Here are the guns described below !

The rifle lying on the counter is an AR-15, choice of the American Armed Forces, and the Texas Prison System! The 12 Gauge Shotgun on the wall is called a Stage Coach gun and is the choice of the Hells Angels, fits well on a motorcycle !

We revisited Victoria ,Texas,  Coletto Creek Park, we seen eleven deer in a herd  and also a Crested Cara Cara, looks like a small eagle, and turkey vulture all in one, a beautiful bird! Turns out it is from South America and rarely seen in the southern US.

We camped in Livingston State park , they claim a 114 pound catfish was caught there many years ago, I fished , but caught nothing, you are allowed to fish without a license in any Texas State Park, but if you stay in a National Park in Texas, you need a license, go figure! 

Trish made so many pancakes, I ate them for days, pancakes with jam, pancakes with peanut butter and jam, pancakes with pickles and so on!  We visited the Texas State Prison Museum, we seen the electric chair that they used for 30 years before going to the needle to eliminate all the assholes. It was very interesting to me after my 25 years in the prison system.  When they showed the collection of weapons used to kill guards, I was able to identify with the T-Bone steak bone as a weapon, I had a friend stabbed in the throat with the same type of bone in Halifax, he could never speak or work again!  Also we never had T-Bone steaks on Sundays for supper again!  Also a Warden was killed one time with his own handgun in Texas!  No guns in the Canadian provincial systems, those guns in the Federal system, are few also, shotguns over the dining hall and gym with scatter shot to prevent other inmates from being killed and rifles in the wall turrets, with orders to shoot escapees only in the lower legs, the guards in the dining hall and gym are locked in a cage above the inmates.  The Texas guards over the years had guns while on horseback ,while supervising workers,,and manys the times the guns  were taken away from the guard, to execute him!

Well, today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), in English, or as we know it home, Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day.  We had to pass up the shenanigans with all our rowdy friends in Mamou, Louisiana, but we are celebrating by having pancakes for breakfast here in East Texas Whoopie yi a !, maybe this evening, we will wine a bit while playing cards, that will make us feel better!  We are off soon to Huntsville, Texas to see the Texas State Prison Museum, then down to the Padre Island National Seashore on the Gulf. We have had some weird weather, 80 degrees, then below freezing at night, then rain, thunder and lightning, very foggy, but you don't have to shovel any of it!

Wow! What fluctuations in the weather, we went from 80 degrees the other day to waking up today to freezing temps.   The only good thing is it keeps down the bugs, Trish is so bitten that we had to pass up the Mardi Gras in Mamou, she just wouldn't be able to enjoy it, with all her itching . So settled here in East Texas until it warms, then heading for the most southern part of Texas, Brownsville, just about the same latitude as Key West, Florida, surely these cold, cold days have to end soon!