If we want seat heat in the Jeep, we reach the touch screen in the middle of the dash, click “Climate”, select “Seat and steering wheel”, select “high” or “low” and whether you want driver’s side, passenger side, or both; then click back to where we started. It’s so sophisticated.
The Mazda is primitive by comparison. If we want seat heat in the Mazda, we turn the knob for seat heat…
…about Chinese food.
I want Chinese food out of waxed cardboard cartons stuffed in a brown paper sack, like Mom would call-up and order, then one of my older brothers would drive to the back door of Ling’s Café in Belmont Shore. I’d ride along and we’d carry it home, the aroma in the car exotic, and serve ourselves chicken chow mein over crispy noodles.
Now it’s April, and we’re at 4,219, 280, 40, 138. Miles, birds, hours, counties.
Uh-oh. We’ve fallen off the bird pace. We’re only at 220 birds for the year. With just 275 days and 280 bird species remaining, now we need more than 1 new bird a day for the rest of the year to make it to 500. No problem though. It’s April. Migration. We’ll get a lot of new birds in April. Then in May and after, we’ll be traveling. Moving every day should expose us to lots of new birds.
We’re getting excited about the Alaska trip. We had friends over; three couples who went to Alaska last summer, and two couples plus us who are going to Alaska this summer. It was a wonderful long evening of asking questions and sharing trip stories. We’ve got lots of good notes.
All I need to do for continuing education hours is average about half a day a month for the rest of the year. All I have to do is stay focused.
No way we’ll get any new counties in Texas with day-trips from here; all the counties we still need are far away from where we are now. Starting in May though, we’ll draw a new line across Texas. We’ll drive through as few counties we’ve already been to as we can. We won’t get all the rest of the counties in Texas anytime soon, but we should be able to do some damage to that number in May.
Pinto beans. Ham hock. Vegetable stock. Chopped onions. Bacon chunks. Cumin and pepper. Salt. Chopped jalapeno. Minced garlic. Diced tomato.
Charro beans!
Served with pulled pork from the smoker.
And Cholula.
Enough for leftovers.
Click.
Harris’s Hawk
