Accomplished a lot today

A couple of hours of pretty good, lower level, pickleball this morning was a great follow up to two hours of higher level yesterday. We played in the afternoon yesterday and it was too hot to be really fun but the group was great and the play pretty competitive. This morning was nice and cool and more playground. It loosened me up which was nice.

Dana and I just got back from voting




Texas has their cute voting stickers.

There was a line and it took an hour from the time we left to when we got back. So half an hour on line. Not too bad. And the group is always interesting. We had some late 20's kids with metal in various piercings in front of us.

I always think back to North Carolina where I never voted in person but I do remember that they closed the state run package stores on November 6th. There was absentee voting but everyone else went to their local school or fire station to vote. Big machines with curtains and levers that you pulled down like switches. And you could pull down the one at top and vote all Republican or all Democrat. That is Dixiecrat really, I guess.

But no alcohol sales in the state.

I also paid taxes today. Property tax on the fractions of oil wells that Dana owes. About $500 a year. Used to be a real surprise to me. Now I'm ready for it.

I could have waited to pay the property taxes and could have waited to vote but having both out of the way is nice.

Now I can safely and gratefully turn off the news.

I just bought Chris Wallace's book on the 1960 election.  I can revert to history.  I'm listening to Rachel Maddow's really researched podcast, ULTRA too.

All the history helps put things in perspective.