In our winter home in Texas!

86º with bright sunshine, humidity 39% here in La Feria, Texas at 3:00 pm Wednesday.

I found this little ditty was interesting ----" I went to a mixed religious convention today.  The Christian priest held my hand and said “By the Will of Jesus Christ, you will walk today.  I smiled and said ”I'm not paralyzed.“  Then the Rabbi took  my hand and said, ”By the will of God Almighty, you will walk today.“  Again, I said, ”I'm fine really.“  Then the Buddhist monk said, ”By the will of Buddha, you will walk today.“  I rolled my eyes.  After the service...I went outside and saw my car had been stolen."

We arrived at our winter home about 6:30 pm Sunday evening after driving about 560 miles that day with the trailer behind us. 

We had left our Clarinda home about 9:00 am (after routine doctor appointments at the hospital) and made it the nearly 500 miles to an RV campground in Cape Girardeau by that evening.

We spent Thursday and Friday with my brother Don and his wife Vicki at the Chaateau Girardeau care facility.

This is us waiting for the doctor in the
hospital waiting room in Clarinda.

Waiting with Don.

Waiting with Don.

Vicki had an appointment with a dentist and the Chateau's van took her to it.  Us waiting with Don on his Ground Floor hall by his dining room until about 11:30 am when they let them into the diining room.  And then we went up near the main entrance and waited for Vicki.  There had been some confusion on the part of the driver and she had to wait nearly 45 minutes afer her checkukp for a ride back.

We took Vicki and got a bite to eat at Chick Fila since she had missed her lunch, then stopped at some shops, Doller Tree, Hobby Lobby and went to a T-Mobile store to return our Home WIFI we use in Clarinda that they wouldnt put on vacation without sevearal dollars a month.  

We returned to the Chateau by 4 pm and was down on Don's floor before 4:30 when we ate with them.  Don is getting so feeble standing or walking so is not possible for him to get into the pickup.  They are not even taking him to church in the car account him being dead weight to transfer.  When he gets up to move to a chair he has to be pulled up, then he takes probably 15 teeny steps to turn to sit down at the next place, wobbling all the time. After eating we did play dominoes.

Friday we picked Vicki up after lunch and went to Walmart in Jackson, MO.

Played some more

dominoes Friday evening.

Both nights I rolled Don down the long hall to his bedroom, which he shares with a retired Veternarian.

He is nearly non-verbal, does what he is told to do and is assisted a lot by the nurses, etc. He never seems upset at anything, but doesn't really smile, either.  We told both of them we would see them in April as we return from the Valley.

Photo in Vicki's apartment - from 5-29-24

Our bougainvillea's are doing well.

We went to the first, of this season, Barbershop Chorus practice Tuesday in McAllen, Texas.  Had 19 people there, not bad for this early.  Hope for another 10 to 15.

This morning we went up the office Lounge for coffee and donuts put on by the staff.

Takes a lot of time getting everything from the trailer, pickukp, into the house and Texas Room and situated.  Put up the two awnings that are lowered while we are gone, filled the hot-tub with water (nice to use that since our one in Clarinda sprung a leak and we don't have one there). Took down the Rigid Rib panel I put over the north door of the Texas Room. 

 Had a noise show up with the differential to the front wheels of the pickukp about 20 miles before getting here Sunday -- my local mechanic fouind the oil it it appeared a little low and maybe hadn't ever been changed--only have 186,000 miles on it.   He changed it, with some additive and it seems to be okay now.  We will be heading uptown to Harlingin for the 7:05 pm choir practice after bit.

I need to add this -- our park Maintance Man was here earlier and had to take off some skirting to crawl under our unit to take pictures of our water meter, then let it run 10 gallons and take another photo.  It seems like someone, I don't kknow if it was RHP, the owners, or the water people, thought the meter wasn't working since there was no register of usage this summer.  We turned the water off on March 28th and just returned.  Whoever it was apparently doesn't understand seasanal usage of these units!

Till next time, LCM