Weekend Pix

[gja1000]

Hey, I was out and about a little bit this weekend and wishing I had my good camera with me, but did not. So here are a few pix with the cell phone.

Gary and I went to a "chuck wagon" gathering. Unfortunately, the rain decreased the numbers of participants - but these are people with authentic "chuck wagons". Everything they do over the weekend event has to be authentic to the 1800's when chuck wagons crossed the country with wagon trains. On Saturday, they were having a chuck wagon cook off - they had to prepare a dinner of meat, vegetables, bread and dessert as it would have been done "back in the old days". Spectators could purchase a dinner and vote for the best! We didn't go to that because of the rain. It was great looking at all the old wagons and things though!

[gja1000]

Last night my daughter and I took my granddaughter, Abi and a friend of hers to the University of Texas women's volleyball game. They are ranked #2 in the country and so they are pretty good. They are still in preseason play and were playing the national team from Italy. It was lots of fun and Abi and her friend really loved it. Of course, the pictures are from way up in the stands with my phone, so they are not very good.

[gja1000]

And last but not least, when the University of Texas' football team wins a game, they light the top of the "clock tower" on campus orange. So, here is what we saw when we left the volleyball game.

[Janet]

Nice pictures Gayle. I'm so glad you post pictures. I don't get anywhere to take pictures so it's nice to see yours. I would have loved seeing all the old wagons. There are a few around here that people use to decorate their yard with.

I love volleyball games so that would have been fun for me too.

[gja1000]

I'm a picture taking fool this weekend! I worked in the yard this morning so I took a few pix to share. Gary likes to put little "critters" in our rock garden out front, so here are a few of them, some are new ones we got on our trip this summer.

[gja1000]

some more critters

[gja1000]

Two of my fall tomato plants are doing GREAT - they are about 3 feet tall, the other two plants (different variety) are NOT doing well, they are less than a foot tall. I guess I'll know better which variety to plant next year!

1. & 2. are pix of my thriving tomato plants - those "cages" around them are 4 feet tall, so you can see the plants are about 3 ft. tall
3. my "less than a foot tall" struggling tomato plant
4. my winter squash, which isn't doing too hot either, but is putting on lots of new leaves, so maybe it will be OK.

[gja1000]

I also have a couple of pics of my cherry pepper plants with 3 cherry peppers. I should pick them, but they are so pretty on the plant, I like looking at them better than eating them. LOL!

[Tiramisu]

Thanks for the pictures. I enjoy taking pictures, too, but haven't been doing to much lately. It seems I wait for the kids to share theirs with me.

Keep 'em coming.

[Blueyes]

Looks like you had a fun, busy weekend! If we lived in Austin Mike would drag me to sporting events all of the time, lol! Gary cracks me up

[judy]

The first snake looks so real. I was wondering how Gary manages to keep these critters from running off. Duh They are so cute.

Your gardens are wonderful. It's good that you know what to plant for next year.

I just took in my first plant for the winter. We are getting pretty cold nights already. I took in my jasmine plant, which I mail ordered. I don't know if it will bloom at all up here, since it's really a tropical plant. Maybe I should ship it
down to you! I think I'll just let my others live as long as they can, and then bring in the planters for winter storage. You are so lucky in that you can have all year round gardens.

[DianaB]

Your little critters are cute! The first snake looked pretty real to me and the horney toad!! We used to catch them when I was a kid but you don't hardly see them any more.

I would have loved to see the volleyball game!!! It's one thing that we like to watch when the Olympic are on. I think that it's because we used to play recreational volleyball years ago.

The chuck wagon sounded interesting. It would be so hard to cook like they did back then!!

Your little garden has done so good this summer!! I'm surprised that you can plant tomatoes again, but you do have a longer growing season than we do. It's so funny how all of that works!!

I always enjoy your pictures, Gayle. I have a lot of pictures to share. They're on my computer now so I'll have to start getting some on here!!

[gja1000]

Thanks all!

The chuck wagons were so neat. I wish it hadn't been raining, I would have loved to have eaten the chuck wagon dinners!! I wouldn't want to cook that way either - I'm too spoiled. I forgot to mention that most of the participants were dressed the part too, it was neat to see the clothes, wagons, and cooking set ups!

Yes, we are lucky to have two growing seasons. We have to plant in early March to get things harvested before the dastardly hot July/Aug. Then we can plant things in Aug (if they can survive the heat) to be harvested in Oct/Nov. It is fun to have so much variety.

[paula1961]

Great pics Gayle!