pictures I took of Ashley's apartment
guest room, we gave her a deluxe inflatable mattress for guests, very comfy
living room
Ashley's master bedroom / bath
Tuesday I was planning to head down 2.5 hours south to San Antonio to see Jennifer and her three girls. But this extremely strange weather pattern which was only listed as rain on weather.com the week before turned out to be a snowstorm that was to sock in the entire mid-central section of Texas.. Killeen had snow ALL DAY long. When I brought Ashley to the base at 5:45am it was only a light mist and cold, but on the way home I stopped at H.E.B. (Hubert E Butts) store to get a gallon of Milk, and when I got out it was a ice pelting rain (sleet) that froze you to the bone.. and it was snow as I pulled into the apt parking lot and dreaded having to get my arm out the window to open the automated gate with the slide card. Killeen got the most at 3-4 inches, and the pictures make for an interesting trip memory, needless to say, I decided not to make the drive to San Antonio. Now I'm the independent adventurer but I just didn't want to have a longer trip due to weather slow downs (speed is more my deal) and/or have someone else run into my rental car in the snotty weather and make the hassle of dealing with the aggravation.
The snow pictures are mostly taken from Ashley's back balcony and is like a time progression of the same views as this bizarre storm that moved in and is completely out of there normal pattern. We overall received about 3-4 inches in Killeen over the 10 hours that it fell in a pretty consistent flurries. Dallas received 11 inches which is a bit north east of where we are.
This is from the landing outside her front door and that is my rental car below.
This snowball is the work of two young boys starting their accumalation for a snowman
This is my Toyota Corolla rental car (recall ??)
This CA city kid found out the aggravation of getting into your car without dumping the snow onto your seat before you sit down... ugh, wet ass is not comfortable.. this below is my view out windshield
This is the Expressway, next to the highway
Not a good day for selling cars you can't see..
This is the highway 190 West towards Ft. Hood
Heading from the Highway 190, this is south on W.S. Young Dr, across the street is Killen Civic & Convention Center, Civic Arts Center, and a Shiloh Inn
I am just passing a newly built Baptist Church on the left and Ashley's Apt complex Brookside is what you are seeing here
Yesterday it was 55 degrees and sunny and the gardners laid sod here around the trees and planted flowers.. hmm what a difference a day makes.
this is the extent of the boys snowman, when I had returned from errands, I had suggested they make it a smaller base, as they might not get enough snow to make two more of them.. later in the day when I came out to take this picture, as you can see they had scraped up all the snow in the vicinity to make this one.. apparantly they grew weary, tired of hauling snow, but Texas boys don't get much opps to do this.. so fun anyway
It started snowing before sunup and continued for about 10 hours.. Texas does not know Snow
Wednesday; was Ashley's day off and we just chilled after sleeping late, ran some errands after she took me to the Ft. Hood base to see it in the daylight and gave me a tour of what she knew of. She only had a rental car for a short time after arriving in Texas in January. Her car is still in the ocean somewhere heading to GA, USA, where it will be trucked to Ft Hood. It's been delayed 6 days and so it might be another two weeks at best before she can go to Dallas and take possession of it. Her friend Jenny an army nurse (married to Jason) said she would take her there to get her car.. this sweet woman who has been a god send in helping her out, they went to OBLC together in San Antonio in Oct-Dec. She lives near Ashley and gives her rides to and from work unless there is a drastic difference in their hours. Another woman Otto Thomas she met, who was stationed at Ft. Hood and is now a reservist continuing to live in Killeen. She lives on the same road and is available whenever she needs a ride to get to the base, and Thursday Ashley was borrowing her truck to get to the base early for her p/t test.. Thank you Lord for providing this for her.
the next few pictures are of the Carl R. Darnell Medical Center where she reports to each day. It's about the size of a Lakewood Regional Medical Center in CA...
this is sitting in front of the hospital
One of many churches/chapels on a base that is 340 miles square
park trail between the road and housing
a smaller entrance/exit, one of ten, the main one has about 8 checkpoint security lanes
This is in a neighborhood where Lt Jenny lives who is a friend of Ashley's, some interesting snowmen
Wednesday night, we ate leftovers of Spaghetti with an early dinner, watched the last three episodes of Friends finale season and than went to bed at 8pm.. I had to leave for the Austin Airport at 2am for my 6am flight. So whenever you go to bed early, for me, I don't just fall to sleep, and so while I had the opportunity for 5.5 hours of sleep, it was more like 3 with all the lying there willing myself to sleep, & clock watching.
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