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This first Monday of Sabbatical has been pretty nice. I slept in until 7...then breakfast....a walk at Texas Beach...and now lunch & a glass of wine while reading on the porch. It's supposed to start raining this evening, so I'm picturing a movie night!
River rocks

Big snake -- a Northern Water Snake, I believe -- warming itself on a rock --
Northern Water Snake warming on a rock at the river this morning.

The graffiti is always changing at Texas Beach. It is a bit incongruous, but it can be interesting.
Graffiti at the river

It was my host for games group yesterday. And of course it being 95F outside, the downstairs AC had a funky smell -- in the way it does when it has been used once and then not used again. So we had to deal with a bit of unpleasant smell. It just means I need to open up the air handler, flush it out, and use some AC drain cleaner.

The game I chose (Shifting Stones) was well received. We used a swiveling Scrabble board as a turntable to turn the game facing each player.


I still have a few surviving roses, back from the time when I had a fair number of roses which I tended properly with fertilizer and pruning, and spraying for black spot. Most have died off without my constant care, but there are still a few in the yard.

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I haven't been hosting any new couch surfers for a good while. Although I enjoyed doing it, it was also a bit of a chore each time I hosted.

But several of the folks that I hosted previously have since stayed here multiple times -- just texting me directly and asking if they could crash here.

Last night, one of the guys and a friend of his stayed here. He (but not his friend) is going to stay a few more days. We played a 'deck building' card game last night called Dominion. It was ok -- my first time, I struggled to absorb the rules and learn to read the cards and to plan my game. I finished last of 3, but by the end, I had started to figure out how to play.

Here he is setting up the game -- there were 2 full cases of cards, and he seemed to be making some sorts of decisions on which cards to use for this particular game.


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"O seguro morreu de velho, mas o desconfiado ainda está vivo." -- "The safe one died of old age, but the suspicious one is still living."