Christmas Day 2022

 54º at 2:51 Sunday, Christmas Day 2022 here in Kenwood.  After two nights of well below freezing, is warming back up.  With temps down to 23 for more than 6 hours, afraid lot of the crops-vegetables and fruit-has suffered.

Today is Christmas Day and we, along with some 50+ others had our Kenwood RV Family Christmas Dinner at noon today.

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This is photo of some Roses clipped from a neighbor's (they aren't here yet) place before the freeze, and below is that bush today, after the freeze.

Here are some

photos of the

grandkids'

families.

Later, LC

Freeze in The Rio Grande Valley

 33º here in La Feria, TX at 3:25 pm on Friday.  Has gotten a bit cold--was 28º about 2 am and stayed that way until about 10 am.  

This ice in the bird bath was this morning.

Have worked off-and-on with our 30-gallon water heater.  The reset button clicked out a few times; usually just after we got really hot water.  It would work for 10 days or so without anything then click out.  I finally decided maybe the heat elements were going bad, so replaced them--they were eaten up pretty bad for only being used 2 5 month periods out of the 2 years since the heater was installed new.  When turning the electricity back on, found had no juice at the heater.  Checked the lines back to the breaker-box and had juice on the wires there that go under the trailer to the heater, but none at the heater.  I wasn't about to try to pull out the wire run through the undercarriage of the mobile home, so I put in a new set of wires in a PVC conduit down the hall of the laundry room and everything runs well now.  During the time of the distress there were times with odd sounds from the heater, bubbly sounds sometimes, and loud single pops at other times.  When the new wire was installed, it is silent and heats just fine.

Since we have moved the freezer/pantry to the kitchen, I built a shelf overhead for storage and put pipe across for Phyllis to hang clothes from the washer.

Wednesday evening we had our first, of the season, potluck supper.

The other day I took photos of the units along the streets here in Kenwood.  I have them on a photo album Click HERE to look at them.

Couple photos, before this cold spell, of some flowering in the back yard.  Imagine they are all frozen now.

I drained our travel trailer of all water, and covered some flowers and the outside water pipes.

All the potted plants, ours and Gail Ferguson's that we are keeping while they are in Nebraska, are inside the Texas room so no damage to them.

The high for today has been 33 and tonight it is forecast to be 30º by 6 pm and down to 27º by midnight and reach a low of 23º by 5 am and not to get above 32º until 10:30 am tomorrow.  So, a lot of damage will be done to orange and grapefruit trees as well as all the crops at the  truck farming in the Valley.

Hunkering in for a few days.

Have about 50 people signed up for Christmas Dinner at the Rec Hall on Sunday.

LC

Cool front with rain in the Rio Grande Valley

44º with rain here in La Feria, TX at 11:00 am Saturday.  Started raining in middle of night and to be cool and rainy until early afternoon.  Had been in the lower 80's yesterday, with a lot of wind.

Wednesday a few of us went with Activity Director Cindy to eat at the Road House in Harlingen and then spent several hours touring THE HARLINGEN ARTS AND HERITAGE MUSEUM

The Museum continuously changes displays, and now they had several rooms on Christmas Trees on display with many different themes.  

Tree at left (and in many photos below) is completely covered

with Teddy Bears.

 

Click HERE for Website on THE HARLINGEN ARTS AND HERITAGE MUSEUM

Toured one older building with several rooms set up displaying early 1900's era items.

Building at right was built in 1904 and was the home of the man who started Harlingen, Texas.

Our group on porch of the 1904 house.

Our group in one of the Christmas Tree rooms.

Yesterday, with a warm & mild day, I got part of the roof over the Texas Room cleaned.

Then hauled off 4 containers of leaves & tree seeds that have accumulated on the lot to the west for many years.

While I was on the roof, neighbor to the east, Louise Quinn, cut hair of Phyllis' and then neighbor to the west, Darlene Winslow had hers cut.

When we were last in Cape Girardeau, Phyllis had bought several Christmas decorations for door and in apartment of my brother Don & his wife Vicki.  We received the table centerpiece shown at left from them this week.

This morning we and Pat & Lois Sumner with Harold Williams prepared and served Biscuits & Gravy with Cheesy Scrambled Eggs to just over 20 people at the Rec Hall.

More later,  LC