Sunday, April 27, 2008
One heck of a weekend
It's been a busy weekend. We had one of our friends from LA, Andy, come to visit. His work takes him all over. We picked him up late, LATE, on friday night. His flight was supposed to get in at midnight, but between being late (of course) and picking up luggage, we didn't pick him up until 1 in the morning. Jess wasn't feeling good and rather than accept my advice and stay home and let me pick up Andy, she insisted on coming along becuase she didn't want me to have to go in her stead alone. She ended up with a horrible headache the entire time, and nearly threw up in the car because her head hurt so bad. So that certainly didn't make me feel better. I wish she'd be nicer to my fiance.
Saturday, her headache was finally back down to managable levels and so we were able to get out to the wildflower center with Andy. Very pretty, the flowers sort or rotate in and out of bloom, and the 'Indian Painbrushes' and a whole host of other plants were in bloom. It was amazingly pretty, and taught us a lot about growing with local plants, so I'm hoping to do my yard in 'Bufallo Grass', which is the local grass, therefore requiring less watering and better ecological ballance. Yay for environmental education!
After that, we came back then went out to see bats! There's a bridge across a lake near downtown Austin that has some spaces 2 inches wide and 20 inches deep along the underside, perfect for bats! It wasn't planned that way, but several years later, there's 750,000 pregnant female bats there, eating up all the bugs and raising their young before they head south to polinate agave plants in mexico during the winter. We went out on a boat and cruised on the lake for a while, then went the sun went down, the bats started coming out like crazy. Just and endless stream of them. What an effective insect cure!
After that, we went down to 6th street, which is the local college pub crawl street. They block it off for all pedestrian traffic during saturday nights. Definitely a sight to see, I'll have to come back and just people-watch for a while.
....part 2 in a second...
Saturday, her headache was finally back down to managable levels and so we were able to get out to the wildflower center with Andy. Very pretty, the flowers sort or rotate in and out of bloom, and the 'Indian Painbrushes' and a whole host of other plants were in bloom. It was amazingly pretty, and taught us a lot about growing with local plants, so I'm hoping to do my yard in 'Bufallo Grass', which is the local grass, therefore requiring less watering and better ecological ballance. Yay for environmental education!
After that, we came back then went out to see bats! There's a bridge across a lake near downtown Austin that has some spaces 2 inches wide and 20 inches deep along the underside, perfect for bats! It wasn't planned that way, but several years later, there's 750,000 pregnant female bats there, eating up all the bugs and raising their young before they head south to polinate agave plants in mexico during the winter. We went out on a boat and cruised on the lake for a while, then went the sun went down, the bats started coming out like crazy. Just and endless stream of them. What an effective insect cure!
After that, we went down to 6th street, which is the local college pub crawl street. They block it off for all pedestrian traffic during saturday nights. Definitely a sight to see, I'll have to come back and just people-watch for a while.
....part 2 in a second...
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