Time to head for home

The time is here for us to go back to Montgomery and spend some time with the children and grandchildren. We'll be there through the Christmas holiday period and then we'll be back in Texas for the rest of the winter.

Jerry has finished her landscape job of planting cactus all over the park and it really looks good.

Bandera Texas Page Two

It's hard to cover a long parade on just one journal. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. The Hill Country can really grow on you.

Bandera Texas Cowboy Capital of the World

We drove about 60 miles from Fredericksburg to Bandera Texas the Cowboy Capital of the World. This is something big for a town with a population of only 957 to say but it's true.

Bandera was founded about 150 years ago and it is well suited to grow all sorts of crops, raise cattle, goats and sheep. The soil is fertile and the area is blessed with several clear clean rivers to provide water for crops and drinking water too.

We came to observe the famous Bandera parade which is held each Labor Day weekend. This one began about 9:30AM and ended about 4:00PM.

Comfort Texas Parade Page Two

Comfort Texas is more of a farming area than ranching, therefore they have more farm equipment in their parades than other towns. They have been farming the region since the mid 1800's.

Comfort Texas Parade

Since my last journal all we've been doing is working at the park. I didn't want to bore you with all the details about our work schedule.

Today we are going to a little town south of here called Comfort. I hope the town lives up to it's name and is comfortable. They are going to have a parade today and we've been told it's something to see.

More Sight Seeing

We decided to travel around on the "Farm to Market" roads and see what we might find of interest. The Texas Farm to Market roads are real good roads and are far better than some of the major highways we been on in some other states.

A herd of Goats

Some of the Ranchers raise goats or sheep rather than cattle because it's less expensive. You might find a herd of them with either a donkey, lama or emu to protect the herd .

A small herd of exotic animals

Texas Long Horn

Herd of Long Horns in a Parade

San Antonio Rodeo

Talk about "Presenting the Colors"

We had a chance to go to the Rodeo in San Antonio. This is a real sure nuff Texas Rodeo. We went on a tour bus so we didn't have to worry about driving to San Antonio, parking in a big lot and driving back home late at night, YEA.