Dinner in Gruene, TX

Pronouced GREEN this little community is part of New Branfels which is just north of San Antonio. This past Friday we met up with Phil and Sandy, the couple who talked us into coming to McAllen for the winter months - we had met them at the beginning of January in Kemah - a suburb of Houston. They are work campers meaning that they work for a number of months at a camp ground in exchange for their 'board' and electricity at the place. They get a salary each for the work they do, sometimes Phil does maintanence or security, and Sandy does office work or reservations or such. They have been doing this for many years, being full-timers now for 10 years. We aren't ready for this commitment yet, but we did get a good flavor of what all is involved. Sandy and Phil are working until October in a campground in Fentress which is north of San Antonio and they called to see if we could get together one more time before we headed out. Since our friend Jimmy suggested we go to the GristMill in Gruene and we didn't have that much time left in the area, the four of us drove to Gruene and had a lovely dinner at the place. This grist mill on the Guadalupe River hangs over the river and sometimes you think you just may fall over. Have to have pretty strong legs to be a waiter here - to climb up and down the stairs to serve.