Only 2 days till football!  GO VOLS!!!

Anyway, we had a beautiful sunrise this morning:

There's a town near us (Luling, TX) and they paint some of the oil pumpers as whimsical different things. I've only gotten a picture of one of them so far, but here it is:

I know the picture is small, but it's a grasshopper. More to come soon!

Jimmy was helping to move some campers around a few days ago, and this is one of the ones he moved:

Not sure what vintage it is. There is a group that is coming here in a couple weeks that all have vintage rigs and this is one of them.

Finally, a couple pictures of a flowering bush that I've seen around here. Someone told me it is called Esperanza. All I know is that they are absolutely gorgeous when they are blooming. I managed to catch a bee in one of the blooms (guess I'm getting good at that!).

Till next time, safe travels to all.

So, we are counting down the days till we leave here--19 or so as of today. 

We were off on Wednesday, so we drove over to Hondo to see the park where we will be working this winter. And we just loved it!! The couple that gave us a tour was great, and the people we met were hoping we were there that day instead of a month or so away. And we won't have to deal with too much of San Antonio's traffic when we head that way, either. I didn't take any pictures, but will have some when we get there in October.

I'm still looking for some prickly pear fruit so I can make a few jars of jelly. We've had so much rain, and only had sun the last 3-4 days, so hopefully when we're off next week, we'll be able to find some ripe fruit. Keeping fingers crossed!!

Only 5 more days till start of college football season!! Can't wait. Go VOLS!!

Fentress, TX update

Well, we are at the end of our second week in the booming metropolis of Fentress, TX (not booming, not a metropolis!!).

I'm only working a couple days each week and Jimmy is working at least 5 days. They don't want to really teach me anything about using Campground Master--which was partially the reason we came here, to see how a non-KOA park works! And it sure makes us appreciate all the KOA places we've been.

I haven't really gotten out to take many pictures, but here are a couple critters I've managed to find, and a couple flowers I found today when I went shopping. So enjoy--

 I think he was posing for me. Wasn't at all scared when I drove up on a golf cart.

 This guy was sitting on the cart return at the grocery store a couple days ago. Wasn't too scared at all.

I like how this flower is facing me and there's one in the background facing the opposite direction.

We are planning to try to take a day trip to Hondo, TX to see the SKP Co-op where we will be working this winter. They invited us to come over and get the grand tour, so we plan to take them up on the offer. So perhaps I'll come back with more pictures.

We are also keeping an eye out to find some prickly pear fruit so I can make a few jars of jelly. Keep fingers crossed that we can find some! It's not as plentiful here as it was in Carlsbad, so it may be an iffy proposition, but we'll see if we can find some.

That's it for this update. More updates to come--

Here's a picture of us set up in Fentress. We have trees! And are able to leave our awning out--been a very long time since we've been able to do that. Not much space between sites, but it's still good.

Well, we made it to Fentress, TX over the weekend. This park is large, and extremely busy on the weekends. Right on the San Marcos river, so it has tube rentals and a shuttle to drop off tubers. So it stays very busy.

Haven't gotten any pictures yet, but will in the next day or two.

More later---