Columbus, Texas

We moved about 120 miles Wednesday of last week from Lake Conroe to the Thousand Trails in Columbus Texas called Colorado River. It's nice here. We're in a rural setting just a couple of miles from town. We look out our back door at the Colorado River ( Not T H E Colorado River, just a river named Colorado that flows through Colorado County, TX). There's lots of wildlife here including herds of deer, lots of birds, coyote, armadillo etc. Spanky has been well entertained. He enjoys watching all the activity.

Life has been quiet since we got here. Last weekend we went out for dinner at Peters, a local beef bbq restaurant. This is pretty typical of restaurants through this area. It's interesting how much food they seem to be able to serve for a very small price. A half pound of beef brisket,two vegetables, iced tea and soft ice cream for $5.95. The food was good and place was packed. It's not obvious to me how they do it.

Many of the small towns through this part of Texas have their opry houses that provide periodic entertainment for the locals. Many of the performers travel the circuit and use this as a way to try to break into the county music entertainment field. Monday night we went to Country Music Monday in Giddings Tx.
It's about 45 miles from here. One thing about Texas, it's a long ways between places. Everything is at least 40, 50, maybe even 100 miles away. Anyway, the music was good and we had a good time.

The Grandchildren, Lara and Jeff will visit this weekend. They live about a 100 miles from here. We'll probably go out for beef brisket again. Beef, it's what Texans eat.