Steve and Judy's Travels!

The Denver Broncos did well last season.  They made the playoffs.  Maybe they’ll do even better this year.  We don’t get many television broadcasts of Broncos games down here in the Valley, so if we want to watch them, we have to buy the NFL Sunday Ticket package.  That lets us watch every out of market game.  $350.  Pretty steep, but okay.  We’ll do it.

But wait, to buy the Sunday Ticket package, this year we have to subscribe to YouTube TV first.  Okay.  No problem.  How much is that?

What?  A thousand dollars a year to subscribe to YouTube TV, so we can then pay $350 for Sunday Ticket?

Okay.  We can listen to every Bronco game on the Sirius XM radio that we already have in the cars.  That will have to do until the playoffs when every game is televised.

Firebush, Lantana, Esperanza.

But the Lantana is looking a mite peaked.

A little dry perhaps.  Maybe it needs more water…

I don’t know why several of the vertebrae in my neck crumbled, but the surgeon rebuilt and fused them all together almost ten years ago.  I don’t know why, since then, there has been no further degradation, but I’ll take the good news.  There have been no discernable changes in the x-rays.

Judy’s knee on the other hand.  It was first replaced in 2020, then the revision was done last year.  She has full use of it; we walk, hike, and go up and down stairs together.  But it still hurts.  The doctor found nothing structurally wrong with it today, which is a good thing.  We’ll try some more physical therapy for more strengthening and range of motion and see if that helps.

There is a lot of cotton in the fields up around Corpus Christi that is ready to harvest.

Today, Judy and I drove to Corpus Christi for orthopedic follow-up appointments tomorrow.  Knee for her; it has been about a year since the revision.  Neck for me; it has been many years since my neck surgery, and I’m supposed to follow-up from time-to-time to make sure everything is still in alignment.

When we got here this afternoon, we were able to pop over to the Birding Center in Port A to see the flamingo.

A wandering lost flamingo, but he looks pretty comfortable here.

That’s not a lizard.

That’s a skink!

Well, technically, a skink is a kind of lizard, and they eat the same stuff as other lizards, but they look so different.  Smooth and shiny, more like a salamander than a dull dry lizard.