Another "cool" spell

La Feria, Texas  (I read a lot of blogs, mostly RV people, who seldom put where they are.  Would be helpful if they did - as many are on the move)  55 degrees as I write this at 9:00 am on Thursday.  Was 43 degrees earlier.  That may not sound cool to many of you in the north, but for wearing short pants, and being outside much of the day it is a little cool, especially since we almost always have wind blowing here in the valley.

Went to exercises this morning and then I came back to the house and got the pickup to move the sewing material from the storage shed over to the rec hall where Phyllis and the gals will work on quilts until 3 pm.

Yesterday we skipped exercise and went directly to laboratory in Harlingen for my A1Ca Blood draw then drove back to Las Vegas Restaurant for a delightful breakfast before doing an hour or so shopping at Walmart -- both for our stuff and for the kitchen at the Rec Hall. 

I worked most of the day putting

netting on some frames (that

can be taken down and stored

inside when we leave in March)

for the tomato plants.

By late in the afternoon I had both

ends and the top on, and moved

the potted tomato plants

in it and staked them more

permanently than the small

sticks I had in the pots.

Will work on making

a front that is easily accessible

to water and later pick tomatoes.

There are quite a few blooms 

and several really small tomatoes

on some plants now.

Went to Pot Luck supper at 5 pm yesterday at the Rec Hall.  Lots of Pasta dishes - one long, narrow noodley thing with spinach and small shrimp and a tomato base.  All really good and, of course, overate.  At 6:30 pm we had Neher's and Raab's over to our place for Pegs & Jokers.

Unloading groceries

after getting back from the

Walmart store about

8 miles from us in Harlingen.

Photos of Tuesday's Craft Sale in our park.

At noon a lunch was sold.

Had choice of Jumbo Hot Dog, 

hamburger, Charo beans, and

seems like something else.

Phyllis visiting with Denny Armet.

He is from Marshalltown, Iowa

and used to live near us in

our park.  He moved over 

to a park a few miles east

of us when he bought

a park model a couple years

ago.  Good to see him.  He gets

around fairly often; after loosing his

wife, Pam, several years ago.

Reading the obituaries from KMA Radio website each day, seeing more and more friends - or at least acquaintances - passing on.  Ages are mostly older than ours, but more and more in our age bracket and younger.  Never know how much time.  

With that in mind, we are trying to cram all we can into what we time we have. 

We have lined up a trip into Mexico Click HERE for website leaving March 4tth for one week.  We will be flying from Reynosa, in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico (just across the border south of McAllen, TX) in to Mexico City. Our dear friend Patty Steckelberg, from Shenandoah, IA, will be traveling with us.  We will tour in and around Mexico City for most of three days before going west to

Zitácuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.  After spending the night there we will go northwest to Ocampo, Guanajuato

Mexico near where we will see the Monarch butterfly in their winter habitat. Along with other local sites we will then go to San Miguel de Allende back towards Mexico City.  On our last day we fly from Mexico City back to Reynosa and then cross the border the the Rio Grande Valley.  Have been getting Passport info to the tour guide who will be on our plain/bus and trying to determine clothes (told most of the nights will be cool) and things to take with us.  The guide, who we talked with here at Kenwood, was born in Mexico, has family there and though he lives in the Valley now, still goes back and forth.  He felt the flying into Mexico City and back was the only way to go now insofar as safety from some of the drug cartel problems.

So, must quit this computer work and get back to making a front, with door, for the tomato cage.

Later, Lynn

Have updated photos so far in February for you to look at, if you're interested CLICK HERE 

And, my January 2016 photos are HERE