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Alex

 Grandson Alex went to the State Gymnastic Meet today in Denver.  He did well on all but one event.  He kind of crashed and burned on the vault, but still placed 4th overall in his age group.  I picked a couple videos off Lindsay’s facebook page and put them on mine:  http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?sk=timeline Way to go Alex!  In the meantime, Becky and Brian were feeding giraffes at the Colorado Springs Zoo with the 2 younger kids.  Meanwhile in the meantime, Tony returned from Italy.  He’ll have that trip to remember for the rest of his life.  
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Strange billboard

 In big letters it says:  “Keep the law away for less than a taco a day.” It took me awhile to connect the dots on that one.  I had to drive past it a couple more times. It is sponsored by an insurance company, Pronto Insurance, offering automobile liability insurance of just the right amount to satisfy the state auto insurance mandate. I guess that works; down here on the border.  
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Thursday

 A nice warm day.  90 degrees. Heckofa thunderstorm tonight.  Slow moving; it settled right down on us.  We sat outside on the deck to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste it.  Pounding rain.  Hail around us.  Flooding in Edinburg.  A funnel cloud sighted.  Near-constant cloud to cloud lightning turned night into day.  Now, hours later since the worst of it, it’s still thundering and raining lightly. Tony is on day 8 of his Italy trip already.  Pompeii today.  He goes back home to Colorado on day 10. We were going to move to our spot on the beach about April 1st, but we need the motorhome repair completed before we can do that.  Remember we took it up to Bandera and dropped it off a few weeks ago?  It was supposed to be done last week.  We thought it might be done this week.  Now we’re starting to hope it will be done next week. Meanwhile, Niece Christie is coming to visit starting Sunday.  She’s actually going to Mercedes to visit Tom and Kathy, but we’ll get a chance to see her too.