I love bird watching in Texas. I was in Sulphur Springs a couple of weeks ago sodding the lawn for Mother and Daddy, and everywhere were birds. Daddy and I drove to Winnsboro a couple of times for sod and I spied about 8 red cardinals, about 30 scissor-tailed flycatchers, some giant hawks, always buzzards, always white cranes. No road-runners.
When I arrived at DFW, there were no rental cars to be had; a giant crowd of people was at the rental center and as people turned in cars they called out names and agitated renters filed to the lot one by one. My brother Tommy and his wife Gwen were nice enough to drop everything in Riley Springs and drive over and pick me up from where I was waiting downstairs, feeding the birds (many kinds) bits of sandwich and drawing them in my sketchbook.
Saw four dead crows on the ground in front of the public school across from Braums—made me wonder if there is an electrical short on the electrical lines over there?
One day I had biscuits and gravy from Braums, lunch at the outlet mall Mexican place, and later a foot-long cheese coney, tater tots and a shake at the new Sonic. The first time I’ve been to the Sonic in my dad’s pick-up. I noticed that every car there was a pick-up and that they all had their motors running the whole time for air-conditioner purposes. His air-conditioner is broke so I just breathed everyone elses’s smoke. One car pulled in—a couple of black kids in an old Malibu, outfitted with those new style giganto spin rims. I ask one of them how much the rims cost. I am hard of hearing, but I am pretty sure that he said $1200.00 a wheel!!!!!!!!!! Thats a lot of biscuits and gravy. Breakfast the next day at Bodacious on the way to the airport. Got out of town before I exploded.