One of our next door neighbors has multiple cats. This is one of them. It is very affectionate, and when you open the back door, and it is nearby, it will come running.

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This here is our backyard. We don’t use it too much, but we should. Now that it is getting cooler out (a high of 67º today) maybe being outside will be more like something we would want to do.

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So, here I sit on my last day of summer vacation…possibly ever…and what am I doing? Procrastinating, of course! I figure that yesterday was eventful enough with the evacuation and chemical fire that I thought I deserved a lazy day. (Wylie would argue that I have had nothing but lazy days for the last 2 weeks, and he might be right, but this particular lazy day was well-earned!) We did get up super early to go get our Texas driver’s licenses, which is quite an accomplishment. There were some characters at the DMV…my favorite was this very elderly gentleman who reminded me of a Billy Goat Gruff–kind of crotchety on the outside but really sweet deep down, you could just tell. And a big ol’ white beard. A nice start to the day.

This afternoon I had intended to work on some dissertation stuff, but then we went to Downtown Bryan for a little jaunt and a stop at one of the two soda fountains. Wylie had a malt and I had a sundae…pretty great. The other part of the store is an antique shop, so I browsed some really amazing old costume jewelry as well.

So…here I am back at the computer again with dissertating intentions. I already gave in to some 10gallon-hatting. We shall see if I can resist the siren call of the new TV that we got on Wednesday (kind of on accident, but I will let Wylie tell that story)…hmmmm…..

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So…it is obvious now that Wylie is a) more adept with technology and b) better at staying awake long enough to post things at night. We have definitely been on the go this past week–quite whirl-windy actually. It was harder than I thought it would be to roll out of Auburn–as some of the best people I know are there…but exciting to start this adventure and accompany Wylie on his furthest drive West…I ended up having to leave my couch in Auburn–which some of you know was one of the best (and ugliest) $30 couches in all the world, so it was a good thing that I had 2 days of driving to do some mourning.

The drive out here seemed long (partly, I’m sure, because both of us were running on less sleep and more adrenaline than usual) but with the help of walkie-talkies we made it! Bryan/College Station seems like it will be an interesting place to spend a year. We have already been having all kinds of explorations–grocery stores and Target and a few restaurants already. There seems to be an abundance of Taquiera-type Mexican places around, which is something I have been missing for the last 4 years, so hooray for that!

The trip to Austin was good too. I am pretty much thrilled to be so close and get to do some exploring there as well. The drive from here to there is mostly through farms and ranches. There were fields and fields of what appeared to be dead corn, and it looked kind of eerie…so if anyone can shed some light on what that is all about, please do!

Tomorrow Wylie will start working from home, so he got the office all set up for us today, and it is quite nice (see photo below)…although I will be sad to not have an exploring partner tomorrow afternoon…

Anyway…it’s old news now, but we made it! It doesn’t suck! Hooray!

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