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Well, I’m back from vacation. Most of you probably didn’t even know I was gone, but I was. I went with Lori and my mother to south Texas (near Corpus Christi) to help my sister Lisa and her husband Eric move into their new house.

It was a lot of fun, if you ask me. I don’t get to hang out with Lisa and Eric much anymore because we live 15 hours apart, so this was a welcome opportunity. We made several trips between their old condo and the house, filling up both our SUV’s to the brim. (Aside: what is a brim, really? I hope it didn’t add much to the cost of my car, because I could probably do without one). It was a lot of work, but we also had a lot of fun eating seafood, shopping, and doing a few other tourist things.

Last Wednesday we drove the comparatively short trip to Oklahoma after boarding the animals. Once in Oklahoma, we visited Lori’s parents for about an hour and then we crashed at my mom’s house. We woke up super early and drove the 12-hour drive from there to Lisa’s place. We slept at my mom’s house again on the way back Monday night and left for Arkansas at 7am on Tuesday. I wish we could have stayed in Oklahoma longer and been awake, because it sounds like Heathe was upset that we didn’t get to hang out with him. If our schedules hadn’t been so tight I would have jumped on the opportunity to hand out with my friends, but I can’t be everywhere at once. We’ll plan another trip soon just to see our friends, once we recover from the costs of this trip.

If you find yourself in Texas, I highly recommend stopping at Tomatillo’s in San Antonio (down the street from the Alamo; get the sour cream chicken enchiladas), The Duck Inn in Rockport (awesome seafood near Key Allegro and the mythical summer house of George Strait), and the Rockfish restaurant in Fort Worth (it’s a chain restaurant full of good seafood items). All good places, if you ask me.
I am glad to be home, however. I missed my cats and dogs, and I am just plain exhausted. We came home to find out that Chloe is in heat so we’ll have to watch her and make sure she doesn’t make a mess all over the place. Normally I wouldn’t worry too much about the situation because we have a nice stockade fence in the back yard, but this morning as I went to fill up the dog’s food dish I noticed Butter absent and the fence standing wide open.

I don’t know if the dogs or someone else did it, but last night as we slept or early this morning the fence board to which the latch connects was on the ground instead of firmly screwed into the rest of the fence. Maybe it got tired, or maybe it was forced into submission, I really don’t know. Thankfully Butter was a smart enough dog to stay right where she was instead of running down the street like previously, and Chloe remained in the backyard. Perhaps they are learning. I don’t think anything bad happened or otherwise the dogs would have made a comotion that would have alerted us. The board is now back in its correct position on the fence with the rest of the boards, and I wasn’t able to open the gate even throwing my body weight into it.

As I write this, I am probably an uncle. I say probably because I don’t know if it has happened yet, but my sister Lisa is having her baby today. The doctor said the baby is ready to go and they scheduled an induced labor for early today. Kaylee Grace Cox will be born today and I’ll be a proud uncle/godfather. How exciting!! I’ll write more as soon as I know any details. Hopefully Lisa will be quick to upload some pictures of her new child.

That’s all for now!

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