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Hurricane Harvey hit and was heading right for our home, but then turned tail and went back to the coast.  The eye came to within about 50 miles of our location.  It brought a fair amount of rain, measuring about 12 inches over two days.  The ground was so dry and the rain so steady that virtually none of the rain collected in the sloughs, so we concluded that most or all of it sunk into the ground.  The best rain that has occurred in this area, as far as ground soaking goes, in a long time. Others got more, much more than they needed.  This rainfall, of over inches in some areas, caused rivers to get to near record stage and flooded many areas.  It will be long time recovering from this.

We had an interesting conversation with Glenn Keith, an architectural welder from Wimberley.   He was born in Wimberley, not far from the center of town.  He recalled many interesting occasions, one being that his mother made mustang grape wine and he peddled it to the students of Texas State--long before it was TSU. Here's the back of his business card, it shows just one of his projects---a front entrance gate. We concluded that he should jot down some notes of the history of the area, but Glenn was not too enthused about all this. He was full of good practical information, such as reminding us that we have very few ticks because we now have all these fireants.