Wednesday February 13th 2013

Had more odd jobs to do today.  I removed the vent over the stove and painted it.  Not a fun job but it looks a little better.  I put it back in and also put in the vent we bought the other day.  Not an easy job  but I got it. Things are coming together, and I’m starting to run out of things to do.  May have to start another project, well, maybe next year. Bathroom next year,  didn’t want to get it all done this year.

I took the car down to the car wash this afternoon and got the salt spray off of it.  I noticed that  the oil needs to be changed.  Probably before we leave.

We went to the clubhouse this evening for root beer floats. Had a good time.

I played games on the computer and thought this would be a good time to catch up on my blog. 

HI FRANK!

Time to say Night Y’all…

Tuesday February 19th 2013

Today we are going to South Padre Island with Don and Cheryl.  We haven’t been there for about 20 years so thought this would be a good time to do it.

I drove down and we stopped at a couple of parks and got to look at some birds…

Lots of seagulls!  They really like the free handouts.  We had some bread we fed them.  Also got a picture of Linda and Flat Stanley at the beach…

We ate at a place called Ted’s Restaurant.  Had a pretty good meal, Flat Stanley seemed to be happy!

He is smiling!

We got back home in time to let Sparky out and got to the clubhouse for spaghetti.  That was good.  Joe and Mary had it, well, I think Mary did most of the work except for serving, Joe did that.

We took it easy the rest of the night so it is time to say Night Y’all…

Monday February 18th 2013

Monday, well, it has been very nice, actually we have had great weather almost all the time we’ve been here.  Yes we had some pretty cool weather when we ran the furnace but mostly it has been in the seventies and eighties and windy!

Today we took a ride down to a restaurant called Riverside.  It is right on the Rio Grande River.  Had to get a picture of Flat Stanley with Grandma…

We went to Gooding RV place and got a vent for our stove.  Pretty expensive but I needed one, then we went to Wal Mart to get a few things for painting the registers.

When we got home I painted registers while Linda was at Happy Hour.  They turned out pretty good but I sure don’t like this spray paint, it doesn’t dry fast at all.  It took awhile before they were dry enough to get back in their places and they were still sticky.  Took until morning before they were really dry enough to walk on.

Watched our favorite TV shows tonight.  They were good.

Well, time to say Night Y’all…

Sunday February 17th 2013

Went to church at MFBC and Pastor Adrian had another great sermon. Sunday School was good also.

We took it easy today, Linda wasn’t feeling good so we pretty much took it easy today, didn’t go anywhere just stuck around home and took it easy.

We just remembered we did do something today.  We took a ride with Don and Cheryl to Shepler’s to look at boots.

We ate at a Mexican restaurant called Poncho's and had a great meal. First time I had Botanos which I shared with Cheryl.  We both like beef and it was really good.  We went on to Boot Jack and I got a picture of Flat Stanley… Stanley is a friend of Alexa, our grand daughter, who is in school in San Diego and Flat Stanley is a project that we are helping with. We are supposed to show Stanley a good time!

We stopped at another store to look at more boots but bought none!   Had a good day of fellowship though.

We watched some TV tonight and then to bed…Night Y’all…

Saturday February 16th 2013

Linda still isn’t feeling well so I let her sleep in again today.  I told her I would like to go to Tiger Direct to look at a Google Computer. 

During the time I let her sleep I decided to do a few things.  The handles on the doors under sink are way to low for me, may be OK for Linda but to low for me so I moved them up.  Not a real easy job but I did it and it is a lot easier to open the doors with the handles now instead of using the top of the door.  After I moved the handles I filled the old holes with caulk and then painted the doors.  Looks OK, not professional by any means but OK.

When Linda got up I asked if she noticed anything different, I even pointed at the handles and she asked if I cleaned them so I had to tell her I moved them.  Works for me!

We went to the store after she got ready and we drove past it three times before we finally found it but we stopped at Shepler’s first and I got a pair of boots, not really cowboy boots but on that line.  Most I have ever spent on a pair of shoes!  They cost $130 but we got a $20 coupon so didn’t hurt quite so bad…

They are very comfortable and have leather soles, for dancing, and I’m sure it won’t improve my dancing!  My tennis shoes seemed to work just fine.

We stopped at Tiger Direct (drove past it the first two times) to look at a Google Computer with the Chrome OS.  They don’t have them, never seen them but we have to order it through them, sounds OK to me  but I would really like to have seen one and played with it a little bit.  The salesman didn’t know anything about the system but would like to play with one himself.

Stopped at a Mexican grocery store and got some pork rinds, delicious!   They are pretty expensive, $6 a pound so I didn’t get very many.  I’m also pretty sure they are good for you, you know, fried pork fat!

I had Don stop over around 6 PM and we finished putting on the last of the trim by the stove.  Needed two people one to hold the stove and the other to staple  it to the side.

We watched two movies this afternoon, “Here Comes the Boom” something like that with Kevin James and the other was “Impossible” and it was about the tsunami in Asia a few years back.  It was pretty good but showed how things were and it wasn’t good!  (Move was good)

Went to bed pretty early, I have a hard time staying awake in the evening so guess I will say Night Y’all…

Friday February 15th 2012

OK I haven’t been on the computer for quite awhile, I have been putting it off because, well, just because I am kind of lazy I guess.  I am going to try to remember some of the high points during the week.

Can’t really remember what we did on Monday and I guess Linda can’t either!  Well, some of the high points, we went to the Aloe Vera Farm for lunch and a tour, the lunch was chicken and mashed potatoes with string beans and pie for desert.  We went on a tour of the Aloe Vera field..

This guy was a hoot!  He is picking the flowers and we got to taste them and they did kind of taste like fresh frozen peas.  In the next picture he put some of the juice (slime) on his hair…

I didn’t really notice until now that Sharon and Wayne are rubbing their heads too, I think maybe they had some of the slime on their hands, in fact I think most of us were putting it in our hair.  Supposed to be good for you.

This was the wagon they rode in, Wayne and Sharon had a golf cart and Linda and I drove a cart with Cindy and Mary…

I thought that this tour was really good.  I would do it again, maybe next year.

We had a valentine dinner which was excellent.  They had country ribs with baked potatoes and the ribs were big and tasted great.

We had a good time but these dinners don’t last very long, people don’t stay around, in fact, I think they had games after the dinner. but we went on home and just took it easy.  They had the Thursday night dance at Mission Bell, but we hadn’t planned on going because we figured it would be packed.

We went to Lowe’s and I picked up a couple more pieces of trim for the kitchen and also picked up a compound miter saw.  I had to try it out and it really works great.  I cut all the trim for the kitchen and one piece I had to redo because it was a little bit short but it sure cuts the angles good.  Got a picture of the kitchen…

Almost done with the kitchen, still have a couple of pieces of trim to put on but we are almost finished.  Don came over with his air stapler and put all the trim on in just a few minutes.

Today I went to Wal Mart and got a little paint to cover the staples and I finished putting the caulk around the edges.  I was looking at the picture above and you can see the new floor also.  That really turned out great. The floor is solid now and the tile looks great on the floor.

Well, I think we will take it easy tonight and watch some TV even though there isn’t much on but we will probably watch it anyway….Night Y’all.

Sunday February 10th 2013

Nice morning, going to get warm again today!

Went to church this morning at MFBC in Mission.  Pastor Adrian is a good preacher and has some really good sermons.  Today’s was on “Love” again.  Sunday School was also good.

We took it easy the rest of the day, had to turn on the AC this afternoon.  It got up to 90 in here so it was time.   The old record was broken today, got up to around 96 which was almost uncomfortable!  Got just comfortable in here and turned it off around 5PM, it was cooling off nicely outside.

We had a bunch of old shows taped so we watched them this evening.  Not a lot to talk about today.  Guess I will say Night Y’all….