Oct 25, 2016

Mist on Sexton Pond








Cowboy Stew

Breakfast Casserole
Beware of an odd neighbor who lies and tries to scare visitors away.  Stephen Gregory Graves, 49, twice drove (in either a white truck or Isuzi truck) uninvited to our campsite after dark to harass us, say that we were camping in an illegal stop, were not allow to drive our vehicles there, and that this area was closed.  All while he was drinking a can of beer.  He made disparaging remarks about the local ranger, who he kept calling a black park ranger.  We are no where close to a state or national park.  National Forest is completely different from National Park.

Mr. Graves, a native of Baytown since 2009, lives in a small out tract southeast of Boykin Springs near the Sherwood Creek private Hunting Ranch off of CR 34, (we heard him driving down CR 35 near our campsite before arrival and after.  He warned us of satanist, timberwolves, arkansas bears, near freezing temperatures, and sex parties that he has heard or seen around these parts as he stood in flip flops and shorts.  Lord if he really works for the refineries in Texas City as he claimed, God please protect us from people like him.

From Kimpton Cooper, the District Forester of Angelina National Forest and Sabine National Forest, who is a smart, well educationed, polite, native of Jasper, Texas, I hope that he would encourage Mr. Graves to stop bothering visitors to the National Forest.