Birthday Drive to LBJ Ranch

We didn't take very many pictures, but here are a few. We drove down to Johnson City and visited L. B. Johnson's Ranch (Texas White House) and were amazed. The house is 8000 sq ft and he spent 25% of his Presidency here meeting with foreign dignitaries, etc. In 5 years in office he held 100 BBQ's under the oaks shown above. I was amazed. the house sits on the Pedernales River but the locals pronounce it with an "r" after the first e as "Perdonales".
This is the "Texas White House". Johnson died here and Lady Bird had a life estate and did not die until 2006. The request was to put the house back like it was during Johnson's Presidency so they are still doing that. The only room that is now on the tour is his "office". Lots of work was done here. I can't blame him for spending that much time here instead of Washington, DC.
This plaque shows a meeting of the joint chief of staff under the huge 480 old oak tree that is in front of the house on the left side of the above picture. I'm sorry I didn't get a good picture of that tree!! Anyway, it was a nice day for a drive, hot (90 deg) and windy with low humidity.

The property currently is 2200 acres that the Johnson family still owns, but the Federal Government owns the house and grounds or about 800 acres. It is still a working cattle ranch.

We also visited a Wildseed Farm and the German town of Fredericksburg. If any of you every come to visit, we will go to there for the day. Fredericksburg is in the book "1000 places you should visit before you die". We got there about 4 pm and most of the stores closed at 5 pm so we didn't get much done. We will go back. Of course we had to stop in our favorite fudge shop for 6 squares of fudge to take home. We got carmel chocolate, dark chocolate, walnut dark chocolate, peanut butter chocolate, carmel pecan chocolate, and pecan chocolate. Yummy!!

More in a few minutes with our flowers.

Sandy