a plucky pen-pal
an email from a friend claimed there was a pic of #2 son on the plucker's FB page, sure enough there he was. they featured a pic of him (that I took) celebrating his birthday at his favorite restaurant; Plucker's. they sent him a gift card as a thank you. when the GC came, he was very excited. he studied his name on the front of the envelope, his own mail! and then he saw the plucker's gift card and was eager to return.
pic above is the one on the plucker's FB page, also seen on a previous blog entry
it hasn't been easy going back. we are in the habit of going saturday or sunday, but we don't follow football schedules. the first attempt to take him back to plucker's failed, the wait was over an hour, football season had just begun. this time, I called down to ask the hostess about the football schedule. we figured out the best possible window for us to get in with minimal wait. they had games at noon, 2:30 and 7 PM (a UT game). we were able to get seated at 5 pm with minimal wait.
#2 son was so excited about the mail from the henhouse (pluckers office) he wanted to return the favor, as best he could for his age. he wanted the front to say "HUMMING BIRD"
mail delivered.
fried twinkie, how could he NOT love this place. we ate some fire in the hole wings (SPICY!!!!) kat ate most of them, she loves that adrenaline rush. but, since it was sunday eve on a football filled weekend, they had run out of many of the draft beers. the temps were fall-like enough on the patio, we had samuel adams octoberfest instead of our usual wing beverage (fireman's #4)
I scheduled a windshield replacement for the falcon DCW van more than a month ago. it didn't go well. the installers broke the first windshield. they returned a week later with another but were unhappy with the fit. then a few more weeks went by and several phone calls from me... they came back on a saturday and spent some time getting it to fit best they could. 
it's not perfect, but it's time to move forward. turns out I need to find some windshild wipers.
took the kayaks down the street, put in at red bud island. paddled a bit on ladybird lake and went to our usual tree and rope swing. #1 son was a bit hesitant, but soon got into a swinging groove.
morning temps have been cool. dropped the top on the e30. went for an early sunday morning kolache run.
