Today we attended a funeral for an old neighbor. His wife died a couple of years ago and then he got sick and died. The funeral was upbeat with funny stories of things he and his wife had done in their youth. He had had to have many blood transfusions toward the end of his life, and as a loyal UT Longhorn, made the nurses promise there was no Aggie blood mixed into his blood. At the end of a quirky eulogy and the reciting of the Lord's Prayer, the loud speaker in the chapel blared the Eyes of Texas just as had happened at his wife's funeral. Abruptly it was over and all of us neighbors were milling around. There was no after service reception, so some of us decided to go out to a restaurant and visit.
Things I learned while there:
There's now a havelina that runs behind the fences in the greenbelt and tears up the ground.
One neighbor has a screech owl couple in her owl house with babies.
Her neighbor has a hoot owl that isn't afraid of strangers in her yard.
The coyotes are creeping closer to the middle of the block and not staying in the greenbelt any longer.
One neighbor actually saw a ....raccoon! Really?