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Luke wanted to see me in front of David’s truck. Both Tim and Emma took pictures, but they all turned out so blurry, I’m not ready to post anything. Besides, I don’t have a cowboy hat or a gun rack, yet.

Texas cacti Here is a picture of a cactus, though. This one is growing next to the mailboxes at the playground. The children used to be all excited when they saw a cactus, but that was weeks ago. Cacti are old hat. Click the thumbnail for a bigger photo.

The attraction this morning was the long, pipelike slide. At first they were content just to slide down to the end, picking up static electricity from the plastic.

Tim in the pipe slide

By the time we were ready to leave, they were going down on their bellies, shooting out the end into the gravel. Or one would try to climb up inside, getting out of the way just in time not to get kicked in the teeth by another sliding down. I stopped them before the bigger ones try to come down with Diane on their knees.