Wednesday, March 10, 2010

We toured the LBJ National Park and Ranch. It was an interesting tour of the "Texas White House". The rangers give the tour and there comments are very interesting. He mentioned that Lady Bird didn't like the cattle part of the ranch, so when he died she sold off the cattle. The National Parks bought about 50 of them so the cattle on the ranch have the blood line from his cattle.

He also mention that she had asked the President if they could take out the tile floor in the dining room and put in a wooden floor. He said he didn't want to spend the money and the floor was fine. Ok, he died, and she changed it.

The family cementary is located here. This is where both President and Mrs. Johnson is buried. Their girls live in Austin Tx (Lucie), and Virginia (Lynda). About two or three times a month Lucie stops into the home. She brought back a big setting of china just awhile back and also gave her parents piano back to the home, as long as she could stop in and play in once in awhile.

We drove about 1-1/2 hours to the LBJ National Park by Stonewall, TX. We had a driving tour of the ranch with a CD. The National Park Rangers give tours of the house.

These two pictures are of the Texas White House.

This is a picture of the live oak tree in front of President & Mrs. Johnson's home. These trees are beautiful and huge.

This is President Johnson's boyhood home. This is on the ranch too. His grandparents lived there too.

FINALLY A Texas Longhorn. Can't understand what we haven't seen any. Oh right, we did in the back of a livestock trailer. But we finally seen two at Johnson Ranch.

They had a lot of canned "stuff". There was some that looked yuck. This jar was I wonder what that is?

They have a regular working home in the National Park. This was separate from LBJ's Ranch. There wasn't anyone nearby to ask -- what is that??? So anyone that knows what it could be you can pass the information on to us.

We were so surprised when we arrived in this area of Texas and they had cactus here. Of course being in Arizona they had all different kinds of cactus. There is even these cactus in the pastures. Sounds like a ouch!!!

If you look really careful you will find some type of deer in the picture. We believed this was one of the hunting ranches in the area.

This is at one of the many ranches in this area. I don't know if this is one of the hunting ranches or they just have buffalos on their property.