When I was a little girl, we used to drive from Dallas to Longview to go visit my grandma. As I had a limited attention span in the car, Mom helped me pass the time by making me count the oil pumps we passed along the way.
There aren’t any oil pumps between San Antonio and Houston, so we decided to count cop cars instead (hey, it’s New Year’s Eve — they should be out in full force!). We saw five.
Here’s a picture of the Houston pines (reminds me of when I was younger).
My mom is a skin cancer survivor, and when she wanted to take her melatonin pill to help her sleep, she said, “I’m going to take my melanoma pill now…”
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