Dinner at the OST (Old Spanish Trail)
There’s a John Wayne room
Or you can grab a saddle at the bar
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5:00 wine with Elaine
With my mother in law, Elaine. She has a glass of wine every evening. And now I’ve had two! So I just wanted to tell you all I love you so very much. I am the luckiest person I’ve ever known. Thanks for being in my world.
Blame Elaine. Its her fault I’m so rich and wish I could share all this happy.
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Bandera TX
We are ensconced in a park in Bandera Tx. The cowboy capital! Here for a month!
We are going to look for boots too. This will be fun. If not a bit too hot.
I am spoiled from being in northern New Mexico all “summer” (felt like fall)
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Heavy lunch
Lunch at Heavy’s Bar B Que
Beef, Chicken, Potato salad… It was plenty for several meals
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Val Verde winery
Oldest winery in Texas. It was surprising, located in a neighborhood.
Dolly tried their port, pronounced it most excellent – got one for her and one for Vince. We couldn’t be traveling without his help checking on the house.
Elaine got a couple bottles of a white, Muscat seco. Good crisp, tastes of pear, not too sweet.
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Judge Roy Bean’s saloon
At Judge Roy Bean’s saloon
It was surprising. The plantings were wonderful.
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Langtry
At Langtry there is a road runner greeting us from the plantings in front of the tourist center
He is camera shy and runs around the plants
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Mexico
So there is a little place on the Rio Grande, where we can get on a boat to go across to Mexico. Take a burro ride into town. And have a cerveza.
I can’t wait to see my mother in law on a burro.
Go donkey go.
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Well we drove to the new crossing. And there’s no way I could do it anyway. Used to you drove to the rivers edge. Now you have to walk through a govt building and gate and down a trail.
Sigh
They took away the romance.
As governments are prone to do. 😉
Too late in the day.
And low bp. So no ride for me. But look up Boquillas del Carmen. It would be fun.
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Big Bend
We are in Big Bend!
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Star party
Star party success at McDonald observatory. No moon. Clear skies. The lecture on constellations was fun. If I had taken notes i might remember some of it. 😉
And I saw Saturn through a telescope.
And some other stuff.
But I saw Saturn!
Good time.
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Instructions from Dove
We all are getting this fortune lately
And we’re taking it seriously. 🙂
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Balmorhea
late afternoon at Balmorhea state park, there’s been a bit of rain lately
Hugh swimming pool fed by the spring. So you can swim with the fishes.
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Carlsbad caverns
Carlsbad caverns this morning.
The whole time in Carlsbad caverns I’m thinking: home, this is my home as Gollum. Cool, dark, All sorts of hiding places. And big enough for the whole of middle earth.
It is magical even without weirdness going on in your head. Go see if you can.
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Gollum
I could be Smeagol.
Or Gollum as he is known to his frienemies
skinny as all get out,
bad posture,
no chest
big eyes
I’d have those teeth if I didn’t have a sweetheart of a dentist
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lots of em
More balloons
From the coach. At the president’s compound
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Checking in
Checking
in at the Balloon Fiesta!
So I couldn’t sleep last night thinking up earrings.
kites, I could lash together toothpicks…
hot air balloons, tiny baskets.
a moon with a cow jumping over it, but not two so the other would be a streamer of stars
Little cuckoo clocks. like from a dollhouse. With two I could set one at local time, one at gmt…
Oh dear. Those are a signature piece.
Dolly is quite cuckoo in her own right.
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So at dinner I found myself wondering how I could make earrings out of the potato chips.
Obsessive? Moi?
Nah
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Potato chips have such neat shapes you know. All different and the same. An oval flexed then torqued. There’s probably a name for that shape.
I could make it with a bit of wire and some silk.
I was thinking of light weight things. Just thought of – Popcorn. Maybe for Christmas I’ll string popcorn from ear to ear.
I’ve been making earrings today
I probably won’t wear these. They look like I should be at the opera. But I like having them.
I have had the best time with the cheapest of materials. 🙂
the blue and orange feathers were found. Took me two days to clean and sterilize them. What fun.
just as the moon was perfect I told Dave
it’s so pretty! I want one