Mini Vacay

First vacation since the pandemic started! Whee! 

 

J and I did a little San Antone trip- mostly restaurant experiences, since we've pretty much covered the San Antonio area over the last three decades or so. I also introduced him to La Panaderia and their friggin' amazing tequila almond croissant.

We did go to Fort Sam one afternoon to visit the US Army Medical Museum and the Quadrangle. You have to do a few cartwheels to get on base these days, but the stop at the visitor center prior to entry is relatively painless. You need a driver's license, proof of car insurance and a photo of your car registration sticker to get a pass. 

 

The outdoor area of the Quad is so pretty! There is a story (not true) that the deer were introduced to the space when Geronimo and other Apache prisoners were there in the late 1800's, so they could hunt and eat them, since they didn't like the army food. The Quadrangle is a large space, but not THAT large. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel! Ha! 

 

There were no deer around when we were there. It's a closed space, so I'm not sure where they were hiding.

 

There is a very dense population of large birds, including tons of regular and white peacocks, along with geese and ducks. Since you can feed them, they will approach you, curious if you have something for them. They're slow though, and not aggressive. The peacocks are so loud. Oh, and keep an eye up, because PEACOCKS ARE IN THE TREES, Y'ALL.

I was walking under this gigantic tree when a squawk came from overhead. There were a few up there at the time. Freaky! I had no idea they hung out in trees.

 

The small Fort Sam Houston Museum is in the Quad, and worth a walk-through as well.

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Wordle

I've lost my Wordle stats twice now, with my fickle taste in web browsers. When I researched how to fix/retain them, I found out you can actually set them to anything you want with a minimum of effort. Eh. Anyway, here are my latest real stats for the last 23 games I played (in Firefox- lean and mean, but doesn't work best with my genealogy tools):

 7-7-7! Very well distributed today.

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Which Way to Llano?

For my birthday last weekend, we took a long drive out Hwy 71 up to Llano and Mason to see wildflowers. Just fyi, there were hardly ANY. Always a nice drive though! Great views of valleys and hills, just no flowers this year. It happens. Meh. (Plenty of flowers here in the ATX. It is green here, but serious drought time out west.)

On the trip, Siri, who isn't known for her regional dialects, decided to wow us with her newly found Spanish accent, and called Llano "yah-no." *wild applause* Unfortunately, in this case, it's... not actually yah-no. It's lanno, y'all! 

 

Nice effort, though.

We took a little internet-specified "wildflower drive" around the Mason metropolitan countryside, and towards the end we approached a crossroad. I pulled out my phone to check the map, to see which direction we needed to go to get back to Llano. Jeff pulled over onto the shoulder and stopped. I fiddled around for two or three minutes within the map app (it kept zooming in and out too far- GAH), when finally I was able to see that we needed to turn left ahead.

I put away my phone, looked up, and:

Ha!!

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