She made 98 gingerbread houses for the girl scouts to decorate. 8 double batches of frosting. 20 pounds of candy. 42 kids.
All the ingredients are edible so the kids can eat whatever they want. There is that ever present danger of sugar-overload though.
Everybody gets to decorate 2 houses; one to keep and one to take to the Seniors Rest Home.
It’s an annual tradition. 
Solitary Sandpiper
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
He’s actually the smallest bird in this collection, but he was suddenly so close he filled up the frame! Neotropic Cormorant
And a really cool South Texas bird, the Clay-colored Thrush.
It’s like a Robin, but brown all over. 
How about the Verdin?
I’ll give you a Great Kiskadee.
It got flooded by the Rio Grande a year ago and they closed it. There was a lot of damage; a lot to repair. We didn’t know if it was going to reopen or not. They did a fine job though, and we got the park back. There is a comparable park on the Mexican side. It’s easier to survey their damage, looking across the river, than to see our own.
You can see the high water marks on a couple concrete buildings that got displaced.
They have a ways to go yet on their repairs. 
