Leg From Ft Worth to Caprock Canyons State Park, TX

I’m about ready to go biking here at the state park. I will bike down to the buffalo field so that I can see the “Home of the Official Texas State Bison Herd.” But first, I wanted to tell you about the first day of my trip to Oregon.

What was so impressive today was the countryside. Wow! Here are some of the things that I enjoyed…..
• Windmills. Those huge white ones with three blades. There were hundreds.
• Sunflowers. Sunflower fields and wild sunflowers along the road.
• Swallows (?). I’ll call them “mud birds” because of their nests. At every overpass, these birds were there darting back and forth. Fun to see.
• Mesas. Wow. Come over the hill and there are the flat-topped mesas. Welcome to the West.
• Wild Turkeys!
• A Full-Service Gasoline Station. Located in Ralls, TX.
• The Most Fun “Welcome To” Sign. The sign read WELCOME TO QUITAQUE. Underneath it, in parenthesis, was (KITTY QUAY).

I ran out to take a picture of the canyons near my campsite so that I could show you. They are beautiful, but the picture was washed-looking. (I remember hearing that these kinds of pictures need to be done with a special lens or at dawn or dusk.) So, instead of the canyon pictures, I’m showing you the cactus flower!

So long!

My curtains were dirty and stained. I decided to clean them. I would like to tell you some things that I learned about those curtains……

• In my thirty-two foot travel trailer, there are 21 curtain panels.
• These 21 curtain panels are attached to both top and bottom curtain rods with sliders.
• There are approximately 18 sliders on each of the 21 curtain panels.
• The curtain rods have screws in each end to keep the 21 curtain panels from vibrating out.
• The drilled holes for the curtain rod screws were done by wonderful mechanics who believed that no one would ever want to remove the 21 beautiful curtain panels.
• Because the mechanics believed that the 21 curtain panels were permanent, they do not smooth out the burrs left when drilling the holes for the screws.
• The 21 beautiful curtain panels cannot be removed unless the burrs are removed.
• Burrs can be removed easily with sandpaper or metal files or a Dremel tool.
• None of those tools worked. The location of the burrs is so tiny that tools can’t get to them.
• What did work was a combination of pulling and wiggling. Each of the 18 sliders found on each of the 21 curtain panels was pulled and wiggled past those burrs left by the wonderful mechanics who believed the curtain panels would never be removed.

My curtains are now clean and crisp. They are back on the rods. I am counting on their remaining clean and crisp for ten more years.

Take care,
Suzanne

P.S. This job took three days.