August thru September 2025 What Another Roof ?
While we were in Seattle there was a Freak Storm in Austin. Everyone we talked to about it had a different story about what they experienced. We saw pictures on Facebook from the Windsor Park Neighborhood. Windsor Park was the only neighborhood in Austin that had a very freaky hailstorm, only the Eastern half of Windsor Park, but that include hundreds of homes that required a new roof as a result. We saw pictures just to the east of us where they had two feet of hail in their yards, people were having to dig their cars out of the piled up ice. Also several reports of irregular shaped hail , some long tube like hail, and other shapes. A neighbor had to have her metal roof replaced not because of hail but wind had damaged the roof.
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| The Right half, Eastern, of Windsor park had to have new roofs, every single home. |
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| This was Exactly four years ago, we got a new roof due to hail damage. |
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| Here we go again, we got three different opinions because we just did not want to tear off another roof! Even the insurance company said we had to get a roof. |
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| Done with lighter color hail resistant shingles. I wanted white to reflect the overbearing Texas sun and heat, but this is the lightest they had. |
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| The hail damage on the fence was easy to fix, I just used a pressure washer to return the fence to its previous color. |
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| The garage exterior wall was peppered and chipped so I needed to touch up the paint but Kelly Moore went out of business! We took a paint chip to Sherwin Williams and they have this high tech machine to match the color. |
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| I was surprise when it was a perfect match and you can't even tell there was a touch up paint job! |
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| The new policy of Austin City Electric tree trimming |
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| This Bali house is going on 4 years of construction, a neighbor told me he planned to move in this summer, but summer is over and it is not complete yet. |
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| We had a calico cat that wondered off in the neighborhood and I wonder if some of these are her kittens? |
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| Our Yellow Bells are doing great from early summer rains. |
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| This Peacock is the honored subject of the Laguna Gloria's art class. He is peeking in the window to see all the cool art the kids are creating about him! |
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| Clara loves Peacocks, and her art shows it! |
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| Paper mache as well |
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| A nearby park has a pond with other creatures. |
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| While Clara was doing art study on creatures, Drew was hard at work on the pottery wheel. |
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| And Sea Biscuit patiently waited for Drew and Clara to come over to play. |
Trip to Ft. Worth
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| It Was Birthday Week for Big Dave, his 93rd!!! We had a grand celebration with a balloon and Ice Cream! |
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| If you Know You Know! |
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| Another fine lunch with Ft. Worth friends, Roxanne and Jeff, our forever friends, Literally, since 1963 |
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| The Admiral said, you want to stop at Buc-ee's? Well we stopped at the newest one at Hillsboro, TX. |
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| Gas pumps forever. |
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| Supposedly really good BBQ |
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| See me Smiling? That is before I bit into this BBQ shredded beef sandwich, I mean I ate it but, it is not real Texas BBQ. Sorry |
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When we got back to Austin from Ft. Worth I finally had time to play my new guitar, a 2001 Stratocaster, Every guitar has its peculiars but this one is so easy to play except my pinky finger keeps hitting the pickup selector switch, I just have to make an adjustment to my right hand posture. Very excited to have this guitar.
 | | I ordered a cheap drone for Drew and I to play with from TEMU, and I got this cheap Chinese knockoff guitar for $.01. The strings were so bad I replaced them, then the neck was so bad I adjusted the torsion bar all the way one direction to get the action to where it was playable. It would make someone an ok first guitar. I knew they had a guitar class at a elementary school just down the street from us and emailed the music teacher. He would accept the donation! |
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| Dropping off the guitar at Blanton elementary. |
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| Hooray! Our second Granddaughter, Liv on the left, has completed her Nursing Assistant Certification now she can get paid while she works toward her RN! |
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| We went to see my brother's Dave production of OZ at Zachary Scott Theatre, a re-imagination of the Wizard of Oz with lots of audience participation, Very fun and a bit of Texas thrown in! |
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| Follow the Yellow Brick Road |
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| We noticed this cute Jack Russell preparing to board our flight to Seattle |
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| He sat just adjacent to us and was on his best behavior. |
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| Welcoming sunset's in Seattle at Shilshole. |
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| We picked up Drew to take him to riding lessons at Rock Meadow, the mountain was out with is Ventricular Cloud. |
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| Rock Meadow is a great walking spot. |
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| He was trying to tell me something? |
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| My Fourth Album "Next Destination" |
