OUR GRAPEFRUIT TREE IS PRUNED

We have finally had our Grapefruit tree pruned. 

The guy we hired was like a monkey, scrambling around up in that tree with a chain saw in his hand. 

.  And I was right.  It sure looks UGLY.  But, I have been assured that by next year at this time, it will be back to lots of new shoots and in full leaf again.  But we will not get fruit off of that one for another year.  Dan's now looking at getting some pruning equipment so we don't let it get that overgrown again.  Then after our regular evening walk last night we went for a quick dip in the pool and hot tub.  So relaxing before bed.  Tonight we are off to the Club House for a Fish Fry.  So thats it from McAllen for now. 

WE NOW HAVE PATIO FURNITURE

This week we went out and bought the basics in Patio Furniture.  Four Chairs for the table I bought last year and a Settee and two matching chairs and a side table.  We now have seating for ten.  Any more than that and you have to bring your own folding chairs. 




Now I just have to choose the Fabric I want for cushions and some accent colours.  Of course I would love to go nautical, like I have inside the trailer, but I haven't been able to find any nautical accents around here.  It's all cowboy stuff. 
Today we also hired a local to trim our overgrown Grapefruit trees.  I have a feeling they are going to look pretty ugly for the rest of the time we are here this year.  But they should bounce back by next year.  I hope.  One of them is sooo overgrown, I don't know if it will survive the amount I want it cut back.  If it doesn't I can always plant a new one.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.!!

Today I have to face the big 70.  And I am going to celebrate it, and not bemoan it.  I have been enjoying the fact that Dan turned 70 on the 5th, and have been teasing him about it ever since.  I have finally caught back up and am now the same age as Dan again.  It was great being one year younger for the whole 9 days.  I bragged about it to everyone who would listen. (which weren't very many) 

 












These are pictures that Sharon took, when they had us over for Dinner on Dan's Birthday. 


Today we drove down to Weslaco, to their home to pick up Dan's hitch and the Patio table I bought when I was still dreaming of some day having a storage shed to put it in.  Casey and Sharon were nice enough to store my rash purchase until Dan had a chance to Buy and Assemble a shed for me. 


So thanks to Dan, I now have the start of my Texas Patio.  Next week Chairs and Accessories. Then A Gazebo/Pergola, then some plantings, Patio lights, maybe a Bar, a Bistro set, etc., etc., etc.,  but we will break all this to Dan one step at a time. 

I must have a little more done for my annual St. Patrick's Day Cocktail party.  That's MY big thing down here.  I DO St. Patrick's Day.  I'm even expecting Dave and Donna Riemer this year. 

For now we are really enjoying ourselves, up in the morning to Grapefruit straight off of our trees.   Then deciding, "What are we going to do today?"  The weather was a little cool for 2 days, but we are back to 75 degrees today, so we can't complain.  Retirement is GREAT. We went to the community breakfast this morning and Dan is taking me out for Dinner tonight.  I will go back to patio shopping on Monday.  So that's it for now. 

THE SHED IS FINISHED

Our new shed is finished.  It turned out to be really worth all the work and cursing.  Thanks to our neighbours Dave and Helen for their assistance and a special thanks to Darrel for his expertise about injection molds. 

"I think I have some left over parts?"

Oh, Well, Now I have room to store them until I find out if they are spares or overlooked. 

It should hold lots of "Stuff".


It's cool here today.  Only going up to 65 degrees.  They even closed the pool,"Due to cool weather".  All us Canadians are saying "What?"

THIS WAS QUITE A DAY

We have been very busy, so I haven't been posting much.  Our new storage shed was delivered on Monday, but we didn't get approval for it until yesterday afternoon.  We knew that the approval would not be a problem (they just wanted to confirm the exact location), so we started all the pre-assembly of all of the sections.

There were parts and pre-assembled sections everywhere.
 

There were also tools everywhere you looked. It was like a giant Lego set to put together. "Slide tab A into slot B, etc. etc. etc." It went on and on all the way to "Snap tab YY into slot ZZ."

Then to top it all off "The Cable Guy", make that "The Cable Gal", showed up to hook up our cable..  Seeing as how we are going to stay put, for our whole three months, this year, we decided to have cable vision. 

We didn't quite finish yesterday.  We ran out of steam by 6:00 pm  We will get it finished today.  Then I can move some stuff out of the trailer and into the shed.  Then I'm going  shopping for more Patio furniture. 

I will only be Blogging about once a week, from now on, because as I re-read my last post, I found it pretty boring.  I am sure no one is interested in every detail of what we are doing every day.  But I will post at least once a week, even if it is only the mundane details of our life here in Paradise Park. 

Great Day in Paradise Park

We had a great day today.  We went to the Rec Hall for the Saturday Breakfast.  It was very nice.  A great turn out and great food. 

After breakfast we took Sea-Enna to the dog park two blocks away.  She romped and played with a few dogs, and had a good time. 

Dan's back into eating a big bowl of shrimp every day.  I'm sure he is going to have gout by the time we get back  home in the spring.

Before supper Dan & I went for a swim.  We pretty well had the pool to ourselves. 


After dinner it was such a lovely evening, still 74 degrees at 7:00 pm, so we took Sea-Enna for a walk and discovered a Morning Dove, sitting behind our trailer.  It wasn't hurt or anything, just resting, because it did fly away when we approached.  So that was our day. 

Shopping

Yesterday we went out and bought our storage shed.  We got a real good deal on one of those low maintenance vinyl kind.  Dan will have his hands full putting that together when it is delivered on Monday.

I bought my Bread Machine.  So I will be busy making bread this weekend. 

But this morning we are off to the Park Rec Hall for the community Saturday morning Breakfast.    It is going up to 80 Degrees today, so I will definitely be going in the pool.