A Night at the Walburg Mercantile



When Papa Tom retires from the Department of Public Safety, tentatively in March 2013, we plan to have an orchard of pecan and/or peach trees and also honeybees at Cornerstone, our land outside Walburg.  We'd like to learn how to plant and nurture an orchard and how to keep bees at the school Amon and Anjanette attended outside Waco.  (Check out their classes at http://www.sustainlife.org/.)  We think bees would be good for pollinating trees in the orchard, and the orchard would be a source of pollen and nectar for the bees.  We envision building a simple cabin for overnight stays.

Three generations:  Mia Shanana, Anjanette, Jade



Jade waits patiently for the rest of us to fill our plates at the buffet: delicious German classics that I'm about to misspell: "wienerschnitzel, bratwurst, strudel"

Tom and Sarah and Grandma Evelyn's hand

Anjanette, Jade, and Amon in the Biergarten after dinner

Grandma Evelyn and Tom twirl to the Walburg Boys.  When I lived outside Walburg in the late 1980s, the Hot Czechs polka band used to play at the Walburg Mercantile