Sunday, March 6, 2011

All God's Creatures Sunday

We're only in this park for a few more days.  Wednesday we'll be moving on into San Antonio to check out the Alamo and Riverwalk.  We found out in the newspaper today that this weekend was the 175th anniversary of the Alamo, and there was a re-enactment!  There would have been some very cool pictures, right? 
Our couple of weeks here have been such a blessing.  A true rest.  I think we both have refueled now, and are ready to find some new adventure.  I'm sure going to miss the deer.  They're going to miss me too since I bought that great big bag of corn for them!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Spettle Riverside House

This house sits just inside of the Thousand Trails park.  When I look out across the lake here, it's hard to imagine that there are houses and parts of a town under water.  I'm quite sure that happened all over America as the rivers were dammed up.
How they moved it back in 1912 is beyond me. Any ideas?
Oh, I would love to see inside this house! But, it's obviously disintegrating, with no trespassing signs posted all over it.

The house is surrounded by big oak trees like this.
So beautiful.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Fish Tales

The other night we gathered our fishing poles, tackle box, and Shasta, and headed down to the lake with full intentions of bringing home the next night's dinner.  We walked down on to the fishing pier, loaded up the poles with bait, and turned around to notice poor Shasta crouched low and shaking like a leaf in the wind.  I didn't think about her being so scared of the dock moving, especially since she does so well when the motorhome is moving. 

Poor thing!  I won't let her catch a squirrel, chase a deer, or clobber a jack rabbit.  Then to make matters worse, I get her seasick! 

No, we didn't catch any fish.  Went out early this morning with high hopes again.  No fish.  Here's the really rude thing.  The fish were jumping out of the water!  Laughing at us!  Humph!  I'm thinking we weren't offering anything of interest to them.  Okay, at the bait shop the owner said that they (the fish) love hot dogs.  So we'll go back out this evening and try that.  One man said he used chicken livers to catch bass.  Who knew?