Day 15: Something or someone you couldn't live without.
This is not a happy subject. I don’t want to, but I could live without any one person in my life, with God’s help. But I don’t think I could live without everyone. God created us for each other and for Him. We need each other, but if we have to be apart on earth, He is always with us and He will take care of us. I’m not attached to things, but I sure do enjoy my camera and my computer. :-)
Day 14: A hero that has let you down.
Can’t think of anyone that I considered a hero, who has since let me down.
Day 13: A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough times.
I love the Christian group, Selah. Their music just touches my soul, deeply.
Don and I got out and walked around this morning to familiarize ourselves with the park. I loved that flowers are still blooming! There are three bushes by our site with these pretty yellow flowers.
The Q’s new home for the next six months.
The morning moon over the Q.
Don visiting with Clarence, who came to welcome us yesterday afternoon.
Oh my goodness, this place has a Laundromat!! Rows of washing machines ($1)
Plenty of counters to fold clothes and rolling baskets. I’m impressed.
Two very large shuffleboard courts… they must take this game seriously here.
A beautiful indoor heated pool and hot tub.
Friendship Hall for games and exercising.
Inside: game area.
Lots of exercise equipment and a massage chair!
Plenty of tennis courts.
Beautiful outdoor heated pool and hot tub.
More pretty foliage.
A rose garden with many varieties of roses.
A craft room.
More vibrant flowers.
The front of the offices, main hall (where church is held), library, billiards room (forgot to take picture), three card rooms, chapel room, etc.
I am loving all the color.
Our street. There are still lots of vacant sites, but folks have already started arriving. There will be more every day.
We had to make a trip to Loew’s to purchase a few items to make our sewer drain the way it needs to. Saw this in the parking lot and thought of Dave and Darlene Sutton.
It was a good first day and we met a few more folks. Still haven’t met one old crump.
Day 12: Something you never get compliments on.
I think I covered this yesterday.
My feet.
We sure hated to leave Johnson Creek RV Park, but we’re also excited about getting to our winter destination.
A nice early morning shadow picture while we were still in the hill country.
A mansion on the hill came to my mind.
As we left the hill country behind, we suddenly found ourselves on very flat land in a cabbage patch! Our first veggie farm citing.
The much of the scenery along the way consisted of mesquite trees.
Gray skies and 20-40 m.p.h. winds. For about a hundred miles, they were cross winds.
The soil is getting sandier and sandier. (Is that a word?)
Green again.
Highway 281 is a nice road.
About thirty minutes from our destination, we begin to see palm trees.
We exited onto the street that was supposed to go to our park, but the street was totally blocked due to work being done. So… we turned left and drove until we could turn right again and then right onto the street our park is on. Would you believe it? Blocked from this side, too! Our GPS didn’t have a clue and neither did we. A nice man stopped and gave us directions back around and down a couple more blocks and then we drove through a school zone, across the street that is blocked on both ends, and into Tip ‘O Texas RV Resort.
Linda, in the office was waiting for us and apologized that they had not called us about the detour, but they didn’t have our phone number for some reason. She was so nice. And then Clarence came by as we were setting up. I think he had checked three times already to see if we were here yet. What a dear man, helping me with blocks to put under the steps that were here so they would be high enough to reach our door. Then two other ladies came by to welcome us to the park. Once again, sweet and friendly folks so far. We expect to meet more wonderful folks tomorrow.
Use us, Lord.
Day 11: Something people seem to compliment you the most on.
In one way or another folks seem to compliment my outgoing personality. But I don’t understand why people don’t compliment my feet. I have really nice looking feet for an old lady.
Day 10: Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn't know.
Can’t think of one single person.
Out early this morning, I wanted to get some pictures with the morning sun and shadows.
My header picture was taken in the afternoon with the shadows on the front. This was taken with the early sun shining on the front door. I still think I like the header picture better.
Is a better picture of the bell in the belfry of the chapel.
I hope this cross is reinforced well against the wind.
Right behind the chapel is a big China Berry tree, loaded with berries.
Isn’t that clever? A sign that resembles hills.
Quaint latch on the front door.
The creek looked like glass this morning. So beautiful.
A rustic scene next door.
Decorations by the front door of the office.
It’s a lovely walk up to the entrance past the pecan orchard.
This cypress tree caught my attention.
I walked all around this structure and found no door or opening of any kind. I was thinking that it might have been a water cistern. When I got back to the office, Lisa, the owner was there and I asked her and I was correct. She said the orchard was planted in the late 1920’s and the water storage was probably built then to help with irrigation of the orchard.
A view of the RV park through the orchard.
Morning Moon Over the Hill Country
Corner posts braced.
After all, this is Texas.
Inside the office, there are all kinds of interesting objects hanging from the ceiling.
Don and I spoke with owner, Lisa Cauthen, about Johnson Creek RV Park having a chaplain here during the summer season. She was very receptive and will be speaking to her husband, Tom, about it. Lisa was very nice and we are very impressed with how they have developed this park and are still making improvements and additions.
Don and I drove into Kerrville to check out another park as a summer assignment for another CRM chaplain. This park is located on the Guadalupe River where there are many large cypress trees.
It’s pretty here, but the water isn’t as clear as Johnson Creek.
Don spotted a few very small perch in the river.
We must check out the VA hospital.
And we did. The entrance to the VA hospital is lined with American flags. It’s a big operation here.
Visible from quite a distance coming into town on highway 16.
Now for a bit of history:
Joshua Brown, known as the “Father of Kerrville,” was recorded as the first actual settler to make his home on the upper Guadalupe River. Brown who was born in Kentucky in 1816 came to Texas in 1830. During the Texas Revolution, Brown joined Sam Houston’s army
and fought at San Jacinto where victory and independence were won with the defeat of Santa
Anna’s Mexican army.
When the army disbanded, Brown went home to Gonzales and married Miss Sarah Jane Goss. In 1844, they started west in search of a new home; his first stop was Curry’s Creek, an early settlement that is now in Kendall County. It was here that Brown took up the craft of shingle making. Soon Brown decided to move to a more suitable area for shingle making.
This is all of interest to me because we met one of her relatives today, Robert Goss. When we asked him how long he had lived in Kerrville and he said his family had been here with the Comanche Indians before there was a town here.
