Various Thoughts as September Begins!

Finally it's September! Yay! I'm happy to report that the temps in big D will be in the 80's by Monday and stay in the 80's all week. Sweet! I can certainly handle that! This summer was a scorcher. It appears though we've turned the corner and for the foreseeable future the scorching heat is behind us. Whew!

Remember how I mentioned a few month ago that a In-N-Out Burgers is being built near me? Well it's getting closer and closer to being completed. Don't worry I'll definitely be in line at some point during it's first few days when it opens. I happened to go by there the other day and I must admit I was shocked at how it looks. It doesn't look like the traditional In-N-Out that I grew up seeing. It's been made to fit in with the rest of the businesses in the area. Complete with the right shade of taupe and faux brick. Now back in May the new Petco suddenly changed the look of it's main entrance just weeks after opening. So it's rather apparent that I live in an area that has some pretty stiff building codes. When I first moved here to TX one of the first things I noticed was BRICK! Real brick and faux brick on houses, on businesses, even on the roads(crosswalks). There's a serious obsession with brick here! Kind of odd to see a In-N-Out with brick work.

I've noticed Halloween stuff popping up in stores. The boys won't be dressing up but I still look through the Halloween costumes for dogs each time I go into a store that features them. I look because it's funny to see what they've come up with each year for dogs. If I tried to dress the boys up in a silly costume they would both be certain I had gone nuts! Truly flipped my lid this time! I can only imagine the glances they would give me and each other as I struggled to put them in a hot dog costume or a dinosaur costume! Lol!!! Although, Simon would surely love the idea of trick-or-treating. He would hope for bones galore!