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The last half of March and the last full month we will be on our exploration adventure, for this year.  We want to go and see Sam Houston while we are here.  We will also be going on our usual driving tours to see what we can see 8).

The weather is great.  No complaints.  We have a nice site and all is well with our world.  Doug is happy to be back in the trees and green grass.  He is more willing to get out and around.  He is a very happy fellow and says he really likes this part of Texas.

We have been watching these deer frolicking every day up in the storage area.  We have a clear view of the storage area through the windshield of our coach.  We thought that the deer were coming in every morning from the nearby woods, but it turns out that the owner of the park raises these exotic deer.

We took several drives around the area.  We drove across the Lake Conroe causeway and several other short drives.  There is lots of new construction in this area.  Lots of condos are being built for the tourist.  I guess they are getting ready for the next stage of the Baby Boomers aging and not wanting to drive a big motor home to their holiday destinations.

Taking drives around the area and grocery shopping is about all we accomplished here.  I am still not a 100% after whatever was ailing me in Rockport.

Doug decided to get ready for our next move and was going to get the ladder off of our coach ladder, when he encountered a situation he didn't know quite what to do about it.  He walked back to the back of the coach and a bird flew past his ear.  He turned to take the ladder down and encountered a large pile of twigs on the steps of the ladder. 

That is a very large pile of twigs to be piled up on the steps in less then two weeks.  Doug wasn't sure if there was anything in the nest, but thought that there might be because of the bird flying past his ear.  He came back and asked me to have a look.  I took the camera and held it facing towards the nest and took this   We didn't want to disturb the nest but knew that it wouldn't last the move and we didn't think Mom would like the ride or the flight trying to keep up with her nest.  What to do?  Doug very carefully picked the nest off of the ladder and placed it in the tree right behind the coach. 

We hope that Momma bird can find the nest.  We have a feeling she was watching us as we moved it.

Friday, March 24, 2006 - We move tomorrow and today we did our usual pre-move procedure.  We empty our black and gray tanks and put the hoses away the day before our move.  That way we can get an early start without worrying about everything being covered in morning dew.  We won't be moving far.  We are only going to Timber Lodge at New Waverley, TX.

March 25, 2006 - We didn't get a early start as usual.  It was such a short distance that we waited until after 10:00 a.m. to move.  We wanted to get there after others had a chance to move on to their next stop.

We arrived well before noon.  We pulled into Timber Lodge and were all set up before it was time for lunch.  We have neighbors from Ontario on our one side.  A nice couple - Dave and Marian from the Kingston area.  Dave was out to have a chat with Doug shortly after we arrived.  They have a nice fifth-wheel.

We are surrounded by farm pasture at this park.   I feel right at home here because this is the type of area I grew up in.  It is really nice to get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and get back to the country here.  Some of the cattle seem to be a combination of Long Horn and Herford or some other combinations.  

There were horses in the pasture to the west of us, the day we arrived, but we haven't seen them since.  We don't know what happened to them.  The park manager said that some were out for stud service.  Maybe they have all been sent, but I can't see them all coming into season at the same time.

We also took a drive on up to see Sam Houston.  There is a large statue of him, that we could see from the highway and we wanted to get a closer view.  

The sky was really getting dark as we came to the exit on I-45.  By the time we had looped around and was in the parking lot, it was pouring rain.  A real tropical like storm.  There was lots of thunder and lightning.  We made a mad dash for the welcome center and that is as far as we could get.  We did learn that the cement mixer that the construction crew used to make the statue, came to a final rest as the heart of the Sam Houston statue.  We would like to come back another day when it isn't raining.  We hope that we can, as we would really like to get a closer view.   We waited for a while and talked to the two nice attendants, then gave up and went back to Timber Lodge.  It was obvious that we were not going to get a closer look today.  Mother Nature had other ideas.

The park has many ancient oak trees.   

They are so grand and majestic.  Sad to say, one of them came to a crashing end just days before we arrived.  I couldn't resist taking a photo of the huge trunk that remained.  The tree must have been a couple of hundred years old.  What do you think?

      The tree was in quite bad shape by the look of its heart.  It needed to come down for the safety of the occupants to the RV park, but what a loss.  It was probably already growing when Sam Houston was alive and living in this area.

It is the end of March and we leave for Shiloh RVResort, Monroe, LA tomorrow.  We are on a real slow route home.  See you next month!