As you can see in the picture, the lawn in Oakland Lake Park is in dire need of mowing.
It really is not much of a lawn, as in very little actual grass exists. It is more a covering of weeds, which quickly grow into a short jungle when a little rain causes a growth spurt.
This morning I went to Arlington to get a vehicle its emissions test. Or whatever it is called. I find this to be a very annoying annual event.
Where I lived in Washington we didn't have to get a vehicle's emissions tested. That may no longer be the case, for all I know.
I don't understand why Texas insists that vehicles that are not old have to get tested to see if they are emitting anything unseemly. I see old clunkers spewing down a Texas road every once in awhile, followed by a dirty cloud of exhaust and wonder how that vehicle passed an emissions test.
It took less than an hour, the vehicle passed its test, again, so it's good to go for another year.
So, all in all it was not nearly as annoying as last month's waiting in a line for 6 hours to renew my Texas driver's license.
Renewing, in person, ones Texas driver's license, needs be done only once every 12 years. Which works out to being a half hour a year, with all the waiting done in that one year. Over 12 years one would be having very good line luck if the wait to get ones vehicle's emissions tested did not add up to well over 6 hours.
Changing the subject from one type of emission to another.
Gar the Texan is convalescing from his most recent surgery. I think he may be on some powerful medications that are causing him to be more amusing than he usually is, with the medications also enabling really good convoluted sentences that actually make sense, like the following...
As for the reference, I have, indeed, kept my promise as my reference was in reference to something completely different, but your aged and addled defense mechanisms have come to the conclusion that I was referencing that which I promised not to reference. So, you sir, have in fact, referenced the incident that you made me promise not to reference.
It really is not very nice to make reference to an old person's aged and addled defense mechanisms.
Washington State has had emission testing for many years. You may have lived north of the area affected which ran up through about Marysville. My next house in Washington will be in the "no test needed" area. In Texas, things are more complicated because they also have a safety inspection which has little to do with real safety.
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