eeds four catches for his second 100-reception season. Colts receiver T.Y.Hilton, last year’s NFL champion in yards receiving,

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The Creosote had yet to bloom. The bang of little red flowers spurting out of the ends of barbed wire Ocotillio had just turned the faucet. Big blooms from Yucca were waiting for nights to open up. The free unabted stretches of desert were filled with wild flowers, and the highway was lined with blue flowers, there isn’t a part of this state that old woman didn’t reach, but the back end, toward the river, around and behind the mountains, were missing the circles of flowers under shady outreaches. A mama and her baby had a cactus breakfast together. It was almost spring, it just wasn’t all the way there. Now is the time to seize these things. So next weekend I’ll drive all the way out there, hike the never seen before Marufo Vega, wear sun screen, and turn right back around and wonder why am I even going back. A friend of mine are fans of Lucero. We’ve seen them like eight times. Twice of which were doing Christmas time in Memphis. They always play a big Christmas show there, and they play another, an enormous block party, every April. The plan as of now is to go out there for it, and probably for the last time. I got other shows to go to too: Daughters next week, Kacey in two weeks, Turnover/Turnstile next month Zach Fulton Jersey , PUP and Earl the month after that. I’ve been to the Grand Canyon every year since 2012, which started this disease. The first time I saw something inside me popped and bubbled. It was like true love on the big screen. There some horizontal stretches in the park I still want to mess around on. Maybe Memorial Day. If not, I have some friends on the East Coast and would like to go back to NYC and actually stay up super late in all that rot this time. I got friends going to Mexico at the end of July. There are rivers to swim in after big long knee aching runs. There’s a hike in Mount Ranier called the Wonderland Trail, where you walk 96 miles all the way around Mount Rainer, that I’ve imagined doing. No water to carry. 15-20 mile days. All I gotta carry is food and some changes of underwear. During Thanksgiving or Christmas I’ve always wanted to go out to the Smoky Mountains when it’s freezing. And crunch around those mounds of Earth when no one is up there. Every since I read Suttree I want to hit that same absurdist spot. If not, the Mojave and the desert is habitable again. While I lived there I never went to Mojave National Preserve. It’s a quick drive after a flight into Las Vegas. There is also the newly established Mojave Trails National Monument. It sounds perfect. One road, no hotels, and lots of places to walk. After reading Desert Solitaire again, reading and listening to The Desert Oracle, and watching that episode of The Sopranos, where Tony eats peyote in Vegas and greets the desert, I have that big itch, and am dying to buy some cheap land instead of a new car at some county auction. Those are my big plans to splay myself open while everything is in bloom. What about you? Do you have any vacation or travel plans, or any spots I should visit along these paths, or new ones in general? Anyways, that’s all I got. The rest is yours to talk about whatever you want. Enjoy your Saturday. INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Houston and Indianapolis head into Sunday’s season finale facing the same plight. With the playoffs out of reach and speculation swirling about the job status of both coaches, they know changes are coming. They’re just not sure how deep they will cut. So the Texans and Colts will spend the last day of this season trying to snap long losing streaks and take a little momentum into a potentially tumultuous offseason. And that, of course, means winning still matters. ”The main thing is you try to go finish strong and try to put great film out there, especially for the younger guys who want to continue playing, and especially for myself Nick Martin Jersey ,” said 34-year-old running back Frank Gore , who can become a free agent in March. ”I just want to win, I don’t care who it is.” On paper, the stakes seem minuscule. Indy (3-12) has lost six straight, the longest skid of coach Chuck Pagano’s six seasons, and is locked into a top-three draft choice. Seventeen players will finish this season on injured reserve, including Andrew Luck, who never played this season. The season has been so challenging that many now believe a third consecutive postseason absence will end Pagano’s tenure in Indy. But he has somehow managed to get Indy’s undermanned roster to play hard week after week, and there’s no reason to doubt they will against the Texans (4-11). ”It’s our last ride together,” Pagano said, perhaps previewing his own expectations about changes. ”We’re going to enjoy and embrace every single second of it and get obsessed with completion. That’s what successful people do – they get obsessed with completion. We need to complete this season. No better way than to go out with a win.” Houston hasn’t had it any easier. The Texans have lost five in a row, eight of nine, and don’t even have a first-round draft pick in April. Houston sent its selection to Cleveland to take Deshaun Watson at No. 12 overall last spring. Watson is now recovering from a torn ACL in his right knee, and his injury coincided with Houston’s subsequent collapse. Some are calling for the ouster of coach Bill O’Brien even though players, including Watson, believe O’Brien should get another chance. ”The last couple of weeks we haven’t done a good job of helping him (O’Brien) out,” quarterback T.J. Yates said. Will those lobbying efforts be enough to save Pagano or O’Brien with fan bases clamoring for meaningful wins? Those decisions are likely to come Sunday night or Monday morning. But until then, the goal remains unchanged: win. ”They’re paying us to go out there and play hard and to coach well, and you’re getting handed a paycheck to go coach and play, so it’s your job,” O’Brien said. ”It’s your duty to the National Football League Cullen Gillaspia Houston Texans Jersey , it’s your duty to your teammates, it’s your duty to the Houston Texans to go out there and play very hard. Our guys will do that.” Here are some other things to watch Sunday: THE POSTGAME SPEECHES: The first inkling Pagano, O’Brien and the players know what’s coming could come during postgame news conferences. In previous years, coaches have dropped hints or gotten emotional in the aftermath of what they thought could be their final game. Expect more of that this weekend, and not just in Indy. While the rest of the league remembers Jim Mora’s ”playoffs” rant, Colts fans also remember Mora punching the backdrop screen and tearing up just before he was fired following the 2001 season THE NUMBERS: As the season winds down, statistical goals take on greater significance and there will be plenty of intrigue in this game. Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins needs four catches for his second 100-reception season. Colts receiver T.Y.Hilton, last year’s NFL champion in yards receiving, is 48 yards away from his fifth consecutive 1,000-yard season. Houston running back Lamar Miller, who ran 149 yards against the Colts early in 2016, is exactly that from his third 1,000-yard season. And Gore can become the third player in league history with two 1,000-yard seasons after turning 33 – if he finishes with at least 139 yards. THE SIDELINE: Luck hasn’t been seen on the Colts’ sideline since early October.Everything could change this weekend. Luck returned from his European rehab trip this week and could be back on the field, in street clothes, Sunday. THE AUDITIONS: While everyone inside the organizations talk about winning, the reality is this weekend also serves as an audition for players young, old and recently signed. Both organizations have recently added players who they may want to see in action this weekend. ”We all have to enjoy these last couple days and try to put good film out there for the other 31 teams,” Gore said. —