We started off this afternoon to dance to Darryl at Tropic Valley Acres. The dance is from 2-4 p.m., and we left home in plenty of time, at 1:30 p.m. We never got to the dance, because we made the tactical error of entering the expressway, only to find ourselves in a massive traffic jam evidently caused by a terrible accident involving an 18 wheeler that burned to a black shell. We are hoping that everyone involved is okay, but we saw a large group of emergency workers, so we really don't know.
The accident occurred at the Bryan Rd. exit, the one we were going to take to get to the dance. That exit was closed. The earliest we could have made it to the dance we'd have been 45 minutes late for a two hour dance. We gave it up and decided to do our shopping instead. We went to HEB for groceries, to Valero for diesel, and to CVS to pick up our prescriptions. That's the second Darryl Monday dance we've missed (last week the time had been changed, unbeknownst to us).
On the news tonight we saw horrible scenes of utter devastation in the wake of the super-typhoon. It all seemed unbelievable.
Here are some photos of our palm tree art installation. We were quite pleased by the result.
On our bike ride this morning we went over to Bentsen Grove, our neighbor park. This froggy caught Ken's eye. I guess it's leaped up into the air to avoid the cactus below.
We watched a PBS show while we cleaned up after dinner: Secrets of Althorp - The Spencers. Althorp was the childhood home of Princess Diana. It's presided over by her brother, Charles, the 9th Earl Spencer, and it's been in the family for 500 years (so much for Diana having been a "commoner"!).
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