Good Morning

I am busy sewing a few aprons, 6 for the Dallas Valley Ranch and two for myself.
I will then get busy sewing more wee dresses for my great grand daughters. I have two nearly completed, and two more to go as well and maybe a couple of tops for them. I want to make a few pair of seamless pillow cases as well.
I love this desk in my new RV. I use it for setting my sewing machine on and also for my computer.
This leaves my table free for eating or pilling all my finished projects on, tee hee.
I love my new fifth wheel so much bigger more like a real house, doesn't seem to get so messy looking.

I have glaucoma, with drops I am seeing better I can now see to thread my sewing machine needle with ease, not possible before. I am saying get your eyes checked regularly, ask your optomist to refer you to a specialist, be on guard keep your eyesight for as long as possible. Glaucoma sneaks up on you you don't even realize your eyes sight is getting dimmer it happens so so gradually.

WARNING ---If you see a cloudy spot in front of your eyes get to optomistrist immediately one can go blind very quickly with AMD.Age-Related Macular Degeneration. What is wet-related Macular Degeneration. It affects your Macula, the area of your retina that allows you to see details in the center of your vision. It's the part of your eye that gives you the ability to read,drive,tell time, recognize faces and accomplish many other "straight-ahead" visual tasks.
Wet AMD reduces your eyesight by causing new, abnormal, and weak blood vessels to spontaneously grow and leak thier contents under the retina at the back of your eye, Making it harder for you to see.
Mac has this with treatment it can be stopped or improve vision. he goes in tues to have Lucentis inserted into the whites of his eye via a needle. His eye will be frozen before . Pray for him that this method will work without infection.

We are moved out at Dallas Valley Camp. I am staying at Wanda's as I have an Eye appointment early Wednesday morning so decided it is shorter to drive to appointment in town, then from the valley.
I will look after Jen's girls on Friday. She will be going to Mel Peters funeral in Swift Current.
I'll look after them for a whole 8 hours I hope it will be sunny so we can go for a walk and play out side. I am sure looking forward to it.

I am very excited about a new to us, fifth wheel that we traded in our old fifth wheel.. It is in excellent condition, 2003 the owners kept it in top notch condition. When I walked into it today it smelled very clean and looked sparkling clean.

Today we moved all our things from our old one to the new one. I had prepacked and precleaned everything. With our friends help it took only 30 minutes to move everything over.

We were hoping to get our new home today , but we had to take our old one to SGI in the morning to get an appraisel done on a dent we aquired on our old unit , in order to have our insurance pay for it. We will then be able to pick up our new home sometime tommorrow. I have a big job ahead of me now to unpack and find room for everything. I do have a lot more storage and closet space . Just one concern I do not seem to have too much lower cupboard space for pots and pans . I do have a pantry so that frees up space for pots and pans in the upper cupboards.

The problem is now that we cannot get out to camp to park. We will have to wait till the ground is dry, right now we would sink out of sight in muck if we tried.

I will busy myself sewing here at Wanda's . I sure appreciate her opeing us into her home. I felt very comfortable here and so relaxing.

Tomorrow we will pick up our unit annd park it at wal mat and start the unpacking to get tings in order.

My prayer for the next few days is God please dry up the mud at camp so we can soon move out to my own home.
see you

This was taken at our RV,park in Texas the park had a 50 Anniversary party for all who had a 50 anniversary this past year, there were about 16 couples who did. Just shortly after this party one of the couples who celebrated with us the wife died. This is what happens when you get to our age. we learn to live one day at a time and still enjoy each others company .

My sister Peggy took charge of this celabration and played the marriage game , We where asked question about different thing about our mate. Surprising most of us could not remember our mates favorite things, like meals etc. When you get to this age who cares just as long as you have still love each other through all our dislikes and favorite things and your still in good health. and your growing together in Jesus.

Hello Abby Do you like your quilt? It took me a while. I had a great teacher here in the park to help me to get this quilt nice and square.
It is a thin quilt but will keep you nice and warm when you want to crawl up on the couch when you are not feeling well. When your need a wee cuddle from Grannie just curl up in your quilt. When you go for a long car drive in winter, take along your quilt. When you need some private time crawl up on your bed in this quilt. You can wash this quilt in warm soapy water and hang your quilt up to dry, Your quilt will get lots of wrinkles when you wash you it . Don't worry lots of quilts do this, You know Abby as people grow old, they get wrinkles , at the same time they get cosy and more loving. Your quilt will get more softer, and cozier. and it wil feel it is hugging you. So my dear Abby I will be bringing this quilt home to you at Easter time.
Love you Abby
Grannie

 

It is a wonderful 85 degrees at this moment, in Mission Texas. I washed clothes this morning and hung them on the lines that are available at the laundry mat.
I am going up to take them off the line in a few minutes.

I am working on new photos of all the people in the park cropping and putting them on card stock and labeling them. Mac is sanding and painting the picture board ready for the pictures to be mounted on it.
This photo board is an information item. It helps us to get to know the names of the people in the park and their lot number.

This is a lot of work. It took me 4 hours to complete about 12 pictures last evening. The card stock has already been cut to size ahead.

I hope to have this done before I leave April 3.
I am almost completed an quilt for Abby my great granddaughter. It is not as large as I planned it would be. but thats ok it will fit her bed in with but a bit short.
I will make her a pillow case to match.

I am learning different crafts. This is one of them, This button Jewellery has no metal. Great for those allergic to metal jewellery. These necklaces are very simple to make but one can use ones imagination and really make some niffty ones.
I am learning how to do swedish weaving

Another picture of us a great celebration tea. We played the Newly Wed Game. About 12 different couples had or will have thier 50 or 60 Anniversary joined us. Peggy my sister and her group did a wonderful job on all the decorations.

This was taken today Feb 14. The park put on a 50th anniversary party for all those who have or will celebrate our 50- and 60 Anniversary, We played The newly wed game , very funny had a good laugh.

 

How are you in the deep freeze of the north.It is 87 F today. We were just setting out with our back yard neighbours who happen to be Dorothy and Alfred Arendt. It is sure nice to have them. On Saturday afternoon we were so very surprised to have Marg and Marvin Fuller drop in on us. I was so blessed they cared enough to come out of their way to see us, they flew into Huston to visit with her sister and husband, and decided to drive down to the Rio Grand Valley to look around. Marg works with Mac and Jackie out at camp in the kitchen. I was truly blessed.

We are not in the office as much as in the past few months, we are out playing with the people and getting to know them. I went to a flee market this morning with my sister and husband I bought 3 shirts for myself for a total of $11.00. many of the seniors buy all their cloths from places called Ropas. They are large non insulated building maybe as large as coso or Super value buildings with piles of cloths just dumped on the floor . People go through them by climbimg up on top of them and start sorting etc. like a five or 10 feet high mounds of clothes,some are used good clothes some are rejects from stores.Large dump trucks just back into the store and dump them. some are sorted into one size bundles wrapped with plastic wrapped and sold by the pound. you take what you get . It could be 50-100 pounds of clothes you take it home and sort through it etc. all the clothes are sold by the pound. So the Mexican people buy like this,and have a spot at th flee market and hang up the clothed and sell them.I like buying them this way. already sorted and hung. ibring them home and wash them before wearing them. the ones I got today looked like no one wore them.

This is my adventure for today . I thought I'd share with you

This is our Rec Hall here at Bentsen Palm RV. Park here in Mission Texas.
We live about 3 small lots to the right of this hall; thats right next to the pond, it has a fountian in the middle of it. The spray sound soothes us too sleep in the evenings.
This is Christmas day and we have been a very busy day. Last evening Mac put the turkeys in the electric roasters. Through out the night he went to the hall to check on them. This morning all the turkeys and hams were cooked to perfection. Mac went to the hall at 6 AM. and by 9AM he had 4 turkeys and 4 hams all sliced and ready to serve by 12 noon.
About 9AM the table decorators and came in with thier crew. so We stayed around and helped moved tables and chairs to fit over 150 people.
Mac went home for a shower and I got dressed up in a classic long black dress with a shaw that siver threads decorated it. I wore my black and siver jewellery.

Dinner was delicious with everyone bringing their favorite, potatoe, salad, veggie or dessert.

When everything all cleaned up we left the hall at 2PM.for a wee rest. I sat and wrote a letter to my kids it was time to go back to the hall to play card bingo. About 40 people played. we broke up into groups of 4 people, each group had a deck of cards. The whole deck was passed out to each of the 4 players. The leader had a deck of cards and called out the card suit and who every had there ncard called turned their card over, Wen all your cards all turned over you could go to a table where we all brought $5.00 gift, you choose a wrapped gift and left it wrapped, brought back to where you were seated. We played for one hour, everyone had achance to go and exchange a gift with anyone many times til the game was called closed you then opened your gift you had beside you. This was alot of fun.

I recieved a beautiful wee table cloth, of winter scences,

After that we went home took our left overs to the hall to share with each other.

Later we invited David and Peggy over to watch a DVD we recieved for Christmas of Red Skelton and many more TV nostalga.

We had a very fulll day and are very exausted.

The next day I helped cooked lunch with David and Peggy for the people who came to play ,sing or just listen to the country jam. We made nearly
$100.00 from the lunch. It was worth the effort.

Mac and I then went to drug store and walmart and came home. Took out the halls New Years Eve Decorations. Tomorrow mac and i will go and buy hats noise makers etc.
Busy , busy busy .

This is Mac and Myself with our long friend Evelyn Shaurer Smith with her new husband Al Smith This was taken at Dallas Valley Camp,on the Gator.

 

 

We have been in Texas one month tomorrow. Time sure flies especially when one is very busy like Mac and I have been. I hope soon everything will be under control with leaders for different activities all in place. And we will be able to relax. We moved into our own office this past 2 days. Put up some picures I will take down the bedroom looking window toppers. I will wash the blinds and windows and we will be all set.
I woke up at 3Am and by 4am. I did not go back to sleep;therefore I got
up and croched till 7am. I went to the hall with my crocheting as I volunteered to have a 5 hand poker walk. 5 people showed up at 8am. They all walked around a distance I had set, it turns out going around this block 5 times equals 1 mile. Each one puts a quarter into the pot. At the end of each of the mile they get 5 cards. Highest person wins the pot. A red flush got it this morning. I serve coffee to them. So now it is 10:30am I am feeling not too bad but that bed is so tempting.
This job Mac and I have has kept us more busy thrn we wanted it to be.So I decided that I wanted to spend moore time out of my office . In the calander schedule I put our phone numbers in it so people can contact me when I am out of the office. I plan on taking the button jewellery class.(did you know US spells jewlery like this )I want to make a no sew shopping bag It is stapped and ducked tapped,stronger then sewing. Spanish weaving. Peggy my sister is doing a great job of putting crafts together. She is getting outside people to come in to show us how to do some of these things.

see ya

My knees and back feeling better . I am takng Motrin for pain. Plus Melaluka product for artritis and knees and jonts feeling a bit better.
This morning is our grand meeting for everyone at this park. We have new owners so there will be alot of questions concerning changes. Many of the people in this park have been coming here for the past 10--25 years, and changes is hard for them.
They are so use to having it a certian way, they think it is the only way.
Mac and I have learned as Activity Cordinaters to give suggestions, wait awhile soon they will think it is their suggestion and come to you with it. No not really . Today we will put out a few changes, we want to make and have the people vote on it. We are still needing more leaders and workers. We hoping soon everything will be in place. Our new schedule will come out this week hopefully with the new changes and leaders.
We have been working very hard and feeling overwelmed and tired. Hopefully I will be able to get out of the office and be able to join the seniors in the activities they have choosen.


See Ya

We arrived here at Bentsen Palm RV Park in Mission Texas today, seven days on the road is a long time. I will get my portabile house in order tomorrow.