DAN'S LATEST CHORE IS COMPLETED

As we did not travel with the trailer this year, the park insisted that we had to "skirt in"our trailer.  This is something we were originally told we would not have to do, because we were still going to be travelling with it.  But, they insisted, so Dan had to come up with a way to close it in, in a way that could be easily removed when we want to pull out again. 

Well, it's done.  It's setup to be quickly removable when we are ready to travel.  We plan on bringing the trailer home next spring, as we want to "Do"the east coast next year, while we still have the smaller trailer. Some day we want to sell this trailer and buy a bigger one that will then be permanently set up on our lot.  But that's way down the road for us.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY IS COMING

It's getting close to that time again.  My celebration day is almost upon us. 


                    Time to fly the Flags.

  Send out the invitations. 

                 Stock the Bar with Jamesons,
               Guiness and Bailey's Irish Creme. 


                                  
                                       Dig out the Irish Music. 


               



Dust off the party supplies.  It's time for me to get ready for my annual St. Patrick's Day Party.  


This year I am going to try to make Irish Potato Cakes like my mother used to make.  But, I'm leery of the flour down here.

( I finally quit making bread after I ran out of Canadian flour, and started having failure after failure.  Next year, I'll bring enough flour to make bread for the whole 3 months.) 

But I digress.  This is my one hostessing opportunity, down here.  I am looking forward to this last big bash before we start preparing for the journey home.  The day starts with the Paradise Park, St. Patrick's Day Parade, then the Club has Beer and Brats, then my celebration.  I hope the weather holds, as I don't have room in our little trailer for everyone if it pours.  Even with two patio umbrellas, I think my party would be ruined. 

THE FLEA MARKET

We went to the flea market today. 


There were so many things that if I had unlimited funds I would buy, but oh, well. 

There is always next year.

I found a concrete Armadillo, that I am definitely going to buy for my patio next year. 



Forget about cowboy hats, horses, lone stars etc., an Armadillo, now that really says "Texas".

VALLEY FINALE?

The entertainment possibilities are thining out in the Rio Grand Valley, since we've gotten into March,  there are no more dances at our park this year. We have been to a couple of shows.  Wednesday we saw "Men of Accord", a group of senior men from the valley, who sing wonderful harmonies of old favorites.  That was very nice. 

Then last night we went to the other "Paradise Park"in the neighbouring town of Pharr, for their annual "Valley Finale." 

The show consisted of a few very talented local musicians, that gave us a few songs and a little comedy releif mixed in.  All in all a good night out.    And "It really wasn't too far". ha ha ha ...                  (A local joke always used when you go to "Pharr.)   

So from now on, if we want to go dancing we will have to look outside our local park and visit other areas.  But we only have 3 more weeks until we start packing up and heading home to prepare for summer. 

 Right now, we have another construction project going on, Dan is busy "skirting in" our trailer.  The park association has decided that we must do this even though we were originally told it was not nessecary as long as we were still using our trailer, for travelling, but now the rule seems to have changed.  So, we are trying to make this skirting, so that it can be easily removed when we want to pull the trailer out to go travelling, again next year.



A FUN BUSY WEEKEND

This was a fun and busy weekend for us.  The park that we used to go to in Weslaco, "Magic Valley Park".  Had their annual MVP Fun Days.  So, on Friday night we hooked up with Sharon and Casey of Loafhaven and went to the MVP dance featuring "The Cruisers", a very popular band in this area. 

They play only 50s and 60s stuff, which is just what us seniors like to dance to. Sharon sent me these pictures that she took, which is a good thing because the flash on my camera wasn't working so all my pictures were ruined.  You've got to love the "mickey bottles" on the tables.  Everybody brings their own booze and mix and it sits on the table.  It makes me think of prohibition, or the night clubs that used to be in Winnipeg in the 30s and 40s. 

We danced the night away and had a really great time.  We never go dancing at home, but we sure do a lot of it here.  One more reason to come to Texas. 


We were very busy on Saturday, with shopping and chores, then on Sunday we went back to "Magic Valley Park", for some more of their MVP Fun Days.  This time it was their parks Amateur Variety Show.  A lot of the entertainment was amateurish and boring, but there were three high lites that I will include here.


First was three guys, busy at the urinals, as they help each other out, to light cigarettes, hold each others beers and "other things".

They had everyone in stitches. 





                                                                 

Then there were the guys that did a take off on the "Men's Synchronized Swim Team", that went viral on uTube.

They weren't quite as good as the uTube bunch, but still very entertaining.  There is nothing quite so funny as a bunch of overweight senior men trying to pretend that they are graceful women.   

Then last but certainly not least the real reason we went to this Amateur Show, was to see Doug Wheeler, the Captain of Uno Por Rio of Gimli Harbour, do his stand-up comedy routine. 

He really was the best thing on the program and well worth sitting through some of the real amateurs, so that we could enjoy his routine.

That's it for now.  Later.

A TRIP INTO MEXICO

We made another run down to Mexico today.  Dan had his final fitting for his new Dentures. 


So I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the Kaos that is Progresso, Mexico.  It's the little Mexican boarder town, where we go.  Everyone parks their car on the USA side of the border and walk across the bridge and up and down the main street, where the street vendors     are hawking their wares.

They even put their children to work.    I bought a junkie bracelet from this little one.  I think the only English she knew was...."A dollar lady".  "A dollar lady.  I just couldn't say no to this little one.  That's something you learn very quickly, how to say "NO"  as the sellers follow you and wave things in front of you and say "Special price just for you lady". 

It's all part of the experience of a day trip to Mexico. 

THE SWEETHEART DANCE

Last night was "The Sweetheart Dance"at our club house to celebrate Valentines Day. Each year they honour any couples that will be having their 50th anniversary during the year. This year we were one of those couples.  There were three couples in all at the head table. We were all married in the summer of 1962. 

The music was great.  It was a band called "Swing Tyme", that played all the Big Band Era music, which is just what Dan & I love to dance to. 

The Emcee had come over and interviewed us prior to the dance, and read out a bit of a "Story"of each couple, at intermission.  It was really neat with all the people coming up and congratulating us. 

We danced our little hoofies off and slept in this morning.  All in all it was a good time, we really enjoyed it.