This morning we dragged ourselves out of bed at 7:15 a.m.--but by our body clocks it was most definitely 6:15 a.m. The "spring forward" meant an hour less sleep, and we got to bed quite late last night. We had ten of us at Mi Challitas for breakfast, but that won't happen again this season. Steve and Jan will leave in the morning, and Jean heads north on Wednesday. Next weekend I'll be driving Ken to Harlingen airport for his flight to Vegas to visit Jeff.
Jean and Ken and I had one last hike in the state park. We decided on a whim to climb the hawk tower again, fully expecting to find the resaca dry as it was last time. Instead we found water in the resaca and a group of birdwatchers checking out the hawks and water birds. We didn't have binoculars or scope, so we couldn't fully appreciate the northern harrier looping lazily overhead or the mottled ducks on the water.
We stopped on the way home at Bentsen Palm to drop off our recyclables. We were very surprised to find that the recycling has been shut down. Presumably the volunteers who were running the program have left for the season. We'll have to try to find another place to take our stuff.
After the hike we rested briefly and then went to work stripping the remaining fruit from the fruit trees and painting the cut limbs.
This evening we joined Hardy and Judy and Steve and Jan at Las Margaritas for a send-off dinner. They love the place and go often. It was our first visit. Ken and I had the chile relleno which was smothered in cheese (not healthy, but delicious!). It's his favorite item on the Mexican restaurant menu. And it was nice to be getting together with some of our favorite people.
In the restaurant parking lot we all admired Steve's custom built bike rack. It's made of PVC pipe and mounted on the truck box. This morning Steve and Hardy mounted a rear camera on the truck, and yesterday they installed the ahooga horn. Steve is definitely spiffing up his new toy, uh, truck!
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