The weekend here was pretty quiet – it was still quite cool and people were not out and about too much. Saturday night we watched the Nebraska/Texas game of course. Our defense was awesome and I was proud of our team – just too bad it had to end the way it did. Sunday I did some laundry and we rode our bikes over to visit friends at another site. It was a quiet weekend.
We have had 80 degree weather the past couple days – more like normal – and the sun feels really great! We keep hearing weather reports on the news and from family and friends about the frozen tundra and snow up north, so we are glad to be where we are. Wish you all could be here too!
News here is a bit scary, because there is always word of more drug busts, drug related killings and corruption by elected officials, police, border patrol agents, etc. The news Saturday afternoon was a bit more startling to Winter Texans – a shootout in Nuevo Progresso. Progresso is the little village just over the border in Mexico where we went last year all the time. Even when there were shootouts between the Mexican military and the drug cartels in Reynosa (also not far from here) and other border towns, Progresso was still considered safe. To make it worse, on Saturday the town was hosting a “Welcome Back Winter Texans” event. We had opted not to go, figuring it to be extremely crowded - glad we didn’t. There were people we know who were there however. You can read an account of the story here http://www.themonitor.com/articles/nuevo-33266-progreso-remains.html
Now we are unsure if we will venture into Progresso this season. It may be unlikely that it happens again, but I think I would be scared.
Sunday night we discovered a water fitting for the reverse osmosis system had sprung a leak where it connects to the outside hose, so we had to disconnect it from the water. Monday morning after my walk, we went to our local True Value hardware store to get a new brass fitting and some ant spray. That store is a very busy place because all the Winter Texans who live close go there for lots of stuff! They are very helpful and carry just about everything. Then we kept on driving east to Big Valley RV Park in Donna where acquaintances from Bloomfield live. We visited with them for a bit and stopped at the grocery (HEB) on the way home for a couple things.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:30 -2:00 is our line dancing class. We are continuing to meet and learn, even though our instructor is not presently with us. Someone else leads the class. On Monday, she did show up midway through to dance with us – we all had to stop to give her a hug and see how she was doing. She did not want to go up front to teach, but she slipped into teacher mode in the back row and I think it was a good distraction for her. (Remember from my earlier post that her husband died here last week.) We had a good workout as we practiced some faster dances several times in a row.
Monday afternoon our friends Larry and Carolyn (from Indiana) picked us up and we went over to Mission West (another RV park) for hamburger night. Every Monday they hold this event and they have burgers, fries and onion rings. You can purchase a soda but there is free iced tea and coffee. For an extra $1 a slice of pie awaits. Curt had a slice of grapefruit pie for the first time there last year, but there wasn’t any this time. Anyway, it cost $20.00 for all of us to eat our fill, so a pretty cheap deal. I have to say that the burgers are really excellent – these are good-sized burgers and my favorite thing in a burger – they grill the bun! Yum, yum! The drawback with these types of meals down here is that you have to eat extremely early. We left here at 3 p.m. to get there before the rush, and were eating by 3:30 p.m. I guess if you showed up at 5 p.m., the food might be gone. So we probably should learn to eat a small snack early morning, a very light early lunch at 11 a.m. or so, and then we would be hungry for dinner by 4 or 4:30 p.m.!
After a long morning walk, our excursion to the hardware and grocery store, visiting friends, line dancing and hamburger night, I was pooped out and tried to watch TV, but fell asleep before 9 p.m.
Below are a couple pictures I took over at Mission West - the hall where we ate and one of some sites at the park. As you can see, they do not have cement pads there, you park on what they call grass down here - it is mostly weeds with a lot of sandburs mixed in! Some people who go there every year for 5 or 6 months have paid to pour their own big concrete pads. It seems like very nice park other than the lack of concrete - there is a par 3 golf course right there and a beautiful swimming pool.
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