Cloudy And Rainy

Kerrville, Texas

Weather: low 60 degrees, high 62 degrees, cloudy and rain all day

Cloudy and rain were the operative words for the weather today. The rain started late lat night, and it is forecast to continue into tomorrow. This was not a good day to be on the road with an RV.

I stayed at home most of the day, but finally decided to go to the post office to pick up our mail, which I had sent here earlier in the week. The information for filing our income taxes has started arriving, and at this time, we only need two more pieces of paper to be able to calculate last year's income taxes.

While I was out, I went by the Kerr County courthouse to see if I could get a good picture. Unfortunately, the light was not good enough, but I found a picture on the Internet that will have to do. This picture is a little weak, but in driving around the building, I didn't see anything that would have been better.

An interesting bit of history I found had to do with the introduction of camels to the area by the US Army back in the 1850s. Camp Verde was established about 12 miles south of Kerrville for the purpose of determining whether the camels would adapt to the Texas terrain and Army tactics. The camels actually did well, and when the Civil War broke out, the Confederacy took over the camp and used the camels. At the end of the war, the US Army again took over the fort and camels. The camels prospered and their numbers increased. The problem that arose was that the soldiers couldn't adapt to the camels, plus Congress refused to authorize money for any further use shortly after the war was over because money was need for Reconstruction. In 1869, the program was abandoned.

Just a little bit of the quirky history we happen to encounter from time to time.

More later, be safe.

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