Butterfly Garden Doing Well

For those of you who saw the unplanted garden at the City Park, this is a shot only six weeks later. The garden was planted April 15 and this is hot it looked Memorial Day.

Austin, College Station and Crappie

Saturday Crappie at Anchor Inn
Monday in Austin

This was one of my usual crazy weeks. Saturday morning I went to Anchor Inn and kept 9 crappie, including that 14 1/2 inch male. Sunday afternoon, headed to Austin for a fulld ay of meetings on Monday and then went to spend two nights and a day with Mom in College Station. We had a crappie fry Tuesday night as Glenn and Suzy, Mom and I were joined by family friends Pat Griffin and Jim Anderson.

Looking forward to Memorial Day as Melanie flies in tonight and home for good Sunday week.

More yard shots

Baby squash
Hollyhocks

Since the spawn crappie season is about to wind down, I have been spending a little more time in the yard. I planted a small garden this year with squash, zuchini, peppers and tomatoes and we are already starting to see young fruit on squash and jalapenos. The hollyhocks are in the "back-back" yard near the lake. They were brought here from Merkel and like their new home.

Daylillies

The daylillies in the front yard started blooming this week. With all the recent rain, things are looking great around the lake.

Lake is Full again!

About four and a half inches of rain Sunday did the trick as Lake Tawakoni is now full again. This shot of our boat dock on Monday means I need to move the boat back home from Anchor Inn.

Balmoreah...

Hummingbird on the nest at park
Swimming with Josh and Case at Balmoreah

We took a family trip to Balmoreah State Park last week. Put 1,435 miles on the Suburban and just had a wonderful time. Picked up Joey and Case in Fort Worth on Friday, met Melanie in Midland and continued Southwest. Kim, Ryan, Kody & Josh met us at the park Saturday. The feature of the park is an artesian well that surfaces near Balmoreah and runds 1 million gallons of water per hour. It feeds a very large swimming pool where you can swim with fish and turtles. We spent a lot of time feeding fish behind the cabin, watching a snake eat a catfish, feeding chipmunks, and bird watching. We also traveled to the McDonald Obersvatory and Marfa (no- we did not see the lights). Joey was the official photographer for the trip and as soon as he gets over a bout with kidney stones, we will get some better photos of the trip.