Lake Texoma

Friday afternoon we did a little exploring around Lake Texoma.  Our campground is right next to the lake and there is a side road that goes down to Cedar Mills Marina and Resort on the lake!  The lake is located in North Texas and has over 89,000 acres of water surface and over 500 miles of shoreline.  Looks like lots of boating, fishing and water skiing takes place on the lake.

We had lunch at the Cedar Mills restaurant, Pelican Landing.  I had the special which was crab salad on a croissant...delicious!  Then we took a look in the ship's store.  They have clothing, sandals and odds and ends of things.   Ted is standing in front of the store!

We took a drive around the park to take a look at the campground and think we could actually fit in a couple of the spots.  They have a small petting zoo but we only saw a duck in a baby pool!  They also have a very long grass runway.  A small plane was flying around and I hoped it would land so we could watch it but it didn't.

On Saturday we went to the ice cream social at the park.  It is a busy park and lots of people rent the sites by the year so there are lots of golf carts all over the place.  There's a large family pool, adult pool, mini golf, basketball court and nice horseshoe pits.  After the social we took a drive to the lake.  They have a boat ramp and some small beach areas.  There was a big family on one of the beaches swimming and picnicking.  It is really a big lake!

On Saturday afternoon and Sunday poor Max was sick as "a dog", poor thing.  He didn't know if he was coming or going.  He's a little better today but with as empty as his stomach is, there are only a couple of things he wants to eat, dog cookies mainly!  He's not even interested in rice which he normally loves!

Today we left Lake Texoma and are now in Arkansas.  We drove through the south east corner of Oklahoma.  Their roads are really rough.  I noticed their gas is about 20 cents less than Texas and Arkansas, maybe they need to raise the gas tax and absolutely use it to repair the roads!  Their roads are worse than those in California!!!!!

We are camped in Van Buren, Arkansas!  The campground lady said if we hear sirens we should jump in the truck and go down the road 3 miles to the school where the shelter is!  All I could think of is "crap"!  I'm afraid of tornadoes.  I'm used to earthquakes and hurricanes but not twisters!

Praying for no twisters..."Ain't Life Grand!"

The Travel Supreme Fredericksburg gathering!

On Monday Ted and I went into Fredericksburg to do a bit of shopping.  We went into the kitchen store and WHAT a store!  It looks little but has lots of nooks and crannies and goes on and on!  We had a good lunch at Buffalo Nickel and then stopped by the candy shop.  We found a chocolate covered jalapeño pepper!  We HAD to get that for Jack.  He has jalapeno peppers with everything!  At dusk we all gathered for happy hour and we presented Jack with his gift!  He loved it and couldn’t believe it!

Jack is below in the yellow t-shirt with his chocolate covered pepper:

On Tuesday we started with a breakfast get together.  Jerry and Hesse had us all over to their yard!  She made peach and pecan pancakes, bacon, sausage and Marie brought a fresh fruit salad!  We brought our locally purchased peach syrup to top off the pancakes!  Everything was delicious!

We headed down to Boerne after breakfast to see John and Gloria.  Gloria had “hammer toe and bunion surgery” on Friday.  She’s really doing well but has to stay off that foot.

We left Max with them and went to Lou and Carol’s for dinner.  They are Traveling Supremes but didn’t make the rally.  They gave their daughter their old rig and have ordered a new 5th wheel!  They had all 14 of us for dinner; barbecued brisket and all the trimmings.  Everything was really delicious!  Some of us sat outside in the "warmth" and some of us sat inside to enjoy the "cool"!

We had brought chairs with us from John and Gloria’s because we had forgotten chairs!  We didn’t need them after all but we then forgot to drop them off when we picked up Max!  So on Wednesday, everyone left and we stayed an extra day!  We went back down to Boerne for lunch and a game of Mexican Train Dominoes!  Ted was the big winner!  It was a fun afternoon!

We are now north and east at Lake Texoma!  We had a little rain yesterday but today looks pretty clear and nice!  We are relaxing this morning but are getting ready to go out exploring!

A great rally and gathering with the Traveling Supremes..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Busy fun days with the Traveling Supremes!

All 12 couples and their rigs made it to the rally on Thursday! Our great hosts, Terri and Gary and Deann and Dave have a busy few days planned for us. We started off with a fish fry on Thursday night.  Gary had caught trout, catfish and several other kinds of fish for cooking for us.  They also had hush puppy's but they added some little green things (that was a surprise), I forget I'm in Texas!  We had a good dinner and then some Phase 10 cards were played!  It was a good time!

On Friday they planned a day of LBJ touring!  They showed us a movie about his life at a visitor center and then we visited his boyhood home.  It was still cool out and a lovely morning for a walk to it!  It was quite a nice house.

From there we took off in groups for lunch.  Before going to lunch We took off with Sue and Joe for a Lavender Farm.  Unfortunately, the last few years of drought had hurt the lavender plants and the one we went to was pretty sad looking, so we went to lunch!  We found a place in Stonewall and there were lots of locals there so we tried it.  I had a great breakfast with grits!  Loved the biscuit too!  The "blue plate special" was chicken fried steak and a huge chocolate chip cookie for dessert!  Joe tried it and liked it!

After lunch we continued our LBJ tour.  After the visitor center the first stop was the school house.  It housed grades 1-12!  Next we visited the family cemetery.  Then on to the Western White House.  It was starting to heat up pretty good outside so I only have a few pictures.  No inside pictures were allowed.  The house was added on to many times over the years by Lady Bird and ended up over 8,000 square feet right on the river.  LBJ gave Luci the corvette on her 18th birthday!  Then when she got pregnant, the corvette disappeared and the Lincoln showed up!  Luci's second husband bought it back for her many years later!

The property is full of lovely trees and there is a runway for the jet to land on.

We finished the tour and headed back to the campground to get ready for another great meal!  For tonight's meal Dave had smoked turkey and we had lots and lots of sides to go with it!

We had heard from some others that the Garrison Brothers Bourbon tour was interesting so Joe, Sue, Ted and I went for it!  We went to the 10:00 a.m. tour because of the busy day ahead.  We got there and they had a little building with some outside chairs and a sign that said to help ourselves to the beer, wine and water!  They had a local bottle of wine with lips on the label!  I tasted it and decided it wasn't to my liking!

Our tour guide, Stephanie, got there a couple of minutes later and we got on the hayless hay ride back to the distillery!  We toured with two other couples that were fun!  They explained the process to us and took us through the steps.  It is funny that they name the kettles Copper Cowgirl, Fat Man and Little Boy!  We tasted the "sweet mash" which tasted like oatmeal and has the same consistency and then we tasted the "white dog", which is the bourbon before it goes in a charred oak barrel and cannot be called bourbon until it does.  It was smoother than I thought it would be!  Then we went to the tasting room for the real thing!  It tasted like bourbon and I think I'll stick to wine!  They did have chocolate bourbon balls and they were pretty yummy!

From there we met the rest of the group at the Becker Winery.  We did some wine tasting and then did the "tank tour"!  We bought a couples of bottles of wine and the group had a good time.  They had beautiful grounds outside the winery and had a musician/singer picking and singing outside on the porch!  Sue and Joe were the best couple on the floor...or grass!  The flowers held by Hessi and Olivia are artichokes!  They are really pretty!

From there a group of 8 of us went on a scenic flower drive back to Johnson City for a bite of lunch.

We missed the bluebells and the lavender, but the wildflowers are growing like crazy and are beautiful.  These are pictures I took at several different places.

Tonight's dinner was a potluck.  We had lots of turkey left over and we added many salads and desserts.  I was again very surprised when I bit into a deviled egg that was filled with some kind of pepper!  I just don't learn!

After dinner they had planned a  musician/singer for us.  Unfortunately he had died the Friday before but fortunately, the park found a group for us.  They were the WST Blue Grass Band.  It was enjoyable and several people were even dancing!

 Guess who!

Yesterday the rally ended with breakfast.  5 rigs headed out for home while 7 rigs headed west to Fredericksburg for a gathering.  We all did our own thing yesterday.  We had dinner with Dave and Deann at a Mexican restaurant in town.  The food was good and as we were leaving I realized they had a Starbucks...yummy dessert!  We ended up at the campground and the whole group sat around until 10:00 p.m. talking!

A great rally with a great group of people..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Miller Creek RV Park

The Traveling Supremes started arriving here on Tuesday and yesterday a bunch more came in.  Today is the official start of the rally and they kick it off with a fish fry tonight!  The fish were caught and will be cooked by Gary, one of the hosts of this rally.  (I'm cooking a steak for Teddy for those who know how much he likes fish!)

Last night the campground hosted a dinner for $4.00 included yummy lasagne, salad, garlic bread and pie for dessert.  Ted and I were good and didn't have pie but everyone said it was delicious.  20 Traveling Supremes showed for dinner and there were probably another 20 or so from the campground.  It was fun catching up with those we had not seen since New Year's and some even longer ago.

Today I've got a nail appointment so we decided to just hang out at the campground.  I took Max for a walk and took some pictures.  It's a lovely campground and the new owners have worked hard the last two years fixing it up.

Enjoying the Texas Hill Country..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Moving on!

We had a fun Memorial weekend with John and Gloria in Boerne.  We had some good meals and played quite a few games of Mexican Train.  John won two games, Ted won a game and I won the last one.  Gloria and I were battling right to the end and I was lucky to be the winner!

We went to the movies on Saturday to see Avengers.  We all enjoyed the movie.  After the movie we went to Papa Nachos for dinner.  They have some beautiful flowers right outside the restaurant and so I took a couple of pictures.

Yesterday we left Boerne and drove up to Johnson City, Texas.  We are here to meet other Travel Supreme owners.  Our group, The Traveling Supremes, are having a rally here.  The rally actually starts on Thursday but several of us have arrived a couple of days early.  We sat out a little yesterday afternoon but it was pretty hot.  We are camped at the Miller Creek RV Resort and its a pretty park.  The sage trees are in bloom and lovely and there is water in the creek!  You can fish (catch and release) in the creek and we do have a couple of fishermen in the group!  We have some events planned and are looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Seeing the Traveling Supremes..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Happy Memorial Day (Weekend) to all!

We are still in Boerne enjoying friends, family and eating!  When we went to see Battleship I took this picture of Ted, Gloria, John and the Chipmunks, and aren't they cute...the humans that is!

Yesterday we had lunch at Ye Kendall Inn.  The Inn is a National Historic Landmark.  John James sold the land to Erastus and Sarah Reed in 1859 for $200.  They started building their home bringing Southern Colonial architectural style to the Texas Hill Country.  Travelers were at the mercy of homeowners and the Reeds would share spare rooms with them.  The Reeds were the first to begin this hotel tradition, offering four rooms for those traveling through.  It was also Boerne's stagecoach stop! 

In 1878 Roundtree and Wadsworth bought and expanded the building to accommodate visitors attracted to the healthy climate and gave it the name of the Boerne Hotel.  About thirty years later a new owner renamed it Ye Kendall Inn. Many famous people stayed at the Inn including Jefferson Davis, Dwight Eisenhower and Robert E. Lee!  The Inn had many changes over the years and there is still a partial filled underground tunnel  built with 22-inch-thick hand-cut limestone walls. 

Many believe the Inn may be haunted!  There are stories about a sign flying off the wall across the room, people have heard horses and carriages around the front desk. Phones are screwy, lights flicker.  Some have reported being touched by unseen hands.  There is a story about a body imprint on a bed.  Maids have reported making the bed, smoothing out covers and upon leaving the bed spread rumples in the shape of a person.  Doors open and shut and door knobs rattle...hmmmm?????

It is however, very charming and the lunch is always great!  Here are a couple of pictures around the grounds and across the street in the town square with our friend Laura!

After lunch and picture taking, we took a walk through a small part of town.  We stopped in the Hip Dingo shop and found that they too love red lips!  Laura and I bought a couple of things and enjoyed looking around!  I didn't realize they had clothes for us "larger ladies"!

We spent the evening with John and Gloria.  Gloria made another delicious meal for us!

This morning I took Max out for his walk and decided I should take some picture of the local deer!  There are usually around 16 of them wandering around in the cool (75 degrees) mornings!

We are getting ready to head over to John and Gloria's.  School is out early today so the kids will be picked up about 1:30.  Gloria is going to have her foot operated on next week so she wants to get out and have a fun weekend...will keep you posted!

Happy Memorial Day..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Battleship!

On Friday evening we had dinner with John and Gloria and then went to see "The Importance of Ernest".  It was the Senior Play at the Boerne High School.  Their Granddaughter, Haley, is not a senior but was the Stage Manager.  It was a cute play and the actors/actresses did a good job!

On Saturday afternoon we went to Dan and Cheryl's for dinner.  Cheryl is John and Gloria's daughter.  They cooked the best barbecued ribs!  The rub was good and I really liked their barbecue sauce.  Cheryl said she baked them then put them on the barbecue and added some apple juice to them.  They were yummy!  After dinner us girls took off to go shopping!  I found a couple of cute "flip flop" items for one of my GNO girl's birthday!

On Sunday we were excited to try to the Magnolia Pancake Haus.  It has been around since 2000 and on the weekends there is still a long wait.  John and Gloria skipped church thinking that would help, yet at 10:00 a.m. there was an hour, 20 minute wait!  We decided that we would need to try it during the week and just went to the Denny's down the street!

After breakfast we went to see the movie Battleship.  We all four really liked the movie.  I was on the edge of my seat and totally entertained.  Ted found some technical things bothersome but still really enjoyed the movie!

Yesterday I took some pictures in John and Gloria's back yard.  They have been trying to get a patio built since January and just finally found some one that will do it in next week.  They have a large back yard and will probably put in a spa one of these days.   I was showing John my camera and he took Gloria's picture (in the collage) which she wasn't too happy about!

Blogging and getting some laundry done this morning..."Ain't Life Grand!"