Shoot

I forgot to mention that Marjorie's fish pond has had a major algae bloom. We've been raking out algae every day since we've been here. On Wednesday a company came out, transferred all the fish to a holding tank and started pulling out the algae by hand, then spraying the remaining with chemicals. They fixed a leak in the liner, and the next day refilled the tank, to mostly the same water they pumped out the day before, replaced the fish, and added a UV treatment to the water to help limit another algae bloom. It was interesting to watch and to learn how they maintain ponds.

For retirement dinner on Friday we drove a little north to New Braunfels to a place called BJ's Saloon and Grill. The place was packed with long waiting lines, and justifiably so. The food was excellent. They had a deal that if you purchased a meal worth $11, you could pick up to three take-home meals (from a choice of 5) for only $6 each. We wound up bringing six of them home.

On Saturday Ron, Marjorie and I drove to the Bracken gun range for some pistol and rifle shooting. We started on the rifle range and they enjoyed shooting my rifle so much we spent all afternoon shooting it, never making it to the pistol range.

Ron was good, but it was surprising how good Marjorie is. We were shooting at 50 yards, the shortest course, and once she got the hang of it and some pointers, she was always hitting the target's inner circle. She even scored a dead-center bullseye! The two of them did most of the shooting and then we left. On the way back we stopped at the Bracken Gun Ship and Ron signed up for the Texas Concealed Carry course. We came home, and ate some of the meals we brought home Friday night, then spent the evening with McLeod's Daughters.

Today we spent the entire day working our way thru another season and a half of the show, and then had a dinner of macaroni salad and filet mignon we brought down from New Jersey.

Tomorrow we will begin planning our exodus from here. We are leaving on Wednesday.