Football back

And I mean real football and not soccer. Yesterday was first pre-season game with Houston Texans’ and New York Jets playing at Reliant Stadium in Houston, also covered on TV. I lost 1’st quarter, Laila working late and when she was home dinner needed to be served, part of my duty. But then I could sit down and enjoy a well deserve d victory by the Texans’

Chris Ogbonnaya caught a touchdown pass from Matt Leinart and ran for the winning score in the fourth quarter of the Texans’ 20-16 win. The regular starters only played the first quarter, saving them for more important games when season starts, but many of the new comers did well like the seventh-round draft pick Greg McElroy, the former Alabama star.

It was a warm evening so they had to put the roof on at Reliant Stadium. It was day 15 with above 100F and another 8 to come according forecast. Houston has to go back to 1980 to have more so this time the record will be smashed. Another record up to be beaten is how many days during the year will be above 100F, it was 1980 that had 32 and we are at 26, someone who had a bad summer?

Now we have water restriction in Houston. Resident in Houston face fines after the city issued mandatory water conservation measures. City Council approved moving to stage 2 of the city’s conservation plan Monday because of the severe drought and continuously decreasing water levels in Lake Houston.

Under stage 2, residents are only allowed to water between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. However with even-numbered addresses are allowed to water on Sunday and Thursdays, while odd-numbered addresses are allowed to water on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

Watering during times other than those specified may result in fines of hundreds of dollars.

Last challenge for the day is when you are out driving, I am not sure if it is due to lack of water or other reasons, but be aware of crossing Alligators. A wayward alligator was struck and killed on SH 288 early Sunday morning. A family had their car disabled during the encounter with the 10-foot alligator. The alligator died and good to have animal control around who could remove the “sweet” animal.