Spur Coming Up!

We made that little drive to Spur, taking the scenic cutoff to get there. I got pics along the road going and a few in Crosbyton near a Dairy Queen and a lot in Spur. Spur is truly not looking very lively. There are lots of very small houses in Spur and most seem to be in awful states of decay. The city wants to encourage people to remodel these houses but what are you supposed to do for employment? Entertainment? Social life? Health care? And what about the fact that Spur has no tax base to speak of so it can't really afford more wells. Water is getting critical. Maybe you can get a bargain on a tiny house that you might be able to repair without bulldozing it and starting over, but what does this community offer, apart from the deathly silence of a grave? Ralls and Crosbyton don't seem much better. In Crosbyton you can go to church on Sunday and eat in the Diary Queen. In Spur you can look at ruins and eat at the Dixie Dog. There are a few good locally owned restaurants but good luck trying to catch them when they are open. There's Friday night High School Football, I guess, but I think all these teams are six-man. You'd have to develop a taste for that peculiar innovation, probably unique to rural Texas. I took lots of photos and I am getting them ready to publish. By the way, I took photos of several tiny houses, just waiting for renovation! And that's sort of a joke.