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Beau Wann, Jr.
Gooooooood Morning chappell hillllllllllll....and a frosty morning it is too, a toe numbing 49 gredees,
and I'll be et fer a tater if we havent had 2 and one quarter inches of rain yesterday and today. We havent had 2 inches of rain since June of 19. The authorities mentioned the D word this past week, so we can sure use all the rain we can get.
Jimmie Lee, thanks for posting that letter from our classmate in Italy. Good to know they are ok. I would love to have visited Italy and all the other places we studied from 1st grade to 12th. Does she know about the website? If so, maybe she'll share some stories and photos of her home and travels there. That would be nice to see.
Hey Jerry, there are lots of places to see bluebonnets and paint Bs. If your in Houston, drive up and down TC Jester. If you want to get out of town, head for Brenham. Once past the Brazos river, they are all along the highway. When you get into Brenham, take the exit for hwy 36, the road to Bellville, only dont turn on 36, before you get to the light, take the turnaround under the highway and head back from whence you came.
Go past the first driveway to just past CHILIS restaurant and take a right on the street that goes to Home Depot. Go past Home Depot on the left and Discount tire on the right and starting there on the left is a beautiful field of BBs, keep traveling and on the right is a huge field of BBs. This road is paved and is about a mile long and goes back to 36.
Once at 36, straight ahead of you are fields of BBs, and you can go in any direction to find them. If you go left on 36, go up to the next light and take a right on 109 and head down that way. You'll find fields and fields of BBs and just about anything else. If nothing else, it's beautiful countryside. Not Italy of course, but still pretty.
If you turn right, you can go back up to 290 and go left or straight in through Brenham downtown. But the BBs are just about everywhere. If you go left on 290. that takes you to Sommerville or Austin. The best place for me is the road in front of Home Depot. Lots of places to get something to eat, TO GO.
Even before you get to CH, there is hwy 1371 that heads south to Bellville. that road is a good sight seeing road. There's a bald eagle or two that lives down that lane, you might get lucky and see that bad boy or girl. Seen em once. You cant get lost, most roads curve back to roads that go to Hempstead and Bellville etc. The GPS on your phone is helpful.
Diane and I had Breakfast yesterday at the Chappell Hill BBQ joint just past the light on the left. Theyve moved the tables about ten foot apart, but no matter, we were the only ones there. There breakfasts are good, just dont get the ham or sausage. The ham is thin like lunchmeat, and breakfast ham needs to be at least a quarter inch to half inch thick, at least for me. I also dont like their breakfast sausage patties, or anyones breakfast sausage up here because they put garlic or something in it that to my palate makes it tastes like it's past it's due date, but that's just me I reckon.
Most everything in that place is good. Ordering from the kitchen takes at least 15 to 20 minutes because
it's fresh and not cooked till you order it. The fried chicken is good, the chcken fried chicken and steak are both excellent. They do have a "lubys" type line that you dont have to wait to be cooked, ie BBQ brisket, (get the moist) sausage, chicken, ribs, and of course the accouterments slaw, tater salad etc. Well, you'll see the menu.
And it's sweet and baked you are craving, they have huge cinimon rolls and kolaches of any taste plus pies of any kind, by the slice or whole. Now those bad boys are just a bit pricey for my pocket book. If Diane doesnt make a pie, sometimes we splurge and have a cuppa joe and a slice of chocolate merangue pie or peach or apple. Like I said they pretty much cover all the fruit groups in their pies and kolaches. This place also has a meat market and it's from ranch of the man that owns the restaurant, so it's all fresh. Oak Farms is the name of the Ranch, if memory serves me correctly, although dont know why it should start now.
I wish I could say, "stop at our house" on the way to your travels, but our road is so muddy today. No one has ever gotten stuck, but it's just sloppy and bumpy. Trying to get the county out here to tidy it up, but now they have other pressing matters with the covid19 catastrophe although there are no KNOWN cases of the stuff in Washington County.
I dont know if WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS is open during this crisis, but if it is, thats a nice road trip. They're generally open 7 days a week from about 8 AM till sundown. It is never crowded, in fact most of the times I've been there, I was the only person there except the hired hands. It is a very serene setting. There are modern facilities ie restrooms, air conditioned also, and a gift shop. they have icecream and drinks etc.
There is also a museum and a working farm there that you can visit and maybe milk a cow or goat, or pick some "poke salad greens". There's plenty of picnic tables and paved parking etc. A pretty nice outing and mainly just the cost of petrol to get there. To get there, just turn right off 290 at the light to hwy 1155 and head through Chappell Hill, go through the 4way stop, but stop first, and then follow the signs, it's 19 miles from Chappell Hill. There is also a museum in CH t hat under normal circumstances is open. We live just a couple miles from CH.
I do drone on dont I ! Well, got nothing else to do, too old to dance and too wet to plow, just hunkerin in place. Diane and I have worn the cards and domnioes out, brushed the dogs to Westminster show quality, mowed and planted, shot pool and played shuffle board etc.
Guess I've bout put everyone back to sleep so I'll sign off, for now! Keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."
Your frien and resident tour guide, Cephus R Smithsonian esq
PS: I dont get on here much as you've noticed, my Macular Degeneration is making it hard for me to see stuff, especially the computer screen and inside the house, outside not too bad, cause there's lots of light and open space. Thanks to good teachers like Jimmie Lee, I can type without looking at the keyboard, but find it hard to read what I have typed.
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