A New Tradition

Tonight we took Dick and Carol out to dinner at Villa Montez. They took us to this delightful restaurant for Easter dinner last April. This evening, we were led to the very same table overlooking the rear garden. We again found the staff friendly, the ambience comfortable, and the food interesting and tasty. Carol ordered the vegetarian burrito. When it arrived, everyone at the table was definitely impressed. It was the most imposing burrito I've ever seen, and Carol pronounced it delicious too.

We'll be back. In fact, we're planning on making Villa Montez a tradition on our visits to Tyler.

As we left the restaurant, we passed some red cannas. They are past their prime blooming, but Dick found one blossom. We thought this photo was especially apropos because Dick won a recent poetry contest with his poem, "Red Cannas."

This morning we biked north on the under-construction tollway. We hadn't gone far when we came to a crew laying pavement, so we turned around and headed back south. One of the contractor trucks stopped, and the driver said, "You do know this is an active construction site?" This was the first time our presence was questioned. We told him that we were being careful and had turned around when we came to the construction, and he went on his way.

We continued south past Hwy 64 and on to the roadway we have traveled before, but we soon saw more active construction, so we turned back again and headed home. We'll stay off the tollway during work hours from now on.


Ken talked with Bob Morris today to get some idea of progress on the truck. Bob was confident of finishing the work by the end of the week, except that he was unsure of when he would be able to schedule the application of spray on bed liner to the tops of the bed rails. He expects to know by Wednesday, so we'll call back then. Meanwhile, our plans are uncertain, not only on that account, but also because of the brake repairs scheduled for next week.