Hail Storm

Friday we had this huge hail storm come and go before you could blink your eyes. It was kind of crazy. It lasted about 15 minutes and then was gone, but it dropped some pretty good size pieces of hail.

This is what I collected from our backyard once it slowed down a little.

They said golfball size was reported at the airport, but we had close to ping pong size at our house. Kind of crazy.

I took this from our garage. It looks a little like snow and a tiny river running between our house and the neighbors.

Garden

My little garden is starting to grow. It makes me very happy! I still have to go outside every day and look at it. I've already gotten to eat one strawberry from the plant we had last year. One of my favorite things about this garden is watching the pepper plant turn green again. It's the big tall brown plant in the center of the garden. Sue planted it last year and it weathered the winter and Hurricane IKE. I was going to pull it up and plant something else until I noticed that the bottom of it is starting to turn green. Each week more and more of the plant is coming alive again. I think it is pretty cool.

Spring Break Part 2

Did I mention my paper is finally finished? Five days and a lot of typing, but it is finally finished. Now there are just two more papers I have to write by Wednesday. Sometimes I wonder why I decided to do grad. school again. However, I am learning a lot and the info is helpong a lot with my class at work.

After we stopped off at the Blue Bell factory we went to take pictures in the bluebonnets. We found a place called Antique Rose and we stopped to take a walk around. I had fun with the foliage botton on my camera. Of course we had to take some more funny pictures as well.

The Church was locked so we couldn't go in, but the pciture looks pretty cool. It was the perfect day to be out and about. The weather couldn't have been better.

Still in love with cool trees.

There were a lot of beautifull flowers!

The house reminds me of Anne of Green Gables.

Lisa enjoying the weather and beautiful scenenary.

Small little creek!

I'm not sure what the significance of this tree and the bottles is, but it was really cool.

I LOVE THE BLUEBONNETS!!!!

There not as big as I've seen them in the past, but we haven't had much rain either.

This is Kayleen that came with us.

I love the two colors together!

Spring Break

Well after spending most of spring break writing a research paper and doing other homework I decided to take Thursday off and go to Brenham. Lisa and her friend Kayleen came along. We stopped by the Blue Bell Creamie, but the tours were all full. So we decided to take crazy pictures instead.

Ok so we had everybody watching us. We aren't exactly the young little kids climbing on the cow. What can I say I've been swamped with homework all week. Had to have some fun somewhere.
The stinckin' cow just wouldn't move.

That's a lot of ice cream I'm tellin' you!

I still don't know what was so important about that clipboard.

Bats at school

I'm usually at work by 6:30am to get things done before everyone comes in and wants to talk or needs something from me. Well the one day I don't show up until 7am I miss some excitement. Actually I probably got there at the perfect time I missed the scare and came in for the excitement. As I was turning the corner to my room I hear all of this commotion. Just up the hall from my classroom this is what I saw.

Apparently when the fifth grade teachers got to school they heard all of this squealing noise and couldn't figure out what it all was, until Mr. Burton found a bat sitting on the wall outside the computer lab.
So he trapped it with a net. Then the AP and science coach put a tupperware container over it to hold it in place and taped everything to the wall so that there was no way the bat could escape. It was a great group effort and district personnel came quickly to remove the bat before the mass of students arrived.

Here's what the finished product looked like. Of course I had to grab my camera and document the moment. We closed off all the doors leading to that hallway and only teachers were allowed anywhere near it.

Poor little guy his elbow was bleeding once the district guy got him. He was shaking.

Isn't he cute? Ok cute because he is in a container and not flying around. About a year or more ago a high schooler died from rabies after being bitten by a bat at his house. So we take finding any bat in a public place very seriously. The district guy said that once they are found in schools or homes they are tested for rabies and they never survive the tests. So sad. Bats can be very helpful in ridding our community from mosquitoes so I'm not going to complain to bad when I see them flying around. Just hope never to get bitten by one.

Baby Shower

A few weeks ago I had the chance to go back to College station for a baby shower for Mic and Hollie Place. Hollie and I were visiting teaching companions when I was at A&M after my mission. It was tons of fun to see people again. College Station is a great place!

Mic and Hollie had a contest on who could change a babies diaper the fastes. Hollie won!


Mic was a good sport for putting up with a bunch of women!

Not only did he have to change a diaper, but he had to drink root beer from a bottle. Hollie won again! What can I say its the power of being a mom.

Here are some of my great friends from CS. from Left to right, Ashleigh Nagel, Lesley Gardner, Nefalinda Barrios, Hollie and Mic Place and Me.
Ashleigh, Nef, and Hollie were all roommates while at A&M. Nef is getting married April 30 and we are very excited for her.

Idle Thoughts of a Wandering Mind

Idle Thoughts of a Retiree's Wandering Mind

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

I had amnesia once -- or twice.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. ; Now what?

Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

If the world were a logical place, men would be the ones who ride side saddle.

What is a 'free' gift? Aren't all gifts free?

Someone told me I was gullible and I believed them.

Teach a child to be polite and courteous and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway.

Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

My weight is perfect for my height -- which varies.

I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.

The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

How can there be self-help 'groups'?

If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off.

Is it just me -- or do buffalo wings really taste like chicken?