Saturday morning and everyone is getting ready to ride!
Sargent Phillips is going to escort us out of town.
This armadillo I would like to think is just taking a nap in the road. But like most armadillos you happen on have usually come into contact with the undercarriage of a vehicle. It's been told and I truly don't know if it is a fact, that armadillos don't get hit when a vehicle runs over them. It startles them and
they jump straight up. Consequently hit the underside of the vehicle and kill themselves.
There are a lot of goats in the hill country. The baby goats are soooo cute!
This is the Gypsum Mine on the famous Gypsum Loop. I have looked up history about the mine.
The best I have found out about it is it called the Cherry Hill Gypsum Mine. The reason gypsum is mined, it's used in plaster, drywall, forms sculptures. The last statistic on the mine is it employees 12 people as of 2007.
The roads get long and rolly here..
Finally lunch! With the shade of the old Liveoaks you didn't realize the temperature was getting up
Into the high 80's.
Charley and Rhonda Pummill. Jim and I have know them for many years. We caught up with them at lunch. Rhonda and I discussed that there was another Rhonda on the tour. We have always been the only two. Fortunately we met the third Rhonda. She met our expectations. She is really awesome as well!
The tandems are like horses resting along the fence waiting to get saddled up
while we all enjoy our lunches.
Nearly back home we rode by this field in the city. The flowers are given their space in the city.
You can't help but smile as you go by.
We have stayed many years at the Ressmann Haus. It much the same as the our first visit only subtle
Improvements that time brings. Possibly one of the favorite things about this area are the morning doves. You will hear them along with cardinals, bluejays, wrens and sparrows. It's nice Sitting on the porch watching all the activity going on in that small front yard.
Here is Mr.Jimmy enjoying the cool breeze that blows up on the porch on an otherwise hot
Sunny afternoon. Gosh I love the sun and the warmth of it.
If any of you reading this do not ride a tandem you might consider it, if only for the happy hour happenings at a tandem rally. There are people from all over the country here. Happy hour is a great time to get to meet others and enjoy their stories. Riding together is an added feature too. Now I will have to say the SWTR is known for it's happy hour. So when you get your tandem be sure to sign up for the SWTR. Tomorrow we ride to an Alpaca farm!
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