Awake: 7:21am Temp 61 sleep 6+48 sunny overnight @ Mission, Texas.
Talk with Gary & Grace J. They are in position @ Las Cruces, New Mexico & ready to Caravan to Mexico & then, do the Copper Canyon piggyback train tour + thru Mexico.
15 min exercise for me; 30 min for Kathy with Gilad.
Later morning, I talk with Katrina about bargaining on closing costs & having a condo inspection done with details of sharing/not sharing the costs with the seller if something needs repaired. Plus encourage more understanding of how the system works from her realtor.
@ 1:30pm, we drive to the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park (3) miles & spend the next (3+hrs) watching & taking photos of rare birds. This state park has been the best yet for birding. The park rangers had just loaded the bird feeders with grain, etc; it was easy to sit on benches & enjoy the activity. With some extra help from our bird book & the park rangers, we identified: a Plain Chachalaca; a Green Jay; a Great Kiskadee; a Golden Fronted Woodpecker; & a Western Screech Owl. We would never have spotted that Owl if it hadn’t been for another birder who by accident, saw it & passed the Owl’s hangout to us.
6:40 dinner: Sweet & sour pork stir fry, brown rice, & toast.
Mid evening movie: “Freeway” with Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Brook Shields, Wolfgang Bodison, Dan Hedaya, etc. A corrosive modern version of “Little Red Riding Hood” in which a teenage girl, on her way to grandma’s, hitchhikes a ride with a psychotic child psychiatrist (Sutherland). Extremely violent satire is bolstered by Witherspoon’s one-of-a-kind lethal Lolita performance. 1996. Definitely not for children or the faint of heart.
Later night reading in bed.
High temp=77 Lights out: 12:04am
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