Lots of pictures

A lot went on this week so I'll get right into it. Tuesday there was a gathering to celebrate Bob Elliott's 70th birthday up at the clubhouse. A white cake with fruit frosting, really really good.
Wednesday was the ladies luncheon which the menu was "salads". I never saw so many different kinds in one place. Everything was good. One of the special things on this was a little speech given by Joyce who I have mentioned before in the blog. She was leaving that afternoon to go back to Windsor to that cold snowy place. I have to share some pictures that Bill B. posted. A little back ground on Joyce is she was suppose to leave a week ago but decided she didn't want to so rescheduled her flight.

Here's Joyce after lunch with a few of us who adore her
Soon it was time for her to leave
Bill had a hard time keeping her in the car
But Bill and Kathy did get her to the airport and she was on her way

We all enjoyed the last month with Joyce and look forward to her coming next winter.

One morning while I was sitting at the table I noticed the Border Patrol driving through. This isn't anything unusual as we see them quite often. But pretty soon another vehicle and the Border Patrol car were sitting out front. Seems the passenger in the van was an illegal.
Did you notice the rain drops on the window. This is something we have been seeing for over a week along with cold temp's. Everyone is starting to go stir crazy.

As I mentioned in last weeks blog we had our Wine N Cheese on Saturday. The weather was chilly but at least it quit raining. And it seems the more wine you tested the warmer it got outside. Along with the Wine we had our First Retama Village Celebration of the Arts and what a turn out of talent.

Here's just a few things on display

There were 26 displays in all and it sounds like the residents want to make this an annual thing.

Oh another picture I'd like to share is of our daughter Brandi and future son in law Darrell.

That's it for this week. Till next time..................................