Who knew?

 Hannibal and I share the same philosophy!

In 218 BCE, during the Second Punic War, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army from modern-day Spain all the way to Italy and toward Rome, in one of the most famous military achievements in history. As the troops neared the daunting peaks of the Alps, Hannibal’s generals warned him they would not be able to cross the mountain range with the horses and elephants they brought with them. Refusing to be deterred, Hannibal responded with the quote above: “Aut inveniam viam aut faciam.” He and his troops forged their own path across the mountains, and continued their march through Italy.

Stress!

 First off Butch is fine and so far he hasn't fallen or come down with something alarming. But this is going to be a rundown of my past month in not-so-sunny South Texas. 

I found out that my lifelong friend Mickey has cancer. I hate that, of course, but she has always been tough as nails and I know without a doubt that she will give recovery her best effort. I have talked to her...need to call her again and I am very anxious to visit her when we get back to Iowa.

And then I heard from my sister Myrla's best friend that she had fallen, broke her shoulder/arm, and was in the hospital and not doing well. When I tried to call her, many times she was not able to talk to me for a multitude of reasons. She is in a different hospital and doing much better with plans to go home either today or tomorrow. In talking to her best friend that may not happen because those who know say she is still not able to take care of herself. She has seizures, COPD, and too many other issues to go into. I do hope she can go home and get her life in order at least to the point where she can have some fun now and again.

And then...When I had the bile duct procedure they gave me two capsules of high-powered antibiotics and I forgot that when I get those I sometimes, in fact often, get a UTI / yeast infection, and, YUP, I did. I am being properly medicated now so hope to have some relief so I am working on destressing and getting back to some semblance of normal.

So all in all it has been a stressful time, some good stress and some not so good. Chill! I say Chill!

What a day!

 I tried to transfer money to the seller last week and met with resistance from the credit union. So we lined up a 3-way conference with the seller, the realtor, and us and had a little talk with the credit union person, Danielle to be specific. After telling us it wasn't possible and asking her to explain an alternative method then and her being unable to come up with a solution we convinced her to call the seller's bank, as it happened to also be a credit union, and fight it out with them. So she did and called us all perky as she learned something new and WAS able to get it done. So our Park Model is now paid for and we will be moving in next Saturday. We were feeling sorry for Joyce as she is getting a bit rattled because of all the details she is dealing with, packing, donating, sale of property etc. Joyce is a super gal and we couldn't have bought from anyone nicer. She has been more than fair throughout the whole experience.

Then we came home and decided to get our fees with the park paid up to date and as we were getting ready a cold front came through with rain and strong winds. The temperature dropped from 71 to 58 in a matter of minutes.

I plan to play pool this afternoon and then I have a board meeting following pool to wrap up details of the banquet taking place Wednesday night. 

Once this week is over it should settle down and we can do more of the fun stuff! I am ready!!!

In the many, 20+ years we have been coming the first week in March has always been a doozie wrapping up details and people getting ready to reverse the process. We have always felt that people were heading back way too soon. They break sweat down here and think it is time to head North. Some learn from this and stay longer the next season while others never do.