Thursday, April 21, 2011

So long Goodmans - fires - crop duster - hot-hot-and more hot

Another hot week here in Retama. We try to do our bike rides before 9am and any thing outside completed by noon. Heat index has been over 100 and even for me that's a bit to warm. We made a couple of trips up to the pool and the last time the water felt cold. Course when it's 100 outside and pool could be 20 or more degrees cooler it's a bit of a shock.

Sunday
We went for our bike ride early and came across a coyote in the road. Someone had tossed a garbage bag along the side of the road and he was pretty interested in it. So much so we got awfully close and had to yell at him to scram. He stayed just inside the brush than came out as soon as we passed. Sure wish I had my camera with me, would of been a great shot.

Monday
Pretty quiet day of doing laundry and ironing. Yes I said ironing. Over the weekend we went shopping. Both of us needed some new summer clothes and unfortunately we both were able to find some things. But everything we got needs to be ironed. Ugh.

Tuesday
The grounds crew here started trimming the palm trees that are out in front of each lot.

Here's some before and after pictures of looking down our streets from our lot
These pictures you can hardly see the trailers
What really surprised everyone was how tall these palms are on our side of the street.

Wednesday
We had dinner last night at Donna/Grants. It was a goodbye dinner for Dick & Helen Goodman who were leaving the next day for their home in CO. Wishing them a safe trip and hopefully when they get to their home there isn't snow on the ground. But that's probably asking a lot since they are around 9,000 ft.

Thursday (today)
Not much happening today. Went for a short walk early but the humidity was really really high. Been puttering around in the house and doing laundry. The crop duster started early this morning on the field across from us. Was able to snap a couple of pictures.

You've probably seen the reports of all the fires in northern Texas. As I've mentioned before we've had some pretty close to us and it's always a little nerve racking seeing the smoke. But not only is Texas having the fires but just south of us in Mexico they are having the same problem. Even tho we can't see the smoke all the time there's always a haze from the smoke.

Illegal activity has seemed to increase in the last couple of weeks. Not sure why but the helicopters have been hovering just outside the park and that's a sure sign that they have a group. There's a program on TV called "Border Wars" that is really interesting if you can get it on your package. Actually I'm watching it right now (Direct TV channel 276 National Geographic) and it's showing our area with chases and finding drugs in a vehicle.

Guess that's it for today.

A big Welcome to new hits from:
Mechanicsville VI, Hatley WI, Bari Puglia Itally, Ionia MI, Kaukauna WI, San Jose CA, Stephenson MI, Chihuahua Mexico, Hermosillo Sonora Mexico,

Till next time.....................................

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