First performance for the Men & Women of A-Chord barbershop chorus for this season

 68º here in La Feria, TX at 11 am Monday.  Was a cool, to us, 59º this morning, but to get to 74º this afternoon.  Was -2º with a "feel like" of -22º this morning at our Son's place near Iowa City this morning, so guess I won't complain about the 59º.  Click on any photos to enlarge them.

A Wise Man Once Said:

1) Hate has 4 letters, so does Love -- your choice.

2) Enemies has 7 letters, so does Friends -- your company matters.

3) Lying has 5 letters, so does Truth -- decide your path.

4) Cry has 3 letters, so does Joy -- where do you stay?

5) Negativity has 10 letters, so does Positivity -- pick your energy.

We took part in the first performance, of the year, of our barbershop chorus, Men & Women of A-Chord at McAllen Mobile Home RV Park.  Most of our chorus was present and we had a pretty good crowd.  We did an abreviated program of mostly religious songs and were central part of their Sunday worship service at their Rec Hall.

We picked up Lois Outcelt at Snow To Sun RV in Weslaco and made the 32 mile drive in time to help put up the risers and help with the speaker system, etc.

On the way home we stopped for some good chicken at Golden Chick in Pharr, TX.  We always enjoy this place and introduced it to Lois for her first time.

This is an ad I placed in the Winter Texan weekly newspaper that is distributed to all the RV Parks in the Rio Grande Valley.  Hope it helps bring in some extra attendance.

Took the opportunity yesterday morning, after returning from church, to wash the pickukp.  I think it went into shock since this is the first time since we got here the first of November.

For the last several weeks we have been playing "Bean Bag Baseball" on thursday evening at the Rec Hall, making sure we got enough people to play because the lad, Cody, from Bowdle, South Dakota, who has Downs Syndrom gets such joy from it.  He comes down with his parents before Christmas and a brother flew down to escort him home -- they flew out yesterday.

At right is picture of Cody with Activity Director Mashelle

  at the performance at the hall Saturday afternoon.

Jayne's Jukebox Junkie show from Gilbert MN
Saturday afternoon at the Rec Hall

Tom Urban and crew served a Chicken Pot Pie
Supper Friday evening.  He also made Kolache's

We drove over to The Pasta Company in McAllen Friday evening to scout out a place to have the Barbershop Chorus eat together on February 2nd.  One of our oldest members is moving in February to a Care Facility in Austin, Texas, and this is to honor his years with the group.  He joined the Men of A-Chord in the 1990's.  This now leaves only our Director Bob as the only remaining member of the group from the 1990's.  I made a reservation for a private room that will hold 40 people and hope we can fill much of it.  This will be on February 2nd at 1 pm.  Pictures to follow.

All for now, Lynn