Sorry that I left things so secretive last time. I have perfectly good reasons for that! Some new stuff to relate today.

Our landlord is often out-of-town as she manages many properties out of state as well as in Texas. So anyway, her main residence is right here on the other end of this property. Since she was back-in-town yesterday we invited her over for dinner. It was fun to learn about yet more restaurants/music places to check out here… but the funniest part of the evening was when I referenced a couple of pictures I had texted to her. Here is one of them:

So the background is the kitchen counters which she is obviously quite familiar with as she picked it out. The first text was accompanied with “Hey I can’t find my pepper” which for some reason I found hilariously funny. And as Rob points out, it’s not as if this pepper is hard to find. But in fact, last night Carrie was like, oh wait is there actually a pepper in those pictures? And then we were totally cracking up…to think she thought I was just sharing pictures of her kitchen counter…the whole thing is just silly to begin with and anyway whatever I’m sure YOU’RE not laughing but we were.

There’s loads of cool places to take walks along waterways and trails. We see lots of animals too.

Just this morning we took a walk along a trail over by the University. I call the UTexas mascot the Pronghorns but actually it’s the Longhorns. Similarly, the big local grocery chain is “H-E-B” and we have heard our landlord refer to it as “Heb’s” but other people say “H-E-B” so we were a bit on the fence on how we would refer to it but after I saw that the founder’s name is “H. E. Butt” then I decided that I will call it “H. E. Butt’s” or simply “Mr. Butt’s”.

There seem to be a lot of dog owners in Austin.

I was blown away recently when I saw the similarity of two recent purchases: one, a bag of pecan smoking chips for grilling and the other, some specially puffed kamut for my breakfast cereal mix. They strike me as quite similar like what if they swapped roles? Pecan chips might be good for b-fast and also it would be neat to see the kamut catch fire.

We’re always pushing the limits on those pre-brewery hikes.

Look how I climbed up like 30 feet in this tree!

I was asked to get a selfie with Notorious

The pigs do take advantage of me. I may offer up some healthy green which they will spurn so then I’ll run in for something “better”. After they eat the good stuff…they will ultimately eat the healthy thing I first brought. Also Cheech often approaches at a fast pace as I exit the side door with some food scraps, and she starts to climb up the stairs! I have to race out there and get her back to the ground as I don’t know if she could really climb stairs without some kind of disaster like getting stuck or falling or busting right through them?