This week I drove down to Boerne, TX to visit Becky, who moved there last summer. She is renting a house in Boerne until she can afford to build her dream house near Medina, where she bought about 17 acres of land. What a great location both towns are! She is right in the Texas Hill Country, with great biking, hiking, tubing, and fishing and hunting if you’re into those things. She is about a half hour from San Antonio or Fredericksburg and about an hour from Austin. The property she bought is wonderful, very rural with a fossil-filled creek and lots of critters. I wish it was closer; it took about five hours to get there, although it was a very pretty drive.
It was good to see Becky and Boomer and Henry. Boomer is so big, and in his terrible twos. He spent my visit with his head planted firmly against my thigh the whole time.

I took my bike with me, and fit in two beautiful training rides in the hills. Good practice for next week’s MS150. Becky and I also went out to her property twice, and I collected interesting rocks while she watered the herbs she’s started out there. In addition to the rocks I brought back, I was also rewarded with six tomato plants, four pepper plants, and an eggplant, all of which she started from seed. And I stopped on the way home at the San Antonio location of the Antique Rose Emporium, which is almost (but not quite) as nice as the original one near Brenham. I am planting three new roses (and all of the vegetables) outside today.