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Sunday, November 22

Wylie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:22:12 +0000

We tackled the Mountain today.

Last day of vacation…

Teresa — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:19:48 +0000

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…..

Pickles and Books

Wylie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:59:32 +0000

So, yesterday after I finished up work, Teresa and I walked over to downtown Bryan. From our door to the Main St. is about a 10-15 minute walk. We were headed to the Bryan Public Library so we could get us some library cards. After some minor paperwork, we are both library card owners! We can check out books, magazines, DVD’s and framed artwork. They had some lovely paintings of sad clowns that we may need to borrow for a possible clown party.

After that we were feeling a bit peckish so we walked around looking at some local restaurants. This town, and area actually, is filthy with Taquerias. We are very excited about some good Mexican food. We think we may need to designate one night where we explore a new Taqueria each week.

We ended up at a place called the River Bridge Bar & Grill. It’s okay, nothing special, and not a lot to eat for those picky vegetarians. They had tasty fried pickles though. After the River Bridge Bar & Grill we walked a little more and ended up at DQ for some tasty ice-cream treats.

On the walk home we came across an odd thing. A lone duck, sitting on a power line. We stopped and watched it for a while before Teresa made it fly off. Check out the video below. And while you are at it, check out a couple other videos I took by have not posted.

Here we are hanging out on the railroad tracks in downtown Bryan.

Here is the duck on a wire.

And here is a bunch of birds, swallows I believe, that were flying around on Tuesday. There were even more of these birds, but I could only capture so many on video.