The Total Eclipse of our Heart
So much happened last week I totally thought we were in Waco for three weeks and it was only two. It was fun watching the RV park fill up for the eclipse.
It is harder to see through the trees, but lots of rigs were here for the eclipse.
This might be a better way to see the rigs. There might have been one spot that was open.
Steve and Sharon arrived Thursday and it was so good to see them. Steve is Tom's brother. Tom was supposed to join us as well, but his rig was not cooperating. So, he had repairs done and headed back to Arizona to decompress before heading back to Oregon. Steve and Sharon came over to visit Thursday night and then Friday we had dinner together. Saturday, they went to pick up their daughters and they rented a treehouse for the girls. We were able to see the treehouse and it was so cute. Sunday night we played Five Crowns, and it was a lot of fun. I am sorry that I didn't take pictures of the treehouse, you would have loved it.
Monday was the eclipse, and it was hot, a bit windy and amazing. Strange that when the total eclipse happened no birds were singing, the wind died down, the sky was a strange color.
Monday was the eclipse, and it was hot, a bit windy and amazing. Strange that when the total eclipse happened no birds were singing, the wind died down, the sky was a strange color.
Before the eclipse started.
We were hoping that the clouds wouldn't be a factor and stop us for seeing it.
Still cloudy.
Clouds are going away from the sun.
Almost the total eclipse. Strange how the sun looks like the moon.
Dark clouds for sure.
The total eclipse when we could actually look at it without our special glasses.
The eclipse and Jupiter.
The eclipse and Venus.
When the eclipse was happening you were supposed to be able to see five planets,
but we only found two of them.
Front row, Sharon and myself. Back row, Steve and hubby.
The weather was bad on Tuesday, but much worse on Wednesday. So much rain and wind, thankfully God spared us from a tornado, praise the Lord! Thursday was beautiful and after hubby was off of work, we went to Waco Lake. Before the trip we noticed a lot of Airstreams coming in, they were having a rally. I have never seen so many Airstreams in one place and it looked like they were having fun.
They were proudly displaying flags from where they came from.
Some history about Airstreams. Airstream was created by Wally Byam who began building Masonite trailers in Los Angeles during the late 1920s. In 1936, Byam introduced the "Airstream Clipper", which was essentially a rebadged 1935 Bowlus Road Chief, with the door relocated from the front to the side. The design cut down on wind resistance and thus improved fuel efficiency. It was the first of the now familiar sausage-shaped, silver aluminum Airstream trailers. In 1936, the first Airstream was introduced. It sold for $1,200 and was able to house four people with electric lights and a water supply. Of more than 400 travel trailer builders operating in 1936, Airstream was the sole survivor of the Depression.
Hubby and I call them tin cans, but I can see the "sausage-shape", can you?
During World War II, travel became a luxury most could not afford, and non-military industries faced an acute aluminum shortage. When World War II ended, the economy boomed, and people's attention once again turned towards leisure travel. Byam's company went back into production in 1948. In July 1952, a new facility in Jackson Center, Ohio, was established. 1979 saw the last Airstreams to be manufactured in California.
In 1974, Airstream began manufacturing a Class A motorhome, badged "Argosy". They were followed in 1979 by the first examples of the Classic model motorhome, with an unpainted aluminum body much like the trailers.
"Keeping it real" I don't believe I have ever seen these Motorhomes.
Here is what they looked like inside.
In 1981, Airstream's Commercial Vehicle Division marketed a Class A motorhome as a Funeral coach. It was designed to transport family, flowers, and the deceased from the funeral home to the cemetery.
Hmmmm interesting for sure.
The aluminum motorhomes were followed by more traditional-looking fiberglass models in the 1990s. Airstream discontinued the manufacture of Class A motorhomes in 2006.
I hope they had a truly blessed time at the rally.
The drive to Waco Lake was nice and interesting. The lake is by the airfield, so we also were able to watch some planes fly in. The lake was formed by the merger of the North and South Bosque Rivers, Waco Lake is a reservoir behind a dam west of the city of Waco. The first dam was built in 1930 but was replaced by a new dam in the 1960s as the population of the city of Waco grew and need for a more-dependable water supply increased. In the decades following, the conservation pool of the lake has been raised on several occasions, prompting cultural resource investigations in advance of each change.
It was pretty.
Much larger than I thought.
The Bosque River basin lies at the eastern edge of the Grand Prairie, a large natural region in north-central Texas that extends south from the Red River to the Llano Uplift and northern end of the Balcones Canyonlands in central Texas. This region includes the Lampasas, Cut Plain and the Fort Worth Prairie. The Cut Plains exhibit the most diverse vegetation in north-central Texas and contain important habitats.
What was really interesting is the area where we were able to see the lake is also an RV park.
After the lake visit, we went out to dinner at Ninfa's Mexican Restaurant, being back in Iraan doesn't bode well for me for Mexican food unless I make it, now the BBQ here is wonderful and pretty good pizza. If we don't choose that then it's a 40-minute drive to Ozona. They have a Mexican restaurant isn't bad and they have another place that is ok. To be honest, I am hoping to lose weight while being out here, so I will be doing the cooking for the most part. I will have hubby grill meats for us and then veggies. We are actually going on a cruise in July, and I want to have lost weight so that I can eat on the cruise.
We ate here last year and I think it was a little better than this year.
Friday, we mailed packages, went to Outback (I got a gift card for my birthday, and it was nice to use it. Thank you, Women's Pregnancy Center) and then to HEB. I wanted to get a few things to have here before I go shopping on Tuesday in San Angelo. I get my hair cut then as well. I am excited.
We shared steak and lobster, it was yummy.
Saturday, for some reason, God woke me up around 6:30am and I went ahead and got up, hubby was going to get me up at 7am but I knew if I went back to sleep it would be worse. We left Waco around 9:20am and made it to Iraan before 4:00pm. It was a long drive, and we did stop three times, but it was also a pretty drive.
"Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; Sing praises to our God on the lyre, Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains." Psalms 147:7-8 (NASB).
The clouds look amazing.
When we arrived at the Ranch, flowers greeted us.
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." John Lennon.
Today, we will watch church on TV and then explore to see what all needs to start happening at the Ranch. I hope last week was wonderful for you and I also hope God will shine His face upon you and yours this week.
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