19 December 2009
Several days ago, I conceived a plan that I kept secret from my wife. I was going to take her to the Cowtown Stockyards in Ft. Worth after breakfast at Old South and make a day of it. We did this several years ago and had a marvelous time; I wished to repeat that.
My plans were immediately thrown into disarray when Marita Beth woke me up with the words, “are we going to Rahr today?” I’m flexible. Sure. We can go to the Rahr right after breakfast at Old South and then on to the stockyards. Right. It took her a while to get dressed, sufficiently long that Old South was ruled out, so the new plan was Whataburger, Rahr, Stockyards. I’m flexible, I can do this. So, we had Whataburger, then Rahr which always means good beer, and a slight detour to a garage sale where I bought 25 Stephen King books (20 hardcover, 5 paperback) for $16. During our stay at Rahr, Marita Beth made friends with a cute little TCU chick wearing a TCU santa hat. So, the new plan was: Whataburger, Rahr, Albertsons (to get a Santa hat) then finally, the stockyards – and Marita Beth still remained none the wiser. Albertsons no longer had any Santa hats (of course). So, the plan got modified…again. Did I mention I’m flexible? A quick trip over to the TCU bookstore confirmed that they, too, were out of the Santa hats and that last-minute shoppers at college bookstores are rude, rude, rude. Now, we’re considerably behind the schedule I’d set, and I’m put off by the rude people, so when MB asked for another detour to Montgomery Street, I told her “no.” My flexibility only goes so far. We did eventually arrive at the Stockyards, and as the last time, we enjoyed ourselves immensely. Between the beer, the wine and the kick-ass cheeseburger at the Love Shack, we whiled away the remainder of the day. By the time we were cold enough to head back to the car, we were well & truly knackered and ready to go home. A marvelous day. Good thing I’m flexible.

This is a photo of the old tracks and cobblestones that ran through the area.
Cheers.

~KR (Written on 20 December 2009)

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.125 sec (1/8)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 6.6 mm
ISO Speed: 250
Exposure Bias: +2/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

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