The last few days I have been pretty inactive, other than having Peggy explain our income tax burdens looming in the near future. She has been dutifully figuring out the bizarre and arcane tax laws for this year. Although we can hardly be classified as affluent, the IRS and FTB refute that and taxed our meager income anyhow. The assholes even charge tax on Social Security.
Peggy finally finished the tax form preparations and we were free to go fool around. On our way out of the campground, we passed by my favorite lightning-struck snag and some Texans engaged in an activity that was hard to accurately describe. It looks like they ride a horse across a pasture between two lines of skinny plastic rods. While riding, they attempt to skewer archery targets with a bow and arrows. Folks that are unmounted wander about the pasture and shoot more arrows into what appear to be gunny bags full of watermelons. It seems strange that Texans, who spent a hundred years shooting Indians to eradicate them would take up the weapons systems of the defeated as sport.
We headed north from our campground and drove into La Grange so Peggy could visit the Texas Quilt Museum. She said the museum is fabulous for those interested in this kind of stuff. She also wandered next door to the museum where she found a fabric and yarn store. Unable to resist buying something in a fabric store, Peg returned to the truck with a small bag of treasure.
After La Grange, we returned to the Warrenton / Round Top area of Texas where vendors are setting up what must be one of the biggest antiques / swap meet / Americana get-togethers in the state and maybe in the U.S. There are massive tents and pavilions set up for miles along TX-237 starting south of Warrenton and quitting north of Round Top. Once we finished gawking, we felt we were due a reward so we went into Teague’s Tavern in Round Top. It really isn’t much of a tavern because they only had two beers on tap. However, the bar also sports an Emmy which was won by the bar owner for news reporting during Hurricane Katrina. It is a very impressive statue.
We always try to check out all the Texas historical landmarks along our routes. Texans are very big on history so they have installed cast aluminum signs on posts wherever anyone has ever lived, worked, built structures, fought Mexicans or slaughtered Indians, who, according to the signs, were always the aggressors. Today we went by a historical marker carved out of a nice slab of granite that commemorates the plainly noteworthy construction of a sewer system in 1937. Maybe we won’t stop at all the markers in the future.
Check out some of the pictures we took today. Click here