Day 65

We drove up to Fredericksburg today. It's about a 140 mile round trip. The first thing we did when we got there was attend a gun show at the fairgrounds. It was a nice little gun show with a pretty good selection. Prices were OK on some tables and a little high in some others. I didn't see anything that I had to have. One table had a 20 ga Benelli on it. Unfortunately the guy that had the table didn't seem to be around. Ellen saw a really nice match model Colt Woodsman. It was made in 1953, the same year I was born. It had a price of $1,800 on it. It may be worth that much, but I'm not willing to spend almost 2 grand on a .22 pistol.

After the show we went to another part of the fair grounds and threw the bumper for the dog. She did a whole lot of retrieves, I didn't count how many. We threw for quite awhile. At one time we had two separate groups of people watching us. People appreciate good dogs in Texas.

We then went to a venue about 8 miles to the east of Fredericksburg. It was sort of a semi-permanent flea market thing. There were about half a dozen long barn like structures. Each held about a dozen vendors selling antiques, handmade items, furniture, gifts, clothing, etc. Interspersed with these barns were fair type booths selling food and other trinkets. We bought some nice steak knives and a pizza cutter for the trailer. Some of the antique furniture was quite nice and affordable. If we had a house I'd own an antique writing desk fight now. The place was dog friendly. We took Lucy with us. She got the usual ration of petting and we answered "what kind of dog is that" several times.

We stopped for a late lunch at a Dairy Queen and then started back. The route takes us over to I10, down I10 to Boerne, and then over to Bulverde. They were having another open market thing at Boerne. We stopped and went through that one with the dog also. More petting and the same question. We scored our first Christmas present for next year. I won't describe it because the recipient might read this blog.

The dog was still quite feisty so we stopped at the fairgrounds in Boerne on our way out of town. She did another 25 or more retrieves before she ran down. It was worth it though. We have a pretty tired doggy tonight.