Halloween 2018

It is  83º here in La Feria, TX with winds at 10 mph and gusts at 20 mph & above.  Expected high near 90º with a "cold front" coming in early after midnight tonight and the high will be 72º tomorrow with chances of rain.

Yesterday Phyllis, and the office crew, put on a Halloween Soup Lunch and short program.

These four came in costumes and guy on right won best
costume prize with couple on left getting second.

The Ferguson's posing for a picture.  Don and his daughter
Karen; brother Lawrence and his son Larry who drove
the brothers down from Ansley, NE & will fly home soon.

Doing more repair of the shuffle board

I started painting the rails on neighbor's ramp/platform.

This burnt-edge book is an interesting read.  It went through the fire at our place west of Clarinda 10 years ago and I found it in a Tote box among moth balls in my shop building in Clarinda just before we headed south-- it seemed somewhat aired out to me I brought it and several other books and VCRs in that same box along.  Am  now almost through reading this book - it is very interesting.  

Here is a book overview:

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream's regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river's people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

People from the park are to go to La Feria Fire Department at 4 pm today to help hand out treats to the kids (trick or treaters) until 7 pm.  Don't know how many residents are going, but Phyllis and the office help are to be there, in their RHP uniforms.

Later, Lynn