I was talking to Mateo recently, who works at the farm next door, and he had to correct me when I was referring to the pigs as females. I originally assumed they were males until I saw their teats, which certainly look functional to me, but I mistook guy-teats for female ones. Whoops!
A neighbor of ours took this picture.
Lots of animals around here but sometimes tragic things like the sickly coyote many of us saw on the street. And then a bird struck our porch and died, and the usual toad roadkills.
Distracted flying—hit the wood not even the glass.
The tongue made this one a standout.
Recently John & Louise came over for dinner and we took a few minutes to engage in the new sport we created, “drought jousting”, where we spar with the 30-or-so-foot-long dead bamboo stalks. There are no rules, but we agreed protective eyewear would be a good idea.
Some outings we’ve had recently included Wimberly Market Days, and just today the Texas Book Festival (in lieu of Dachshund Races which was a hard decision) and we ran into the Day of the Dead festival and saw some of the parade.
Bamboo holstered
waiting for next round of drought jousting!
No, that would look cheesy
But I want to use these dried-out pods for something
Cheech often sleeps in this spot. Oblivious to the hose on his nose I guess.
On another creek walk we saw bundles of sticks and mud that were clearly from time where the creek had flooded much higher, but it was up SO HIGH that we were in complete amazement as we estimate they were around 30 feet up in the trees (easily 20 feet). It just was very very hard to imagine the low-level placid creek getting so HIGH!!
At Yellow Jacket Social Club, one of our tippy top favorite spots.
It was extra triple fun having Matthew, Rachel, and Dylan visit last weekend! We went to McKinney Park, hit some breweries, walked around Barton springs, had Franklin Barbeque, listened to music … fed the pigs, checked out the farm next door… all the good stuff. No matter what we were doing, we found frequent evidence of the sinister Tokyo Electron conspiracy cloaking East Riverside in fuzzy dark webbing. Dots connected.
Pair skating?
At Hi Brewery. Also just visited Skull Mechanix brewery.
Cold front moved in recently! Had setup a couple pails in the living room to catch water from leaks.
Haven’t seen an armadillo yet in real life
I always have a lot of pics from our hillwalking so I’ll put those in a gallery at the end. We also had some fun hanging out with Pat & Bob and Pat was pretty close to organizing a neighborhood reading of one of Rob’s plays, but she backed out in case some neighbors would be turned off by the content which includes a serial killer. Anyway, stay tuned! We have also been invited again to the weekly neighborhood music-making session on Monday nights so maybe soon we’ll actually try that out. Rob could bring his guitar!
