More Ike

After a nap through the end of the lingering storm, Conn and I took a walk through the neghborhood. Lots of felled trees. A variety of damage. No power anywhere. Then we had a late lunch and started working on the yard. Most of the front yard is cleaned, but we barely made a dent … Read more

Ike Damage

Got to sleep after 3am. At the time we were experiencing frequent brief losses of power. Woke at 5am with no power, quickly back to sleep. Awoke again at 8am from a phone call from my sister. The lack of power and an answering machine combined with a loud old rotary phone, forced me out … Read more

El Paso con Amigos

I’m Visiting Bret in El Paso. I convinced Tricia to come on a trip where we meeting a bunch of guys from college and watching a UT Football Game Also coming: Lee, Bob, Lance, Bill F., Don, Josh, Gregor, Joe, Bret’s parents. Everyone should bet on the over: UT v UTEP.

Big Bend Wednesday

We started off the morning walking down to the Stop Start coffee shop two blocks from Padre’s and next to the radio station we were at the night before. After procuring some replacement sunglasses for TG, we headed south on 67 toward Presidio. The skies were a full light gray overcast. There was lots of … Read more

In Marfa

After arriving in El Paso and meeting Bret for lunch, we headed southeast for Marfa. We passed many border guards, had some good views of desert rain, and got rained on ourselves. We met up with David at Padre’s just as he was finishing a day’s work. He directed us to the grocery store for … Read more