I just got back from four days in Texas – flew down and met up with a friend from St. Louis. We spent the first day in Austin just exploring and visiting a great friend of ours who has just moved to Austin. The rest of the trip was in Hunt, which is smack in the middle of the hill country. Two great friends, also formerly from St. Louis have moved to a place in Hunt. And everybody has a “place” there, usually with a cool name attached.
I am completely enchanted. I love everything about the place; the people are friendly, the Guadalupe River is the most gorgeous shade of blue, and there are wild critters everywhere. I love the people’s sense of connectedness to the land. Everybody from the retired CEO’s to the the big bubba rednecks is concerned with water conservation and efficient land and wildlife management. Lights at night are discouraged in order to avoid “light pollution” – it makes the huge sky seem even bigger. The locals are proud and very devoted to the area – and it is a beautiful place!
The daily agenda was just getting up early, exploring all around, staying up very late drinking wine and catching up on EVERYTHING! Way too many topics to share them all, but here is a quite concise summary of the weekend discussions:
1. How to deal with scorpions
2. It’s not IF you will hit a deer with your car, it’s WHEN
3. Goat farming is hot
4. Snakes are not hot, yet are everywhere
And one pressing issue as yet unresolved, but waiting for update pending our friend’s attendance at an informational meeting this week:
1. What to do about the feral hogs that are EVERYWHERE
We are already planning our next trip out there – in July. This weekend was beautiful, but the mountains, trees and river had this surreal look due to a late winter ice storm. We are anxious to see the place with stars sparkling in the sky at night and hot sun all day long!
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