Friday January 7th 2011

Got up really early this morning, I think it was about 5:30AM.  Got Sparky up and out and when he came back in I was surprised that he didn’t want to eat or play etc…

Yes that is Sparky, he just wanted to go back to sleep. I think this is the first time he has done this.

We went to the breakfast at the clubhouse.  Joe and Mary hosted this morning.  They are right behind us.  She made French Toast and I had never had this kind before.  She made it out of cinnamon graham crackers, eggs and milk.  She just layered the graham crackers then poured the egg mixture on top and let it sit all night!!  She baked it in the morning and brought it over to the clubhouse.  It was very good!  Tasted just like French Toast and the consistency was almost the same also.  We will have to try that sometime.

Joe and Mary invited us over tonight to have “Hobos”.  We have had it before but thought it would be very nice to have the fellowship with them and Dale and Velda.

Don and LaVon came over for lunch about noon.  One of the couples at the park are having troubles (Tip O Texas).  The husband is in bad shape and he just accepted the Lord but the wife hasn’t and it is kind of a messed up situation that needs a lot of prayer.  Well, there are a lot of situations that need prayer all over but this is a special one.

We played a couple games of zilch and Linda fixed brownies that turned out perfect!  Nice a gooey and not hard at all.  The convection oven bakes brownies in less than half the time called for on the box!!!  I like our convection oven.

We took the brownies over to Joe and Mary’s this evening and after the great supper we had brownies and ice cream.  We had a great time over there and will probably do this again sometime.

Had another camper come in from Roscoe IL.  Their camper is a little bigger than ours.  They were going to park next to us but the little palm tree was in the way…

They had to move to the next site because the tree palms was touching their camper and may have even gone inside.  They seem like a really nice couple and probably won’t stay here to long.  They are waiting for a part to come for their slide out(s).

Well, we will probably watch a little TV but I am really tired and think I will go to bed early.  Night Y’all….

Thursday January 6th 2011

Just a little on the cool side this morning, not bad but a jacket is necessary.  I spend quite a bit of time outside with Sparky, he really likes the warm weather.

We decided to take in the travel show at the convention center. Not much there for us but the entertainment was pretty good…

The convention center is beautiful..

We decided to stop at HEB after this and look around.

When we got home Linda finally decided to give me a haircut!!  OOOPS!

Just a little mistake here!  Linda forgot to put the plastic thing on the clipper!  Do I look upset??  Mistakes happen… Looks good huh???

If it would have been a little longer I could have given it to the pony tail thing..

I don’t mind having short hair.  I am kind of surprised, the only cold spots are around my ears and neck.

We pretty much took it easy the rest of the day.  Watched some TV and tried making some sandwiches, muffelatas, which probably isn’t spelled right.  The sandwiches are almost regular sandwiches with an olive spread that really makes it taste different.  I thought it was really good but Linda thought that it was to rich.  It definitely was rich but sure tasted good.  I guess these sandwiches are really popular in New Orleans.

Going to stop for now and will be back again tomorrow…Night Y’all…

Wednesday January 5th 2011

It is very nice outside.  We had the camper open all night, even the big window in the bedroom.  The only problem with leaving the window open is the humidity.  The temperature was great for sleeping though and I left the window open until about 10AM but left the rest of the camper open.  The weather is great but have another cool front coming in Sunday I think and they say the temperature is going to get down in the 40s and only in the low 50s for daytime highs!  This is Winter though and I guess we will have to tough it out!!  Got a picture of the neighbors dog “Tater”, I think his first name is Dick, not sure though, and Sparky…

I think Tater is an Australian Shepard, not sure, but they get along pretty good.  Sparky gets pretty hyper and Tater likes to put him in him in his place, on the ground!  Tater seems to be a very gentle dog with a good personality.

We made plans to go to Don Wes Flea Market this afternoon with Dale and Velda and Joe and Mary…

Dale and Velda top left, Joe and Mary Top right and Linda and I on the bottom.  We had a good time, we went over in Dale’s Ford truck.  I thought it was comfortable, not a long ride, about twenty five minutes or so then we got to walk around the flea market and the fruit market.  Linda bought a rock.  Sounds interesting doesn’t it??? She is going to get it warped or wrapped or tied up with wire or something like that.  We also got some onions and a pineapple.  I think the flea market at, or on, Menge was a little better, smaller, but the prices were better and they had a better variety of things.  Oh, Menge is in Biloxi MS or close by.  There are a lot of flea markets here and we will probably make it to a couple more.  The pictures above were from our hamburger night at the club.

They are going to have Bingo at the clubhouse tonight.  Not sure if we will go, I should probably go and get some pictures.  I didn’t. 

We didn’t do much tonight, watched some TV etc etc etc….. We had left overs today for all our meals.  Pretty good stuff… time to go to bed though and get rested up for tomorrow  Night Y’all……

Tuesday January 4th 2011

I think today is going to be a beautiful day, it is kind of warm and cloudy but I’m sure it is going to get pretty warm.  I need a haircut and I think Linda may give me one today. (Maybe) (she didn’t).

There is a flea market just down the road from us and a guy (Dallas) told me it was as big or bigger than Don Wes!  That one is pretty big.  I guess flea markets are a big thing down here.

We had a card we had to mail so we took off looking for a Post Office down the road and it was a lot closer than I thought it would be.  The flea market was closer than the post office.

We mailed the card and then found the flea market.  It was packed and we couldn’t even find a place to park.  We decided that we would try it another day.  We don’t have to get anything just wanted to check it out. 

There is a hamburger, pot luck tonight at the club house.  I took a few pictures, some turned out pretty good others not so good…

These are our neighbors from Pana Illinois, Marsha and Jack.  Very nice people and glad to have nice neighbors here.

We had a good time at the pot luck and one of the people wants to copy the pictures so I will take the card over to her tomorrow.

We will probably take it easy tonight.  We have the camper open and the breeze coming in feels great.  Not going to get real cool tonight but that is OK.  We slept good last night and this afternoon we took a nap and it was on the hot side.  Not real hot but enough to be just a little uncomfortable.  We have plenty of spaghetti salad left and two other people gave us Cole Slaw, so we have plenty to last us awhile.  See Y’all tomorrow!!!

Monday January 3rd 2011

It’s Monday and I think we are going to take it easy today!!! It is a little cool today maybe in the 60s but still pretty nice.

I decided to wash the camper.  It hasn’t been washed for, oh let me see, maybe four months or more.  It is dirty.  Some of the places we stayed had dirt or gravel roads so the camper is pretty dirty.  I had asked Bob, the manager, if it was OK to wash it, he was hesitant but said OK.  It really doesn’t take a lot of water but they don’t want people washing their cars everyday.  After I finished with the camper I took the car to the car wash to wash it.  It really needed it!  I also went to HEB for some pasta.  They sure have some good deals!  Oh, back to the car wash.  Cost $2 to wash the car.  I had to go twice because the dollar changer  wouldn’t work.  I got some extra quarters at HEB…

The camper and the car may not be the cleanest but they sure look a lot better than before.  I also vacuumed the car after I got back home.  Sparky doesn’t like the vacuum cleaner.

Linda made the spaghetti salad for tomorrow afternoon.  They are having a hamburger cookout and we signed up for a salad.  I think spaghetti salad sounds really good and after tasting it, it really tastes good.

Linda had to watch the “bachelor” tonight.  Two hours!  I think the show is stupid!  Thirty girls after one guy, on TV.  That is ridiculous!  Thirty guys after one girl is just as ridiculous!  I played games on the computer and made snide remarks.  Sorry all you people that like this show, this is just my opinion.

We went to bed about 11PM, that isn’t early for me.  We closed the camper up except for one window because it was sprinkling. Oh, I want to add this,  Matt, you are my kind of guy!  Linda and I partied until 10:30PM on New Years Eve!! I woke up at midnight and rolled over!  What a party!!  Thanks for sharing that Destiny….Night Y’all….

Sunday January 2nd 2011

We had to get up early today to go over to Tip O Texas to church.  Wanted to hear Don preach.  We got there late of course.  It is about a twenty minute drive even without traffic.  Not sure where we will go next, might try Bluebonnet again.  It is within a mile of here.

I had to take a picture of the banana tree…

I love banana trees.  I don’t know why, guess I just don’t see very many and I like bananas.  There are a couple in the park.  Not sure how long it takes for the bananas to ripen, well, they don’t ripen on the tree I guess.

We checked out an HEB store over in Pharr.  I really like HEB, they seem to have a very large variety of most everything.  Meats and veggies both look better than Wal Mart.

Went to Don and LaVon’s for lunch.  Had ham sandwiches which were very good.

We went back home after playing a game of cards and relaxed.  Didn’t do anything the rest of the day.  I know that Bluebonnet has a Gospel Jam on Sunday but not sure what time.  We will try to get to that one of these days.

We watched some TV tonight and some of the shows are new. Guess they are done with repeats until a little later. So, guess it’s time for bed.. Night Y’all….

Saturday January 1st 2011

First day of the new year 2011!  I will have to get used to the new year, will probably make a lot of mistakes before getting used to it.

It was very cool this morning.  Not sure what the temp got to last night but was sure cooler than usual.  The cool front made it here some time during the night.  I figured as cool as it was outside I may as well make some jalapeno bread!  Good day for it.  I got it all mixed up and I checked the meter reading just to see how much electricity our convection oven used. I baked three loaves of bread and a pan of brownies.  It used less than two kilowatts of power.  I am happy.  I figure at seventeen cents a kilowatt hour it cost about thirty two cents to do all that baking…

I am getting so used to the convection oven that it is hard to use a regular oven because they bake so different.

We took a loaf of jalapeno bread over to Don and LaVons.  Don fixed a ham and black eye peas for dinner.  Excellent.  He also made a vegetable salad and pickled beets.  Linda took the brownies.  Had an excellent dinner and a couple of hilarious games of zilch.  We wanted to get home before dark so we left about 4:30PM but it was dark when we got home.  We had to stop at the $100 store.  I am still trying to figure out the roads here and which ones to take to make it the shortest distance. I may learn but I will probably forget.

When we got home (we left Sparky home), Sparky was hyper. He was hyper all night.  I have a pair of old tennis shoes that he really likes to play with.  I think I posted a picture of that yesterday.  Anyway, he wanted my shoe, he only plays with one, and he kept busy most of the night playing with my shoe, I had to clean up the mess, he did a pretty good job on it. We finally made it to bed about 10:30PM I guess, we were pretty tired. Tomorrow is another day…Night Y’all….