Saturday, April 20, 2019

WILDFLOWERS

Currently in Kerrville TX (Low 45 Plenty of Sun High 82)

Late March to early April is peak wildflower season in the Hill Country. You can see them driving down the highways and interstate but getting a good picture at 65-75 miles an hour is challenging so we went again this year to Wildseed Farm near Fredericksburg, the nations largest working wildflower farm. You can easily get great pictures of wildflowers, kind of like a zoo for wild animals except it is wildflowers.


The entrance.


Walking trails take you to different wildflowers.




This way we can walk and relax and see the wildflowers and get great pictures and just take mental pictures while we are driving. 

Till next time,

Bob and Jo

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

ON THE ROAD AGAIN (SORTA)

Currently in Kerrville TX (Low 51 Mostly Cloudy With a Stray Shower or Two High 68) 

Subtitled: Felt like we were camping.

We departed 'By the River RV Park' Monday and drove 0.25 miles to our new park, 'Crawfish Island RV Park' at the Blue Gar Complex also in Kerrville.


Here is the view out our back window.



When we got to our new site and raised the satellite dish we got the dreaded 'NO LNB VOLTAGE' message. Bob called Winegard and the most likely culprit is the cable between the LNB (low noise blocker) and the turret. So we were without satellite for Monday evening and boy did that feel like we were camping :-) 

Tuesday a new cable was tried without success so a different LNB was tried, also with no success. Winegard tells us that the problem is now in the turret so we are working with our warranty company to get the turret repaired. The satellite tech was able to manually point our dish and bypass the turret so we have TV.

We will be here for the foreseeable future so will have plenty of time to get this fixed. Jo recently had a MRI and her back problems have progressed to severe, the worst rating that the pain center has. Steroid shots didn't touch the pain so they are now working on cauterizing her nerves. With her current pain levels travel is out of the question. We are hoping that sufficient deadening of the nerves will occur so that we may be able to travel north to the Kansas City area this fall.

Till next time,

Bob and Jo