Evans Escapades–Sticking Close to Home

Dave is scheduled to teach classes through April,

so although we would love to make it to the Rio Grand Valley, and especially to South Padre’. . .

it’s so much more convenient to stay centrally located in the Houston vicinity.

I guess we had forgotten how lovely the Colorado River Preserve in Columbus is. . .

This is the view out our back window most mornings and afternoons. . .

We assume this guy is in charge of the herd. . .

Dave’s using a long range lens, and then I cropped the pic,

so although it’s not as clear as I would like, you still get the idea!

There’s not much going on. . .I’ve been working on a few RV projects,

while Dave was gone teaching a class Laredo.

 

We have some sightseeing scheduled. . .

maybe this week we’ll go check out Old Town Columbus. . .

which is the county seat, and has a gorgeous Court House.

There is supposedly an audio driving tour,

which allows you to tune in to a certain frequency

on the AM radio, and hear about all the historical buildings.

We always love those, so we’ll keep you posted about that. . .

In the meantime, we sit out on the patio in the afternoons

and enjoy the ambience of the place.

This guy sat in a tree across the road for ages. . .before finally hustling off for his next meal.

and I wasn’t exactly sure what this little guy was. . .

after looking him up in my Peterson Field Guide. . .

I think I have it right. . .

if not, please feel free to correct me. . .

Until next time,

Safe Travels,

Janice

Evans Escapades–Life is Back to Normal or at Least Close to Normal

Wow. . .I thought it would be no big deal to write a blog post every week to keep you guys updated as to our goings on. . .but my goodness. . .there’s just so much happening.

 I’m not sure how some of you folks write a post everyday.

The month of December found us at our favorite place when we are “home,” Bay Colony RV Park in Dickinson.  We are so at home when we are there, that I never remember to take pictures.  It’s the perfect central location for the kids, the grands, friends, family. . .church is convenient.  It’s where we lived, in our RV, for two years while we were finishing up our careers.

While we were home, our grandson had his 17th birthday, so we celebrated that. . .

His Daddy celebrated his 35th birthday, so we celebrated that. . .he’s gonna kill me for this pic!

We had Christmas with the kids and the grands. . .I’m pretty sure that’s the most people we’ve ever had in the RV at one time. . .

then we celebrated Christmas with Dave’s brothers and sister, nieces and nephews. . .

Two of the grands spent their Christmas Break with us. . .here they are enjoying their Kindle and Nintendo Games. . .ahh well it seems the youngest one is checking her facebook in this pic. . .

then it was off to celebrate with my brother’s, nieces and nephews. . .the kid’s had fireworks on New Years Eve. . .

and the grown ups had fireworks New Years Day. . .

I took my two grands, and my niece to the Shangri La Nature Center in Orange. . .I’ll write more about the park on my RV’ing Blog. . .

and babysat my great nephew, so his mom and dad could go out to dinner. . .

and that’s about it . . .we were worn out. . .we’re not used to all this going on. . .but everything’s getting back to normal. . .we’re at Lake Conroe. . .getting ready to move to Columbus tomorrow. 

Dave has a class to teach next week, so he’ll meet his team at Schulenburg, and they’ll head to Laredo for that. . . I’ll keep the home fires burning. . .and enjoy the solitude.

Until next time,