Stockyard here we come!

October 19 – Today was fun!!!  After a nice breakfast we went over to the Trader Village Flea Market.  It’s huge!  They also have a big section of rides and games that you can buy tickets for the day.  Our feeling was most of the products came from China and they have lots of repetitive shops.  We did find a nice used book store but they were just setting up so we had to wait a while.  We did leave with 4 books, so that was nice.  We didn’t even get to half of the shops.

Official Entrance

Lunchtime

We needed to leave the campground by 12:15 to meet Bruce and Sharon in Ft. Worth at the Stockyards.  We pulled in the parking lot right behind them and parked right beside them.  Perfect timing today!  We debated on lunch and maybe we passed up on a really good spot at Cooper’s Old Time Pit BBQ.  It’s ala-carte and you order your meat as you walk in the door and it’s by the pound.  So we headed

Nice dark brew

over to the main street and chose Riscky’s Steakhouse.  It was a busy place but we were seated immediately.  The

Brew time

service was good as was the food.  Bruce, Sharon and I went with Steak Salad and Bill had a steak.  The rolls were excellent and the service was good.  They never made us feel like we needed to hurry along.

Once we had our delicious lunch we went to a number of shops.  All western and beautiful and expensive stuff.  I found some cute shoes but a bit on the pricey side. We ran out of steam about time for the Trail Boss to push the cattle along

Bill can outrun these

the road into their corrals.  It started at 4 and the street was line with people.  They are doing construction on one side of the street and so no one can stand on that side.  Just before the longhorns came through Bill got to sit on a

The real thing

longhorn so I could take photos at him.  He was a happy guy.  This equals when he got to ride an elephant! 

The steers don’t move very fast, I imagine they are so trained to make the walk twice a day, 7 days a week that they just do their thing and get their photos taken and go back to their pen.  Poor guys!  One of them had a huge set of horns!  It’s a wonder they can hold

Some major horns

their heads up.

Time to head back to our trucks and say our “real” good-byes.  We’ve so enjoyed seeing Bruce and Sharon 5 times since we left home in May.  Now the chances are we

Trail Boss

won’t see them again “in person” until next fall when they head back to Florida to winter.  Great people and we will miss them, BUT, we will be in touch on a regular basis!!

We have some noisy neighbors next door and the mom and daughter both have pink hair.  They are constantly yelling at their 2 dogs and just noisy neighbors.  

Dinnertime

Once dinner time rolled around I got out my grill pan and put on some pencil asparagus dosed in olive oil and seasoned with Badia seasoning.  I had thawed a BIG chicken breast so I sliced it into 2 filets and coated them with plain panko crumbs and some bbq seasoning.  Then a quick fry on both sides and we were ready for dinner with the leftover potato salad! Simple, one pan dinner! 

I worked on the computer a while and we watched a bit of TV.  Bill went to bed and I stayed up reading until I was ready.  Good end to a great day!

We miss you already Bruce and Sharon!!