Visiting Bowie and Montague County

Tuesday Patti had the enjoyment of visiting with a blog reader and Trek owner, Karen. We have been emailing each other for a while, during the time that Karen was a Trek wannabe and then owner. We had tried to hook up to visit once before, but it finally worked out while we were at Bay Landing.

Karen came by and met Miss Doozie, and then took Patti to Bowie for lunch and to see a community where she owns land on the water in Silver Lake Ranch. Silver Lake Ranch also has a spot for RV hookups for owners and guests of owners in the community.

We went to Bowie for lunch at a wonderful "tea room" type restaurant in an antiques store, Nostalgia. Highly recommended!!!

The main street in Bowie - neat looking shops - a place to come back and visit!

Inside Nostalgia, you couldn't ever see everything there. Even if you stared at one part of the store for a long time, you would still miss things!

Dolls and medicine bottles on the wall behind

Tin ceiling tiles behind a bike hanging from the ceiling

 

Another bike hanging from the ceiling - and an S&H Green stamps sign. Patti remembers pasting the stamps into the books and looking through the catalogs for things that we could get!

This large plate reminded Patti of plates her family had when they moved to the farm.

All the boxes on the shelves were player piano rolls!

An interesting collection of board games - most of which we had not heard of previously - "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em", "The Hardy Boys", "Little House on the Prairie", "Patty Duke", "The Partridge Family", "Laverne & Shirley", "The Flying Nun" - we knew the TV shows but had never known there were board games for them!

Glassware on a counter near where we sat for lunch.

Mural on the wall above brought to mind the chicken farm that was near here.

From a Bowie, TX website, http://www.cityofbowietx.com/index.aspx?NID=172

Mr. Mose Johnson established a small chicken hatchery in 1904 and from this small beginning developed the largest White Leghorn Chicken Ranch in the world.

Karen's friend, Carolyne Ledbetter, met us for lunch - she is in real estate with Ledbetter Realty in this area - I would recommend that anyone looking for property contact her! She really seems to have the heart of the area.

After lunch, we drove through Silver Lake Ranch - a beautiful spot, though I would like to avoid driving on "suicide hill"! Maybe ok in the Jeep!

I also got to meet "Max" and enjoy his antics when hunting for mice - wish I had gotten pictures! Karen did send me a few pictures - and here's one of Max with their cattle:

Max the dog is a sweetie!

What a fun day! So glad to have met Karen in person! Thank you, Karen, for sharing these special folks and places with me!