Today Gene and Jamey made fudge...jamey called it "chemistry class"(see 1st photo)...while I shelled pecans and made stew.
It's going to be cold tonight...in the 20's, but will warm up for Christmas day...it's supposed to get into the 70's.
Yesterday Jamey and I drove to Alpine as she had never been. It was a nice sunny day and a pretty drive thru the Davis Mountains. We saw a HUGE buck...he had at least 8 points and maybe 10. Also 2 havalinas trouncing along by the side of the road. We ate a nice lunch at a restaurant called "Reata" named after the house in the movie Giant...it's been there since the 50's. Then we hit the galleries and shops.
These pictures are on the way to Alpine. Musquiz canyon is where P.H. Pruett first settled and bought his land from Senor Musquiz. The ruins across the street from this first sign are the old Musquiz place....very precious little left of them huh? They are covered with a metal roof thing to keep what is left from falling apart even more. Then the next sign is about P.H. Pruett. He was the first white settler in the Ft. Davis area and the older brother of T.B....the man who built our house here in Pecos. P.H.'s wife sold butter and milk to the soldiers at ft. davis. Click on the pictures to make them large enough to read the info. The last picture is of a sign for a rock shop in Alpine...it's outside of a little motel there.
That's all....we are off to Balmorhea for steak.
love, mary
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