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Lake Texana Park

 We need one more bird.  It doesn’t seem to be happening in the Valley, so we loaded up the motorhome and headed north.  We have a plan.  We’ll drive around until we find one more bird. December 2017 Trip Map Here is what the park looks like on google earth.  Lake Texana Park Love this park.  We got here in time to take a nice long walk around it.  We saw canvasback ducks, black vultures, a red-shouldered hawk, a red-bellied woodpecker, a Carolina chickadee, and a Carolina wren. Nothing new for the year. Henry saw an armadillo. The armadillo snuffled around in the grass and dirt Until he saw Henry.  Then he galloped off.  Really.  That’s a full-on armadillo gallop. Countdown:Birds:              1CPE hours:      1 Almost there.  For both. 
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Merry Skype Christmas

  Warm and comfy at home, we got to start the day with a white Christmas at Becky and Brian’s house.     Henry got to visit with the parakeets. Moved to the kitchen to visit with Becky while she got the morning monkey bread treat started. Then we relocated to Arizona with a little warmer weather at Matt and Lindsay’s house. The kids are younger, so it’s a little wilder there. Got to chat with Steve, Lindsay’s Dad. A Merry Christmas at our house.   Wishing a Merry Christmas to you and yours! Countdown:Birds:              1CPE hours:      2 
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Merry Christmas

 Our family dinner this Christmas Eve. Got Tom and Kathy over for ham, scalloped potatoes au gratin, cranberries, green beans and bacon.  You know.  The usual.  Countdown:Birds:              1CPE hours:      2  
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It’s a little cooler

 A cold front passed through.  No eighty degree weather today.  A high in the lower sixties. The wind laid down by dark though, so it wasn’t too cold to sit out on the deck by the fire and have a visit with new friends.  A good day.  A good evening. Countdown:Birds:              1CPE hours:      2  
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Thinking about anniversaries

 The most obvious one is our wedding anniversary, but there are others. There are birthdays.  We just reached 69 and 72 respectively. We bought the house in Louisville in 1974.  After a few years we thought we would spend the rest of our lives there.  We lived there so long, we paid off the 30 year mortgage!  But plans change.  November 1, 2004, 13 years ago, we left home.  We had packed up the bus (2002 Bounder) in the weeks prior.  The morning of November 1st we took down the Halloween yard decorations, put them away, and drove off.  After 30 years of living in Louisville, we just left and never looked back. August 5th, 2005, twelve years ago, we bought the Beaver coach, brand new.  We continued our full-time journey.  There wasn’t an end-game plan.  We didn’t know how long we were going to travel or what we would do when it seemed like time to stop. We bought the Gulf Waters lot in 2004.  That was a good winter home base on the beach, but it wasn’t a house.  We sold the Gulf Waters lot in 2014.  Sometime in 2010 we decided to pick a place and settle down; buy a house somewhere for a home-base when we weren’t on trips.  We didn’t know where that was going to be.  We kept traveling, waiting and watching, then Sandpipers picked us.  We realized that’s where we wanted to be, where we were the most comfortable, and February 2011, bought the Sandpipers house (mobile home).  16 feet wide and 78 feet long, the house is almost exactly 4 times the square footage of the bus.  After 7 years of living solely in the motorhome, and now 6 years of living in the house, it still feels almost cavernous.   Next year we will have been in the house as long as we were full-time in the motorhome. Time flies. Countdown:Birds:              1CPE hours:      2