Beautiful Day in the RGV

Well another beautiful day, alittle windy but sunny and warm. Bad news is I've caught Marshall's cold...oh goodie. Guess I'm in for about 10 days of stuffy head etc. Won't be going to see Neil until I know I'm not contagious!! Talked to Carol on the phone and she said he stayed awake alittle longer today but still sleeps alot. He did talk some and she said some of it made sense!! They are just waiting on Medicare to approve moving him to Rehab in the hospital. Dr has already ok'd it. Go figure..everything they are going through and now insurance wows!!

Happy Valentines day

One beautiful day today!! I think it may have hit 80 but not sure. Sun was shinning all day and its to be in the 80's all week. Couldn't be much better. Had a great potluck dinner at the Hall tonight followed by a meeting. Eveyone is getting ready for our "Ropa" style show Thursday evening. should be lots of fun!! I sure hope I don't embarass myself as they have asked me to model a "bra" (over my t-shirt of course). One of the ladies is going to be a pregnant bride-to-be with the Preacher bringing them down the isle with a shotgun toteing father.... For Senior Citizens, they sure can have alot of fun and crazyiness.
Looking forward to another warm sunny day tomorrow.
P.S., no news on Neil today. I don't like to bother Carol everyday so I'm checking in every other day now. She will call me if anything drastic changes. I was not surprised to hear her tell me that they had just decided to give up full-timing and move into an Apartment back in Indiana.

Another Quiet Day

After church and a bite of lunch, I went to the hospital to see Neil. What a shock!! Poor guy has lost alot of weight and with his head shaved for surgery and all the stitches (a 8-10 inch incision) and bruises I did not recognise him. If it hadn't been for Carol being there in the room, I would have thought I was in the wrong room. Well he spent most of my visit sleeping but he did respond when Carol told him I was there and I held his hand. He is getting movement back in his leg which is great news. Nothing much with his arm yet. Carol said she made him some "thickened" coffee for breakfast but when he tasted it, he made faces and comments how awful it tasted. I guess he has to have pureed food and thicken drinks. Otherwise he could choke. At least he was responding and that was great to see. They are hoping to move him to the Rehab floor this week if all goes well.
Came home, did some laundry and spent most the day relaxing in preparation for the upcoming busy busy week.

Beautiful Day

Well finally warmer weather again!!  Got up yesterday and Gathered some friends and went to DonWes. Got the window screen covers for the Rec Hall and a few other things. Stopped at Taco Rico for a quick bite of lunch then came on home. Marshall put the front plate bracket on the car for our license plate. Not happy with it as it sticks out way to far...a car wash would probably rip it off. Will hope it holds until we go up to Michigan this summer and see if the Chevy dealer we baught the car from will put the correct one on for us FREE since we baught it there.
Today, its off to church in alittle bit then probably laundry. Will try and write more tonight

Fairly Quiet Day

Just a plain old work day today...office stuff, teaching Sign Language class and had a sewer back-up...got a crew in to fix that and all is well again. Didn't leave the park today until supper and that went smooth...went to Applebees for riblets (Marsh had a plate of sliders as usual). Cooling off again tonight but not as bad. Will drop to 41 but up to 69 tomorrow, 70's Sunday and 86 by Thursday. Now thats my kinda weather!!!
Heading to DonWes Flea Market in the morning to see if I can order snap on shades for the Pool hall window and the door in the Rec Hall. Other than that, it was a quiet day and I enjoyed it greatly after a hectic week. Looking forward to a quiet weekend too! Will try and stop by Mission Hospital tomorrow afternoon and see if they will let me see Neil. All for now

Cold again

Well its another COLD day down here in the "tropics" of South Texas...hum, but at least we have the 70's and 80's coming by next week unlike our Northern friends. We had a good turnout this morning for coffee and donuts in the Hall. Then ran some errands for the park....while I was out I stopped at two differant Chevy Dealers asking why my 2010 Chevy Malibu did NOT have a front plate bracket and how I could get one...well I really thought being a Grey Haired helpless looking lady that maybe just maybe they would be nice and offer to put one on....yeah right!!! Oh they offered but it would    cost me $45 plus installation. Well being this "Grey Haired helpless lady that I am, I told them "Thank you very much but I can get one for $5 at O'Reily's and install it myself." Of course on the way out the door (after yesterdays wonderful inspection day) I told them that I was disappointed in Chevy for not having given me one since the car was not cheap and in alot of states a front plate is required!!!! Another way to screw us out of our hard earned money!!
Oh well, tomorrow has to be a better day IF I leave the park....things  are wonderful when I stay put here in the park......

Feb 9 - Hard Freeze back

Well got up to nice comfortable temps. Was able to go to the office in shirt sleeves. However by 10am the wind kicked up badly and the temps began to fall. By noon the wind chill was 31 degrees!!! Ok, I really thought we had moved to the "tropics"...hum  At least it will be back in the 70's by the weekend if all goes well.
Got licensed in TX again yesterday and today went to have the car inspected so we could plate it in TX...well after stopping at 2 differant inspection stations we were finally told that we had to go to a certain station for "out of State" vehicles...ok so we've now spent 1/2 hour driving around. We get to where we were sent and check in...we told them we needed an inspection and we also wanted our tired filled with Nitrogen....ok we are 3rd vehicle in line for "service". Aahh. fresh coffee and a warm place to sit and wait..not bad, we are happy to be getting this done!! Well almost 2 hours later we are informed that our NEW 2010 Chevy Malibu does NOT pass inspection!!! Ok, I'm mad..now what is the problem..??? Oh the wiper blades are not very good...hum. Ok so I tell them to replace them...well much to my surprise, my 2010 Chevy Malibu has WEIRD wiper blades and they don't carry them...ok now what am I to do...well after a few phone calls by the service man, I'm told he could have some delivered for around $53...again I'm in shock and getting pretty upset (who me?? No I don't get upset). I kinda gruffly tell the man this is NOT exceptable and he should find them cheaper and get it done!! Ok, more phone calls...he says he can have a pair (which are differant sizes on each side of the car) for $32...well I've had it, I'm tired of waiting, coffee is now gone and I want to get this day over with so I tell him to get them installed and finish the inspection so I can get to the bureau and get my plates!! I'm then told it will take another 15-20 minutes for the store to deliver them. Ok, Marshall has a bad soar throat and did not bring his medicine along. He is getting upset, I'm getting upset but what are we to do but wait somemore...so finally after about 3 hours and $79.84 for in $14 inspection we are done and heading home to get Marshall some medicine. We eat a bite of lunch and head to the License bureau....Not to bad of a wait surprisingly. We only had to sit about an hour there but alas we have our TX plates and we head home. OH NO, TX required 2 plates, back and FRONT..oh yeah forgot, the 2010 Chevy Malibu does NOT have a front plate bracket.....ok, another trip out tomorrow to find a bracket so we can mount the front plate!!!  Oh the life of moving from state to state!! Its got to end.....