In-N-Out Burger Bringing Double Double Burgers To Fort Worth

That is a quartet of In-N-Out Burger Double Double Burgers in the picture.

I have only had an In-N-Out Burger Double Double Burger once. It was during a 10 hour layover in Phoenix. I'd been drug to a Happy Hour where way too many appetizers were consumed.

And then on to In-N-Out Burger where I had 2 Double Double Burgers. By the time I buckled my seat belt on the plane I felt like I might explode on take-off.

The In-N-Out Burger Double Double Burger is the tastiest hamburger I have ever tasted.

So, I was quite pleased to read on the Facebook pages of one of Fort Worth's favorite Town Gossips, Bud Kennedy, that an In-N-Out Burger is coming to Fort Worth, with this news confirmed this morning in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The Fort Worth In-N-Out Burger is scheduled to open in mid-July, of 2011, at the northwest corner of West 7th and Currie Streets.

This will put In-N-Out Burger close to the Fort Worth burger icon called Kincaid's. I wonder what Kincaid's aficionados are going to think of getting a taste of a really good burger? I've had a Kincaid's burger twice, thinking both times why does this blah burger get such high local accolades? Methinks it may be an emperor has no clothes type thing, all the sheep going along with pretending that Kincaid's makes a good burger. When they don't.

The Morning Of The Last Day Of Summer In Texas

I am up before the sun, again, on this, the last day of summer. The Autumnal Equinox is tomorrow, which is why today is the last day of summer.

Fall temperatures have already arrived. It is only 71 out there this morning.

Currently a Thunderstorm is scheduled to bring in fall in North Texas.

Which means more water, which means continued high humidity.

I am out of reading material. This means I must try and find one of the Fort Worth libraries that is still open and hope that it has some books on its shelves.

In the meantime I am going to go swimming if the sun ever arrives to light up the place.

A Beautiful Sunset With Bugs At River Legacy Park

I am back from my sunset bike ride at River Legacy Park. I'm feeling back to normal after my abnormal morning caused by Sunday night saloon hopping.

There were way more people on the River Legacy Trail tonight than on Saturday. This surprised me.

The paved trail has a center line. You are supposed to stay on the right, unless you are passing some slowpoke.

I zoomed under the Collins Street bridge at high speed. The trail takes a sharp right after you come out from under the bridge, and then a sharp left.

Well, I was going too fast and crossed over the center line, just as a girl was nearing the turn, for her, to the right. She panicked, I was quickly back on the right side, but in her over-reaction she about caused a wreck. Which, I guess, would have been my fault.

In tonight's sunset picture you can almost make out that the sun is being reflected in a big pond of water. There are several big ponds of water, or mini-lakes along the River Legacy Park Trail.

I got zapped by so many no-see-um flies swarming into me tonight, I had their little black carcasses all over me. This required an immediate fly cleansing shower when I got back here. These annoying bugs are the only thing annoying me about riding my bike.

Hiking The Tandy Trails Not Thinking About Saloon Hopping With Elsie Hotpepper

Why did this mysterious pipe show up deep in the Tandy Hills today? The vertical pipe is by a creek where Fort Worth Water Workers had placed a culvert pipe, temporarily. That pipe was larger in diameter and length, than today's pipe, and had been removed weeks ago.

I thought I'd carry this new pipe up to the Tandy Shrine, which is where I parked today. But, it was too heavy. The pipe looks so odd and out of place in the picture, much more so than it did in person.

Maybe the new Tandy Hills Pipe was a hallucination. It's been that sort of day. But, if it was a hallucination it would not have ended up on my camera.

I spent all morning in San Antonio. I like that town. I think it may be my favorite Texas town.

I was out way too late last night, due to someone having a birthday and wanting me to go saloon hopping to celebrate.

No, it was not that notorious saloon hopper, Elsie Hotpepper, saloon hopping with me. It was another entity who forbids me to mention her name, or nickname on my blog.

I don't understand some people's paranoiac issues.

Anyway, way too much adult entertainment last night had me up late this morning. With a headache. That remains with me this afternoon. I thought hiking the salubrious Tandy Hills would fix me. But it didn't.

The next time someone wants me to go saloon hopping I am just going to say no.

Monday September 20 In Texas

It is Monday. September 20. I am up after the sun.

I have nothing else to say, except I am going swimming now.

Sushi & Squirrels At Village Creek Natural Historic Area

No, that is not my bike sitting out on my patio. It is my bike sitting on the patio overlook on the Village Creek Pond.

The Village Creek Pond rose above the railing in the recent flood, leaving behind a lot of grassy debris stuck in the railings, some of which is of the vine sort that has now sprouted pink flowers.

Yes, I know, I went on a sunset bike ride last night at River Legacy Park. Why would I be back on my bike again today?

Well, the past three days I have spent a lot of time in Austin. Every once in awhile I need a break. So, today, at noon, the break was biking at Village Creek Natural Historic Area and the Pioneer Trail of the Bob Findlay Linear Park.

There was a surprising number of bikers biking today.

The only animals I saw, besides humans, were one turtle in the Village Creek Pond and one very squirrely squirrel that waited til the last second to make a dart for my bike's front wheel. I've decided to stop trying to avoid hitting the little monsters, because that is going to cause me a bike wreck. So far I have not ridden over one, but today was close.

Currently I am in I am stuffed with sushi mode. The sushi I got at Town Talk yesterday turned out to be about the tastiest sushi I remember tasting. But. There was way too much of it.

I may have to go on a sunset hike on the Tandy Hills tonight to work off this load of sushi. In the meantime I think I am going to San Antonio.

Early Sunday Morning In Texas With No Fireflies

As you can see, via the view from my patio, I am up way before the sun, for the first time in several days, this Sunday of September 19 in Texas.

I don't know what got me up so early this morning, particularly since I was up til past midnight.

I was pedaling in River Legacy Park last night when the sun made its exit, but I saw nary a single firefly. Maybe firefly season is over.

I have only seen fireflies on two occasions. Once at River Legacy Park and once at Concert in the Gardens in the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. The night I went to Concert in the Gardens the theme was Star Wars. The fireflies fit the theme perfectly.

I have been told that fireflies fly above the Tandy Hills when the sun goes down. But, I have never been on the Tandy Hills when the sun goes down. Maybe today I will experience that.

I hear the birds starting up their morning meet and greet with the sun. Annoying little chirpers. This indicates I will be pool bound shortly. After the sun lights up the place.

A River Legacy Park Sunset With Bugs & Floods

At about the point where the 4 mile marker is, on the paved trail at River Legacy Park, I glanced to my left and saw the sun sitting on top of the tree line, on its final fall into sunset mode.

When I saw the sun, almost the entire globe was still above the tree line. The sun sets so fast in these parts that by the time I got the camera out and aimed, the sun had almost totally fallen behind the trees. I think no more than 15 seconds could have passed, maybe 20. That is one fast setting sun.

I was a bit disappointed in River Legacy Park tonight. Usually on Saturday evening the park is real busy, BBQs making for good smells, groups having parties. And often a wedding in the park pavilion. But, tonight there were not a lot of people. And no wedding.

Maybe people abandoned the park due to the annoying swarms of no-see-um teeny flies that hit me like a swat in the face, time and again, tonight, as I did my pedaling. I have been assaulted by these annoying insects previously. But why tonight? This is their first appearance at River Legacy Park since I've been back biking there.

I started off my pedaling tonight by heading out on the trail that leads to the west. Prior to the new trail being opened, a few years back, with the new bridge across the Trinity and miles of new trail, I used to bike and roller blade this section of trail frequently.

I thought I'd check it out and maybe see how the west end of the mountain bike trail is doing, as that is easily accessed from the west terminus of the paved trail.

Well, as you can see in the picture, I was thwarted in my attempt to pedal to the west end of the River Legacy Park Trail by water still being over the trail. The mountain bike trails are just to the south of this section of paved trail. This does not bode well for the mountain bike trails. It'll be a long long time before they are back in pedal mode.

So, that has been my exciting Saturday night, so far. A beautiful sunset, a bike ride. And a lot of bugs.

Yet One More Trek Down The Tandy Highway With Sushi & Survivor

In the picture we are looking north on the Tandy Highway, deep in the Tandy Hills Natural Area.

Yes, I know I was on the Tandy Hills last night. Being back again at noon the next day does seem a bit excessive. But, I had need for some peaceful solitude and aerobic stimulation. And nothing provides both quite as well as the Tandy Hills, that is within a short distance from my abode.

Last night the temperature was much more pleasant than I'd experienced on the Tandy Hills for quite some time. It had me thinking I might need to re-think when I schedule my hiking.

Today, at noon, it was 85, with direct sun overhead, making it feel warmer than last night's 92. The 85 may have felt hotter than last night's 92, but there was a good breeze today and sort of the sensation of a chill in the air. Very nice.

After I was done with the hills I headed to Town Talk.

Saturday is my favorite Town Talk day. It's busy and there seems to be a good chance that something randomly good will show up. That was the case today. Something was in the Town Talk cooler that I never would have thought I would see at Town Talk.

Sushi.

And people were grabbing up the sushi, many expressing surprise at finding sushi while doing their Town Talk treasure hunting.

That's my Town Talk Sushi Delights in the picture. 40 pieces of assorted California Rolls, Shrimp Rolls, Tempura Rolls and Shrimp Nigiri, with Wasabi, Pickled Ginger, Soy Sauce and something called Sweet Sauce.

I used to get a big platter of sushi like this in Washington Costcos. I've not seen sushi in a Texas Costco.

I would have had the sushi for lunch, but I'd already baked Cornish Game Hens and made mashed spuds. Sushi tomorrow.

While eating lunch today I turned on the TV and learned something new that I did not know my TV did. I had not realized the new Survivor started up this week. I knew it had moved to Wednesday night, but my DVR somehow did not get the memo and did not record it.

No big loss. If I really wanted to watch it I could watch it online, I thought.

When I turned on the TV and clicked the DVR to switch to my "Favorites" list I saw "Video on Demand." I'd looked at that before, but not too much. This time I saw something that made me click it. Next thing I knew I was in the Network shows on demand part. I got to CBS and there it was.

Survivor.

And so I watched Survivor during lunch. How does this type thing work? I don't get it. AT & T's U-Verse DVR thing somehow can send a TV show to one random TV set? I also don't get how this works on the computer. It seems as if it'd be such a bandwidth hog.

I try not to ponder too long on things I know I'll never understand. This is why I don't get headaches.

That and excessive exercise. As in, I think I'm going to go on a sunset bike ride at River Legacy Park tonight. Saturday night is the funnest night at that park. Lots of people. And if I am lucky a wedding will be taking place in the pavilion. Ask yourself what type of person would have a wedding at a place where the restroom facilities are a pair of outhouses and you'll get why River Legacy weddings can have an amusement factor.

Up Late September 18 Thinking About Gar The Texan's New Wife Search

I think it is 3 days in a row now that the sun is getting up before me.

I think this directly correlates to my new habit of viewing the sun setting whilst being aerobically stimulated. I like my new habit.

But, I do not like waking up after the sun does.

More than one person has asked me what's become of the Queen of Wink.

Well, the Queen of Wink is fine, but she has had to concentrate on her realm, which has left little time to be on the computer.

As for Gar the Texan. Okay, okay, no one has asked about Gar the Texan.

So, Gar the Texan is taking off for Germany tomorrow, staying in Europe for over a month, doing an intensive hunt to find a new wife.

I am assuming Germany is just the base of the wife search operation and that the actual search will take place in other countries. It seems to me, and I have done extensive thinking on this subject, knowing as I did, that a German was not a good match for Gar the Texan's extremely quirky personality, that an Italian, Spanish, Dutch or Swedish wife might work.

It will be interesting to see what Gar the Texan brings back with him from Europe this time.

In the meantime, I am going swimming.