We visited the Sauer Beckmann Living History farm, which depicts rural Hill Country life as it was around 1918. Here, costumed personnel carry out the day-to-day activities of a turn-of-the-century Texas-German farm family such as canning and butchering, caring for farm animals including activities like feeding, milking, gathering eggs and slopping the hogs. Also, the house is cleaned, meals are cooked, butter is churned and cheese is made. Visitors may see the "family" scrubbing the floors with homemade lye soap, or plowing the garden with a team of horses. In the shed today there were sweet potatoes I a variety of sizes, jumbo garlic, melon of some sort, okra and sausage. On the table outside was a 7-pound sweet potato as well as some very long okra. Amazing!
Then we drove further to look for the buffaloes, but they were not there. But I got to see the Texas long horn beef cattle. LBJ had a good sized herd when he was alive. The Padernales River runs by the ranch and the water level was quite healthy there.
We then headed back to Austin. Just before arriving back at Caleb’s, Miriam took me to see the Lake Travis., a reservoir on the Colorado River, named in honour of William B Travis. It was sad to see how little water there is in the reservoir. It’s not just because of the drought that’s caused it, and the uncontrolled proliferation of cedar oak trees, that suck up an enormous amount of water, but also due to the increase in population resulting from many large corporations relocating to Austin, where costs are lower.
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