Poodles and Quilts

  END OF SEPTEMBER Just discovered I somehow deleted last weeks post! It’s there now. Good thing I have been copying to my old blog site! Not sure if I will keep this one going once it’s time for renewal. That is months away so have time to think about it. We are still having some hot weather and the forecasted rain rarely comes. We did get 2 tenths on Wednesday. That was a far cry from what accu-weather said. According to our weather station that is all we have had in September. Not good. We got out one morning. Not much flying. A nice drive though. And we tried a new place for lunch on Wednesday. We have so many new places opening up in the past 6 months. We need to try more of them. Galen has been in the Rio Grande valley this past weekend. Gets home today. Over 200 pictures to go through and edit! I know what he will be doing over the next few days. I finished up the first batch of Halloween and Fall Dog bandanas for my friend’s 2 salons. Want to get the ones in the mail foe Ca...

 OFFICIALLY FAL L I took a few months off from my blog. Been keeping busy with day to day activities. Sorting and getting rid of things. Enjoying our back yard watching the birds. The hummingbirds are migrating through, stopping at our 2 feeders. We did have a very big bird at them the other day. A Baltimore Oriole.! We have been going out more again to see what is flying. Dragonflies have been scarce in the usual places. Not sure the reasoning. Not as many birds either. We were able to find the Wood Storks near Thrall the other week. So they are back. The corn has been pretty well picked, although we did see some being picked this past weekend. Cotton is also being picked. On one of the back roads we passed by a field that we had no idea what was planted. Got my plant app and grabbed a picture or 2 for I.D. Galen also took some close ups. Plant App said Sim Sim. Had to google that when we got home. Sesame!!!! The 3rd picture is of the seed pods. Sometime in October they mature are...