Just A Strolling To The Avenue Center Groundbreaking

Houston is beautiful.  It is full of beautiful and awesome people.  TWWIM picked me up and drove me part of the way to the groundbreaking.  Avenue has been working in the Northside for a good while now.  Many homeowners have been helped to make their homes more livable but also building new affordable homes and affordable multifamily buildings close to transit.  This building will allow all of their services to be in one location plus many other partners to be in this same place easily reached by the red line, the Irvington bus and for some of us just a stroll away to help us and the community be healthy.  There will also be a chance for many of us to help with this effort.

I began the first few short blocks

 Then TWWIM picked me up

 and put me down

 In time to enjoy

 where I was

 Adjust to change coming

People

 Mary Lawler

 Mayor Turner

 BBVA Compass

BBVA CEO

 Tom McCasland

 Cassandra Silvernail

A bunch of great folks

 Turning

 the dirt

There goes the red line

 Machell Blackwell, great help to our students, Mayor Turner, fellow Coog and myself

Avenue Board and Staff

Avenue Staff

 Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

And

 then

 the

 beautiful

 stroll

 through

 oops

 our

 diverse

 changing

 still

 beautiful

 neighborhood

 almost

 here

 where this space

 is becoming the beginnings of the physical Houston Open System Technology Universe

re:3D and Coastal Venturing

It has been a wonderful week but I really should slow down a bit.  Venturing is what TWWIM and I call it when we just head out with little direction in mind.  re:3D is a really cool company located in the Houston NASA area that had an open house today.  TWWIM and I had a fantastic time visiting them.  Then we headed out looking for ion changes caused by large bodies of salt water.  Meandered sort of the wrong direction for that by heading North on Bay Area Blvd but corrected course when we reached Fairmont.


Over the port

 and

 on

 to

 the

 South

 with

 great

 anticipation

 great balls of moss

 yep

 and memories of the Grand Prize Game

 There it is!!!

 Wow

 And she is building instead of tearing down

 Tear down is one of her favorite activities

 Circle would be flange for Space Shuttle toilet

 For students to learn

 while I thought how neat, they are ready for Halloween

 There is some 100 degrees centigrade printing happening

 so print a stapler as a door handle

 or a cool tool shelf

 Aw, the 3D coolness of this did not image well

 This did though.

 So are you a 3D printing ninja?

 3D in 3D on a wall in a 3D world

 Bling

 and patches or badges

 with field notes

 keee yaaaaa!!!

 In motion

Layers

 Pellets or Filament?

 and more

Relief

 Wall plates

 Wow not sure what she built but that is neat wall sign

 and I decided this is a random forest

 Kingly

 Majestic

 and planters with seeds

 Now off to the edge

 over there

 furry

 kitty

 cuteness

 with

 friends

 was

 very

 needed

 and

 welcome

 Then boats

 more boats

 No way she needs

 this

 Menu

 yep

 Pelican eggs

 mushrooms

 gooey goodness, bacon in pepper

 The Strand

 big boat

 and

 we

 she

 one ringy dingy

 two ringy dingy

 and me

 Hi

 low

 color

 I have needed this before

 so

 like a kid in a candy shop

 She was so excited

 and our ions

 are

 refreshed

 All men need an island