How much do you love the town you live in?

[Whateverist]

I did grow up military. My father died in service as an Army Ranger and my mom was in the army literally my entire childhood.

Very sorry for your loss but I'm sure you're proud of him.

I hadn't lived away from a military post until I was 23. I prefer the structure of the military lifestyle so I prefer living in Cove to Austin.

I can relate but as soon as I got away I never wanted to go back, though I might have felt differently if my father had been a fallen war hero. As a boy I got the standard military haircuts until I got to high school. As soon as I got out on my own I grew my hair as long as it would go, you know, in rebellion and to celebrate my freedom. Now I'm back to wearing it short, celebrating my freedom from all that hot, stuffy, inconvenient hair.

After so much structure Austin is too... wild for me. It is too hippy, too out there weird. I do like the politics in Austin because they are more open minded I just can't do the physical city.

Berkeley is tame compared to San Francisco but far more hippy. We like to complain that the money which should go to fixing our war zone streets is going instead to maintaining sister city relations with ever single country on the planet. I've already complained about retiring to a college town so I won't go there again. Building codes are very tight, tough when you live in a 100 year old warehouse.

Central Texas was in drought for 7 years and then the past two springs were all water. I don't like it. I prefer the dry heat but I reckon we kinda hafta have water to drink so I won't complain too much. The high today is 100F so I'm happy now.

We've had a pretty bad drought the last few years too. Looking forward to a good flood .. some day. If the low clouds burn off we may yet get above 70 today, a good day to do things.

Also that is my little sister. I love photography so I make my sisters go on 'photo shoots' lol

Assuming they're of age, feel free to share the other photos in Area 69.