Argyle, Texas

Well, we just spent 5 days at the "ranch" in Argyle, Texas, with our friend Laura from high school, and her husband, Don.  It is a beautiful 10 acre property with a beautiful house, two horses, a burro, a goat,  3 outside cats, 2 inside cats, a huge black lab and a little corgie.  We had great fun!  There is a huge back patio where we could have coffee every morning.  Several times we went down to the "barn" to feed the horses, goat, burro and outside cats.  Oh yes, I forgot, before we went to the barn, we went to the pond to feed the fish and the turtles!  At the barn, after feeding them, hay was distributed outside so they could have "snacks"!  It was beautiful, the animals were beautiful - but Laura has to pick up a lot of poop from the horses.   Gretchen says it's okay because they eat mostly vegetable stuff - however, I believe poop is poop, no matter where it is from.  Laura cooked entirely too much food (which we happily ate because it was delicious), we drank and made merry.  I even got to play golf with Don and his friend Tuesday.  Not great, but a 106 - which means I am coming back!  Not to say I watch too many movies, but I kept waiting for the cast of Giant to appear!  It is a lovely, lovely house and they were wonderful hosts!  Hopefully, I will get to stop on my way back across the country (whenever that is!!)  Now we are at Gretchen's in Canyon Lake and even still speaking! 
When we got to Laura's I found I had left a whole stack of clothes on  the dining room chair in Navarre.  So, hopefully, they will take pity on an old widow and mail them to me at Gretchen's.  So, aside from Mike not being around anymore, life is pretty good.  Thanks for tuning in.  Ricci