Pictures from around and about...

At Vista Ridge Mall, or... now... Music City Mall - the inside shopping center that used to be closest to our house in Coppell - it was purchased sometime in the past couple of years. It still has the big anchor stores (Sears, Penneys, Dillards, Macys), but there have been a lot of empty spaces inside the mall.We stopped by there a few days ago...

... I was surprised but pleased to see this at the door!

https://www.lewisvilletexan.com/news/news/local-news/say-hello-to-music-city-mall-at-vista-ridge/

I was getting some tests done and this picture was in the room where the test was done... I asked the technician where the picture had been taken and she did not know. I thought it may have been an older building, but I researched it and it is from the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth - built in 1998.

This is an odd picture at an odd angle - it is from behind a cabinet in the "wall" of Miss Doozie. We had noticed a leak in the wet bay when we were running water in all three sinks at the same time. Mike here at NIRVC discovered a pipe behind the shower that had been gnawed by a rodent. We don't think it is recent damage, and he was able to patch it with epoxy... but finding it and getting to it to repair it was a challenge! He had to cut a hole through the back of the cabinet next to the shower in order to access the pipe and patch it.

We decided to close our safety deposit box on this trip through the DFW area - thus a picture of our empty box! The bank person with whom we worked to close the box asked if we were moving out of the area, and we said that we were... he said that is the only reason people close safety deposit boxes - that they are very hard to obtain! I guess banks are no longer building space in their new branches for safety deposit boxes. It seems to me that the materials that we used to have in it are now stored electronically (stock certificates, savings bonds, negatives from pictures) and that there may be less demand, but he said that Coppell has a lot of residents from India and they all want safety deposit boxes for their papers.

So... I was looking around the safety deposit box room and saw this near the door - it says, "Emergency Ventilator - Snorkel". Huh? Why is this in the safety deposit box room? In case you get locked in after the bank closes??? I think you can always get *out* of the room, but not in? Call me "confused"!!!

At Fry's Electronics we saw "Pet-ture Perfect Treat Launcher" - I think this must work better for dogs than it would for cats...

But then I saw this "Pet Hammock" which definitely is a kitty item - it indicates it is "Reversible for leopard print or beige"... Maybe small dogs would like as well...