Just Home Visiting

We've pretty much just been catching up with what everyone at home has been doing and visiting. Nolan is doing great after his scare while we were in Texas.....has a couple more doctors appointments but looks like he will have no lasting affects from the stroke. Other than the bad weather that I'm sure most of you have been watching on the weather channel, everything here is calm. Can't wait to head north in a month or so and see what we can see.

Update

We pulled out of Buckhorn RV Resort on the 28th of March heading for Round Top, TX. This is a picture of our vacated site.....I really, really enjoyed this park!
This is a picture of the office at Buckhorn RV Resort. Everything here was so convenient, clean, and nice!

We headed for Round Top, TX, and he biggest Antique Show I've every seen.....this is a picture of a church I thought was cute on the way there.

We had reserved an RV site in Brenham, TX, for two nights and this is a picture from the truck as we were sitting in traffic trying to get back to the Antique Show to look around on Saturday afternoon. We could have looked for two weeks here and still not seen everything! It was fun walking around with Carla though.

Back at the RV, we just sat around the rest of the afternoon until I went to pick up Carla so she could spend the night with us in the RV. Here's where I really lost track of things! Around 4:00 a.m., Nolan woke up not feeling well......couldn't talk him into going to the hospital but around 7:30 a.m., he finally decided we needed to go. Doctors determined that he had a mild stroke and we spent the next 3 1/2 days in the hospital getting all kinds of tests done. They could not find anything major wrong and recommended he see a doctor when we got back to Missouri. Thursday we took off for home and arrived Friday afternoon. We got parked in my sister's backyard and have been catching up with everyone since!

11th Street Bar and Grill and Day Trip

Early in the day Wednesday, Chuck stopped by to invite us to go with them to Bandera to the 11th Street Bar and Grill. You bring your meat to gill on their grills and then pay $4 for sides to go with your meat. It's a country and western bar also. We were going to leave around 4:30 so we could stop at the grocery to get steaks on the way there. Chuck had decided that we would go via Highway 16 instead of the interstate......took a bit longer than our return trip but the scenery was great and of course the company was wonderful! I think we were late though.....not a big deal for me, I'm always late! Yesterday, Thurdays, we had made arrangements with Leona and Jerry to meet at George West to have lunch and be with them for a while before we both head home. Drive there was mostly in the rain. When Leona called to say they were there, we told them to meet us at the Staghorn Restaurant in Three Rivers, TX. What a great place to eat! Everyone else had catfish and I had Stag Burger......really, really good! We visited for a while and had a good time. On the way home we could see the storm in front of us and even went through some heavy rain and wind but we did not get caught in the hail that we saw along the side of the road. Temperature dropped to 58 and by the time we got back to the trailer it was 78. Nolan and I tried out the pool and hot tub and then finished the night in front of the TV.

I took this picture from the truck....the white stuff along the road is hail.....this was at the end of the storm.....it was much thicker up the road. Sure glad we weren't in the middle of it!

Nothing Going On

Since our outing on Saturday, we have done about nothing. Sunday we went to Walmart and ate at Billy Gene's (home cooking type restaurant, not bad food). Yesterday I decided I needed to get Brenna's birthday present before we started home cause I might not have another chance to shop where there was a JC Penney's....they have the best kids clothes. Guess you know what I got her....some flippy flops (that's what Brandi says she calls them) and a couple of outfits to match them.....it's a good thing she can't read yet! Other than that we are just sitting around waiting to head back to Missouri I think. Weather is beautiful so bad weather is not the reason we're not doing anything.

Luckenbach Again and Trade Days

Our adventure today was to hop in Chuck and Kathy's truck with Debbie and Rod and meet Bob and Molly in Luckenbach. Then we were going to the Trade Days they have outside of Fredericksburg and then dinner at a german restaurant in Fredericksburg. I borrowed a few pictures from Debbie cause my camera's battery was going dead when we were at Luckenbach and I didn't want to walk back to the truck.

Chuck and Kathy
Nolan and I (thanks Bob andMolly)
Bob and Molly (thanks Debbie) Debbie and Rod (thanks Bob and Molley)

Debbie and Rod found out from the clerk at the store that the population is now 1.......
One of the first things we did when we got there was check out this steer. At first it looks like it's not alive but it moved it's head and surprised the heck out of us.

Bob insisted that Molly get on to have her picture taken and then of course we all had to stand with her for a picture!

This is Nolan inside the bar.....he doesn't look very happy but it was just the picture.....he had a good time cause he got to drink beer!

They had people playing music under this shelter....just so happens there were tons of bikers there and Luckenbach was celebrating the return of the mud dawber with a festival.

When we left there Chuck and Kathy said we had to stop at this place to see this guy who carves on beer bottles and granite stones. When we got to the door that was open there was a note saying he was at the Trade Days and if we bought something to leave the money in the pot.....very trusting guy and lots of nice carvings!Outside his shop.

So, we were off to the Trade Days.....a hugh flea market with lots and lots of stuff. The others went off to find the carving guy while Nolan took off in the opposite direction. I finally met up with him and he had been through all the buildings but 2 already.
We made plans to meet up back at the truck at 4:00 in case we lost each other and of course we did......this is Chuck and Kathy making their way back to the truck.

Nolan waiting for everyone to get back to the truck......
I was getting hungry, the others not so much.....they had found a booth that was selling jellies, sauces and mixes and I think they tried almost every one of them. However, we still made it to the german restaurant (I can't spell the name). Very good food but not quit as good as The Hub in Waynesville. This is a picture that Debbie took of the whole group.....we sure did have a good day with all these friends!

Comfort, TX

The only thing on the agenda today was going to Comfort to a restaurant that has live music on Friday nights. We had talked to a couple when we were in Alpine at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering and they were from Kerrville. They told us about a place in Comfort where every Friday night they go and play music at a little restaurant that also had pretty good food. So, it had been our plan to go there at least once while we were staying in Kerrville. Tonight was the night. All day we didn't do much of anything else except around 5:00 I walked over to Debbie and Rod's where Cathy and Chuck were joining them for Happy Hour. They invited us to go with them to Luckenbach on Saturday which sounds like a lot of fun. I wandered back to the trailer and Nolan was ready to go.......what a wasted trip! Next time we need to pay better attention to the directions or write them down.....we couldn't find the place. We asked about five different people where it might be and no one knew what we were talking about. So after about 30 minutes of driving around, we headed back to Kerrville and I warmed up Taco Soup for dinner!

Gibson Discount Store

Today was a really slow day.....took my shower early but we didn't get around to doing anything until I mentioned going to the discount store that all the dreamers had mentioned (Gibson Discount Store). What a store....it would take hours and hours to see everything. We didn't really see anything we couldn't live without. We did see a really cute pink ball glove that we thought about buying for Brenna's birthday but I couldn't get her Mom on the phone so we passed that up. We again sat outside.....it's so nice to be able to just sit in the warm weather and relax.....and the dogs really like being outside also. I finally got up and went inside to make spaghetti. After dinner more work on the taxes....wish I had increased my withholdings a little!