Hico, TX & Billy the Kid

                                                How about a pair of Texas sized spurs?

We are nearing the end of your time in Glen Rose and today we drove down to Hico to visit the Billy the Kid museum.  There was a fellow in Hico who claimed to be Billy the Kid and lived out the rest of his life.  He claimed Pat Garrett didn't kill him but another fellow.  True or not?  Don't know..

Ride to the farmers market

Saturday morning we went for a ride in the country to a farmers market.  Here's some pictures from the truck.  You will not see any of the farmers market because it wasn't much of a market.  No fresh vegetables or fruit.  We did buy a loaf of snicker doodle bread (it was quite good!) and a bottle of home made ginger ale.
Sunday morning we went to a cowboy bible study here at the park.  I think the two leaders were real cowboys.....hats, boots & spurs but they came & went in a 1 ton Chevy dually diesel, not on horses.
After that we went out to a local restaurant for breakfast and some grocery shopping.  In the afternoon I cleaned up the truck some more and drained the water and dirt from the fuel filter as a problem indicator came on.  Judy made taters, broccoli & chicken for supper.  We like Sundays in the summer.....all the weekenders and kiddies leave and it's quiet again.

Bye Ingram, hello Glen Rose Texas

Yesterday we left Johnson Creek after our stay of a month.  We made the 220 mile trip in 4 1/2 hours on the back roads enjoying the scenery.  We had a great tail wind and got 9.3 mpg on the twisty and hilly roads.  We arrived about 2pm and set up, it was in the low 90s and Glen Rose was expecting a near record high of 96, don't know if it made it but the AC sure got a good workout.
Today we slept in and Stan & Connie went to Ft Worth for the weekend visiting family so they stopped in Glen Rose (they travel within 1 mile of the park we are in!) and we had a fried pie with them as they took a break.  Long time no see! 

Happy sewers.......happy cat

Judy likes her new sewing machine she purchased just before we left Gulf Shores so she was eager to use it and make some pillow cases when Connie said she had just learned how to this winter while they were at Johnson Creek. 

Patches has been spending lots of time outside and off her leash.  She stays by us, ignores the butterflies, watches the squirrels and tried for one bird.  The bird was quite safe but Patches was happy with her effort.

Return to Fredricksburg

This is old scrappy and the plaque tells the story.

The cactus is blooming and the bees love it!

Saturday we went to Fredricksburg with Stan & Connie. We spent some tine checking out the "stuff" in a large yard art shop then to a German restaurant for some pretty good jager schnitzel.

The campground owners have replaced the horse that died with a rescue horse. After isolating it a few days it was introduced to the other two horses. One could care less while the other, Big Boy, didn't think too much of the new one. It was interesting to watch them run & kick at each other.

Judy used her sewing machine to work on some shorts & pillow cases, before she could start Patches decided to use the pile for a nap. She likes it here and goes outside often, we let her off the leash as she doesn't go far.

Post rally

We haven't been up to much since the rally ended Wednesday. Friends have been pulling out but there are still 5 of us here. We made a return trip to Coopers for more of their great BBQ, and brought more home for later meals. We also went to The Apple Store restaurant for their apple pie and burgers. The pies are $25 & weight 6 pounds plus, they are very good. The stone statue is of an apple with a leaf. In the pictures of the HitchHiker you can see how much the trees have leafed out in 2 weeks from the earlier picture when we arrived. There were no leaves and now lots of leaves. We had to hook up & move 20 feet forward in out site to get satellite TV reception back because of the leaves. Across from our site is a pasture with 3 horses, the 2 donkeys that were there 4 years ago (Sargent & Major) have died & are buried under a large oak in the pasture.

Luckenbach, (Willie & Hank were not there today)

Today we all went to Fredericksburg for a German meal (it was good but not great) then off to Luckenbach for a little country music and some laid back atmosphere. On the way home we stopped to get a picture of this fellow in the pasture a mile or two from the campground. Looks like what might be called a long horn huh?