Busy in Dallas

We have spent the past week in a northern suburb of Dallas, keeping quite busy.  We stayed in the parking lot of MCD Innovations for most of the week.  They make a dual roller shade system for RV windows that gets rid of the strings that were in our prior day/night shades.  Out with the old (just dumped out):

And in with the new

What is shown above is the black day shade about halfway down and the white night shade just slightly down.  It is quite cloudy out, so the glare reducing of the day shade isn’t really noticeable today.  We had them make these for seven of our windows.

We also got chips in our car windshield filled and got our 2012 taxes filed.  As if that weren’t enough, we also played tourist by visiting the Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District. 

 

This is the place where the cowboys began their cattle drives in the 1860’s moving lots of cattle from the Texas ranches to the rail roads in Kansas for shipping to the eastern states. 

Cattle drives stopped after the railroads and meat packing plants moved into Fort Worth.

We had a short drive Friday morning; less than 25 miles to our next campground.  We are in a Corps of Engineers park on Lavon Lake.  Winter is making a last gasp, where there is snow across Arkansas and temperatures about 25 degrees less than yesterday.  It’s cloudy and 50 here – a good day for Paige to make a meatloaf dinner.