Saturday December 29th 2012

Nothing planned for today, it is very cool this morning so we will probably stay in and try to keep warm.

I helped Dan move some stuff to his “recovery” place.  We got it all loaded and got to his place and the gate was locked so we waited for almost an hour and they never returned so we went back to the campground.

We followed Don, Cheryl, Joe and Mary to go look at the Habitat for Humanity outlet store.  Couldn’t find it but we did find a couple of clothing places, didn’t buy anything. We went to go to Wal Mart and found a Mexican Restaurant called Morado’s. This was a nice place and the food was excellent!  We will come back here again.

Not much going on this afternoon but I did get a good picture of the sunset!!

Well, I played on the computer tonight, I downloaded a game that I kind of like and I played most of the evening, can’t remember the name of it though, hmmmmm, can’t remember, oh well, Night Y’all…

Friday December 28th 2012

I have lots that I want to do today, I think I will clean the gutters and pick some oranges and maybe a few other things.'

Linda isn’t feeling very good today and it is pretty cool.  Well, I will have to say that I forgot the coffee clutch this morning, what a bummer, I can’t remember anything…

I borrowed the ladder from John and looked at the gutters and I can’t figure out how to clean them.  The gutter is pretty well plugged and no way to get to it without taking the gutter apart, maybe I will leave that for another day!

Well, while I have the ladder I will pick some oranges.  Lots of oranges to pick…

I picked ten bags of oranges and that is probably about a quarter of them and I know that I won’t use all that I picked, sooo, I’m trying to give them away.  Put some over in the the club house and gave some others the other people here in the park.  I started juicing some and I ended up juicing two bags and got about a gallon and a half of juice, give or take.  I may do some more but it will be later

Well, not sure why but this afternoon I started feeling a little under the weather and I just don’t feel like doing anything.  I even took a nap but didn’t help much.  I just took it easy the rest of the day and didn’t do much of anything.  Night Y’all…

Thursday December 27th 2012

Cool again this morning!  Not like it was yesterday but still cool.  Tomorrow it is supposed to warm up again before another cool front comes in on Saturday or tomorrow night, whenever.

We aren’t going to do to much today, going dancing tonight and this morning we have dance lessons.

Linda and I were the only ones from here that went to the dance lessons, the rest were busy or recovering from an injury.  Had a good time, we sure need the practice though.

After the practice I stopped at a lumber yard and got a phone number for a person that could possibly do a countertop.  Joe said Mary could tile one for me and she said she could do any kind of counter top that we wanted. I think we will give her a try!  The counter top is not large so it shouldn’t be to hard to do.

Linda has been doing jewelry and I finally got a picture!

I think she has done a pretty good job for just starting.  Not sure what you call it but she is tying rocks with wire and the one on the top she wore tonight to the dance, I think she wore the two rings also.

Guess that is about all for today can’t think of anything else we did, kind of boring huh? Night Y’all…

Wednesday December26th 2012

Very cool this morning, the wind is blowing out of the North at a pretty good speed and makes it really cool.

We don’t use the furnace so I baked some cookies this morning and it really warmed it up in here. I needed some cookies, they are the macadamia nut cookies but I’m disappointed in them, they taste kind of funny for some reason, not bad, but kind of not real good.

It did warm up pretty good today, not real warm but enough that a sweater worked out pretty good, tomorrow is supposed to be warmer. This is Winter here in the Valley and it changes quite often and changes pretty fast sometimes.

Linda had fixed some pork the other day and we had some for lunch with mashed potatoes and cream style corn.  We finished off the desert Linda made and it didn’t taste right either, not sweet enough or something.

Got a picture of a woodpecker just below the palm fronds.  I think he is a resident here.

I messed around with the computer today and Linda went over to Cheryl’s to wrap some rocks, I will have to put a picture in tomorrow of some of her art work!

Not much going on today, going to take it easy.  Don’t want to go to the store because it will be packed the day after Christmas.

We watch a show on TV called “Amish Mafia”.  That was very interesting, didn’t know that they had a mafia in Amish communities!

Well, time to say Night Y’all…..

Tuesday December 25th 2012

Christmas Day, the day we celebrate Jesus’s birth!  I think it is going to be a beautiful day in the neighborhood.  The sun is shining and it is going to be very warm, perfect day for Christmas!

We opened our package from Brenna and we got a beautiful pair of boots for Linda and some fruit and nuts and I got a beautiful mixing  bowl!

Linda’s boots are nice and warm and the bowl is big enough to mix up a few loaves of bread!  Haven’t tried the fruit or nuts yet though.  I am anxious to use the bowl to see how it works.

We are having our Christmas dinner at the clubhouse.  Linda made a chocolate desert and baked beans. The dinner was great, the ham was furnished and the rest of the stuff was stupendous!  Had a great time.

This is what Is left of my dinner.  Actually Mary bought a birthday cake with my name on it.  We all had a pretty good time I think.  I ate way to much.  I should have taken a group picture but I just took individual pictures. Here is a picture of Frank and Bob, I didn’t get their dogs, Scooter and Buddy, they weren’t at the dinner….

They brought a shrimp and rice dish that was really good.

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We took a nap this afternoon, probably not a good idea after eating so much but I couldn’t stay awake.

We watched some TV and I played on my new computer until some people outside started singing, thought the were Mexican Mariachi's for awhile but they were singing in English!  It was Don and Cheryl serenading us with a birthday song for me, how sweet…

The weather is starting to cool off now so we shut up the house so I wouldn’t have to get up during the night to do it.  It is supposed to get down into the thirties tonight and that is way to cold to have all the windows open.  Going to be cool for a couple of days then warm up again. This is one of those winters that will be up and down temperature wise.

Time to say Night Y’all…

Monday December 24th 2012

Second day for the new computer and I have had a good time with it and my Norton anti virus did its job when I opened an email.  Guess that was good.

I went out early this morning and got Linda a Christmas card and a little candy.

We went to Peter Piper Pizza at noon with Don and Cheryl.  I really didn’t want my birthday known but….

No such luck….

I think I counted fourteen here today..

Went to Wal Mart after to get a few things, as usual.

Got to take a little nap this afternoon and feel pretty good this evening.  I’ve been working on the computer and decided it was time to write the blog.  Linda is going to fix a desert for tomorrow and she has pork fajitas in the crockpot for later.

May not look the greatest but it sure smells good and I’m sure it will be great!

Well, time to say Night Y’all but I want to thank all those that wished me a Happy Birthday, thank you!   Jesus is the reason for celebration though.  Thank you Jesus!

Sunday December 23rd 2012

Who!!!  I finally got a computer and downloaded Windows Live Writer that I need to post my blog.  What a job!  LaVon did it for me the last two times and I sure appreciated that.

I bought a new Toshiba computer with Windows 8…

I couldn’t get the computer to do anything and what really upset me is that it didn’t have Solitaire on it, nada, no solitaire at all.  The games that were on it you have to pay for and probably ones I couldn’t even play, I took it back after two days.  When I took it back I got another one, not a Toshiba but an Acer Notebook.

I got this yesterday and today I downloaded more than I did while I had the Toshiba and I had to download the first part at Burger King.  The Wi-Fi here is terribly slow but I have downloaded everything here, well, after getting the phone to work I used it to download the rest of what I needed.  Hopefully I will be able to post this on my blog.  (I downloaded all this here at home!)

I definitely can’t remember what we did the last few days.  I know we went to Don and Cheryl’s last night for a Mexican supper and then a game of Newlywed Game, well, something like that.  We didn’t do to bad, well, Linda didn’t do to bad, she knows me better than I know her.  Had a really good time.

I don’t think I will do much more here because this is mostly a test to make sure it works.  I like the little computer, I think it is just about the right size. Time though to say Night Y’all….

My picture of God’s handiwork just a couple of days ago…