January at San Bernard

Time has been passing quickly here. I normally work Monday through Thursday doing various work here. Work here varies from day to day. Most days are spent with Kent, another volunteer, and we work well together. Trail maintenance, building repairs and cleaning, tree trimming, and other jobs. Usually something different every day. One of our tasks was to tear out about a quarter mile of boardwalk trail that had deteriorated beyond repair. We cut it up into sections that we hauled out with a tractor and a group of young outdoor workers from an Americore related organization tore them apart and loaded the wood into dumpsters. 

Two of the other workers here tearing out boardwalk sections.

A section of refuge road that the trees had encroached on. I spent a morning trimming them back this far.

A observation deck on one of the lakes by the boardwalk that we tore out. Kent and I spent several days rebuilding the deck and the approach to it.

The finished product.

We had the weeks of Christmas and New Year's Day off, so one of the days, we drove up to Galveston.

We drove up the highway along the coast and drove on the beach part of the way.

We drove around the city and had a nice lunch there. We stopped here at the end of the island and watched some ship go by and then headed home on a different road.

There is a large field behind our motorhome and we have lot of animals passing through there, birds, deer, armadillos, and wild hogs like these. 

They soon spotted me and my camera and headed for the brush.

One of the close towns to us is Lake Jackson. The town was laid out by an engineer with the Dow Chemical Company to be a place for their workers to live as they have a large plant there. He seems to have had quite a sense of humor from the looks of the names of some of the streets.

Our old Norcold refrigerator in the motorhome died a couple of weeks ago. We decided it was time to replace it with a home unit. It took a little modification of the cabinet to fit it in, but we are happy with the result. More space and much colder freezer!

We are liking the temperature here, but we are having a lot of rain and damp weather, quite a change from the desert last winter.