Three Months Blog in One
When you go away from home for 9 months you never really think of the things you do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis to maintain the old homestead. When you return you slowly begin those missing projects to get things back up to par. It seems the exterior projects were the ones that needed attention. No problem though as the weather was very mild and getting things done streamed along. I managed to spread 90 bags of mulch. Also getting things done for the Admirals 91 year old father, Big Dave, were on the horizon. The items on the list did not include blogging so 1 for 3.
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| We drove up to Ft. Worth to hang out with the Admirals dad for the week. We chose this Ridglea neighborhood for a walk, I remember playing pickup football here at this park, it was full tackle and of course no protective equipment. |
I landed flat on my face somewhere around here after Bobby Trout tackled me and knocked the air out of me. That is the only time in my life I have had that happen. If you have not felt that before imagine trying to gasp for air and nothing happens.
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| Then when driving down West Camp Bowie Blvd. we noticed a lot of goings on here at this old cafe. |
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| Lots of movie making gear around. |
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| Walking through Big Dave's neighborhood we amazingly see a family of Canadian Geese, What's going on? |
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| Back in Austin we noticed the deer population seems to be increasing in our sons family's neighborhood |
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| Back in Windsor Park some are getting clever. |
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| The Blue Bonnets are springing early and it seems to be a bumper crop everywhere you go. |
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| A walk around the Capital complex and this old historic tree has plenty to lean on. |
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| Ella Comes home to Austin for a visit! |
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| I got this off Facebook, but that is what it really looks like around here. |
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| Then Liv comes home from Oregon and we have a family get together. |
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| The two winners of this match happen to be the two youngest! |
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| We found the Waggoner Trail Head along the Clear Fork of the Trinity River, something new for Ft. Worth. |
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| Finally a nice trail along a waterway that is not busy with auto traffic and other city life, it does run parallel to the busy train tracks and major train yard in Ft. Worth but there are some natural barriers that keep that noise low. |
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| And this is the first for seeing Cormorants this far inland. |
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| Another First for us, I'm glad they marked it! |
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| They need some signs like this in Austin. |
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| The most famous bakery shop in Ft. Worth |
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| Nothing like a walk through Arlington Heights. |
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| There's a Helping Hand |
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| Well when I walked to Stripling Jr. High I guess I never noticed this historic home. |
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| The black pole on the left is a siren warning station for tornadoes and bad storms. |
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| We found Big Dave's boyhood home, slightly modernized. |
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| And Big Dave's North Hi Mount Elementary School that's over 100 years old |
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| Few hitching post remain, but when I was a kid running around here there were several around. |
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| Big Dave collects stuff and he had this old can from Leonard's Department Store that has long since gone the way of the past, |
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| But he wanted to donate it to the Leonard's Museum |
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| They were happy to get it and the lady host was very nice to give us a personal tour. |
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| You would drive to a big open parking lot and walk a short walk to get on the Subway ( The only one in Texas Forever) and then ride underground to Leonard's in Downtown Ft. Worth. |
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| Even our son Graeme rode on this subway car when he was very young. |
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| Just one piece of the mulching project, did I say 90 bags? |
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| Just happy that the clouds parted enough to enjoy the total eclipse. |
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| Turned to night in the neighborhood. |
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| Even the street lights came on. |
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| Richard avoided looking directly at the eclipse, instead he had his clever hole in the box screen to enjoy. |
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| So many variations on the theme. |
