Sunny & windy in the Rio Grande Valley

 77 degrees and humid at 7:20 pm Tuesday in La Feria, TX.  Reached a high of 88º today with high winds.

Picked up Darlene Winslow at Harlingen Airport about 10:30 pm last night.  Went out to breakfast at La Feria Café this morning and then went grocery shopping at Walmart.  Got back home just before noon and we quickly changed into our Barbershop shirts and went to McAllen for practice.

They have been trimming the palm trees in

the park and got to those behind us.

Cut the top off the only Bougenvelia

bush that has blooms.

Phyllis heading down the street in

the golf cart.

Our water heater is behind a wall beside the freezer we use as a pantry.  The water heater quit the other night and had to empty all the groceries we had just recently put in and on it and move it out into the Kitchen.  Found a re-set button had clicked and without knowing why, decided to leave the freezer out for a while to see how the water heater performs.

The water heater wall open, ready to reset the dang thing, or--if it doesn't click again- put the wall back together and move the pantry-freezer back into the space at the end of this hall.

With finally a couple days of sunshine and wind, we moved the trailer back to it's winter parking spot.  Ground was soft and left indented tracks, but did not spin out.

Covered the tires with a canvass cover and then with plywood.  Found that the lawn service that mows every other week and their grass trimmers got a little rough on the canvas so added the plywood, as seen in photo above.

Bob Lemkuil, our Men & Women of A-Chord barbershop chorus director, turned 86 on Monday and several of us gathered at a fine Italian restaurant in McAllen for lunch.  Of course, after eating several songs were sung.  Photo at right shows Bob in light blue shirt in center.

Phyllis starts with the quilting group this Thursday.  First pot-luck of the season is next Wednesday.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A father of six children had been out of work for six months. In desperation, he was reading through the want ads in the paper and came across an ad for someone to work at the zoo. The man called the zoo and asked if he could have the job, but was told that he would need to come in for an interview.  The next day he went to the interview, but before beginning, he was told by his potential employer that he would need to raise his hand and promise that the proceedings of the interview would be kept confidential, whether he got the job or not. The man reluctantly took the oath, then asked what this job and oath were all about.  The zoo owner asked the man what he thought the zoo's main attraction was. Without hesitation, the man replied, 'Everyone knows that. It's the big ape!'  'Well,' said the zoo owner, 'this is the part you cannot divulge, because we would lose our business. The big ape died, and we need to keep it a secret by putting the ape skin on someone who can imitate the ape--at least until the new ape arrives in three months.' 'That's me!' said the man. 'I can do that! I was a gymnast in high school and college.' The zoo owner then challenged the man to audition by acting like an ape. The man assumed a crouched position and began running, jumping, and swinging around the room, imitating the actions and sounds of an ape. 'Wow! You're really good!' said the owner, and immediately gave the man the job.  The next day the man, dressed as the ape, went into the cage and was an instant hit. Everyone heard how the ape was performing and came to the zoo to see him. The crowds got bigger and bigger as time went by, and the front page of the paper proclaimed, 'The ape has gone ape!'  About two months before the new ape was to arrive, the man had about five hundred people in front of his cage, and he was really putting on a star performance. He was flipping and jumping and swinging everywhere, when all of a sudden, at the top of a swing, his rope broke and threw him into the lion's cage. He rolled a few times, coming to rest against the bars, and turned to find himself across the cage from the king of beasts, who lay across the cage with his head down on one paw. He knew right away that he was in trouble, so he began screaming like an ape and running back and forth along the bars in hopes that someone would rescue him from this situation. No one moved. As he looked again, the lion began to move slowly and stalk him. The lion then growled, curled his upper lip over his teeth, and assumed a position to leap. Just at this moment, the man decided that his family was more important to him than his promise to the owner of the zoo. He looked up and started screaming, 'Help! Help! I'm not really an ape, I'm a man. Get me out of here!' The lion looked at him and said in a loud whisper, 'Hush up, you fool! You'll get us both fired!'

With that, I will stop here -- LC