These are dead fish. On the floor of the restroom in Starbucks in Temple, Texas. You know me. Gotta photograph everything. We stopped on our drive down just for the restroom (because we HATE Starbucks coffee... it is skunky and disgusting and as of yesterday, EXPENSIVE) and this is what we found. We can only assume the fish stopped there for coffee and then didn't make it out alive.
In Austin if you eat at County Line BBQ you can feed the turtles that swim in the nearby river. 
As many times as I've been to Austin (we drive down there at least twice a year) I'd not seen the Texas State Cemetery until this past Sunday. Neat place. 
This was (obviously) at a Mexican restaurant.Austin was terrific fun... I found a place that sells, I kid you not, Hello Kitty shoes for DOGS. I was also given a gummi chicken leg by my good friend that lives down there. I am afraid to eat it although the package ASSURES me it is orange and cream flavored.
So, summer is winding down around here. I'm done traveling. I've got 3 weeks to finish stuff at home before we report for inservice 20 August. I've accomplished pretty much everything I set out to do when summer started, except for sanding and repainting the posts on the back porch... it hasn't been DRY enough for me to do that. I also cannot seem to move up on the waiting list at the library to read Walter Isaacson's biography on Ben Franklin... I am like tenth on the list and have been all summer.
In what can only be described as an incredible streak of good luck, today I was able to catch the two-part episode of Little House on the Prairie in which Mary Ingalls goes blind and her parents ship her off to the Perkins School for the Blind in Iowa, where she meets Adam Kendall and agrees to help him open a new school for the blind in the Dakotas. If I had to rank the episodes of LHOTP, this one would be in the top ten, just under the one where Caroline Ingalls develops an infection in her leg and then tries to saw it off with a machete. No kidding.
What have you all been up to?
