Lou & Teina's travels

Talked to Teresa and they are heading down from DFW so will probably get to motel at about the same time. We meet up and get settled mid afternoon, then head for Roy and Madge's place. Yahoo, Street Atlas and? don't know the streets here so Teresa calls for directions. Have a great reunion scene with hugging etc. then catch up on some of the happenings in the Barrett world. Dinner at a Catfish place and we call it a early night.

Wed. now so another day of visiting, listening to Roy's stories etc. Teresa's second goal for this trip is a Black Diamond watermelon. Never heard of it but it's high on her mind. So in the afternoon we head to out to visit a old Dr. Pepper plant that still has all the old equipment. Still making it with "Pure Cane Sugar" like the old days. It's equipment can't handle the "Non-returnable" bottles, so the make a run when they collect enough of the deposit ones. Nice tour, then we're on down the road in search of watermelon. A Peach and Watermelon Festival is happing a few miles away so we check it out. Arrive at 5p and nothing going on, tour the area in the car as there are no pedestrians yet - and no watermelons. Drive to town and ask a local cop where to find them and he said "a gold pickup parked after the "S" curve. Well guess we're early for the parade - lawn chairs along the street and people waiting. Found the pickup but no Black Diamonds. Got rained out but might have another crop in Sept. Decided we couldn't wait for that, so bought some other kind and headed back to Granbury for dinner at Roy's 2nd favorite Mex restaurant.

Have a full day tomorrow so. time to get rested.