September 30th

Patty and Gordon Lamp and Mary Hennigar provided the donuts this Friday.
Oh my what beautiful weather we are having. Lows in the 60's!! High of 80's!!!!
Low humidity!! Great morning bike riding and walking weather.
Our pool unusable now for aquasizing so the gals are walking for exercise this week. The heater off close to 2 months now! Frustrating!
They're painting the outside of the office this week.
Some folks have returned for the Winter already,Art and Mary Voss,John and Linda Bowers,Gertie Rufkaar,John and Irene Quail. Many coming in this month!I made a mistake on the date of Gene Koliba's big Birthday Party it is the 16th of October. He's having B.B.Q, catered in and will have entertainment.
We are having finger food this coming thursday night at 5:00p.m. you all can stay after and play games etc.
Good news!! Darlene Andrews has had her last chemo and Dr. says she's cancer free! Oh what great news!
There were several cards to sign this week, Aloyce Berglund had surgery on her toes, Jan Philipp had a dble mastectomy, Diana Bruce, broken bone in foot, Judy Anselmin in hospital for very high blood pressure, and a card to the Family of Bud Mauser, Bud passed away.
Lots of Birthdays in October: Bonnie Bryant, Anne Mitz, Mary Hennigar, Dorothy Skovbo, Penny Rush, Gordon Lamp, Ray Davis, Gene Koliba, and Dale Clark!
Anniversary's this month: Tom and Mary Lou Benson, John and Irene Quail, Fred and Barbara Swaggert, Bill and Pat Hamlet, and Jack and Connie Bardon.
Around town: we saw that the big Exon station and Taco Bell across from MacDonalds is being torn down.
Well that's about it for today. See alot of you real soon!

Friday Sept.24th

Hello everyone!I took this picture the other evening, we do have beautiful sunsets here.
Rexroads supplied the donuts this morning. I didnt go but Bobby did. He said Gene Koliba talked about his upcoming Birthday Party. He is having a catered meal and entertainment for his "65th" Birthday! All invited! Janie will be the entertainment. She's O.J.s daughter,and both of them entertained here in the Valley for years. O.J. is retired now. It's on the 15th of October
Still no one from management at the Friday donuts so no report from them.
The pool heater has been broken for over 6 weeks now. I hope it gets fixed pretty soon, the water temperature is going down and we will be getting cooler mornings soon.
Cards to sign are to Juanita Fisher, surgery, and Zeke Loeck's Mother passed away. Also a card for Darlene Cook, she's not doing too well as I understand.
The new C.V.S. Pharmacy is sure nice. It's on Bus. 83 East of town. And there sure is alot of work being done over by the new Penny's and Lowes stores.A new T.J. Max store next to Penny's now. I'm sure more stores are coming in. Business 83 going East passed 1015 is all torn up. They are widening that road. With all the rain there's lots of potholes in the streets. going into Home Depot yesterday we had to drive around a drop off of about 10 inches deep!
We are going to try the fish fry tonight North of us near where the Rams Restaurant was. I will let you know how it is...It's a Mexican restaurant. Of course I still like the El Jalisco Restaurant on the other side of Home Depot off of Westgate. Their Tex-Mex enchildas are soo good and Happy Hour prices on drinks.
Saturday and Sunday afternoons they have Mexican dancers in there. We haven't gone to see them yet but want to , one of these days. El Jalisco has a restaurant in Mexico , where they had the live dancers, I suppose they are still open over there.
Well, I don't have anything more to tell ya......Oh, I am so excited about my Sister, Mickey, coming to our park in November! She will be staying in the 99's!She's retired and is from Clive,Iowa. After last winter in Iowa she decided she should be where it's warmer!!!I kept telling her that!!!!
So long ya'll

Friday Sept. 17

Ken Costly and Cheryl Maxon provided dounts this morning.
We are to get some scattered thunderstorms today and tomarrow then Sun. and Mon. heavy rains and storms, the affects of hurricane Karl. We really don't need a whole lot of rain...but...
Cement workers were busy in the front of the office widening the sidewalk.
I believe they're done with pouring pads in the 99 section.
I had a few pictures taken at the Illinois breakfast but now I can't seem to find them. Sue and Ken Barnhart attended along with quite a few others who come down here for the Winter also saw Erna Beese in one picture, (her and her husband Rudy used to live beside us). Also the Lenius's, Andersons, Donna Granath & Ron, Hayelans, and others.
Larry Dixon is home from rehab!!
Not much other news here, no cards to sign

Friday Sept. 10th

This morning Darlene Bryant and Clarice Cristensen provided the donuts. There was no discussion just nice fellowship.
I hear there's been some darn cool mornings up North!!! Sure wish we had some of it down here, we are still very hot and so humid!The hurricane Hermine did not cool us off. Just dumped lots of rain and made it all the more humid. We were so lucky here in the mid Valley. Mexico (South of Brownsville)got alot of wind and rain...They said on the T.V. 3500 homes destroyed. Brownsville got lots of wind, gusts of over 60, some gusts up to 70, lots of power lines down poorly constructed houses damaged and tree damage, as was the Harlingen area and North of there for a long ways. Early on that evening the T.V. said it was heading our way and to get ready. Tornado warnings near Olmito , Brownsville and other reports of either hurricane force winds or could have been tornadic winds. several reports on T.V. said there was lots of damage over to the East of us that was pretty severe.
But the storm would take a Northerly turn then Easterly and then back Northerly.We had a pretty steady rain late in the evening, then around 2:30 a.m. it really picked up, I thought the wind must be terribly strong, lasting about an hour (the most wind)
then the next morning on the news they said we only got 25 mph winds with gusts of 40-42, so most of the very intense storm went North after coming on shore.We had tornado watches all evening until morning. We got some pretty good downpours yesterday. The worse fear for us was the watershed getting more rain to our West but thank God it did turn North. We only got a couple inches of rain here.
I was so glad to hear Mary Loeke is getting along real good now with her new knee. She had infection after but got an email saying she's now doing good!
Also Larry Dixson is doing much better, he's in rehab. Jan Philipp recovering after having more surgery to prevent breast cancer, (she had pre-cancerous cells removed)
Aloyce Berglund had surgery on her toes. Now there's a new card up for Darlem McElwee, her brother passed away.
We don't get any report from Management this Summer. No one ever shows for Friday donuts. Grrrrr! Just from what we heard we are not getting any new black top just the overlay this Summer. Lots of pads being poured out in the 99's as I said before, I am not real sure but heard they are going to paint the office and small hall on the outside. The heater still not working in the pool. We have had no break-ins this Summer!!!

Friday Sept. 3rd

I took a few pictures of the new concrete pads being poured in the 99 section.
I don't know how many new ones they will pour. They will be real nice for the R.V.ers, also we got new dumpsters, and 4 new washers in the laundry room.
Paul and Doris Davis provided donuts this morning. It's their 60th wedding anniversary
Hamlets and Costly are here now. It won't be long before more folks start coming in. The price of gas has gone down, $2.36 average for Regular
The pool heater is broke but with the warm weather it is warm enough to swim in. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon!

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