Thanks, Gloria for posting this for Shay. It is good to hear from classmates any time, but finding out about a great showplace for Bluebonnets is special. I have spent many miles and smiles ¡°hunting¡± bluebonnets over the last several years. Hope this year is indeed a good one.
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On Mar 1, 2024, at 7:32?PM, Gloria Sturm <gmsturm@...> wrote:
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Below, from Shay.? I think more will see it here, and it suits the email group better . . .
Maybe I'll copy about the bluebonnets to the FB group.
From:?Shay Tindall <storygirl100@...>
Sent:?Monday, February 26, 2024 2:16 PM
To:?gmsturm@... <gmsturm@...>
Subject:?Plans for the 60th
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??? Gloria, can you please mail this to the SACHS Facebook for me, if it will fit?
??? If not, just tell them about the upcoming bluebonnets expected this year!?? Thank you!
???? Hi, kids!? Gloria has been so kind to forward some? Facebook messages to my aim email so I am able to keep up a little bit, but I am still living on Ken's family (De Vos) family ranch near Mason (TX) where we have neither wifi nor cell phones nor texting
(nor tv as far as that goes)... Barely have the land line, after strong winds!?
??? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who is in the remedial class for social media like Facebook, which appears to just be the beginner's class these days!
???? But I do take my Kindle to the wifi at the Mason Library or my church (Hilda United Methodist church) office, which is the home church for the neighboring ranchers, and was founded by Ken's German pioneer forefathers and mothers over 160 years ago.? Just
3 or 4 miles down the road, on what was one big ranch when founded.
???? I halfway grew up in the Hill Country but had never discovered the Hilda ranch community til I met Ken's dad and offered to help him feed cattle when he was in the nursing home.
???? The reason I'm mentioning this is that it's a beautiful church, a little gem, on a gorgeous road (RR 783), which is, as my dad used to say, the? "strawberry shortcut" between Mason and Doss/Harper/Fredericsburg and Kerrville, and is just surrounded by
pastures of bluebonnet "starts" as I write this.
????? After that terrible drought the last two summers, and such? rare rains for the decade, it finally rained at just the right time in October for the seedlings to come up, and I saw my first blueonnet this morning.?
?? SO!? If you enjoy to go bluebonnet hunting and/or visiting Texas's beautiful old churches...? This is the road and the year to do it!?
??? Right now it looks like they will be from fence to fence line,? Probably during March.? If we hopefully get one more shower.
???? Or actually - come on a Sunday and the friendliest church group I've ever known, will welcome you to the Hilda church!? And? I've been welcomed even when I have just finished feeding the cows!). So if you're in the Hill Country, come as you are!
???? Pastor Mike Bell is our pastor, and he and his wife Joya were moved here straight from San Angelo...? It just dawned on me a bunch of you might know them!!
???? We did lose some dear older ranchers during Covid - but many are still holding on to their 160- or 170-year-old ranches.
??? Some have a younger generation wrangling cattle, and some lease.? I seem to be the only "elder" still taking care of the cattle myself...? With my cane and wearing my trusty Life Alert button!
????? But you'll see, at this church, WE are in the YOUTH GROUP! ???
??? Let me know if anyone comes up for a bluebonnet run!I
?? Love and prayers for all,
?? Shay
