Cattle egrets

 They’re always around somewhere, but sometimes they can be hard to find. And sometimes all you need to do is look at the local truck stop!        

It has been a long winter

 (Since the start of January.) But we might finally be past it.  The forecast suggests we’re through the worst of it:  It looks like we won’t need the humidifier anymore either. 

Jack pads

  When we put our jacks down and lift the coach to level, we’re applying a lot of force to each foot.  The coach is so heavy, on warm asphalt, we can actually punch permanent potholes in the surface.  So whenever we’re on asphalt, we always put jack pads down under each jack foot.  That dissipates the weight and makes it less likely that we’ll screw up a nice RV pad. They made these jack pads bright yellow because if they weren’t so obvious, a person could forget they were there and drive of without them. On a related note, thank you brother Tom for bringing that renegade bright yellow jack pad home to us from Seattle after our last stay there. We’ve moved on.  Now we’re back at Sandpipers in Edinburg. 

Yard birds

 Olive sparrow.  Curve-billed thrasher. Black phoebe. Pyrrhuloxia. Spider web in the morning dew.Right.  Not really a bird. Green Jay. Northern Cardinal. Black-crested titmouse. Bewick’s wren. Cedar waxwing. Yucca in bloom. Also, not a bird. Pyrrhuloxia and northern cardinal together. Greater roadrunner. Blue-headed vireo.  Yard pigs.Javelina 

A cold misty morning

 Windmill blades disappearing in the low hanging clouds, we made our way 90 miles northwest to Falcon State Park.  No more mist by the time we got here; the weather cool and cloudy but not cold.  We’re not on a trip, we just went out for a couple days in the bus.  We got a very nice camp. With a very nice yard.  We hung out some bird feeders, and the seed on the ground is a hit with the local javelina.  Henry watched from the dashboard. We don’t think he needs to have anything to do with javelina tusks.