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the driest ground Cora has seen in a week

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Just as Round Rock is named after an actual rock, and as our local utility district is named after Brushy Creek, which runs through it, our neighboring district is Fern Bluff, named after the geologic feature in the first picture. The second picture is from our neighborhood duck pond.

snippets, 9-8-2018

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell in The Guardian).

Why we believe in magic (Phillip Pullman in The Guardian).

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a Texas brown snake on the way home from the park

non-poisonous, super friendly, pretty as all get-out - a little over a foot long

we've had a lot of rain this week

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garden spider

would also fit my palm, and it's harmless, but no

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a baby western diamondback rattlesnake

curled up like this it would fit in my palm but that would be a bad idea

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look close

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55!

I always like to try to do something big and brave and bold on or around my birthday.

Last year I walked 180 miles in August.

This year (my 55th) Cora and I rode together in the arena for the first time. :)

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