Different Plans

So this morning I was reading how man's plans are not God's plans.

Today I had a lot planned... and then this happen....




This was definitely not in my plans, but then I HAD prayed last night that I get to meet some new folks today... so that prayer was answered! And fortunately the folks were still in town before heading up North for a week...
So we got to the station and set up everything with them... then home to wait for the call.

I had a 40 minute walk over to the station to get the truck in the afternoon.. it was hot and I started grumbling, but decided that I needed to listen to some music. Got out my music and started praising the Lord. It was all good. Truck is fixed and I guess we are all back in business. Which is good cause I have some more plans for tomorrow.... Okay God?

Dripping Springs

So today , three of us went to Dripping Springs. It was a nice cool day for it and I was hoping that the coolness of the day would keep the rattlers in their caves... but nooooo... at the ranger office I asked how many rattlers we might see and the ranger said, " oh they are out there." I was like great!


The trail to the springs was about 3 miles round trip... so we decided to go to the cave... la cueva...(the cave has had been a place of dwelling for many over the years.)

We got to the trail head and started hiking up to the cave... it was about 3/4 of a mile to la cueva. I of course, ended up walking third....great... I walked very slow and made a lot of noise.



The ranger had told us that the snakes had given up rattling before striking because when they rattle they end up losing their heads and rattles. ( it is illegal to kill them though) Apparently the snakes have wised up to shaking their rattles. in spite of it all...dad and Case saw only one rattler slithering out of the way... Case was so nervous that he ran away in spite of having the camera.





We did see a snake... it was a garter snake lazing around in a pool of water. He got that picture!