On this Friday the 13th of October I'm going to venture off the real estate subject matter.

Heather forwarded this video/story on to me from Texas Country Reporter, which is a show in Texas that covers all sorts of human interest and other uniquely Texas type stories.  This particular segment is a great little story about a dog name Skidboot.  There's not much I can say that the story doesn't say itself.  It's just one of those stories that brings a smile to your face.

A friend of mine was asking the, admittedly silly, question as to whether butterflies were overrunning Austin.  I actually haven't noticed them too much but he wrote that he had to roll up his window during lunch to keep them from flying in his car.  During the course of the discussion there were two reasons raised:  1. the smailler, snout-nosed butterflies left their natural habitat in search of water due to the drought;  2. the flight path of the monarch to their wintering site in the transvolcanic range in Mexico.  Apparently these Monarchs migrate 2,500 miles (the only insect that can fly that far) to their destination in Mexico, the Oyamel fir trees.  That's pretty amazing and I guess Austin must be in the flight path.

One last item - not Austin or Texas related but something I want to note.  CBGB in NYC will have it's last show in the current famed location on Sunday, October 15.  The last time I was in New York I was able to visit the club and now I'm especially glad I did.  It kind of brings similar feelings as passing of local music landmarks such as Liberty  Lunch and Steamboat  1874.  I hate seeing any of these places become a part of 'history' and victims of what comes under the label of 'progress'.  If I remember correctly, both CBGB and Steamboat were a result of landlord/rent increse issues.  CBGB has stated that they will reopen in a new location and might even also open in another city (cities) but the musical history of the place is in the Bowery (can they take the walls with them?).  Steamboat tried to make a go of it when they got kicked out by the higher rental offer from the carpetbaggers, errrr, new tenant, by setting up in a location off of Riverside Drive, but it just wasn't the same.  I actually played the 'new' Steamboat a couple weeks before it closed for good.  Liberty Lunch was kicked out by so that the city could build a new city hall.  In the spirit of Halloween I'll end this paragraph with this thought - boooooooooooo.