Dad got a job! He is working at Covington's Nursery where he someday might become a landscape architect. Right now he is just a normal worker so he can learn all the new Texas plants. Mom, Ms. Carol and I went to go see him the other day so we could see where he worked.
Covington's is HUGE. They use golf carts just to get around there. They sell all sorts of plants from pansies to trees. The trees we bought for our backyard are from there(It was in that trip to buy trees that Dad asked, "Hey, how do you get a job here?" which is a whole other story entirely.).
Right now Dad is just working to learn all the plants, while also learning how to deal with the Texas elements(it's pretty much all outdoors), and the crazyness of Texas that we like to call "Nature." So far Dad has found one of the most dangerous of all poisonous caterpillars(Nature makes poisonous caterpillars! Crazy, I know.). Its called the Asp Caterpillar(like the snake, because its poisonous...) or the Puss Worm Caterpillar, and it looks like a Bantha from Star Wars, minus the horns(or like a headless, legless Persian cat.). Apparently contact with its hairs causes severe pain which can radiate up the limb. Dad pulled it off his jacket and put if on a napkin without getting stung, before he even knew what it was. He is very pleased with himself.
He is enjoying work and having fun learning all sorts of stuff. We are very thankful that he has a job(not that it means that all our financial troubles are over with) and it will be very exciting to see where this takes him.
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