Leaving our Work Camp

As we left Stonebridge RV Park we said good bye to the other work campers, Mike, Gail & Coco.  Every morning as soon as Bruno could tell Mike was up, he had to run over there to say "Good morning"

It was really foggy as we heaed towards Houston.

Big city ahead, Houston, Texas.

Thought this was a neat building.

We headed to Hilltop Lake where Don had a lesson.

Galveston, Texas

We took a day and went to Galveston to the Railroad Museum.  It was closed when we were here last year because of all the damage caused by Hurricane Ike in September 2008.

Do you think the real car is a little bigger?

 It's a real shame that these cars suffered so much damage.  Most had been restored.  We could see the high water mark on the cars, it was over our heads.

Look at the tree growing out of this one.

I loved this old relic of the past.

Including the one in the pink shirt and hat.

And this one.

This is an old steam tractor.



This is more devastation that Hurricane Ike caused.  As you know Galveston is a long narrow island.  It was hit on both sides with wages, 17' on one side and 18' on the other.  hey must have met in the middle. 

I loved this chess game, people were actually playing a game.

 I know I took a bunch of pictures of these colored houses last year, but I took some more, I absolutely love them.

So unique.

I love the different shapes.

Way behind

WOW am I behind.  We kinda got settled in here at Stonebridge, did our workamper jobs, socialized with people by the large ourdoor fireplace.

Roasted marshmallows, they even have flavored ones now, the chocolate ones are yummy.

We went into town occaisionally, mostly to Bay City but sometimes to Lake Jackson. I loved their street names there. They also had a street named That Way but unfortunately I was driving when I saw that one and couldn't snap a picture.

These flowers are pink and they are everywhere right now, very pretty.

 

See the mud tower?  There's a hole going right down the middle of that.  This one was about 6" tall.  (I got bitten by fire ants taking this picture, they really do a number on you.)  They're homes for what they call crawdads, or what we call crayfish.



Then we had the snapping turtles that would cross the fiield trying to get to the pond.

This pond was stocked with fish, but only "catch & release" was allowed.

And there we are in site #1.



And there is Don, doing his favorite thing, riding something.

Kemah Boardwalk

Joyce and I and another workcamper, Gail, decided to take a road trip while the guys worked.  We went to the Kemah Boardwalk amout 45 mins. away.

It was foggy when we first got there, but it cleared up.

Check out the old police car.

We walked the boardwalk, these are my "partners-in-crime".

There are mostly restaurants and a few shops.  Most were not open, we were told most things are open at night and on the week-end this time of year.  I guess the place is mobbed in the summer.

Do you suppose this needs repair?  I wouldn't want to try to go in there.  Just about everything around here near the ocean is on stilts.

This is a double decker merry-go-round, thought it was really cool.

This is what they call the Boardwalk Bullett.  Check out the link for a history.  This frame is all made of wood, you wouldn't catch me on there, way too high for me, I'm like our dog, a real woose.

We enjoyed the area and our lunch, but it was time to head home.

I love the views on the coast, look at all these sail boat masts.



"Guess who came to visit!" by Bruno

The other day, I was just relaxing on the couch when all of a sudden Mama went out to talk to somebody, I recognized that voice, it was Casey's Mama, so out I ran.  I hadn't seen my friend Casey since last September.  She got so big, she's my size now, and she is beautiful.


So we played,

and played.

She has way more energy than I have, I had to rest often.

But not for long, we played some more.  She is so much fun.

And sometimes we can just chew our own sticks together.

 She has to stay tied or she'll go jump in the pond, so when she doesn't want to let me rest, I just go a little beyond her leash and rest anyway.  What fun!

Workcamping in Sweeney, TX

We've been looking for a nice campground where we can workcamp.  How this works is that we put in a total of 20 hrs. a week between the 2 of us and we get our full hook-up site free.  (water, electricity & sewer)  We even have cable and internet which we don't need since we have satelite and a Verizon Wifi card.  Check out Stonebridge RV Park.

So we found this place.  It's only 52 sites and only a year old.  It was very nicely done.  The owners are very nice, there is another workcamper couple here from Washington state.  This is the front of the office/lodge.

This is the back of the lodge.  Don will be doing some ground work and I will be doing some weekly cleaning.

I always said I would never clean bathrooms, but check these out!

Look at the shower, there are 2 of these big bathrooms and since just about everybody who checks into this place has a self contained unit, these aren't used very much.  Real easy to clean.

They also have an exercise room.

The nice thing is, the owners don't watch the clock, we don't have set times, we just do our jobs.  That kind of atmosphere make you put in more time than needed.  We will be heree until the beginning of April when Don has a bunch of lessons to do in Houston and others on the way home.  For those of you who didn't see our blog last spring, he got a job with a company out of California giving day long RV lessons.  He did 2 in Mississippi and 1 in Livingston, Texas on the way down.  The one in Texas was to a couple from Maine.



San Antonio, Texas

We're staying at a campground just south of San Antonio.  Just like the campground in Louisianna, there's a "lake" in the middle of the campground, and a bunch of ducks,  It's really interesting cause they are different kinds of ducks, the white one is the leader, they all follow the white one.  Reminds me of the ducks we had on the farm when I was a kid.

Its been cold, one morning we got up and saw this outside our window, icy snow everywhere, alot of it stayed all day.

We visited The Alamo, this is where John Wayne died....hehehe, seriously, this is where Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and many others died in battle.

It sits right in the middle of town.

After visiting the old movie set in Brackettville last year, I see how they copied the original.

But I also see some differences.  According to the diagram I got, some of the original perimeter walls have been destroyed.

It's hard to imagine that this was all wilderness such a short time ago.  Our history is so short compared to other countries.

This was an interesting building.  The poles and wires look like there would be a bridge there, but it was to support the roof of the "Alamodome"