It’s already October and I haven’t made note here yet of the fact that it’s fall. This past week we’ve been enjoying the big harvest moon shining across the lake. I don’t know why but it always looks bigger than other moons.
The evenings are cool and comfortable even it is still a tad warm in the afternoons.
Friday night we actually went to a local high school football game. Yes, just like they always say, that is THE thing to do in small-town Texas. It was homecoming night and I do believe the whole town showed up. First time for me to see a six-man football game. They have slightly different rules than for the eleven-man game. One of them is that the game is automatically over as soon as one team gains more than a 45-point lead, which our team did about midway through the third quarter. And apparently that happens more often than you would expect.
I had as much fun watching the crowd as I did the game. When did boys start wearing corsages? I saw them on armbands worn by both boys and girls.
Another fall event in our garden is the appearance of the cowpen daisies. They are an annual wildflower with tall coarse stems like small sunflowers. We’ve got several small stands of them, mostly in out of the way places like behind the shed.
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I’ve never heard of six man football? Do they not have enough boys willing to play?
there are only about 50 kids in the high school. I think the girls are allowed to play but none do. Somebody said there was one on the middle school team. So theoretically they could field eleven.
Six man is played by a lot of small rural schools down here.
If boys can wear flowers at a small town Texas football game, I’d say that 60s flower power and 70s equal rights movement were not for naught.
Yay! Flower power. Peace, y’all.
6 man football? gads, that school must be even smaller than COupeville! There were 20 kids in Phyllis’ graduating class and even then they had a full 11 man team.