Great Weather

I know it has been a while since I posted, but the weather finally cleared a week or so ago and now we have had sunny days and warm temps in the mid to upper 80’s. Sometimes we have fog in the morning, and we have had some pretty stiff breezes, but a huge improvement over earlier weather. We have been busy just enjoying being outdoors.

A small town story in the big Rio Grande Valley: We went with two other couples to the Mcallen Convention Center a couple weekends ago for the Travel Show. We then had lunch at a buffet type restaurant over there. On our return home, I discovered my magnetic name tag was missing from my jacket. We did not want to drive all the way back over there just to see if it was at the restaurant, so I figured I would just have to order and pay for a new one. Our neighbor Jeanie said not to worry, it will find its way back here, but I had my doubts. The very next morning I started out for my walk and a friend from line dancing came walking toward me carrying my name tag! Someone from our park had been at that restaurant for breakfast and they saw the name of the park on her tag and asked her to return it to me. She did not know me, but asked a couple people and found someone who did!

We attended the All Valley RV Show at Mercedes last weekend. While we are not especially in the buying mode, it is always fun to look at new options. Plus they always have a lot of informational and tacky and/or useful merchandise. booths.

Last weekend we also attended a 50’s night at the hall. Fonzie’s diner served burgers, fries and root beer floats. Linda was supposed to do the music (she also does karaoke nights and has a great sound system), but due to a death in the family, she returned home and was not here for the evening. Thus the sound system left a lot to be desired and the music played from CD’s was not especially good. Some of the ladies dressed in poodle skirts and I snapped a picture of them together. It was Betty and Joes anniversary and they had a solo dance and I was the official photographer for that as well.

Last Sunday we had some surprise visitors – Gerry and Murielle, the French Canadians that were near us here in the park last year. Along with Monique and Yvon, they are in a park over at Mission this year. Gerry likes to jam with other musicians, and the Mission area is the top place for that. We have jams here on Tuesday afternoons, so he thought he might show up over here some Tuesday. After they left, our Bloomfield friends called and said they wanted to come over for happy hour. A while after they showed up, Joe and Betty and Darold and Sondra did as well.

Curt spied a hummingbird in our grapefruit tree, so he put up a feeder on our back window. The hummingbird comes and goes too quickly for a picture, but another little bird that looks something like a finch lands there constantly, so Curt snapped a picture of him.

Park spaces have been changing hands like crazy since the end of December. A lot of people left as they were here for October, November and December. Some people came in before their January spot was open, so were parked temporarily in another spot and then had to move again. Then someone buys a park model or mobile home and moves, opening another spot which someone wants to move into. Then someone else comes to fill in that spot and so on. It is a little like musical chairs, only with lots! The other day a new mobile home went in on the next street over – it was a major event: people in lawn chairs,, bicyclists, walkers and those in golf carts congregated to watch it being maneuvered into place. Doesn’t take much to entertain a winter Texan!

Pictures are: Poodle skirted ladies at 50's night, Joe and Betty's anniversary dance (they are friends and neighbors from Minnesota who live across the street from us), a happy hour on our site, Curt's bird friend on the feeder, the house moving in ceremony. My camera has been acting up, so some photos I took did not turn out.