Holiday, Celebration

Often when I shower at night, I see this little guy on the window in the shower. He just comes, walks around a little bit, probably looking for bugs in the light. We also have several living in the garage. They used to come inside, but since we got the cat, they realize that they are safer outside than in. As I was looking at this guy, I realized that I won’t see little lizards scuttling about when we move. No little lizards like this in Indiana. And it makes me think of the things that I will miss about Texas. With less than one week to go, in no particular order, are the things I will miss:
1. Lizards
2. Non-stop flood coverage
3. crape myrtles
4. Go Spurs Go
5. Shopping at a store named after someone’s Butt
6. Turnarounds
7. Living 12 minutes from the airport
8. the 80 different Thai restaurants, and everybody having a favorite that no one else has heard of
9. Oyster Bake
10. Live Oaks being green all year round
11. The very rowdy library “knitters” – Thien, Sonia, Sonia, Nohemi, Adam, Jessica, Jessica, Angela, Amy, Cindy, Darlene, Kendra, Mark and Rolf
12. The Riverwalk
13. My quilt group, especially Cecily
14. Rock Music from Chacon Suzuki
15. Learning “important” Spanish like chanclas and chones
16. People from The Valley, because it reminds me of people from The Region
17. Blue Bonnets
18. Streets with crazy long names like Nacogdoches, Bintz-Englemann, Perrin Bietel, Nacoperrin, Jones Maltsberger and Harry Wurzbach

I’m sure there are more…may add as I go!