June 29th

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Have a great 4th of July and send me pictures of what all you did...that's an order!!

Ken and Sue Barnhart furnished donuts today, I counted 15 that came

Geneva Jackson who lives at 171 came to Happy Hour today, I don't know if you all met her before you left or not. She was in Magnolia Park

I understand the Park is looking for a couple to manage our park, Bob and Vicki will no longer be our Mgrs. 😡

Today I made a card for Jesse, our maintenance man, his Mother passed away.

It was nice of Agnes Messner to send me two neat pictures of their fun get-to-gether with Charlotte and Hector Therrien, from Ont. Gerry and Yvonne DeSmet fron Cypress River, Man. and Gerald and Agnes Messner from Brandon, Man.

A note from Agnes



We are having a Cdn Texas gathering next week and will send you pics and attendees after next week but we are having another Texas gathering here at Brandon Manitoba 🇨🇦 the 7, 8 & 9th of August for anyone that knew Gerry and Yvonne De Smet and would like to join us here in Brandon, please contact me at gmessner@mymts.net or 1-204-526-0330 Agnes Messner. We would love to have more surprise visits for Gerry and Yvonne. So far from the US, we have Paul and Sharon Sprague coming in Aug. but would love to see anyone else even if you didn't know Gerry and Yvonne.
Thanks for now.

Agnes




I wished more folks would send me pictures of whatever they're up to this Summer!
I have had over 3,000 hits to my blog in the last 30 days......what the heck??????? You all are awfully curious about what goes on in  this little Park,  lol. Well, we down here are curious about what the heck ya'll are doing up there all Summer. But nobody sends us any news....so if I dont get any news from up there I guess I should quit blogging from down here.  Or maybe charge a couple hundred dollars for doing the blog???   No, I would never take a nickle for doing the blog, I enjoy it and all the nice thank you s  I get from all of you are thanks enough. I wish there was more to write about some times .

I will say over 2000 home were destroyied and 6000 homes damaged from this awful flood we had, Llano Grande got lots of damaged mobiles and many other parks also. Leisure World had major damage over there.  We are so fortunate.  But like I say if you are concerned call the office, mornings only and ask about your place, I see some skirting in a few places around a few mobiles have been removed, water standing under their mobile. I would not be surprised if sheds got some water in them espeically on the North side of the Park. I guess I already said that  before.

Bobby and I went to the Mexican Buffet over there , where the Oyster Bar used to be. Well, there were lots of folks enjoying the food, but not for me, why? well, it was just too authenic Mexican food, for me I would like Taco Bell better. Isn't that terrible of me? but I have been here 31 years now and still can't get used to some of the Mexican food. We have been to the new Bar-B-Cuteys, and will be going fairly often. It beats driving all the way over to Willy's B.B.Q.

I don't have much more to tell ya, unless I hear something "that's all folks"

Water Damage

After talking with my Son-In-Law, I would suggest you have someone check your shed if you live on the North end of the park. They had items on the floor of the shed that got water damaged.

June 22nd

Tricia and Ron provided donuts this morning, 17 or so were there. Lots of talk about the awful flooding of course.  Costly's had water get in their new Air-Con and will be without air until Monday.
I think it got in their ducts. The field behind us was so flooded.

I had to send my stuff back to Dish, they sent boxes this morning, got them packed and went to UPS store there by the China buffet and so we thought we would just go their for lunch after getting my boxes sent off at UPS . But UPS was closed becuz of flood damage and so was the China Buffet. I hadn't thought about how so many businesses got flood damage besides all the homes.

Probably you may feel that you need to call the office and inquire about your mobiles, I would say no damage from water in our park that I know of other than Costleys, but some sheds may have gotten water in them.

Before I forget, the Story City, Iowa potluck is coming up July 11th at the Days Inn. If coming bring a dish to share, drinks and table service furnished. Daves and Hendersons hosts. Some enjoy coming the night before and staying at the Days Inn.

There are cards up to sign this week, one to Ann Johnson recovering from surgery (broken bone in hip) and a car to Gary Hejlik, back surgery

More news later

Heavy storm brings flooding to Texas, Weslaco - June 20, 2018

Weslaco Flood Rescue

Thursday June 21st
The big news in Weslaco.....We actually received over 13 inches of rain in 36 hours. Our parks streets were flooded over curbs but only the North side where the ground is a little lower had water over the curbs for several hours. The other drains seemed to do a good job getting rid of all the water. Waste deep water and more was at Pike and Westgate, and at Texas and the Expressway  a lot of flooding . Many saw pictures on facebook. We were to get hit again this afternoon, McAllen really got a huge amount this morning and it was heading in our direction, lots of thunder and very black skies, but it stayed just to the North of us this time. I was wanting to run to HEB for bread and milk but it looked so bad for several hours, I kept thinking I would get caught in rain forsure, but it didn't happen, do I finally went to the store.

June 15th

The Argos furnished donuts this morning!

Quite a bit of activity going on in the park. A park model belonging to the new owner at 106 was brought in yesterday. A mobel #215 is being readied to be moved out. New locks are put on some of the doors, with a code we'll have to punch in, .I just went into the pool/card room and they have been installed there and probably all doors, I haven't heard where all these new locks will be.

Donna

changes coming

I told the Asst. Manager, Tricia, that there were 2 adults and 4 kittens living behind the air conditioner at a new ladies home. I said the guys need to set traps for them, plus there's a lady  here in the park feeding 6 or 7 cats right now, and a lady on the other side of the park feeding 2 or so, and another lady 4 doors down from them  with dishes out for the cats. Plus many many possums roaming around. She said there's going to be changes on the parks policy about trapping the animals. That each mobile home owner will have to deal with that themselves if they want to get rid of the animals. Nathan said this morning about the same thing. I said but this lady is quite elderly and I felt the park could help trap the cats but I didnt get anywhere. Helping the residents is going to stop, Tricia said. Nathan said Liability has a lot to do with it, For example if one of our guys got bit getting rid of a possum then he could sue the park...
One thing that bothered me was I did set a trap when I saw one adult cat, who looked pregnant go behind the air-con, I got the cat and ask Roberto to take it and all he did was let it out on the other side of the park...well, now she has her boyfriend cat and 4 kittens living there behind the air-con.  The men are very busy this time of year and so they can't deal with theses small problems. Also if a person falls none of the maintenence men can help, that 911 needs to be called. The park seems to be getting very strict and in my opinion cold. Nathan mentioned that if people up North get a varment problem, what do they do? They call a professional to come get rid of the problem and that's what should be done. the park is going to stop helping out the folks in certain situations.

I forgot to mention, NAthan says DO NOT FEED THE WILD ANIMALS INCLUDING CATS!

the Schurman's

Happy 60th Anniversary! they had an open house in Cedar Falls Sunday, June 10th

LaVern and Yvonne

June 1st

We were unable to attend the Memorial Days Dinner but so many comments about how  much fun it was. Carnival games held before Dinner and delicious Smoked Turkey and folks bring side dishes to share. Left over Turkey was served for Happy Hour Wednesday. We were gone for 4 days so missed out.
No one signed up to bring the donuts this Friday, so Al and Dolores Mason furnished them at the last minute! 
We are sorry to hear about Catherine Gibb's Brother, passing away.
There's also a card for RoJean and Tom Anderson, as Tom is going thru treatments for Leukemia

Not a whole lots of news this week!