much maligned Scorpio

It’s standard to listen to my dear sweet, innocent and much maligned Scorpio mother complain about how unfairly she’s being treated. It’s another thing to let her edit anything. Flying for an hour, listening to them (both parents) on the planes, then a couple of hours in the rent car, I’m pretty sure my original comments stand. I spent some of that time trying to ascertain what the roots of her maiden name were, my dear sweet (and ever much abused) Scorpio mother always claims her heritage as “Scotch Irish.” That’s nice, but all I wanted to know was which one? Is it Scotch or is it Irish? Good, we’ve located a place — now, let’s locate the correct plaid (for my next sport coat, don’t you know). The weather in this part of Texas changes, as soon as the road turns from the Midland – Odessa – Pecos area into something that’s rather magical. Coming out of the hotel, onto the deserted main street of Ft. Davis, there was the points of an incipient Virgo Moon nicely triangulated with Venus, also in Virgo. I talked a Leo into going out to look at the Marfa Lights, but owing to the climatic conditions, we spent a large portion of the evening, sitting in the car and pretending to see the lights. But I did gather some interesting bit of local color, and some of the tales have never been heard before. How about a hotel with this reminder? “Please do not clean game in bath tub” or “Gentlemen will remove hat in dining area” and the ever popular but somewhat cryptic, “Please remove skimasks before entering.”