Sept. 7 & 8

Saturday - I went out for my walk and discovered water gushing out of the water heater compartment.   Called my personal mechanic out and he discovered the plug had blown.  He fixed it with a new plug, but we had to dry out the compartment and the things we had stored in it.  Lucky for us, it is still hot here for drying!  What a great thing!

After all that and breakfast, Gary went out and washed the motorhome and I vaccumed and cleaned inside.  We facetimed with Katie and the boys, they were showing us the pictures I had sent to them. Then we went to Cranky Frank's, a BBQ place here to get brisket to eat while we watched the Michigan/Notre Dame game that night.  A fun place, they are open from 11-3 each day and when they run out, you are out of luck.  The brisket was good, but not as good as Lois's in Santa Fe.  We put the SDSU and Michigan flags up, first on the awning rail (it got too windy to have the awning down) and then in the front window.  While the game was on, I got the sewing machine out and downsized a tablecloth for our table.  I wanted to get that done to protect the wood surface.  Go Blue - Michigan won!  Gary had also listened to the SDSU game on the computer with live stream radio.  In the evening it actually clouded up and blew enough that we had to put the awning up again.  Only a few sprinkles of rain.

Sunday - breakfast & then 9:00 Mass at St. Mary's Church in Fredericksburg.  A big parish, good cantor, Father had a peace theme for the hymns and homily.  We stopped for groceries on the way home, then packed up to move on.  Left about 12:30, got gas and hooked the car up.  We went across on Hwy 290 to Austin, then # 71, back to # 290, turned onto Hwy 21, back to # 290 to Carmine, TX.   Pulled in to the Dixieland RV Park & Repair.   The park was back off the road in a field, with mostly long term campers there.  Very nice and quiet.  We settled in, went for a walk, then had supper and watched I Love Lucy videos.  (Exciting reading, isn't it?)