Travels with Howie

Feb 25,2020  9pm cst

 For weeks we have seen this sign for Chucky's Racetrack in Rio Hondo and I would laugh because I  pictured something like this:

Or maybe Chucky Cheese AND movie Chucky

But finally we got the time and courage to go down that long dusty road thru a less than prosperous neighborhood and found that it was actually a place where horse races are run on Saturday
and Sundays...  I could hear the announcements (in Spanish) but we were there at the very end of their day.

Maybe next week.

After being awed  by Elon Musk's accomplishments at Boca Chica, we discovered that the Fine Arts Museum in Brownsville has a Musk display consisting of professional photos and art work concerning Musk' work and life that was very nice but  what took my attention mostly is his timeline of what he thinks will happen in the near future....er  if   you call the next 100 years "near" future.  Sorry, it's a little hard to read.

Spent a bit of time at the wildlife  places this week..saw this indigo snake.  .  Now I hate snakes more than any animal, bird or other living thing including some people, but he has one redeeming feature,.   he  has what is called a kinetic jaw. He has some really stretchy ligament s in his jaw that allows him, (and other snakes as well)  to work his mouth open very wide .   sp, he can  and will take in a whole rattlesnake.   Of course, this takes a pretty long  time but he just keeps drawing him in.  I understand that Santa Ana has none or few rattlers as a result of the good work done by this otherwise creepy black slithering scary guy.

 

How long has it been since you have seen one of these?  For you under 20 year olds, its a public phone that doesn't use WiFi, doesn't  have  camera possibility and  charges you extra if your call is  for a out of town. number.  You turn it on buy giving it money.
Why did they always put them right at the edge of a busy highway...the noise made it nearly impossible to hear.

The very large fields of vegetables here in the Rio Grande Valley are mostly picked by people, not machines.  That means that the 234  million pounds of onions that I mentioned here before were all picked one at a time.  So you will be happy, I know, to hear that  these updated port a potties have a feature I have never seen before...a little sink to wash hands and sanitizer to use as well (not seen in the pic, but on the other side)at the edge of the fields.

There is a road on SPI that is not developed, just a road and sand dunes and the wind carves really beautiful  patterns in the  sand.  That is , all sand with no one making any adjjustments to how the wind forms patterns.  No two  places the same.

But not much longer.