Happy Holidays!

2007 has been quite a year for us and imagine for you too! There have been ups and downs and joys and sorrows and all sorts of things in between.

This holiday season we will be celebrating along with others here at Medina Lake Thousand Trails Park. This is a nice friendly group and a very nice park filled with all these deer! The scrawniest looking rabbits we have ever seen with huge tall ears! Folks from all over the USA are here too so expect to have a nice day.

Earl and I want to wish you and yours a joyous Holiday and a hopes for a very happy and prosperous New Year!

Medina Lake, TX

Here is Mr and Mrs cardinal on our bird feeder. They have been a frequent visitors along with a number of relatives. We have had others like the tufted titmouse who is so cute and finches too. Just love all the activity of the birds flitting to and fro. Titmouse hammers away on the sunflower seeds which is always fun to watch too. We hear them each morning before we are up out there calling to each other and relatives to come for an early morning breakfast.

Lake Medina at Lakehills, TX

This is my adorable baby! It is about one of 50 deer here at this park! There is nothing quite like these big brown eyes to steal your heart unless it is the feel of it's little teeth eating out of the palm of your hand. This little guy appears to be the youngest and quite trusting. I have taken to feeding it bits of carrots and other little goodies - He does not liked peanuts that are not shelled though as his older counterparts will eat just fine - along with my birdseed! They are a hungry bunch and we are on our 2nd 50lb bag of feed!

No deer corn for these hungry deer. They did manage to go through all my squirrel corn though before we purchased the feed and they are great at eating all veggie scraps from salad fixin's.

Just love having all these deer around - have to refill water dish numerous times during the day but that is fine too. We have had rabbits and squirrels and a variety of birds as well so we are quite content here.

There is even a resident great blue heron who hangs out down at the dock here.

Fort Worth Stockyards

A few more pics from the Stockyards. Yes we stayed to watch the "cattle drive". Different sort of place and not much going on during the day. Expect things get to hopping afte the sun goes down at Billy Bob's.

Fort Worth Stockyards

Yes, that's the old gal now - first admiring Bessie and then actually sitting atop "Big Jake". Can you believe your eyes? How fun, stopped to ask owner for a photo op and he insisted I get hoisted up on top of Big Jake. he was a nice ol guy and it really wasn't too bad. ha. This all took place at the "Stockyards" in Fort Worth. There wasn't much going on there while we were there but we did enjoy our visit very much. fun to see these marvelous animals that are a "symbol" of Texas. We occasionally see them in pastures along the highway but of course they do not roam free any more.

White Pelicans

While at Lake Tawakoni we were thrilled to have such a large group of white pelicans come by each day. We could watch them congregate out on a point near us and then they would swoop down en masse to come into our bay. Lovely to say the least. They are larger then their cousins the brown pelicans and when in flight they show off the black under their wings.

Visting with old friends

Had a wonderful visit with old co-workers of Cyn's just before Thanksgiving in Plano, TX. Jim was Cyndy's old boss before Continental Ins went out of business and it has been several years since they've seen each other. Must say Jim and Maureen don't look a day older and daughter Jamie is a beautiful young lady. A fun time was had by all.

J C Penny Company Headquarters- Plano, TX

Took a ride into Plano to check out the J C Penny Museum and stayed to have lunch. Interesting building with a cafeteria (open to public - which we par took of) and a little gift shop. Not much of a museum and we had to pass throught the atrium with surrounding offices to get there. Nice open building and nice working envirnment or so it seemed to us. These are actual items from Mr. Penny's personal belongings. He was quite a guy and really did live the "American dream". Hats off to him. It was an interesting display and to see where his ideas have expanded over the years and carried on long after he is gone. Other picture is of Earl looking down on cafeteria area

Lake Tawakoni Thousand Trails, Point, TX

This is our new home for the next few weeks. Actually we have already been here a week and love it. It is a nice large park spread out and we have a lovely site with this as our view each evening. Since the sun sets in the west we have the perfect sunset "view point". Love all these commorants and white pelicans, vultures and gulls that come around besides the egrets and herons we have seen. We have not had a lot of action at our bird feeder but we have seen a variety of birds such as killdeer, meadowlark, titmouse and chickadee.

Everything is big in Texas

We spotted this bug on the wall in the store - it was about 3" long and no idea what it was and left it there but what a pretty bug! and so BIG!

Lake Texoma, TX

A few pictures of the lake. It was a large lake and fairly warm about 70 degrees or so they would report each day on the news. One thing that disturbed me a bit was finding these very small bugs or fish or something on the water in a low spot. Not sure what they are but they darted around and was afraid they would attack so didn't attempt getting in the water..

Lake Texoma Thousand Trails Park, near Gordonville, TX

Our 1st visit to Lake Texoma TTN. Pretty park and we had nice weather while there. Spent two weeks and enjoyed visiting "Ruby's" cafe as much as the pretty scenery!

Took a few short side trips from here but otherwise stayed home and played a little pickle ball and Earl enjoyed the hot tub!