IF IT'S SUNDAY.....

......then this must be Saturday....part II, III and IV

It's been one of those days when you don't stop from sunrise 'til sunset.
Like floating down a lazy river in Texas. Because, if you remember, rivers are the infrastructure of choice when it comes to travel in Central Texas.

Here is where it begins and ends......


I have highlighted my travels this past Saturday for you on this River Map of Texas.
That's home there in Killeen, and after my early morning book signing trip, see Saturday, Part I, I headed to the City of Lampasas for my granddaughter's basketball tournament. The population of the town of Lampasas is about the same as one basketball team with four alternate players.


The family wouldn't miss a tournament for the world.

Neither would this guy...who doesn't have a horse in the tournament. He likes basketball, any basketball.....plain and simple.

We watched my granddaughter shout orders to her teammates on the court...

and from the side lines.

After traveling back home...I changed clothes and headed out to a birthday party for one of my neighbors in the Compound....Donna. Donna invited everyone to her daughter's home to celebrate. She is one of the Aqua Aerobics members, and more specifically, Donna is the one who said Theodore Kaczynski, the Una bomber, was her pen pal.

Donna gets two birthday cakes...one huge one to serve to the 85 guests, and one small one for the candles. It seems last year Donna blew so hard she ended up spitting all over the cake...and no one would eat it.

After Donna opened her gifts of cigars, booze and bath salts, I bid her farewell and best wishes....even though the sun was setting, my day wasn't done.

See here on the map? I headed north on the faux river known as the I35 corridor past the city of Waco to Bellmead Texas, which is really still Waco.

I arrived just in the nick of time to watch the first of two baseball games for my grandson.

This one, with the goofy smile!

And remember the basketball player?

She was there too....to talk on her cell phone cheer on her brother.

The last game was yet to be played, and it was after 9pm. Since it would be after 11 PM when the game would end, and the next game was early Sunday morning, the team parents decided to get hotel rooms so they could party make sure the boys got a good night's sleep.

I had other priorities.......

Making sure He didn't spend the night alone.

FRIDAY MATINEE ON MONDAY

But first....I have to define what I mean by matinee........

Because my extremely demanding schedule is such that the word matinee might not apply.

Let's suppose I get sidetracked by cocktails and realize it's DUSK.... the time of day just after sunset or before dawn. Hmmm, OK, so what about Sunset?

SUNSET....the sun is below the horizon, sometimes referred to as twilight.

TWILIGHT....the period during which somebody or something is declining, coming to an end, or approaching death.....Uh, lets move on, shall we?

Here's what I'm trying to say.....

Remember Dr Bob? The ortho guy who diagnosed my fractured pinkie, that still hurts like hell? Well, he found out I had an appointment tomorrow, Tuesday, with her...

Yeah, Dr. Kim. He told her to call me and see if I could come in today, because he told her she had a luncheon date with him something urgent tomorrow, and would have to reschedule my appointment.

So, after I see Dr. Kim, I will head on over to the theatre to see my movie...whose time zone slot hasn't been defined.

See you later!

A LITTLE SOMETHIN FOR YOU,
A LITTLE SOMETHIN FOR YOU...
and a dash of this and that

I wanted to share a bit of my environment with y'all. You know, show you a bit of the compound....a little at a time. I fear causing a wild stampede, and then on the other hand, I don't want any of you laying pity on me. This could go either way. So we'll start out easy. You've all seen my aqua aerobics with all the goof balls. but here is a picture of the pool without all the riff raff....and clean!

Here is another shot at sunset taken from Grandma J's back patio...or porch, depending on your preference.

And because some of you like to show off your sunsets over the Chesapeake Bay, as you run naked though the woods gaze at the fiddler craps.... here is a random sunset shot from my back porch...sorry about the roof tops and such.

Next I'd like to throw a couple crumbs to my fellow Big Brother fans. Besides the evicted house guests archived at the bottom of the right hand column, I like to document the HOH for you and the nominees with a poll. Because the show is on three nights a week, and I see it three hours before the West Coast fans, I can't post at a decent hour without missing BBAD. Which is on every night for three hours. UNCENSORED.

Here are a few personal takes on the game so far. I started out not liking funky Renny with all her different hats and wigs and her Nawlins accent, that sounds like a funky Brooklyn accent.

But she grows on you. she's 53 and very cool. Not only does she cook and clean (which is a safety net older house guests immediately latch on to)but she's funny...very funny. And she's smart. She's Harvard educated and an ex Saints cheerleader thingy girl. In other words, I like her. she has grown on me and and her too.
Jerry gets on my nerves because he tries to parent everyone. He gives the girls a kiss good night, and it's starting to wear thin.

Keesha, the new HOH reminds me of Daniel from BB8. She's whiny and two-faced. I don't care for the other blond bimbo April the Ho either. Now that's not a personal opinion. There are several YouTubes out there of April and Ollie that rank right up there with hard porn. seriously. Ollie's parents aren't too happy, that's for sure.

Dude? Listen to your folks.

So there you have my take on a few house guests. My opinion might change. Right now if I had to pick a winner? Renny or Memphis. Who would you pick?