Sadly, today marked the 70th day of 100+ degree temperatures this year in Austin. That breaks the old record of 69 days that stood since 1925. We came close to breaking it 2 years ago.
The current forecast shows another 7-10 days or so of similar weather ahead, so stay tuned.
I really hope we don’t have to experience this again in our lifetimes. Whooo-wee!
We had a leisurely morning getting ready to check out. Breakfast at Jacks. Then we stopped at the store — the home base for the family. Got in one last visit and said goodbye to Uncle Raymond, Judy, Gary, David, Marla, Lauren, Laken, Bryan and Dorothy.
We had no problems on our flights. We were able to package the power tools that Monte bought and send as checked baggage.
We had a wonderful time at the reunion, but no matter where you’ve been or how great it’s been, there’s always that special feeling when you’re back home. This is a picture of the giant Gibson guitars that decorated downtown Austin for a long time. Several are now on display at the airport.
We came home to the uninterrupted drought. I hope we can catch up on watering enough to keep things alive. I took a long walk around the neighborhood before dark, and monte is still out in the shop, playing with his new toy, I imagine.
I can’t wait for the next big reunion – Lanny & Mica will be hosting in 2013!
I had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon which took me downtown. Since I was in the neighborhood, I just had to stop by the Sno-Beach snocone stand. If you’ve never had one, you must. It will change your life. If you don’t live in Austin, fly or drive down here as soon as you can and get one. They make the absolutely, hands-down, indubitably BEST snocones on the planet. If any of you are skeptical, I’d even put money on it. And I NEVER make a bet unless I’m sure I’m right (even when i’m wrong) 😀
Even though there were about 30 people in front of me when I got there, and when I left I was in the middle of rush hour traffic on Mopac, it was worth it.
I’d like to work on ways to transform my blog into something more interesting for other people to follow. Up til now I’ve mostly been doing this for my own enjoyment. The Daily Post is hosting a Post-a-Day-2011 and Post-a-Week-2011 challenge, an online community really, for bloggers to share their posts and inspire eachother. It started at the beginning of the year, but I’m joining mid-way (or in work-speak, at the end of 2Q 🙂 ). I recently completed my own 365-project (a year of posting one photo taken of a moment from each day) but I have been and will continue to post here. So, in search of inspiration, today I signed up for the once a week version, check it out:
Oh, wait, one more thing! Here is a link to a video that my friend Teri took of us on Cupholder last weekend as we were all headed up to Cypress Creek Cove for the raftup. (we’re the little boat in the distance that Teri and Jim are catching up with quickly). It was WINDY… and we had 2 reefs in, so only a tiny bit of sail up, but we were MOVIN’! It’s good to be back…
It’s Christmas Eve!! A bunch of us went downtown to take a Segway tour of Austin with SegCity. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. Friends had relatives visiting so it was a fun opportunity to take one for a ride.
This is a shot of the 10 of us buzzing along south of Town Lake with some of the new skyline as a backdrop: Laura, Denyse, Chris, Irene, Lori, Dave, Tricia, Dolia, Jake and our fearless tour guide in the lead.
It was fun. Did you know SegCity is not just a Segway tour outfit, but a Segway dealer?! I think I must have one of my own. 🙂
Haven’t gone grocery shopping since coming back from vacation, so no food in the icebox tonight. We went to our local pho place for dinner… #53 for me and #32 for Monte.
Nom nom 🙂
Tonight is Julie’s last night in town. We went downtown for some music. I heard Christine Albert was playing at Artz Rib House, so we went there to catch her show. Turns out her husband Chris Gage was filling in for one of her other musicians so we were treated to Albert & Gage. We really enjoyed the show — they’re one of my favorites.
After that we hit the Broken Spoke, cruised around South Congress and ended up on Sixth Street again before heading home.
Another fun day spent on the lake with friends. Julie, Monte and I gave Laura and Dolya a ride out to the raftup in Arky North. We missed Michelle & Tony, passing them as we were entering the cove. We joined Camelot, Dancer, Island Time, Prelude, and Caribbean Hug and played until after sunset. This is a shot from our bow looking out of the cove. There are quite a few other boats enjoying a quiet night on the lake.
Julie’s taking to this Austin way of life really quickly 😉
Last week I went in to Lenscrafters to order replacements for my Raybans that I lost on our last San Marcos tubing trip. They called today to say they were ready.
While I was at the Arboretum to pick them up, I took a walk around the nearby park. If you’ve been there you may recognize the stone cows. A favorite for kids of all sizes to climb up on.
They used to have Blues on the Green at this park every Wednesday night. It’s held down at Zilker Park now. I checked out the schedule for the rest of the summer (here’s a link)… there’s 3 more scheduled. I’m going to try to make one of them.
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