Thursday night musings.

I probably should be watching this week’s episode of “Project Runway” but I haven’t posted anything to the Howdygram yet today and started to feel little guilty while I was eating dinner.

Dinner, for your possible interest, consisted of leftover egg foo young and a peach yogurt.

Here’s the latest wildfire news from Texas — more than 1,400 homes have been incinerated by the Bastrop fire near Austin, which is still burning out of control. At certain times of the day there’s a faint smell of smoke in the air here and Sam says there’s a visible haze as well. The smell and haze are NOT from the Austin fire, however, because Austin is 220 miles away. They’re either from a fire in far northeast Texas and/or from the Possum Kingdom State Park fire near Fort Worth.

Sam and I are making weekend plans. It’s our wedding anniversary on Saturday, which requires an obligatory restaurant meal for lunch or dinner — maybe BOTH, if I play my cards right — and on Sunday we’re considering either the Dallas Home and Garden Show at the Market Center downtown or a leisurely drive up north to Treeland to pick out a Chinese pistache (see photo below) for the front yard. I’m damn excited about ALL of this.

I’d better get busy watching “Project Runway” now. I always like to get this out of the way when Sam isn’t home because he is NOT a fan of fruity wannabe designers (two appear below from last season) who argue and gossip like a clique of snotty 14-year-old girls. I guess Sam just doesn’t have an appreciation for fine television programming.

Thank you for reading this.