Accident, Church and Storms (Livingston Dec 13-20)

Trees have been pretty here the last few days.  This is a picture of our rig with some of the trees that have changed colors.  It feels like we have followed the colors from Indiana down to Texas!

This past week has been relatively quiet except for last Wednesday.  Pat got up early to go to the grocery store and get gas at the station down the road.  At about 7:30, he called me to give me the news that he had a car accident.  :-(  He was waiting for traffic at the gas station to clear when another customer backed right into his rear.  She must have been going like a bat out of hell because she actually pushed him out onto the road into traffic.  Fortunately no one else hit him.  Anyways, Pat was OK other than being angry and the car had damage to one of the taillights, the fender and the bumper.  It is now at the body shop to be repaired--I am so glad it was not his fault since the repairs are going to cost the other insurance company in excess of $800.

We did take a trip down to Humble (just north of Houston) and stopped at an RV park that we might stay at in February so we can see Houston sites without leaving the four-legged children too long.  It's a nice park far enough away from the freeway so we won't hear the traffic noise.  The sites are concrete with concrete patios and the monthly cost is reasonable.

Sunday, we attended worship service at the First United Methodist Church.  This is a very large church with two services: one at nine is contemporary followed by Sunday School for all ages.  The second service at eleven is a traditional service.  We attended the early service and the annual children's program was held--nice performance and the service still lasted only one hour.  Several people fro the Escapees park were there as well.

Last night we were sound asleep when all of a sudden our emergency radio went off at midnight.  There was a report of a possible Doppler-indicated tornado to the west and north of us.  We decided that we were not in the tornado warning area and headed back to bed.  It continued to storm off and on all night which meant that Abby didn't sleep too well and kept us awake as well.  With all the rain, our roof leak came back--we woke up at 3 am to the sound of drip..drip..drip.  :-(  We think it is around the vent in the bedroom but haven't had any luck finding it or plugging it.

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and remembers the true meaning of the season!!

EASY LIVING!!