Home on the Range, Chickens Included!

Joe — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:10:06 +0000

Well, we left Indian Woods Campground at Hilltop Lakes a little early and heading to Home on the Range RV Park just outside Madisonville, Texas. What a difference in the two parks, not that either one of them are the top of the line resort style parks, but each one has their good and bad attributes.

Indian Woods has the peace and solitude going for it! Other than that, hummmm, that’s about all. That only applies during the week, on weekends the hunters come in and the park changes to a deer camp with lots of very large camp fires, late night loud talking and laughing, fast driving, and restrooms left in a terrible mess, i.e. beer cans on counters, mud on floor, hair on counters, chewing tobacco in showers, etc. Reason for leaving early, right? We thought so.

Well, we really wanted to be closer to our Son, as he needs some help with some projects at his house. I love working on things with him, I always have, even way back to the motorcycle
racing days. Ok, getting back on track. We moved over to the Home-on-the-Range RV Park outside of Madisonville, Texas.

This park has a fairly good location, but the appearance is kinda rough. It has a lot of potential, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of energy being spent on updating and improving its appearance. The laundry and shower building does not have any siding or paint and hasn’t had any for at least 3 years. (We were here in 2007) Very little or no gravel on any the sites. Owner’s pets (3 dogs, flock of 10 to 15 chickens) running free throughout the park. Yes, the park rules require visitors to keep their pets on a leash. But the owners are very nice and accommodating, there is a great restaurant on the property. The site that we settled into is one of the best in the park, I think! The back of the RV is facing the park and the front is facing the small pond.

It has a very large area in front, which makes it feel like you have this side of the park to yourself.

Yesterday, 1/27/12, was a beautiful day and we sat outside most of the day and read our books and enjoyed the conversation. Zazu even had his own chair! “The blue one in the above photo,J!” We didn’t realize it but we both got a little sunburn on our faces, nothing bad just a little red!

I got our digital camera out and starting messing with it and thought I would try to get a photo of the stars. Tried a couple of different setting and ended up with a fairly good shot of the southeastern sky, just above the pond, I kinda like the way it turned out.

We really haven’t gone anyplace special, but we are really enjoying the retirement, and we both know it is going to get better and better. One of Edna’s brothers is not doing to good, battling cancer and we decided this morning that as soon as the mountain passes clear up we will be heading to where he lives, 2400 miles away. Weather is going to play a very big part in the trip planning as we will have to go through some rather high mountainous areas to get there. Probably take us about 2 to 3 weeks, because I will only drive around 250 to 300 hundred miles in a day (maybe less), but it will be a nice trip! Haven’t decided on which route just yet, but we might still go thru the desert southwest and then head up the coast. I know we will be leaving this area at the end of February.

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Home on the Range, Chickens Included!