Tuesday 3-20 First Day of Spring

Enjoy smelling the flowers

We had a beautiful brisk first day of spring. It's time to get the Minnie ready for our Spring Trip. 

First thing we did was go to by the post office to put our mail on hold. Then we went to O'Reilly Auto Parts to pick up a small gas container for the motorcycle. Then it was time for grocery shopping at HEB. Next we went by the UPS Store to pick up our mail. On the way home we stopped by the Little Bohemian to get a cinnamon roll, Larry bought a couple of them. We had them for our dessert after lunch and dinner.

It was a pretty day with a little breeze out of the north, seemed like a great day to mow the grass. We haven't started the lawn mower this year so Larry checked the oil and put fuel in it. He started it up for me considering it was the first time this year, it started right up. I mowed the frontyard and the front half of the backyard. Larry ran the weedeater and the blower. It took me an hour and a half to mow.  

Mowing the yards

When we travel we have a lawn service company come and mow so the yards don't get out of control.    

There is a nature area by Lake Belton called Miller Springs. A volunteer group ran it for 25 years and the lease came up. They couldn't get enough volunteers to keep it running so it has been closed for a long time. The cities of Belton and Temple have been getting calls on what is going on with the area and why is it closed. Lake Belton is run by the Corp of Engineers, both cities met with the Corp to discuss what was needed to get it reopened. The Temple newspaper had an article about a meeting scheduled for today to talk about reopening Miller Springs and to let the citizens know what's going on, we attended the meeting. We were glad to see a lot of people showed up. The city of Temple has committed to have a couple of full-time employees working the area and the city of Belton has a person in charge of getting volunteers to help maintain the trails along with submitting for grants to help fund the area. Both cities are working with the Corp to get a contract to reopen Miller Springs. The citizens there were very responsive to what is going on. People volunteered theirs services. It was a very positive meeting. Another meeting is scheduled for Thursday in Belton for people that couldn't make it today.

In the evening we watched our YouTube videos and started watching Detective Lewis through the Amazon. We had a great day of sunshine.