not quite gone yet
Apr. 28th, 2007 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabWhew, I'm exhausted and we haven't even managed to see everybody that we hoped to see. Partly our own fault, since most of our visit overlapped the workweek; today's the only day we're here that isn't.
We got down to Book Exchange on Manchaca, to get more Bookmate book covers - they hold one's book open and flat so that one can use both hands to eat while reading. I have *not* stopped in at Hill Country Weavers, or any other yarn shop, or any fabric shop. One used book store is about all the extra suitcase room we have. We got some of the Bookmates for Kathy, as well; they'll be perfect for her murder mysteries (small size) and birding books (large size) and I predict that she'll soon be running down to South Austin to buy them for all *her* friends and relatives, as we do. We still have never found another store, anywhere, that sells them, and they cost MORE to order from the website than they cost at Book Exchange. Sheee.
We had supper with Anita and Dana, and I finally gave Anita her poncho. Pictures will be posted when I get home. We've been out to Lockhart to see some of Steve's relatives. Most of Steve's relatives I can take or leave, but there are so few left that I suppose we gotta see them. For those of you wondering, there are still a lot of cows in Texas. Moo. Lockhart, while it serves as the county seat for Caldwell County and the shopping metropolis for the surrounding farm and ranchland (and a bit of oil), is best known for: barbecue. Every block another barbecue restaurant; one's the biggest, one's the oldest family-run, one's the most historic building, etc., etc. Moo.
The people we haven't seen are the ones who are laid up with surgery/illness/etc., so I don't feel too guilty. Other than that, what's left on the agenda is tonight's ASB concert and party. Tomorrow morning, we leave here absurdly early, to return the Tomato Express to the rental people and catch a plane that will get us back to Baltimore around 1-ish in the afternoon, Eastern time, so we'll have time to catch our breath before Sunday evening's concert. Sunday being that busy, I probably won't check email at all, even, let alone catch up here on LJ. Expect that I will spend Monday the 30th reading all of y'all's posts from the past entire week (along with paying bills, paying for the storage unit, and snorgling the pets), so I'll finally find out whether anyone else has been doing anything fun and/or important.
Sam, Gwen, and others I haven't seen - next trip, you're FIRST on the list, OK?
We got down to Book Exchange on Manchaca, to get more Bookmate book covers - they hold one's book open and flat so that one can use both hands to eat while reading. I have *not* stopped in at Hill Country Weavers, or any other yarn shop, or any fabric shop. One used book store is about all the extra suitcase room we have. We got some of the Bookmates for Kathy, as well; they'll be perfect for her murder mysteries (small size) and birding books (large size) and I predict that she'll soon be running down to South Austin to buy them for all *her* friends and relatives, as we do. We still have never found another store, anywhere, that sells them, and they cost MORE to order from the website than they cost at Book Exchange. Sheee.
We had supper with Anita and Dana, and I finally gave Anita her poncho. Pictures will be posted when I get home. We've been out to Lockhart to see some of Steve's relatives. Most of Steve's relatives I can take or leave, but there are so few left that I suppose we gotta see them. For those of you wondering, there are still a lot of cows in Texas. Moo. Lockhart, while it serves as the county seat for Caldwell County and the shopping metropolis for the surrounding farm and ranchland (and a bit of oil), is best known for: barbecue. Every block another barbecue restaurant; one's the biggest, one's the oldest family-run, one's the most historic building, etc., etc. Moo.
The people we haven't seen are the ones who are laid up with surgery/illness/etc., so I don't feel too guilty. Other than that, what's left on the agenda is tonight's ASB concert and party. Tomorrow morning, we leave here absurdly early, to return the Tomato Express to the rental people and catch a plane that will get us back to Baltimore around 1-ish in the afternoon, Eastern time, so we'll have time to catch our breath before Sunday evening's concert. Sunday being that busy, I probably won't check email at all, even, let alone catch up here on LJ. Expect that I will spend Monday the 30th reading all of y'all's posts from the past entire week (along with paying bills, paying for the storage unit, and snorgling the pets), so I'll finally find out whether anyone else has been doing anything fun and/or important.
Sam, Gwen, and others I haven't seen - next trip, you're FIRST on the list, OK?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-04-28 09:21 pm (UTC)