Monday's Missives

• This past weekend (today is 02/01/2016) we spent the weekend in Abilene. As we were driving we saw that the area we intended to camp in had a wildfire sweeping through it. We stayed in a hotel. Broke my heart.
• We explored the park the next day though. My kids put out a couple of hot spots with water from a nearby creek.
• I peed on one hot spot as the kids ran ahead of me.
• We saw a lot of owl pellets.
• Abilene State Park was built by Company 1823 of the CCC.
• We went to Buffalo Gap. The cat that lives in the visitor's center for the historic village is a black bob tailed beast named Jack. He is cool.
• Lunch on Sunday was at Mary's in Strawn. They call their chicken fried steak, World Famous! I call it adequate. One I ate there was kind of nasty. The other two were adequate so I guess the two out of three average rule applies. Their fries are really good though. Zac had the hugest bowl of chili I have ever seen in my life. Honestly- it was ridiculously big. Did they mean for an 8 year old boy to eat it or the entire table to soak in it?!
• There used to be a bar on Jacksboro Hwy called Mary's Mistake.
• Here is probably my favorite (at least at the moment) Smashing Pumpkin's song.
• The last email I received: "Morning!
  I have a scary movie for us from the pulga!"
• Don't ask me.
• I guess I'll figure it out tonight.
• Women I have known are usually very poor amateur checkers players but always seem to take to chess well and learn rapidly.
• I'll keep my sarcasm to myself on the preceding observation.