But, it still hasn't rained here. We had the air conditioner running since we got here last Sunday with highs near 90 each day and high humidity. Just went out riding the trike a bit (before the Nebraska-Michigan football game to start) and it was almost chilly at 68 degrees--different than what we had gotten used to.
Well, as usual, I have procrastinated and it is now 8:30 am Sunday - 62 degrees outside, but no real rain fell here.
Watched the Iowa Football game and the Nebraska Football game on TV last night.
Realizing I didn't include pictures earlier on our drive on the Natchez Trace Parkway - here are a few.
Several places we were able to pull off the Parkway and actually walk on the old trace itself.
There was interesting displays at this French Camp along with a small cafe. We were middle of the morning, so did not eat there.
Along the coast as we neared Galveston we saw many houses on high stilts/posts. This is a mobile home elevated - saw a couple of them.
This is example of the many houses built
high up to avoid flooding when high waters come in.
This is a pretty big, old, house not on stilts, though it is built on a high dirt.
We spent two nights in Phyllis' cousin Ruth's house, this photo shows Phyllis and her cousin Janice (Ruth's sister) who had flown in from San Francisco for the weekend to visit us.
Myself and Ruth.
This is photo of Ruth's Galveston house. It is only 1.5 blocks from the gulf. She drove us around showing us much of Galveston Island, though it rained all the time we were there. Hope to go back sometime when the sun is shining.
Had hoped to walk the beach, but weather was nasty.
We stopped in Rockport, TX and ate lunch Sunday with Bessie & Don Runyan. Got a photo of Don in front of their 5th-wheel, but didn't get a photo of Bessie -- guess I am slipping.
This tall cactus is now above the roof-line. It was 6" tall when I rescued it from a neighbor's rain gutter 4 or 5 years ago.
The pine tree was 6" tall when I planted it about 4 years ago. It is getting close to being shade from the west sun in late afternoons.
We had our first, of the season, game of Manipulation with neighbors Marion & Ardel Finken and Darlene & Bill Winslow on Friday evening at Winslows.
I have finally gotten the photos taken on the 2-week trip from Iowa to
Texas on separate files in my Picasa website. For some reason many of
the descriptions haven't uploaded, but imagine they will finally catch
up. Here are websites of the various files of those photos; look at
them if you like:
Click on the link, or copy and paste each into your browser.
After attending the funeral for Lyle's 57 year old nephew, we will heading south. We will leave either Thursday afternoon or early Friday morning.Hope to see you guys soon.
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