Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

We’ve had coyotes behind our house every night for a couple of weeks. I called City Hall and they were blissfully unaware of there being dangerous consequences to this - just mentioned that some neighborhood cats had gone missing, but they couldn’t find any coyotes. Hell, I’ve got a coyote call and an [...]

I’ve owned two houses in Austin, both next to very big hills. At the last house, kids used to daredevil down the hill on their bikes. One time a boy lost control and I heard his tortured “YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!” as he flew into the neighbor’s yard.
The house we’re in now is on a much [...]

There were just now 8 blue jays sitting in my fig tree outside, screaming at each other over the fruit. They were also fending off some cardinals and what sounded like some large finches. It is summer now, and the locusts sing in the afternoons, a staccato rise and fall outside like breathing. [...]

Last night for my birthday, my husband got us tickets to see The Producers, which was most excellent. Before the show, we went to Eastside Cafe to eat. We were enjoying a happy meal, surrounded by kids having early dinners on their graduation nights. A good time. Until.
A couple [...]

If someone out there would like to take over handling the Austinbloggers webring, please let me know. I’m over-involved in too many things right now and am trying to simplify. It’s not a big deal; usually about 2-3 ring applications come in per week; you check to see if they have the right [...]

I just did major maintenance on the Austinbloggers webring. 21 current members did not have the web code on their pages, so I moved them to the queue and emailed them the ring HTML. I also added in members from the queue who had the proper code, but there are 6 sites left [...]

Last night I noticed that honeybees have moved into the stone wall in the front yard. Apparently since the Africanized bees have hit Austin, beekeepers don’t really come out to take away bees anymore. People now suggest killing the bees rather than remove them. I really hate to hear this, because although [...]

Dear Austin,
I realize that sometimes traffic laws and regulations are considered optional. They are, in fact, important. Particularly the following:
§ 545.154. Vehicle Entering or Leaving Limited-Access or Controlled-Access Highway
An operator on an access or feeder road of a limited-access or controlled-access highway shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle entering or about to [...]

Does anyone have experience with Austin nursing homes? Who to avoid, who’s good, who’s depressing, who’s cheerful? I’d appreciate any comments you have to offer.
I’ve been looking through the Nursing Home Ratings in Texas and it’s just depressing. There are degrees of bad things nursing homes can do. “Actual harm with [...]

So I forgot to buy Blue Man Group tickets. They’re sold out now. The professional ticket scalpers are selling them for $120 a piece, when they retailed at $35. Guess we’re going to miss out on the concert. Someone tell me how it was!