Hello Everyone.. I hope each and everyone of you had a wonderful Christmas.. We've had a great one.
The park kicked off the fun with our annual golf cart Christmas parade.. That's always fun.. Some times I drive our cart but other times I wave at all the other drivers as they pass by our place. It's so fun to watch them go by and see all the different ideas people come up with. Then I got my Christmas cards handed out and went to a Christmas Open House on Christmas Eve with friends and saw dozens more friends. Today Reid and I had Christmas Dinner with about 60 park friends down at our club house.. If the kids can't be here then it's the greatest way to spend the holidays. Afterwards I headed over to Phyllis' for a visit with all her family.
It's been a fun few days and tomorrow it will go back to normal around here "till the next party" and speaking of parties, Mexico sure knows how to party.. They have festivities for the next several days with music and fireworks that we can hear from our place.. These parties go on way into the night and last a few days after the new years.
Our weather was great too. we were in the 70's the last few days and sunny but it's back into the 50's for the next few days. We've had a shower tonight and more rain expected tomorrow.
Merry Christmas and Love from Reid and Debbie
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Early Christmas Gift
Today while out shopping I ran into some "E" friends of ours that we hadn't seen or heard from in a long time. It was so great to see W & G again. They looked wonderful and we had a nice visit in the "chip" isle.
W told me it had been a while since I'd updated my blog so I decided to do that today.
I haven't really done too much since we arrived because of my Achilles tendonitis.. I've been babying my heels and keeping them iced and elevated..
The park is busy with activities so I've been watching line dance since I can't dance right now. We've also had three dances where I keep the pop corn popping. That's fun for me, I get to talk to everyone and listen to music and since I'm behind the counter and away for everyone I can sing along with the band and no one hears me.
We've checked out three Churches in the area and I believe we've decide on Grace Community Church in Pharr as to the one we'll be attending regularly.
We have our golf cart parade tomorrow evening and we're going to be having Christmas Dinner at the Rec center with park friends..That should be fun.
I will try to keep this blog updated more often.. I promise...
W told me it had been a while since I'd updated my blog so I decided to do that today.
I haven't really done too much since we arrived because of my Achilles tendonitis.. I've been babying my heels and keeping them iced and elevated..
The park is busy with activities so I've been watching line dance since I can't dance right now. We've also had three dances where I keep the pop corn popping. That's fun for me, I get to talk to everyone and listen to music and since I'm behind the counter and away for everyone I can sing along with the band and no one hears me.
We've checked out three Churches in the area and I believe we've decide on Grace Community Church in Pharr as to the one we'll be attending regularly.
We have our golf cart parade tomorrow evening and we're going to be having Christmas Dinner at the Rec center with park friends..That should be fun.
I will try to keep this blog updated more often.. I promise...
Monday, November 11, 2013
I'm a Valley girl
Am I the only one that thought that was funny.. Half the year I'm in the Rio Grande Valley and the other half I'm in the Pahrump Valley.
We arrived in Mission Thurs afternoon. It was cooler than I expected it to be but a front had just gone through the day before dropping 4 inches of rain in a 6 hour period here.. that's a lot for this place. Mosquitoes love me so I've already been bitten.
We spend the rest of the weekend unpacking and organizing.. I'm still straightening and organizing and it will probably take me the rest of the week to get all done.. We sleep in the RV but do the cooking and showering in the casita so things have to be moved around.. Once we get set up I like to decorate with my statues and get things place where I like for them to stay for the season. Once all that's done I'm ready to get started on the fun stuff..
I took a short walk this morning but it took a while cause I kept talking to people.. took me almost an hour to get 3/10 of a mile. I usually do 2 miles in 45 minutes so I was slow today.
I know why Reid feels bad here the humidity is bothering me this yr too.. I'm just wiped out from it.
This week we're starting dance again so that will keep me busy.. I'm not working in the office this season so that frees up my mornings to do aerobics and walking.. hopefully I'll get aerobics started this week but it might wait till next week.. We'll see.
We arrived in Mission Thurs afternoon. It was cooler than I expected it to be but a front had just gone through the day before dropping 4 inches of rain in a 6 hour period here.. that's a lot for this place. Mosquitoes love me so I've already been bitten.
We spend the rest of the weekend unpacking and organizing.. I'm still straightening and organizing and it will probably take me the rest of the week to get all done.. We sleep in the RV but do the cooking and showering in the casita so things have to be moved around.. Once we get set up I like to decorate with my statues and get things place where I like for them to stay for the season. Once all that's done I'm ready to get started on the fun stuff..
I took a short walk this morning but it took a while cause I kept talking to people.. took me almost an hour to get 3/10 of a mile. I usually do 2 miles in 45 minutes so I was slow today.
I know why Reid feels bad here the humidity is bothering me this yr too.. I'm just wiped out from it.
This week we're starting dance again so that will keep me busy.. I'm not working in the office this season so that frees up my mornings to do aerobics and walking.. hopefully I'll get aerobics started this week but it might wait till next week.. We'll see.
St David, Van Horn and San Antonio
I really thought I'd posted since Mesa but it appears I didn't. We're fine.. We did the first half of the trip in 11 days. And the last half we did in three days so it was hectic but it was a good trip..
We stayed in St David for two nights. It's a membership park and it was pretty nice..No complaints not even ants..
Then it was off to Van Horn, TX nothing much there just a place to stop in between AZ border and San Antonio. The only thing I remember about Van Horn is the grass is full of sand spurs.. If you don't know what that is ask your puppies.. They are very sharp sticky spurs and the girls can't walk once they get in their paws. They are tiny some times and you can't see them so I took the girls for their walks and the spurs got all over the girls paws and fur and our shoes and we track them all over the RV. It's been swept, vac'd and I've also hand picked them out of the carpet and we're still stepping on them in our sock feet.. it's awful..
Leaving Van Horn and stopping for the night near SA. We stayed outside the city about 40 miles and we alway have to stop at Sea Island Shrimp House when we come through there.. it's delicious. There's four locations there but we'd sure love for one to open in Mission.
We left at 7am to avoid rush hour but about three minutes later we were already getting to heavy traffic so we took the loop around the city hoping to avoid a lot of the congestion and we did pretty good for the most part.. 1 hr and 20 minutes later we were out of the city and heading toward the valley.
We stayed in St David for two nights. It's a membership park and it was pretty nice..No complaints not even ants..
Then it was off to Van Horn, TX nothing much there just a place to stop in between AZ border and San Antonio. The only thing I remember about Van Horn is the grass is full of sand spurs.. If you don't know what that is ask your puppies.. They are very sharp sticky spurs and the girls can't walk once they get in their paws. They are tiny some times and you can't see them so I took the girls for their walks and the spurs got all over the girls paws and fur and our shoes and we track them all over the RV. It's been swept, vac'd and I've also hand picked them out of the carpet and we're still stepping on them in our sock feet.. it's awful..
Leaving Van Horn and stopping for the night near SA. We stayed outside the city about 40 miles and we alway have to stop at Sea Island Shrimp House when we come through there.. it's delicious. There's four locations there but we'd sure love for one to open in Mission.
We left at 7am to avoid rush hour but about three minutes later we were already getting to heavy traffic so we took the loop around the city hoping to avoid a lot of the congestion and we did pretty good for the most part.. 1 hr and 20 minutes later we were out of the city and heading toward the valley.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Mesa AZ
We decided to leave Kingman a day early so we traveled the three plus hours yesterday and arrived at Happy Days RV park about 1PM.
It's really a mobile home park with a few RV's tossed in but from looking around that's the norm around here and that's ok. Most of the regular residents in this park don't seem to be here yet but I'm sure that will be changing closer it gets to Nov 1st. We had to get the three S's out of the way so we could start enjoying our visit.. (set-up, shower and supper). Actually on this visit Supper was part of the visit cause we met Nancy and Bob at Garcia's Mexican Restaurant for a wonderful late lunch/supper and then went back to the RV park so Nancy could spoil my girls with treats and we visited another couple of hours..
This afternoon they will head back over for supper, we're grilling out steak compliments of Nancy and Bob and Nancy is doing a potato recipe I haven't tried but it sounds like I might be stealing the recipe from her. I'm adding a couple of veggies dishes too the mix as well.
We're going to be in town for a week so you know it will be a week of visits, food, food and visits.
Reid heard the 2nd AC unit go out on the rig this morning.. It's in the 90's today but cooling off to the mid 70's the rest of the week so it shouldn't be too bad with only one air. Trying to decide if we'll get it repaired here or wait till TX.. Good news: it's under warranty
We wanted our usual Sunday breakfast of McD's and found one across from the Walmart about 2 miles from here so that will be handy for me to get back and forth from. (as long as I turn left when I'm suppose to.)
Safe travel prayers to our friends heading to back to Mission.. I know that Rita & Dan left MI yesterday and Peg & Jim left this morning and I'm pretty sure Jim and Linda are leaving MN soon. So everyone be safe and see y'all soon.
It's really a mobile home park with a few RV's tossed in but from looking around that's the norm around here and that's ok. Most of the regular residents in this park don't seem to be here yet but I'm sure that will be changing closer it gets to Nov 1st. We had to get the three S's out of the way so we could start enjoying our visit.. (set-up, shower and supper). Actually on this visit Supper was part of the visit cause we met Nancy and Bob at Garcia's Mexican Restaurant for a wonderful late lunch/supper and then went back to the RV park so Nancy could spoil my girls with treats and we visited another couple of hours..
This afternoon they will head back over for supper, we're grilling out steak compliments of Nancy and Bob and Nancy is doing a potato recipe I haven't tried but it sounds like I might be stealing the recipe from her. I'm adding a couple of veggies dishes too the mix as well.
We're going to be in town for a week so you know it will be a week of visits, food, food and visits.
Reid heard the 2nd AC unit go out on the rig this morning.. It's in the 90's today but cooling off to the mid 70's the rest of the week so it shouldn't be too bad with only one air. Trying to decide if we'll get it repaired here or wait till TX.. Good news: it's under warranty
We wanted our usual Sunday breakfast of McD's and found one across from the Walmart about 2 miles from here so that will be handy for me to get back and forth from. (as long as I turn left when I'm suppose to.)
Safe travel prayers to our friends heading to back to Mission.. I know that Rita & Dan left MI yesterday and Peg & Jim left this morning and I'm pretty sure Jim and Linda are leaving MN soon. So everyone be safe and see y'all soon.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Travel day 1 completed
We put the precious cargo in the rig (Lady and Molly) about 9am on Thurs and headed out of town.. Of course it took over an our to get over to 95 because of road construction but we all kept our cool and waited for the construction traffic jam to ease then we were off. The jam up was due to Hwy 160 being repaved (it was in great shape before so not sure why they were repaving it when there are roads in worse shape) but they had traffic down to one lane so we waited and waited.. The sign said to expect up to 30 minute delays but it wasn't that long.
We traveled through Vegas then around Lake Mead and over Hoover Dam taking 93 over to Kingman AZ.. We are at Blakely Ranch RV park tonight. We needed a post office to mail some of the Get A Life Media dvd's orders so after driving around this city for a while we decided to eat at Cracker Barrel, my idea, I love CB and NV doesn't have any so it's been 7 months without it.. It was yummy.. Reid gets to choose the next place since he happily went with my suggestion yesterday.. While there I asked one of the ladies directions to the post office and she spoke my language.. not miles, not north south east and west, and not street names.. she said leave this parking lot, she pointed left and go past the walgreens and the car place and take the road on the left beside the car place and it took us right to the PO parking lot.. Yeah.. We have to go back later today so now we know where we're going..
I've had a wonderful, crisp two mile walk this morning and the girls and I are heading over to the puppy park in a few minutes for their walk.. What fun..
Reid is busy working on the web orders getting them ready to mail. Right now the girls are sleeping so I'll wait till they get restless again before disturbing them for their walk.
More later as we travel back to TX.
We traveled through Vegas then around Lake Mead and over Hoover Dam taking 93 over to Kingman AZ.. We are at Blakely Ranch RV park tonight. We needed a post office to mail some of the Get A Life Media dvd's orders so after driving around this city for a while we decided to eat at Cracker Barrel, my idea, I love CB and NV doesn't have any so it's been 7 months without it.. It was yummy.. Reid gets to choose the next place since he happily went with my suggestion yesterday.. While there I asked one of the ladies directions to the post office and she spoke my language.. not miles, not north south east and west, and not street names.. she said leave this parking lot, she pointed left and go past the walgreens and the car place and take the road on the left beside the car place and it took us right to the PO parking lot.. Yeah.. We have to go back later today so now we know where we're going..
I've had a wonderful, crisp two mile walk this morning and the girls and I are heading over to the puppy park in a few minutes for their walk.. What fun..
Reid is busy working on the web orders getting them ready to mail. Right now the girls are sleeping so I'll wait till they get restless again before disturbing them for their walk.
More later as we travel back to TX.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Countdown to TX
After almost 7 months it's time to be heading back to TX for the winter.. We're actually getting a later start than normal for us. No real reason just not in any rush to get anywhere. We're going to take our time getting there and enjoy the trip down.
Our leave date will be Thurs and the past couple of days has been "spring cleaning" and only taking what we'll need for the winter. I'll stay busy the next three days getting the final items packed away inside the rig.. The girls are following me around the house as I pick up things and pack them. Lady fully knows what's going on while Molly just follows me around. Lady has been doing this for over 7 yrs now but it's only Molly's third trip and she's still learning the ropes.
Our first day's travel will be to Kingman. I'll keep you all posted as to our stops along the way.
Our leave date will be Thurs and the past couple of days has been "spring cleaning" and only taking what we'll need for the winter. I'll stay busy the next three days getting the final items packed away inside the rig.. The girls are following me around the house as I pick up things and pack them. Lady fully knows what's going on while Molly just follows me around. Lady has been doing this for over 7 yrs now but it's only Molly's third trip and she's still learning the ropes.
Our first day's travel will be to Kingman. I'll keep you all posted as to our stops along the way.
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