So, I'm back on track. I'm doing good. I moved from the hustle and bustle of San Antonio to The Texas Hillcountry, I'm getting married to the love of my life in the spring and found a job that I just couldn't pass up. I was forced to close my gallery in San Antonio, the management wanted to make stuff in my building more commercial, they only had room for 2 out of 3 of us in the new spaces that they were creating so I gracefully exited. Perfect timing actually, closing the gallery/studio and getting engaged needing to move out here anyway. I visited the hillcountry almost every weekend for the past 2 years, plus on and off for the past 8, but I have to say living out here is an is an entirely different animal.
So lets get on to the other differences. The better ones. Well, the temperature is generally 10 degrees cooler at the ranch than San Antonio at any given time, I love the nature and waking up WITHOUT the sound of sirens, loud low riders with the base shaking the house, the men whistling at me when I'm working in my yard or walking to the store. I don't miss any of those things and am so grateful for the peacefulness of the country. I'm working on getting the garden and yard maintained. I planted 100lbs of winter rye grass, tossed it out 3 weeks ago and its beautiful. Bright neon green naturally. I'm in the process of pulling weeds and cutting down terrible palo blanco trees within our yard enclosure around the house. They are the most horrible tree in existence, ugly, and with a short life span, diseased, they grow for 10 years and then just fall over. Who needs them?!!! So I've cut down about 50 in the past month or so. I put them outside the gate in the pasture for the deer to eat, they love the leaves so they don't go to waste entirely. I'm trimming all the trees, planting bulbs for the spring wedding, and hanging every deer skull and antler I can find on the fence.
dayna
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