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Turkey Bowl = Mudfest!

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I just walked down the back stairway to survey and got stopped in my tracks.  Shock, Chickies, pure, unadulterated shock. 
 
Ft. Worth’s finest have been coerced by Team Fun to instigate a MUDBOWL!   Our football field is now a PUDDLE!!
 
I’ll be back later…with more pictures

  

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Learning to, Uh…Play Football

Angela Pea3 Comments
The names have been drawn.  The teams are determined.  It’s Turkey Bowl time at the office.
Turkey Bowl?  Yup.  We sell squares, divide into teams, do a lot of trash talking, make up silly endzone dances for extra points and then play an AWESOME game of flag football on the Friday before Thanksgiving.  One of our landscape architects is a real announcer for a local ISD – he brings his audio setup and calls the game.  We set up the video cameras and broadcast the game to our sattelite offices.  The Survey  crews fire up their grill and serve hotdogs.  Many wagers are made, won and lost, and a good time is had by all.  All winnings are gathered into a big envelope and donated to Cook Children’s Hospital. 
Today I spent an hour practicing flag football with the guys – I even scored a touchdown!  This is huge Chickies,  HUOOOOOGE!!  Last year I could hardly run crossways over the field.  I sprinted over the goal line today.  I’m pretty sure they ‘let’ me run all the way, but hey, I’ll claim it!
SO…if you just happen to be in the neighborhood on the southwest corner of downtown Fort Worth next Friday, come watch us play!  Buff Chad will be here.  You can cheer on The Ball Hogs (my team) and toss a few bucks into the kitty for Cook Children’s while you’re here!
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What I Saw Today…Walking on Errands and Other Exercise

Angela Pea4 Comments
I try to run my errands during my lunch time, so that the Teens have my undivided attention in the evenings during peak homework time.   It has occured to me that a) I am privleged to work in a gorgeous urban environment; b) I can step outdoors now without the overwhelming sensation of being roasted alive; and c) a LOT of my errand locations are within a three mile radius of my office.  I bet you can see where this is leading…
 
Yesterday I needed to visit the running store to replace my stretched out, overly large sports bra. I pulled up Google Earth, did a quick measurement and bam!  The store is only two miles away.  Certainly not worth firing up the car engine, so I walked there!  For the curious among you, I’m trying a new brand of bra,  Enell, thanks to several personal recommendations.  I’ll post my own review here later after I’ve given my new uber encapsulating structural support system a good tryout.
 
This snapshot doesn’t do the scenery justice (danged phone camera) but you get the idea.  This is the Alien Light Beam* building, reflecting the gorgeous rain swept sky.  The blue sky and purple clouds were just perfect!
 
Today I need to visit a local shop to stock up on spices for baking season.  It’s a trickier route because of traffic, but I think I’ll walk anyway.

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*At night, the entire top of this building is lit up like an enormous flashlight beaming into space.  You can actually see the light piercing upwards into the stratosphere.  AND…the light is colored.  Seriously.  Purple on TCU game weekends, Blue and Red for the Rangers, Red and Green at Christmas, Pink during October for Breast Cancer Awareness, Red White and Blue in July.  Strangest bit of architectural frou-frou I’ve ever seen.