Time to head for Texas!

 48º with drizzly rain at 4:20 pm Tuesday.  To rain off and on into tomorrow most of the day.  We hope to pull out of here, with the travel trailer, by 10:00 am, latest, and about that time 20 MPH wind out of the north is forecast--since we are heading south that will be okay until we get to Kansas City and then head east.  Google maps shows about an 8-hour drive, so hope to get into Cape Camping RV Park by at least 7:30 pm with several stops along the way.  Rain predicted all the way with 20 MPH winds out of North or North-Northeast all the way so will be interesting driving with wind blowing on the trailer.

I spent several hours Saturday cutting down trees on the farm.  Will now have to wait until April to pursue that. 

The thorns on these Honey Locust trees are about as mean as I have run into. Click HERE for info on the tree and the thorns. I think they are considered as an invasive tree and to be gotten rid of.  I watched a YouTube on them and they said if you cut the tree, it will shoot up hundreds of little trees all around its root system.  I am hoping the Tordon™ I treated the stumps with will avoid that!

Sunday we attended church and sang in the choir for last time in 2025.  This is a screenshot from the Facebook page that the service is streamed on and is from near the pulpit where the pastor turns the camera towards the congregation area.  This year we have not sat by the Alter, and just go to the front of the congregation to sing.  Phyllis is out of range to the right of this shot.

Sunday afternoon we went uptown to the Circle 8 Square Dance.  Been 15 years since we danced regularly and several years since we danced last.  Quite a few "old folks" just came to visit.  Lots of people who we didn't know were there.  Got to visit with Patty S, who is quite active in the club yet.

Since rain was forecast for today, when we were planning to finish packing the trailer and pickup and hooking up to leave tomorrow morning, we went ahead and got hooked up yesterday and are ready to pull out.  We are moving out into the trailer tonight so can completely close up the house (clean refrigerator, wash bed linens, get Dish boxes packed up, get T-Mobile Home WIFI disconnected and packed up to return to a T-Mobile store in Cape Girardeau) and be ready for 8 am doctors appointments in the morning and pull out immediately afterwards.

Almost the end of October and these flowers, just off our deck, are still going strong.  Assume a freeze in a few weeks will end that.

Hope to report some on our trip to Texas.

LC