May 11th

    We had a nice turnout for our Wednesday social hour. Some really tasty appetizers.
    We ladies are looking forward to Sunday and being waited on hand and foot!!!. Ken Barnhart and my husband, Bobby, are serving up some smoked chicken and all the fixins! We have 50 signed.  We are going to meet a new resident, who just bought  285, he signed up to come.                                                       
     Bob and Rachel Kerr provided the donuts this morning, from Shipley donuts, quite a treat! We had around 25 there. Bob ran over to McAllen at about 6:20 a.m.and picked them up.
     I am doing the cards since Irene is gone, we do not have any cards up to sign at the moment.
    Some folks from Ranchero village will be coming over to use our pool some, while theirs is being worked on.

I took this picture as you would look out West across from the showers in the 99's, on the left side of the picture, you can see they have built up the dirt along the sides of the ditch

Below is a picture I took to show the dirt work being done

behind the R.V. storage area and they've grated all along the irragation ditch clear on over to Westgate near the R.R. tracks

We escaped another bad storm last night, North of us really got some big rains, tornado warnings, and hail. we had quite alot of lightening and thunder and a good rain. We are supposed to have good chances of rain for the next several days.

Donna

Friday May 4th

    The Hausers provided our donuts this morning. We had around 35 people here.
    Irene sent cards to the family of Ken Cook, he passed away,and there's a card for Billy Langley, she lives in Llano Grande Lake Park, and both her and her husband were well known by quite a few folks here,for singing at  Karoake at the Elks and at Llano Grande. Her husband Bill died.A card for Dick Gibson, his nephew died.
Albeza Vallejo had a major stroke and is going to San Antonio for rehab.

    It sure is dry here, the grass is starting to look brown. But no rain in the forecast. I noticed the guys were power washing the benches on the shuffleboard court, getting ready to paint and they have been painting the light poles around the office and park. The city finally mowed the big lot to the South of us and bailed it yesterday. They have done alot of dirt work on the south side of the ditch,resaca or what ever you call it, building up the sides and  leveling alot of dirt and also on the Southwest of the park, in the field.

 Weed and insecticide granules have been spread on the west side of the 99's, yellow caution tape is across the whole area along that strip so we should avoid walking our pets along that back fence for awhile.
   
 Scott Piper came to our Coffee and donuts this morning.
One of our residents who became engaged this last Winter, has told his fiancee that she may come in to the park, using his clicker to check on his mobile and also she ask to use the pool as she was having Grandkids for a couple weekends .It is a temporary situation..Scott said.  Many residents did not think it right to allow this, but they did not know she had gotten the Mgrs. permission. Scott has spoken to the gentleman and has given the ok for her to use the pool and check on his mobile, Scott said she will become a resident here after they marry. She felt she was being harrassed by folks here in the park and some folks told her that only residents who are here in the park and have guests visiting are allowed to use the pool, since the gentlman is out of state for the summer, and she is not yet a resident here.
    We also discussed with Scott that maybe our clickers should be reprogrammed occasionally to keep people who are no longer residents or who might have a clicker that isnt supposed to have one,be reprogrammed and he said it might be a good idea but it would be when everyone had returned from the Summer.
   Scott is looking into a rule which states only residents with overnight guests may use the pool, as this was once a rule years back. I just found out Scott checked the rules about that and said there is no rule that the guests must be overnight guests to use our facilities.
   

Gary, Ken, & Denny, had a good day of fishing again!

5 Reds and 3 trout.  A little tired fighting some wind today, but the weather has been beautiful so far this Spring. Highs are near 90, lows around 70.

Benson's Catch

You may have seen this on Facebook as I posted this as soon as Mary Lou sent me the pictures, then I saw she had already posted it on Facebook. Anyway here is some pictures of their big catch!

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We had a pretty good turnout for Coffee and Donuts this morning but not as many as there has been, I know some are getting ready to leave on short trips and probably a few forgot. Secorra came this morning, it was good seeing her there. she works at Well's uptown Weslaco.
     Summer Activity Director, Sue, had a sign-up sheet to pass around for our Mother's Day Dinner. The men are cooking up a wonderful meal for us. B.B.Qued Chicken! Ken ask for a couple volunteers to help. We may have home made icecream for dessert.
    We have a chair recently purchased at Sam's to try and see how we like it. It sits pretty good but after a short time it isnt too comfortable, in my opinion.
     Not much news concerning park projects but Connie said the other day they are going to put another filter on water coming into the hot tub to hopefully keep the rust from forming. The park looks really really neat and trim!!! the guys are doing great.
     We are playing "Pokeno" some. It is fun and something to do on a Sunday afternoon. We also played this week on Thursday afternoon.
     Our "Social Hour" was this Wednesday. We had some tasty appetizers! We played some "tic" after. And there was a table playing "Hand & Foot". We discussed this morning about having the "Social Hour" twice a month and inbetween on Wed. we would just have light snacks and visit in the card room.
Sue also mentioned if someone has ideas for some other entertaining events to bring them up next week. Some do go out to breakfast every Thursday mornings at "Tex-Mex".

    

A fish story

     Tom and Mary Lou Benson left too early!! Just look at the luck the guys had today!

     And of course we had a very Happy, "Happy Hour" to celebrate the great catch!

The Big Party

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