Steve and Judy's Travels!

In the yard.

Scoring peanuts.

And dashing off to hide them.

On the other side of the fence.

Judy and I were The Colorado Candle Company.

Here is a photo of Judy in a booth selling them at a trade show in Houston in 1976.  She didn’t actually sell those candles, those were samples.  She took a lot of orders though.

Sand candles, aspen wood cubes, pine hexagons, butcher blocks.  They were all filled with wax to burn down the center, lighting up the faces.  Once the original wick burned down, a votive candle could be placed in the well to continue the candle’s life.  I designed and manufactured them.  (I love processes.)  Judy was our sales rep.  With Judy selling them, we did well of course.  We sold to every state.  She got us into Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, and Disneyworld.  We sold to a national mall chain, Wicks N Sticks.  They had as many as 300 stores.  At one point we had six employees helping us crank out our product.  Our best year was 10,000 candles.

We did this for six years, in the 1970s, then there was an oil shortage, wax prices went up, the decorative candle market went away, and we moved on to other things.

Of the turkey variety.

Green Lacewing.

Good guy.  Eats aphids.

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.

Bad guy.  Not supposed to be here.  Invasive from Asia.  They eat fruits and vegetables.

Choke Canyon State Park

Just outside the town of Three Rivers.

Three rivers, the Frio, the Atascosa, and the Nueces all flow into the reservoir.  The Nueces flows out.

Still no bobcat.