On Sunday we headed back to Texas from an awesome four-day visit with family. While logistically, we dropped off our few belongings with Bob’s sister and brother-in-law, we also got to see more of Bob’s family and new and old friends as we feted Cheryl on her retirement. Beth apparently had too good of a time and didn’t really want to leave (read on).
Sunday night we stayed in Guthrie, Oklahoma to break up the long drive. It was about an 8 hour ride from Carroll, Iowa. Upon arrival at the motel in Guthrie, Beth noticed that she had left almost all of her clothes (those that she had unpacked and put in the motel dresser) back in Iowa. Words were said that won’t be printed here. Initially, the motel in Iowa was contacted but ultimately Cheryl and Jody had to come to the rescue again to pick up Beth’s clothes and send to her via UPS.
But I digress, Guthrie was the territorial capital of Oklahoma and was also the state capital for the first three years of Oklahoma’s statehood. It has a lovely historic downtown area that we drove through after having read about it.
After a quick stop at the car rental office in Austin, we arrived Monday afternoon in Canyon Lake to meet Jan and Tom and our quartet of pets.
Jan and Tom are both master gardeners, but Tom has a special affinity for orchids. We are in charge of watering the various hanging, mounted, and potted orchids that he is growing in his greenhouse as well as monitoring the temperature and humidity as the Texas heat starts escalating. We have no idea the names of the various types of orchids, but we do know they are very attractive. We also learned that at least for some of the orchids, their roots whiten as they become dry and turn green as they receive a sufficient amount of watering. I like this idea and wish that we could each turn colors when we’ve had enough food, conversation, etc., so we and others would clearly see when enough is enough.
More to come on our Canyon Lake visit.
Peckish Travels 