Register for Vaccine in Hidalgo County Texas

If you live in Hidalgo County Texas and are 65 or older you can preregister for the Covid-19 Vaccine.

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Butch and I are registered.

symbiotic relationship

 After the call of the Grackle

Getting ready!

 This was the posting of the mixed double pool competition last Sunday. Yes, I am bragging! It happened to hit on a day when I played well.

Today (Sunday, December 27th) was a great time for Mixed Doubles in the pool hall...  There were 8 teams and each team played seven games.   It has been a long time since any team won all seven games but today was the magic day.   Donna Hanke & Butch Brooker won all seven games.   Team Barb Brooker and Jerry Thibodeau won five games.   Teams Rosemary Scott & Moe Lafarve and Bev McEnaney & Lonnie Hull won four games. Come join in on a fun Sunday afternoon. Sign up sheet is up for next Sunday, January 3, 2021  Our start time is 1:00 pm sharp.    There is a limit in the pool hall of 16 people, and everything is sanitized after the end of the games.

Happy New Year!

 Just think about what we would have done had we known what 2020 was going to hand us? The reality is probably nothing because I doubt we would have believed it could possibly happen. 

But here we are looking at a brand new year and all its possibilities. Being an eternal optimist I am going out on a limb here and say it will be as good as the last was not. The pendulum must swing the other way.

So with a big dose of hope in my heart I wish you all a happy new year.

We will be eating finger-food and playing Fast Track tonight and I will probably be soundly sleeping by 10 PM.

Fast Track Board Game:

Lately

This was taken a few minutes ago. A cold front has passed through and it is currently 46 degrees. Supposed to be a high of 60 today. When I went out to get my cream out of the dorm fridge I noticed there was about an inch of water in my rain bucket. I have a bucket that I collect rainwater to water the two pots I take back and forth each season. The rain bucket was bone dry yesterday and I dumped out leaves that had fallen into it. The trees are mostly bare now. We are in the season when they drop and in about 6 weeks we will see new buds and shortly thereafter the new leaf growth will be complete.

I just named our squirrel "Daisy". You know, like upsy-daisy? We decided to continue feeding her for a couple of reasons. The birds were not eating it except for one grackle who has a special relationship with "Daisy" . The grackle is too large to get on the ball so he sits under the ball and makes calling noises to the squirrel, Daisy shows up and the grackle eats what she drops. We have watched this happen many times.

Daisy and the grackle will both be disappointed when we run out of seed because we do not plan to buy more.

 

THANK YOU!

 A really big thank you to all the very wonderful help we received today from so many wonderful people. We are never entirely alone in our Winter home here in South Texas. All of these people are so quick to help anyone they come across in need of a hand. I even got a text with the offer of help.

The same thing would happen in our Summer home, I am sure but it might take a bit longer for the word to spread.

2020 Isn't over yet

 At least not for us. At 5:am this morning the refrigerator started beeping. Now, this can mean a door has been left open. However, that usually happens within 10 minutes of it being left open. So that was quickly ruled out by checking all four of the tightly closed doors. So I shut it off and turned it back on hoping for the best but was quickly disappointed. Beep, Beep, Beep. As it happened Butch happened to open one of his eyes...so he started some of the tricks all longtime RVers know that can be performed on the formidable RV refrigerators; including a magnet on the black box, bypassing the pesky black box, and whatever else that seemed worth a try. Long story shortened, nothing worked. Very shortly thereafter we got a big whiff of ammonia a surefire sign that the RV fridge is dead, beyond repair. So we start spreading the word of our predicament. First was rescuing the ice cream; You do not let H E B's Butter Pecan Creamy Creations Ice Cream become a puddle. So I took it over to Liz and Dave's and asked her for space in her freezer. She said it was not safe in there but we had no choice. So in talking to Dave he had some suggestions. Terry S. got into the mix and offered his RV and the fridge in it so we could save several hundred dollars worth of food. Another guy, Bob W., stepped up and brought forth a dorm fridge he wasn't currently using, giving us the ability to have at least a few of the most used items close by.

I also ran into Alex S. and he told me about having the same thing happen to him and he called an RV place in Mission TX (nearby) and had a new fridge installed 2 days later. He was very pleased with their work and the speed with which they did it. I said that sounds like info Butch would like to know so he stopped by our RV and gave Butch the number.

So Butch called and Mando came by, found out what we needed, and said there was one in Dallas and could be here by Monday. It will be here Monday and installed after coughing up 5 plus very big bills. RV refrigerators are notoriously expensive. We did consider buying a residential refrigerator but after considering all the pros (less money) and cons (several) we decided spending the bucks was the way to go. It was pointed out to us and my research showed that a residential fridge would need all kinds of reconstruction to make it fit in the space, and Butch would have to be doing the work, it would be a turnoff to anyone interested in purchasing the RV in the future, and lord only knows how long all that would take. The last thing I want is Butch trying to lift refrigerators through windows!

GOODBYE 2020!!