Another Park, another Shot of Winter

On Monday we moved to Kerrville-Schreiner Park, a park run by the city of Kerrville, Texas. It was cold and cloudy but we were able to fill our water tank and use both our electric heaters with the 50 Amp service. We needed to add the gas furnace to bring the trailer up from the 50 degrees it had cooled to during the move. The air temperature was only 36 and with no sun it felt worse.

This park is an old state park built along the Guadeloupe River.

Matey and I took a short walk along a very pretty trail between the river and some cabins.

The original park was built by the CCC and you could see their work in the stone steps and terraces in front of the cabins.

This morning we woke up to temperatures in the low twenties and a light covering of snow. The sky was clearing from the west to the east.

Mid-morning the sun was out. The snow was no match for the southern sun. It was still below freezing but the sun was sublimating the snow; taking it directly from solid flakes to water vapor without any liquid water formed.

This system will be mostly passed tomorrow, meanwhile, the park has all the water taps dripping to make sure pipes don’t freeze and burst. Not the sight we were hoping for south of I-10, but we are happy that for both these uncomfortable shots of winter we have been safely settled with all we needed. Still, I hope this is the last of winter for us this year.