The Bipolar State

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The Tree In Our Yard

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Daddy's New Job

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.

Some something actually happened in our lives again. We got trees for the backyard! Since we gave the playset to a neighbor our backyard has be amazingly, obnoxiously bare. But now we have two trees that are supposed to grow fast, and the yard has some visual interest.


The first tree is a Brandywine Maple(which i refer to as a "hobbit tree," not because it is small, but because in the first Lord of the Rings movie the hobbits have to escape the ringwraiths by crossing the Brandywine Brige and getting on the ferry thing. Also, Merry's last name is Brandybuck. So, long tangent, but it's a hobbit tree.)


The second tree is a Red Oak, similar to the one in our front yard, and it is supposed to turn really pretty colors in the fall, so that should be fun.

The Harbor

We went on an adventure to find the Harbor in Rockwall. I like it because it looks like California. Except it's not the ocean. It's Lake Ray Hubbard.


It's a lot more crowded in the Summer, but it was virtually empty when we where there. So we got to go around taking goofy pictures and no one was there to care.


Dad, being "Captain Elbow"( but not "Captain Fidget", because that's T.J.) because of his habit of standing with his hand on his hips so that his elbows are dangerously in the way. I was copying him.




We walked around and ended up going the The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory to get some chocolate. Mom got a dark chocolate pecan cluster, Dad got a raisin cluster and I got a pumpkin pie truffle, which really just tasted like a chocolate truffle that was pretending to be something else. But chocolate is chocolate, so no complaints here!


While we were eating our chocolate this guy just walked up to us and started talking to us. In California he would have had to be crazy or a homeless person or both to do that, but he wasn't. He was just a normal guy. People in Texas are just friendly like that. Really friendly. He talked to us for about a half hour. Then we went to Costco and got new phones! yay!

The Symphony

Oops! I haven't posted on here for a while. But that's because nothing was happening. And now everything is happening all at once! When it rains, it pours(especially in Texas..).
This picture is from when we went to see the Richardson Symphony Orchestra at the Eisemann Center. We had to go for one of T.J.'s music classes. They played all Beethoven, and did a really good job, but the orchestra seemed small. There was a strike going on, so that might have been part of it, but I think I'm just used to the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Despite their size, they still sounded great, and we had fun.

Happy Late Birthday T.J.!

So my big brother is no longer a teenager! He's a grown up now...kinda.


For his birthday, T.J. got the various delicious foods(because college boys like to eat.), the movie Tombstone, and some sort of computer thing I don't understand. But he was excited about it.


So Happy Birthday Big Brother!