Oct. 10

Another nice morning with little puffy clouds. Evelyn and I had a hair appointment at 10am in D'Hanis. A real nice Mexican gal has a shop next to the school and really does a nice job. She says she cuts a lot of the students hair as they stop in on their way home. Apparently the school does very well in Football, Baseball and Basketball, usually going to the state finals every year, so they support them at most of the games. The town of DeHanis is a small old time western town with old buildings that have been kept up and some restored. They had a big flood in 2007 that pretty well shut the town down. THe main part lf town was underwater as was the railroad track. It backed up over 100 trains before the water went down and the track inspected so things could get going again. Most of the stores had water in them, some had basements that had to be pummped out and renovated. One restaurant has a special on Friday night with a $6.50 menu that includes a drink. They have Chicken fried steak,grilled ham steak,all kinds of seafood inc. potato and vegetable. On their regular menu is a large selection, one of which is a B.Y.O. Burger - 10 oz. fresh meat charbroilled or grilled to your liking, topped with what ever you want served with french fries, pot salad, onion rings or fresh fruit for $6.99. That sounds like a lot to eat for your money. Things here are less expensive than in the Indianapolis area.
Played some Bridge at the Rec. hall this afternoon. Did not win, but had a good time and met some nice people.
We are located at the south edge of the Hill Country. We can see the hills to the west, north and east of our campground. We see a few of the crop dusting planes, not sure what they are dusting or possibly planting. We saw lots of huge cotton bales today, probably 30'long, 8'high and possibly 6 or 7' wide with vinyl covers on the top, waiting for the truck to come and load one up. Very interesting to watch them load up, they use endless chains in the floor of the truck bed. The bed raises up in the front and the teeth on the chains engage the cotton bale and pull it up and into the truck bed and it is hauled away. Probably weighs several ton. A lot different that it used to be back in the day of manual labor.
We will take a sightseeing trip tomorrow with the Drew's, not sure just where at this time.