Where we didn't have power for 7 days and then when we got hooked up, the transformer blew out and we had to go another day before they were back to replace it. We kept our frozen foods outside in a cooler. It was below freezing for an ungodly 5 straight days. I would rather have 100 degrees than be that cold ever again. And mind you, I was born in South Dakota, lived in Bloomington, MN growing up and then down to Leavenworth. When Mike and I moved it was because we just didn't want to go through another winter. I flew down to Austin for an interview with an attorney (who was a cousin of my present boss) the first of November. We were packed up and moved in on November 29th. Leaving Leavenworth was the other reason. Just nothing happening in 1979 for either of us.