Polewach on the Road 2012

The year started with my birthday celebration.  We had dinner at the Olive Garden since I always choose Italian on my birthday.   Dale got me a lovely patio chair, electric scissors, and numerous goodies.  Cards, flowers from my friends, man oh man I had a great day. 

A birthday gift for myself!  

We made another trip to the State Park to see some more of the colorful Texas birds. 

 My dog park friend, Judy also has a January birthday so we were off to Tony Romas to celebrate again.  Birthday cake was actually a trip to Ben and Jerry's ice cream.  No one actually had any room left for dessert but we managed somehow.

Norm and Shelley join Judy, Carl, Dale and I for
some cocktails on our patio.

Judy is an awesome dog photographer and travels around the country with her husband, Carl taking photographs of dogs at dog shows.  Here are two photos she made for me.  We're thinking of making pillows out of them.

 

Quintan Matzalan State Park


This State Park is part of the Texas Birding Trail.  It also has a historical adobe home.  Very impressive both inside and out.  

 

Nice fireplace and the tile work was remarkable.

Tub or indoor pool????

It was a blast from the past walking through this lovely historic home.

Hildago Pumphouse


The Hildago Pumphouse is now a museum, but back in the early 1900's it supplied water to all the Farms in the Rio Grande Valley.  Water was pumped from the Rio Grande and then flowed across the valley in canals aided by the force of gravity.   The Pumphouse still had a couple of Christmas displays up and I was thrilled to see my friend Elvis in front of Graceland.

 

Hey is that Elvis by Graceland?

This was part of a Christmas
display at the Pumphouse