He was denied a waiver on his 2 year JUCO stint and only gave him the one year with us so the courts are what's left. Takes money and time for that to happen. Vernon is a hype influencer. I take what he says with a side eye.

Jamari Traylor & Billy Preston join the squad
Game One is TONIGHT against Purple Reign (Kansas State Alumni) in Manhattan, LIVE on FS1 at 8pm CT
The team has grown again.

ALERT TO @nuleafjhawk
The spider this morning had a big breakfast! It's almost gone now. Saw him with something different yesterday. He's a good companion to have around.

@approxinfinity The lake is full at 681' and is at 684.86' and still rising. Our house sits the highest of anyone at 713 feet above MSL. My oldest neighbor could get water in her basement as she is along the lakefront at 691' if the gulf system moves over us.

@approxinfinity A human probably, sadly. It wouldn't have been that exact of a cut by a coyote and especially a pack of them. I have heard shots off in the distance every year around the start of November. Wardens were called years ago but there was nothing they could do. We watched someone stop in their truck and cut off the tail of a huge rattlesnake that Mike killed one year and word spread that he had tossed it into a patch of cedars behind our property. They literally cut off the rattles and hooped and hollered. Rednecks from the sleazy part of the lake.

Speaking of the lake, Lake Travis is 106% full. There used to be islands in the middle of this part of the lake. It's at a restaurant overlooking the main basin down from Mansfield Dam. Gates are still open at 4 damns created to be pass throughs and even still down at Tom Miller Dam in Austin. I saw a time lapse from 2019 to present day where Lake Medina went from 8% full to 100% full after the rains. Now with the system in the Gulf of MEXICO, it has the potential to come our way and dump massive amounts of more rain, so

Back in 2023 I awoke to find the backyard filled with turkey vultures and after getting them to scatter I found this half of a buck underneath them. Didn't get any closer than this.

I salvaged the mammoth sunflowers worth keeping after the stalk fell over from the weight of it. I counted 11 blooms at the top and it was laying down on the ground this morning.

Sadly not paintbrush. These are Indian Blanket.
Indian Paintbrush looks like a Bluebonnet, with the blooms being pinkish and reddish instead of blue.

@nuleafjhawk We've been blessed with bountiful rain and got these on a walk around the block, kinda getting to the end of the season.

Flower Friday!

Even this toad was trying to get out of the rain this morning. Perhaps he was getting suggestions from his mentor lol.
3-1/2" for us from yesterday and the cove is rising and all the floodwaters of the Pedernales River are going to drain into our lake. Flood gates at 2 damns will be opened soon. Some flooding in the same areas as last 4th of July.

England let Argentina control the ball all second half. Rested on their laurels. GO SPAIN!

Wasn't sure where to put this, but these segments by Greg Gurley (Fans Wanna Know) are a glimpse into the person. This one is Leroy Blyden, Jr.
https://x.com/KUHoops/status/2077422942107881845/video/1

Mike built many of these after seeing something similar at a gun show. He made fold away tables and sold them when he and our neighbor (Bob) went fishing all over east Texas. Bob was the co pilot when Nixon went to China. He knew and had mementos from several astronauts. Played football for Texas A&M and we celebrated with him the day we poured the slab for the house with a bottle of Dom Perignon. A true Texan. He was buried at the veterans cemetery in San Antonio and we went to his funeral.

When I got up earlier to bake a chocolate cake (just took out of the oven), saw the fox saunter across the back deck, go behind the solarium, and jump up on top of the wood pile in the wood shed to get out from the much needed rain we are getting. What a life LOL.

Ever have a flubbed shot turn out to be a surprise? This was our trip without Mike for the first time and I got a double shot of double the love without even trying!

This is well deserved!

@rockchalkjayhawk We always planted our climbers around the edge of the garden with a wire fence, for it to climb on. Picked many a cucumber and cantelope that way. Prop up some wire mesh behind them?

A couple of blooms for your Monday!

Reminds me of this monster on the girls' window 3 years ago, right after installing new windows!