Last week of March

75º here in La Feria, TX at 11:30 am Sunday March 24th.  Guess I haven't written for a bit  Will try to catch up.

At the vanilla section in one of the stores.

Last Thursday we rode with Dick and Deanne Messer to Nuevo Progreso, Mexico, just south of  Weslaco, Texas where they were having their annual spring "Tourist Day" celebration.

This was not a Tequila drink - it was straight Tequila -- only
a few sips was enough.  The peanuts were good, though

Venders were in the street and at least 2 stages were set up

We were sitting at the main stage, with Dick & Deanne behind us.

Several cute kids were seated around us for a while

We watched several different dance groups

Paying for the vanilla

Heading to the car with our new straw hats.

Click HERE  for some of the Progreso program during "Tourist Day"  ---

We stopped in Pharr, Texas on the way home to  eat
barbecue at Willy's.

Maybe this is Barbershop Harmony

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Saturday we ate lunch in Pharr at
Rudy's where we met Winters

At Doris & Lyle Winters' place

Doris has a nice flower patch

Look at the Texas Bluebonnets!

Somebody shook the coke, so it fizzed over the top of
Bobi's glass

 Played several games of Pegs & Jokers that afternoon.

Gas has edged up lately - now from $2.27 to $2.32 per gal

Used Chlorox to take the green off the carport roof edge

Our Aloe plant is blooming

Did some repainting on front of house

Both the upper wall and the Texas Star repainted

 Couple photos from Highway 2 and Interstate 29 just west of our Clarinda, IA home about 40 miles.  The whole area along the Missouri River is flooded.

There are daily news articles in the local papers about the illegal immigrants who are crossing the border along the Rio Grande River where there are still no walls.  Many days there are 1,000 or more picked up and have to be handled, most from Central America, many bringing kids who are already sick.  If the bone-headed liberal Democrats in Washington (and the rest of America) would get their heads out of their asses and get the wall finished it would stem some of the billions of dollars that are being spent on these illegal immigrants in way of the housing, welfare, medical costs being spent all the annually rather than a single expenditure in getting the wall finished.  There are many sections of wall along our area, but there are many openings and sections that walls are not in place.  The Democrats want them all in so they can vote for their damned socialism and ruin the entire country.  Nuff said. 

Later, Lynn

One inch of rain in the last couple days

68º with humidity at 83% at 3 pm Wednesday.  Haven't seen the sun for a week or so and with the half-inch of rain I dumped this morning added to the half-inch yesterday I think that totals more than had fallen previous to that since we got here in mid October last year.

Finished the concerts for the year for the Magic Valley Men of A-Chord barbershop chorus, still having Tuesday's practices.  Getting fewer in number as members are heading north to their summer residences.

Tuesday evening Darlene Winslow came by and we played three games of Cribbage.

Showing Patty where Messer's moved when the new Mobile Home came in.

Have watched this building being constructed during this
winter and just realized today it is the new convention
center for Harlingen that has been talked about.  They were
to build a multi-story hotel by it, but that is being delayed.

Have our last, of the season, pot-luck supper tonight at 5 pm. 

We are planning on going to the Progreso, Mexico, tomorrow with Messers.

GROANER'S CORNER:((    You might be a redneck if...
- You think that Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
- Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.
- You go to your family reunion looking for a date.
- Your Junior/Senior Prom had a Daycare.
- You think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are, "Gentlemen, start your engines."
- You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels.
- You had to remove a toothpick for your wedding pictures.
- The blue-book value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas it has in it.
- You have to go outside to get something out of the 'fridge.
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“I suggested building beds above each other to save space but the idea was debunked.”

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Later, Lynn

Rain in the Valley (much needed rain)

64º with rain off-and-on, at 3:00 pm Monday. 

Bob & Bobi Raab and Linda Crane

Sunday, after church service, we and 12 others went to eat at the Bamboo Garden in Weslaco, which is a Chinese buffet.

LaRhoda and Harold Neher and Bob Raab

Darlene Winsow, Phyllis, Evelyn & Rev Ernest Baker

Orville Crane, Lynn & Sharleen Stivers and Butch Giesken

Phyllis has worked all season long and is finally closing out the season.  Last evening she made short announcements about the few things coming up in the next few weeks.  They then served ice cream to those who wanted to buy and we came back to Neher's to play Pegs & Jokers 

Harold Neher, Phyllis, Harold Williams, Betty Salzwedell 

Doug Salzwedel, LaRhoda Neher, & Meinself

Imogene Williams and Harold Neher

Sunday morning church service Rev Baker showed, and explained, slides of a trip a year or so ago that he and his wife took to Jerusalem.

I made video of him singing before and after the slide presentation, as well as the presentation itself.  You can see it By CLICKING HERE

The park owners just moved in the third and fourth new mobile homes for sale.

 More later, Lynn