Internet!!!

The punch list is slowly dwindling. It is mostly small things, with a couple of biggies in there- wax/ buff the kitchen cabinets and redo the outside paint touch ups.

Tracy is out at the house this afternoon overseeing the Internet install. That's right, I am coming into the 21st century! I hope....I have learned not to take any of it for granted. I am getting wireless terrestrial service. Interestingly, the tower I will get my signal from is the old downtown tower, just a couple of blocks from The Little House on Grace. It's all connected down here. I really look forward to getting to office from home. What a joy that will be!

Speaking of being at home, perhaps with more home time I can keep the vultures off the deck. I had actually stated to relax after almost two weeks with no landings. Then on Sunday, Tracy and I were on the couch watching TV and he saw two of them land on the hot tub deck. My heart just sank. So, we went out and put back all our blue jay trailer trash shiny and sharp stuff. We'll see. My "next door neighbors, the Noells, says it is only an intermittent problem. Goodie!!

So far I have spotted on the hot tub deck the following animals. Vulture, road runner, sparrow, hummingbird, racoon, opposuum, ferrel cat, inch worm, ant, wasp, horse fly, dragonfly. It's a regular Wild Kingdom.

I enjoyed a 4-day weekend this past holiday weekend. I tacked on Friday to make it longer. It was wonderful. On Friday I cleaned house at a leisurely pace, on Saturday Tracy and I went to College Station to watch the Aggies WIN a game, and we visited Ashley. She is settling in to her much different world down there. On Sunday I sang at church and then "chillaxed" the rest of the day. Yesterday, Tracy and I got out in the "yard" and cleared and burned. Still working on taming the front area around the house. When I have a few extra dollars I will bring in more dirt and plant some wild seed of some sort. Anything right now to cover up the red dirt.

All in all, it's been a good two weeks since I last wrote. Labor Day has come and gone, there are no more summer markers in 2009. Let the holiday season begin!