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Archive for April, 2006

wildflowers

Posted: Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 in another roadside attraction | Comments Off

The drought has really hurt the wildflower displays this year. We drove down to San Antonio for the weekend. We took the Interstate going down and came back up US281. We usually avoid the Interstate but we were pressed for time and much of the journey was in the dark. Couldn’t see much for […]

giving up

Posted: Friday, April 7th, 2006 in ailurophilia | 7 Comments »

The following notice appeared in a local email list this week:

Sable is a small short-haired black cat with brownish overtones, who has already used up two of his lives.
He was a runaway when he came to our back door with a bloody tail. He probably got it caught in a car door or […]

april flowers

Posted: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 in outside in the garden | 5 Comments »

The bright red roses near the left front are Martha Gonzales. At the left back is rouletti and the white and red ones on the right are mutabilis which changes colors. I am afraid I do not know the names of the irises.

r.i.p. laptop

Posted: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 in blogging and technology | 4 Comments »

Well, the laptop is history. It will barely boot up now and when it does, it freezes after five or ten minutes. I did a search on the model number in one of Dell’s user forums and others have had the same problem with this model. Apparently it is the motherboard.
So I […]

the closing

Posted: Monday, April 3rd, 2006 in family | 3 Comments »

I thought I would feel differently when we finally closed the sale on my parent’s house. I went by beforehand for one last look and I was surprised at how little emotion I felt. It was empty of course and all the rooms were freshly painted. I had to look closely to see reminders of […]

 

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