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Anyone who knows me or reads my blogs knows that I love dragons! Dragons are my very favorite animal (I love dogs too). Dragons on anything or as anything are hard to find in local shops many times.

Their popularity in brick and mortar stores appears to ebb and flow like the tide .. sometimes they will have a wonderful selection and perhaps a month later you cannot find anything anywhere … and in Houston, Texas, anywhere encompasses a lot of shopping territory!

My grandson’s birthday is next month and he too likes dragons so I am shopping online - it is a lot easier on the feet and back to shop from the comfort of home (not to mention how much gas it can save me since looking for dragons can take hours and driving all over Houston which is at least 60 miles across any direction from the center of town). And I’m not using up the minutes on my phone either calling every store in town who says … “oh yes … we have dragons over here 60 miles away” … and when I get there … it is not at all suitable for a 10 year old … if it is even a dragon anyway!

How difficult is it to know if something is a dragon or not? I’m not asking for

This morning was a very stressful morning commute here in the Houston Texas area for me - we had a nasty thunderstorm rolling through about the time I left to drive to work … the lightning was straight up & down and the thunder was booming not long after the lightning flash - and driving down the highway at 65 miles an hour in pouring down rain with that happening is not a lot of fun to begin with … and it is much worse if there is an idjit behind you with those new bright headlites that blind ya who is flashing them at you trying to get you to change lanes … I would have changed lanes if I could have done so safely … but the small SUV in the right hand lane kept speeding up & slowing down matching me to keep me from getting in front of them or behind them in that lane - FINALLY, when I was beginning to expect the small SUV behind me to ram me off the road in their impatience to drive 100 miles an hour in pouring down cats & dog rain - the other one got tired of trying to get me killed this morning.

I was wishing I was home wearing my jammies and