After 24 years of living in Louisiana we're legally Texicans again. Got
our vehicle registration transferred to Texas today and also got our
driver's licenses and voter registration done. It's good to be home
again. I'm a Native Texan and Miz Anne is a born again Texan. We lived
most of our married life in Texas until we moved across the border to
Cajun Land.

Unpacking is going slowly, we obviously didn't label all the boxes we
packed adequately. They just have room names on most of them so you have
to open them all to find anything. The one thing easy to identify is all
our canning supplies and the cases of canned food we put over the last
year. I labeled them myself so I could find something to eat.

Miz Anne has been worrying over me of late, trying to get me to eat
more. I've dropped from 220 to 190 during the packing, moving, and all
the stress of selling one house and buying another. I'm sort of liking
to be getting down to my fighting weight again.

It will probably be at least a year before we can can anything unless we
start hitting the farmer's markets and the pick-it-yourself farms in the
vicinity. Really going to have to put a lot of work into our small
backyard in order to grow veggies and/or fruit trees. No nearby
neighbors with overloaded fruit trees here, it's mostly all new
subdivisions under ten years in age.

We're slowly getting to know our neighbors, mostly young people in their
twenties to thirties, most with a flock of kids. Of course the kids came
to us first, seems they recognize grand and great grand parents on
sight. Since the elementary school bus stop is in front of our house we
get to meet a lot of them and, in the main, they're a good lot of
rambunctious kids. One little girl wanted me to ride her tiny little
push scooter but I begged off, didn't want them to see a crazy old man
falling off the scooter.

We had green beans we had canned earlier in the year as a side dish for
our dinner tonight, tasted right good too. This is the batch I put a
teaspoon of marjoram in each jar, sort of "brightened" the taste in my
opinion.

George