January 2013 Mission TX

 

We have been busy living life!  When last I posted it was December 20th – and now it is January 13th!  Some of the things we did were:

• Christmas Eve David and I made chili for about 100 people – and we did a ‘dirty Santa’ gift exchange – lots of fun!
• Christmas Day – I made cole slaw and we went to the clubhouse, where the club furnished HAM, rolls, and the rest was pot luck – very good!  I made eggs benedict for our breakfast and it was delicious!  Here is a picture of my Pizzelles
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• New Year’s Eve David had yet another tube placed in his right ear – we had dinner at Johnny Carino’s and then went back to the park.  I had started a crockpot full of kielbasa and sauerkraut, and there were many many good dishes to bring in the new year! 
• New Year’s Day – we started the new year properly with oatmeal – football and parades, and wonderful shrimp stir fry for dinner – followed by fresh baked pumpkin pie…what a great way to start out 2013!
• Jan 7 was all day doctor appts for David in Kerrville, where we discovered we were doing better than we expected – his A1C was 7.2, last year it was 8.6, so doc was happy – and now he will see a podiatrist because he has some kind of growth in his foot that is making him limp badly.
• Jan 8 we headed to Mission, TX with our friends, Bill & Doris Lane.  We are staying at a Passport America park, Mission West, where we paid $245 for two weeks, including electric!
• Jan 9 we just hung out enjoying the great weather.
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• Jan 10th we went to Mexico, crossing in Progresso.  We went to the dentist and the wait was 3 hours – so we left there, went to an optometrist where I got an exam and 2 pair of progressive glasses for $320…can’t kick about that!  We also got 5 Z packs of antibiotics and some omeprazole, for $56.41.  Now if I get a sinus infection I’m covered! 
• Jan 11th, we just hung out, letting David’s foot rest.
• Jan 12th, our park had an open house, with several units brought in from Ron Hoover, golf carts, scooters, free food, door prizes and 5 different entertainers, each band playing about an hour from 11 to 5.  Lots of fun – I went up every hour to check my door prize tickets – we got a hat, and cony dog and ice cream from Weinerschnitzel…we’ll pick that up probably tomorrow!