Seeing new friends in Boerne!

On Sunday we had dinner with Lou and Carol.  We met them at the "Traveling Supremes" RV rally in Palo Duro, Texas.  They live in Boerne and invited us over for dinner.  They have a lovely ranch style house on 6 acres of land in the hills on the outskirts of Boerne.  He has a nice barn for his RV to keep it out of the weather.  He showed us a great run-off water system he devised.  If it rains an inch he ends up with 1200 gallons of water!  He has four large tanks under an aluminum roof that collect the water that falls on the roof.  He has room under it for two more large tanks.  I think he holds about 20,000 gallons of water right now.  The water goes through several filters before going through the tank.  He uses the water for house and yard.  It was very interesting and well done.

Unfortunately, Carol had a call from her son and she had to leave to take her mom to Urgent Care to have her eye looked at.  Lou was a gracious host and served up a delicious pork roast stuffed with mild jalapeno's (a little spicy but I ate around them), green beans and sweet potatoes.  For dessert he cooked biscuits with strawberries and cream.  When I was helping clean up I noticed he forgot to serve the nice salad Carol had set up on plates for us.  We were too full to eat them to keep Carol from finding out!!!   We called them this morning and her mom is doing okay!

There is a restaurant north of Boerne called Popo's Restaurant.  It was started in 1929 as a dance hall and has a colorful history.  Carol's Grandfather bought it in 1950 and made it into a family restaurant.  The family would close for one month a year and her Grandfather took the whole family on vacation and started collecting plates from their travels which adorn the walls of the restaurant.  There are 2000+ plates on the walls!  The family sold the business in 1983 but Carol's mother who is 86 years old, still works there making the salads!  Carol said she started there at age 8 and worked there for a long time!  Ted's cousin Gloria and John have taken us to there and we recall that it was a cute restaurant with really good food! 

Today we are hanging out at the campsite. 

Getting some chores done..."Ain't Life Grand!"