Here we are back at Lutherhill in La Grange, Texas visiting our friends Mem and Arnie. This time we drug along our new friends, John and Re Re (Marie) and there are new friends to get to know, Gary and Gloria who are also visiting Mem and Arnie.
Yesterday was a very active day. I started out by unloading my Shopsmith from the trailer and slicing and dicing a couple sheets of plywood. Shhh don’t tell, I am creating Judy’s anniversary gift for out 42nd anniversary which is today. I am rebuilding her kitchen cabinets to expand the drawer storage area. We noticed that the drawers were only utilizing about half of the depth of the cabinets and there was nothing behind them. I have new super long glides coming by UPS and soon the new drawers will be nearly twice as long.
After packing everything back in the trailer we lead a bicycle ride and picked up a Geocache about seven miles from the camp. John and Re Re rode Purple, our Co-Motion tandem and the new Gary rode his Bike Friday, “Tourist.” The Geocache was at the site of the first Protestant College in Texas. This was a Texas historical plaque posted beside a very rural road. This is the neat thing about this sport, it takes you to wonderful sites that you probably never would find otherwise.
We got back in time for a quick shower and headed for the Fayette County Music Opry with all of our accumulated friends from Lutherhill. We sure weren’t disappointed. For a town with a posted population of 4,478 they sure made a respectable presence in the community center. I estimated between a thousand and twelve hundred people in attendance. The featured act was a country singer, Darrell McCall. Darrell has worked with many of country music’s greats as a harmony singer. He actively tours and helps keep the old country genera of music alive. The feature act was backed by the local band, talent drawn from the several communities around La Grange, and they did a first class job. This “Opry” is a monthly event and has been going for six years.
What this has taught us is don’t judge a community by its size; judge it by the energy of its people to make things happen.
Judy and I once again send you wishes of good health and lots of love from deep in the heart of Texas. I expect we will start moseying through New Mexico in March.
