I followed my friend to Latexo to get the glass replaced in the side window of her car that was damaged by a flying rock from a riding lawn mower. The repair was a day job (eight hours), so we decided to explore places, and see people that we hadn’t visited in that area of East Texas in quite a while.
Of course, the first item on the agenda after dropping off the car was breakfast. The first place to head our sights on was the Moosehead Café in Crockett. My friend’s mother was an employee of this café for many years.
This is the most unique place to eat because of the décor. It is kind of like the Camp Street Café (which is not a café) with all the historic pictures and memorability on the walls and ceilings, but mainly it is like taking a step back in time. A time that you lived and knew during these decades and events.
Next, we went back to Trinity to see the new REDKEY Ranch Farmers Market located on FM 356 across the street from the new storage place recently built for RVs and storage rentals.
They are open on Wednesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for your shopping pleasure and one Sunday each month. The grocery store is very neat and clean. Redkey’s hail from Houston, and this organic food store has been in their dreams and works for years.
The prices were very reasonable, and I was surprised they had meat products and different sausages, as well as a great variety of home-grown vegetables.
Chris Redkey, and his wife, have more products and plans for this new organic adventure, and I will return to keep you abreast of all new products and ideas. Hopefully I will have some pictures for the next issue of this newspaper.
After this time, it was time to think about where to have lunch. Naturally since we were on FM 356 heading east, we decided we should probably head to the Timbers Café in Livingston. After spending a couple of hours there, it was time to head back to Latexo. We took the back road to Corrigan to investigate the new facility that is coming to Leggett in September.
This new facility should bring jobs and prosperity to that community and to all of the surrounding area subdivisions. Another surprise, the Naskila Casino is off Highway 59/69 before Corrigan.
Isn’t it funny how we protested and voted against the 30-year plan to expand Highway 59 from Houston to Canada, and it is still going on anyway.
By this time, it is time for us to have dinner before we head down Hwy 287 to Groveton. Highway 287 is back to Highway 19 where we started our East Texas Tour and is now our last destination to pick up a repaired glass windowpane.
There is a new Whataburger Restaurant we can drive through in Corrigan, which is the last place to eat before you reach Groveton, and we were told to check it out on the way to Groveton that it is really good and fresh. We did. It was.
After 12 hours of riding around in East Texas, viewing farms, ranches, woods, and small cities, I do not think I could live in west Texas again. The sunsets are beautiful, but I could not live without the greenery and rolling hills now. The only promise I did not keep to my dying Mother was to not bury her in west Texas.
She was born in Sheffield, Ala., in the utmost northwest corner of the state that was green with beautiful landscapes forged by the Tennessee River.
Guilt is a funny thing. Knowing what I know now, I could have had Mother and Daddy’s ashes strewn across the green belt in their own backyard, but cremation was not a known application when they passed away.
Do you know what you want to happen to your body when you die or where you want your final resting place? I wish I knew that. I just hope it’s not on the kitchen shelf. I hate washing dishes, but I love to cook. Maybe by my recipe books that nobody reads anymore. It would be quiet and peaceful there.
•I am going to repeat events still to come.
Sept. 7, Labor Day
Oct. 1-3, The Trinity Community Fair Association’s Livestock Show and Fair
Oct. 9, Open House for the Lansberry Elementary School Campus, 5:30-7 p.m.
Oct. 11, Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church Fall Festival
Oct. 12, Columbus Day
Oct. 17-31, Trinity Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch opens
Oct. 31, Halloween Day
Nov. 1, All Saint’s Day
Nov. 11, Veterans Day
Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Day
Dec. 25, Christmas Day.
Jan. 1, 2027, New Year’s Day
•There is a fundraiser for a resident of our Trinity community who needs help due to life’s unexpected circumstances on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the VFW Hall on Caroline Street. This fundraiser benefits Jerry Tullos, a retired Trinity volunteer firefighte for 53 years with the Trinity Volunteer Fire Department. Pulled pork sandwiches and chips are on sale for $10. Drinks are sold in the cantina. The event starts at 11 a.m. and contact Kim Spillman for more information at (936) 661-1568.
•The next 42 Domino tournament to be held in Trinity is on Friday, Oct. 2, at Joseph’s Restaurant across from the Community Center held at the same time as the last free fair in Texas. It is the 77th Trinity Community Fair Association’s Vendor and Youth Livestock Show, along with carnival rides and live musical entertainment.
The announcements and details will be published and placed around Trinity County businesses in the first week of September in time for the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Local players and out-of-town visitors are welcome.
•Martin Senior Service Center will be closed on Mondays during the Month of August, September and October.
The meals are still served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday through Friday. The weekly food menus are printed each week on Facebook. Games, bingo cards, and craft classes are still scheduled on their regular days and times.
The cost of the lunch is $7, but if you are over 80 years of age, the meals are now priced at $5 per person until further notice. For more information, please call Sherry at (936) 594-2625.
•One new event announced in the prior calendar of events above is the Most Holy Catholic Church’s Fall Festival. The festival will take place on Sunday, Oct. 11, on the grounds and parking lot in front of the church located at 401 Prospect Drive in Trinity.
I purchased raffle tickets to their festival fundraiser, and they have some awesome prizes to give away. For the first time I wouldn’t mind winning all of them.
1st Prize: John Deere zero turn mower
2nd Prize: $2,000 Visa gift card
3rd Prize: his and her pistols — 9mm and .380
4th Prize: RTIC 72-quart cooler package
5th Prize: 36” Blackstone griddle package
Tickets are $5 each or $20 for five.
If you would like to donate or have a booth space, please call the Church office on Thursday or Friday during the week.
Watch this space. next week. I will relate the Fall Celebration to be held at the First Methodist Church of Trinity.
