I tried posting this last Sunday, but Bluehost was ‘acting up’, so I put it into draft and didn’t get it posted until today.  I will say – IT RAINED THIS MORNING!!!!!!!  Unbelievable.  While the rain was spotty, it rained a lot in some places, including over our house.  I really think that keeping a blog up by phone is very doable, so updating from the road looks bright for the future (see Blogging on the Road).  I have to figure out pictures – but I think I can take a photo or two with the phone and upload – and then upload the slideshows when I get home.   The weather is getting a little better, so hopefully we’ll start hitting the road a little more.  We have a few trips already planned for the DFW area, as well as the Houston area – both later this year.  In the meantime, I still have about 40 counties I can upload.

Here’s the late posting:

Sorry for missing my post yesterday (weekly – Sunday post), but the loft is getting done and the grass is mostly green.  That’s saying a lot on both those points.  The loft’s needed cleaning out for a few years now and the drought here is getting beyond epic.  Lucky for us, the SA Water board has done a good job adding additional supplies of water to this part of Texas.  But the wild fires are getting scary.

Llano County – we went to Black Rock Park (LCRA park), where we’ve stayed before.  It’s on a lake and we remember it as being so green.  Well, you’d be hard pressed to find any green right now.  And really, you’d need to take a nice long hike to find a lake.  I’ve taken some pictures of the park and the ‘lake’ – so check that out on my Black Rock posting.

I headed into Llano on our arrival to hopefully get inside of the courthouse – as well as take pictures of the updated courthouse tower and the restored courtroom.  So check out the Llano County Update page.  I also wanted to locate and photograph the historic Llano County Jail   – “Big Red”.  I also took photos of the town square of Llano – something I wasn’t doing when we first visited in 2004.

Finally, we took a drive to visit a few of the many vineyards in the area.  I think there’s about 30 wineries in the Hill Country of Texas, and a lot of them are around where were staying.  I’ve posted a few pics from that activity as well in Wineries of Texas.