Wow, it’s been quite some time since I’ve updated this blog — over a month, in fact, ever since we got back to Saint Joseph. Do I need to say that we’ve been pretty busy? The majority of that busy-ness has been, and continues to be, getting the house ready to put on the market. [...]
We are finally on the way back to Missouri, only two months later than originally intended. This entire year has been a study in flexibility and unintended consequences. But one broken ankle and one land acquisition later, we are headed home. Or at least, we’re heading for our Missouri house, to get it ready to [...]
Wow, I just realized my last post was written just before the flash flood that innundated the Guadalupe River basin below the dam, as the rain was coming down! It was pretty awful, although not as many people were lost here as there were the following week in Arkansas. One man drowned, but that’s one [...]
I don’t know if it’s a rainy night in Georgia (well, actually, afternoon), but it sure is here in Texas. From the looks of the weather map we might as well get used to it today. There is a flash flood watch for this general area, even though it isn’t raining hard here. The Texas [...]
A lot has been happening. Today, after spending a week at an RV park between Sattler and Canyon Lake (both unincorporated communities on the east and south sides of the lake respectively), we moved to a different RV park on the north side, closer to the land we’re buying, and with better phone and WiFi [...]
We are sitting in the RV in the middle of a thunderstorm, still parked in New Braunfels, Texas. We were going to drive over to Canyon Lake this afternoon to the Realtor’s office, but with this rain we called her and asked her to just email us the pages of the contract that have to [...]
We are still in New Braunfels. My ankle is healing nicely, but next week I have another visit to the surgeon, then we have to decide whether to head straight home to St. Joseph or stay down here, perhaps out at the lake, for another week or so. We are leaning toward staying. A lot [...]
Here we are in the middle of God’s Country (Texas, of course), in the prettiest time of year, with wildflowers blooming their heads off after an unusually wet winter. The sky is blue, the grackles are squawking, and the trees are in full leaf. I have my magical iPad, Phil is enjoying Netflix, and all [...]
Tomorrow I’ll finally get the cast off my leg! The surgery went well, and while the doc put in a whole bunch of hardware (six screws and a plate), I’ve been recovering and getting around better every day. Instead of the crutches, which were really hard to use, the clinic gave me a walker, but [...]
This is where I broke my ankle/leg. See the steps on the right side of that tree? I managed to fall off my shoe on one of the rough rocks, tried to regain my footing, and fell hard down a couple of steps, twisting my right ankle, breaking the fibula (small stabilizing bone in the [...]
