Tuesday February 28th 2012

The time is just flying by, almost the end of February already!

The weather is really nice this morning, the wind is blowing like crazy but it isn’t to warm or to cold and it is supposed to warm up to around 85 today.  We probably won’t need the air conditioner on so we will leave the windows open.

We took a ride today to Home Depot to check and see if we could get a part for the oven.  Not here, but we tried a place that sold parts for appliances and we needed the model and serial numbers. I called Bernie and he gave us what he thought was the numbers but they didn’t have anything even close to those numbers.  The plate with the numbers has been scratched so bad you can’t hardly see the numbers.

We checked at Conn’s furniture and they have an apartment size stove but it is for natural gas, if they change it to propane I think we may buy that one.  I tried to get the thermo couple out and I’m not sure that it is removable so I don’t think that it would do any good to get a new one.

We stopped at the H.E.B Plus to look around…

This is almost like a Wal Mart!  They sure have a lot of stuff here.  We didn’t buy very much just looked around.

Not a lot going on tonight.  Thought I would check on the computer for stoves or stove parts but didn’t have much luck.  The computer doesn’t work very fast at night so I didn’t get much satisfactions.  Time to go to bed I guess….Night Y’all..

Monday February 27th 2012

It is cloudy today but supposed to warm up to around 85 I think, sure doesn’t feel like it right now!!

The line dancing class is this morning and I want to go.  Linda doesn’t go anymore but I think I may be able to teach her when we get home.  By the time the class was over I was about soaked!  It isn’t that hard and it isn’t that hot but it sure is humid!

We had a gathering at the dog park today.  Sparky gets along fairly well with the other dogs, mostly he is scared of them but he is getting closer now so maybe he will play with them, I doubt it!

Peter Piper Pizza day today.  We decided to go ahead and go for pizza. The salads are good but I’ve had better pizza.  The fellowship is really nice though…

I think about thirty five showed up for pizza, had a good time!

We came right back to the camper. 

The temperature is still going up, I started the air conditioner before we left for pizza and I’m glad I did.  I think it is about 85 and really humid.  The air feels really good. 

About 8PM I finally shut off the air and opened the camper.  It is still humid and muggy but the temperature is going down so it is pretty comfortable. Should be a good night for sleeping…Night Y’all….

Sunday February 26th 2012

It is cloudy and kind of cool this morning.  I think it is done raining though and that is good.

Went to church at Mission FBC. I wasn’t really with it today for some reason.  Not sure why but I was kind of spacing today. 

I thought that I would grill out tonight so I got the ground pork out for burgers.  Need to thaw it out first.

Today was the birthday and anniversary day!  Cake and ice cream.  Good cake for sure.  We sat with a couple from Wisconsin, his name is Ed and hers is Joan (I think) and we had a great time exchanging stories.  We were almost the last ones to leave there.  Had a really good time.  Ed and Joan also do the line dancing.

I started the charcoal for the burgers and Bernie and Eleanor stopped by to take a look at our camper.  They are easy to please.  They say if they come down next year they would like to rent our camper.  I think it is kind of small for them and they might have a hard time in it but they thought that it would be great!  They used to camp in a very small 5th wheel camper that was worse or smaller than this.  We will see what happens next Fall when it is time to come down here.  If they are able and want to we will bring the camper back down, if they don’t come we will just come down in the car.

Linda asked if they wanted to stay for supper and they said they already had theirs in the crock pot at home.  Linda said if they wanted we could share and we took our stuff over there and we shared our food.  Excellent food for sure, Eleanor fixed baked beans and we had a great time.  We finished our game of Mexican Train and then played  a couple hands of Skip-Bo!  We had a good time and left there about 9:45PM.  Time to get home and get to bed….Night Y’all…

Saturday February 25th 2012

Had to get up kind of early this morning, line dancing practice starts at 8:30AM because they have a craft sale at 10:00AM.

Can’t believe I like line dancing!  It is fun and for some reason I really work up a sweat and it isn’t really very strenuous!  We all seem to work up a sweat.  She taught us a new dance today called “bootie call” which really isn’t to hard but I still have a hard time remembering the steps.  Still had fun though.

Even though it is cool this morning it is warming up.  I have been wearing my insulated shirt and it works out nicely.

Well today is another day that we aren’t going to do much.  Haven’t done much of anything that is worth taking pictures of, well, not really, I forget about taking pictures even though I have the camera with me.  The other day I was trying to take pictures of Sparky and Angel (dog) playing in the dog park and the camera wouldn’t work!  Bummer!  I finally figured out it SD Card was full and so was the internal memory.  Had to come home and get rid of the pictures!  Now I can take more pictures!

Watch a little TV and take it easy the rest of the day…Night Y’all…

Friday February 24th 2012

OK I’ve been neglecting my blog for awhile now again I have to try to remember what we did for the last few days!!!

Well today is usually our coffee klatch but they are having biscuits and gravy this morning and I know Linda isn’t going and I don’t think I will go either.  It is pretty cool this morning and I think, if I remember right, it is raining!  Sparky got up late so we only had to go out in the light rain, sprinkles, and he still got wet but it didn’t take him long.  I am surprised that we are getting so much rain, which is really needed.  I think they are ahead of the rainfall for the year by an inch or so and this is only February.  If it is like last year it didn’t rain for about nine months so it was really dry.  Farmers are really hurting.

Went to Wal Mart and I picked up some bulbs for the rear of the camper. I have a running light that is burnt out and I need to replace it.  I drove all the way from Sikeston down here without that light.  Never drove much at night though.  One of these days I will replace it, hopefully before we go home!

We watched a movie that I bought at the flea market.  Had to laugh at some of the parts.  Not a real good quality movie but we saw it anyway.  I didn’t like it.  The name was Hugo and it really wasn’t my kind of movie.

I can’t remember if we did anything else today.  It was pretty quiet, cool, and a good day to stay inside!  Night Y’all…

Thursday February 23rd 2012

Got up early this morning.  It is kind of cool and really cloudy and foggy!  Supposed to get up to 90 today, give or take.

We got ready to go and checked out where we were going to meet. Going to meet and Judy’s and follow them.  Well, things changed, we are going to ride with John and Judy.  That will be nice.  Perry was also with us.

We got to the Santa Anna Wildlife Refuge around 9AM.  Our tram ride starts at 9:30AM so we have time to get tickets and use the rest room.  The ride lasts an hour and a half.  There are twenty three of us that car pooled.

Almost all of the people on the tram are from Seldom Rest Ranch.  Linda and I sat in the back seat.  Notice Ken and Dee have their jackets on?  It is really chilly!  No where near 90 and I don’t think it is even close to 70!  I thought about bringing a jacket but why?  90 is supposed to be very warm!

We had a nice time riding through the park but we didn’t really see very much in the way of wild life or birds except the turkey buzzards!

Cant see them very well but they are on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande River.  I think there is a dead cow there, “lunch time”..

We stopped after we left the park, at a little restaurant called the Alamo Restaurant in Alamo.  Linda and I got a breakfast some of the others had Mexican food.  I liked mine some of the others didn’t like theirs.

When we got back to the camper (I had the air conditioner on for Sparky) we thought it would be nice to take a nap.  We left the air on because it was so muggy out and it did warm up, didn’t get close to 90 though.

All in all I think we had a pretty good day. They have game night at the club house tonight but I don’t think I will go.  I haven’t gone to any of them yet.   Night Y’all…

Wednesday February 22nd 2012

It is cloudy this morning but I think it is supposed to get pretty warm.  Right now it is almost perfect.  Going to have a couple of really warm days, tomorrow is supposed to get close to 90 degrees!

We don’t have much of anything planned for today, I guess Wal Mart but not sure about that.  I took a couple of pictures of some Cana Lilies, in back of the place we will buy and I’ve never seen any but red…

I’ve never seen yellow ones but then I haven’t seen a lot of red one either. I thought this was unique though with a red one mixed in with the yellow. Here is one that is just red…

Well, we didn’t do much today. Sparky and I did a lot of walking and he got to play in the dog run with other dogs which he is getting used to now.  He doesn’t know how to play with other dogs very well but he is learning.  He was in with Bell and Spot, a black lab and a golden lab and they happen to get a little frisky and barked at each other and that really scared Sparky and he jumped up in Norlita’s lap and was really shaking but he got over it pretty fast when he figured out “he” wasn’t being attacked!

I almost turned the air conditioner on this afternoon. It is really warm and humid but we toughed it out.

I almost forgot to mention that we car pooled to a restaurant called Gonzales Burgers.  We hadn’t heard about it before but thought it may be a nice place to try.  Take a look at the burgers…

Kind of hard to see but they are really big, bet each one weighs close to a pound!  Linda and I split one.

We definitely had enough to eat.  Had a good time too.

The place is kind of small and it took about an hour to get our food but we still had a good time!

I walked over to the club house and played bingo tonight.  I may be dense but I can’t figure out why people think the game is so great.  I thought it was kind of boring but the popcorn was good.  Oh, I didn’t win anything.

Will watch some TV tonight and go to bed, we have to get up early for the trip to the Santa Anna Bird Sanctuary…..Night Y’all..