Monday, March 26, 2007

Destination... Dallas

Have you ever experienced Texas rain? The old saying "When it rains it pours" describes it perfectly. When we left Brady this morning they had had almost 3 inches in 24 hours. Even our van, Rambo, recorded about a quarter inch in one of the drip pans (that was indoors - John's leak repair wasn't entirely successful). Instead of chip on his shoulder, John donned a rain jacket and almost resorted to a dishpan on his shoulder as we drove through torrential rain to Dallas.

Sights along the way...
There's a Turkey Hunters BBQ on March 31 in Winchell (we're left to wonder what they're barbequing).
The oldest Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant in the World is in Dublin, TX. We stopped at their museum and soda shop but they had the bad form to be closed.
Stephensville had this nifty cow in their court house square indicating they have $223,000,000 in milk sales annually. Where those cows are is another issue as we have not seen a single dairy cow since we've been in Texas.

VERY happy to arrive at our friends for the night (John was developing "drip pan" shoulder). John, Oletta & Maverick entertained me with a 6 handed piano number. Not bad at all.

And a note to you readers from yesterday... now that he's been "featured" in a blog, JA expects job offers to come flowing in. If any of you are interested, he says he will work for tips.