November 1, 2012. Harper, Texas. Vote.

Today we voted.  It was an unusual way to vote.  It was the first for us, and we liked it.  When we obtained our Texas drivers license, we also registered to vote, as Texas was now our primary residence.  Junction is the County seat for Kimble county.  At dinner last evening, Joyce told us about early voting.    It was news to us.  I knew about absentee ballots but never the system that for two weeks prior to day of election, a person could go into the court house and vote.  No waiting in lines.  Just walk in and vote,  so we did.

After getting our inspection in Harper for the truck and having breakfast at the Longhorn Cafe while we waited for the truck, Ken and I drove to Junction.  Sure enough, in the court house,  we were registered on their lists,  showed our drivers license, then voted in a tiny room adjacent to the clerk's office.  They had only two machines and six cubicles to fill in the ballot with a pen.  One young man was at one machine, so Ken used the electronic voting while I used the old fashioned way, except after I was finished, I put the paper into a machine that recorded my vote...and then said thank you.  It was all very civilized.

There is something about voting that makes you feel righteous.  When you combine it with driving a truck with a new inspection sticker it made both of us feel positively angelic!!  I am sure it will not last.