November 27th

 

We are having the children from 
Cleckler Elementery School to perform for us on Dec. 16th

A lady put a card up for Jim Ales, hospital, I will not be doing cards anymore. I do not charge the club for doing cards and have enjoyied it.

 

Sandy Olson is doing our Newsletter 

Today we are going to enjoy a hotdogs and a bonfire to roast marshmellows for "Smores" 

Folks are pouring in from the North. The weather is great this week, cool mornings and 75 to 80 for afternoon temps. Last week we had 4 days of drizzle and rain, but it was so needed.

For Nov. besides the Hotdog meal today, 

November 20th is our first dance with Curt James

November 23rd Thanksgiving dinner

Dec. 2nd is a patio sale

Wednesday Happy Hour was well attended, Wednesday night "Tic" - we had 6 tables.

I have a new Puppy, "Mia"

                                                          DONNA GABBERT

October 24th

 

A Halloween Party coming up! Our Happy Hours are going good and so are Donut Fridays. Mardel Blom provided the last Friday donuts and Phyllis and George the week before, the last one will be this coming Friday with the office buying. The first Monday morning meeting will be on  Nov. 6th. We had the Park  Pizza at Mr Gattis last Friday. 

When the pool was first painted it was hard to stand up, so slick, and the steps slippery. Pool shoes were needed. Now the pool surface is not slippery, must be a chemical reaction or something. But glad it's much safer now. 

Wayne Carter passed away Oct. 8th, he will be missed forsure. And just heard that Billie Wells passed on Oct. 19th, Bruce and Billie were here in 2012 and I think until 2019, I could be wrong. I have a card up for Marge Reishus, I understand she had a pacemaker put in.

Well, I guess I will make park badges for another year, $2:00 a piece. I found some neat magnetic ones but they are kind of pricey. If someone wants one they will have to pay $5.00 for them. 

I am still making cards for the park, so if you know of someone needing a card let me know. But I inherited doing pictures for the Veterans board and will not be doing that, so someone needs to take over. We have a lot of Veterans who have not given me a picture for the board, if you submit one to who ever takes over,  put your full name, rank at discharge and years of service, for printing under your picture.

this Summer heat has really burned up some of our yards, brown patches everywhere, hopefully if we get more rain they will come out of it. We got a little shower this A.M. 

Donna

October 7th

 

Mariachi Mariposas, created with the goal of giving women mariachi an opportunity to showcase their talent, has gone above and beyond by breaking barriers in the male-dominated genre by creating their own traditions and legacy.

Would love to hear the  all female Mariachis

Finally got a cool front...and some rain. I just walked my puppy and it felt pretty darn cool, 75. tonight a low of 69.  This coming week average highs , low 80's  and lows of upper 60's and low 70's

Our park looks pretty nice,  I noticed Thursday when I went to bingo at Ranchero Village, their yard in front of their office looks bad compared to ours. Poorly kept. Big trees in front and lots of twigs on the ground, no grass. I go to Southern comfort for Bingo in the Summer and they have a beautiful entrance. It makes a nice impression when that's the first thing you see when coming in to the Park. I'm wondering why the painting of the buildings stopped, only a small portion painted. 

We had a very good Happy Hour Wed. and  Karen Catron bought donuts Fri. 

Just a few more Fridays. and the Office buys the last time. so after the end of the month we will go to Mondays for donuts and coffee. and the meeting.

Besure and thank Carol Noble, lot 69 for the lovely valances she made for us. she was there putting them up earlier this summer, getting up on the ladder and doing it all by herself. Very nice work. She's suggesting new blinds also and said she would put them up also, so probably after more folks get here we will talk about that then.

John and Dale Norris are here, Dales Brother, Wayne Carter is in hospice, so sorry to hear that. Tom Catron will be in re-hab until the 18th and Sue Barnhart is doing good and I look for her home real soon. Cathy Probsts father passed away. My friend , Jack, fell and ambulance took him to the hospital, nothing broken and was released a day after. Jacks real name is John Wayne Kelly, I found that out early this Summer when he did have to go to Re-hab. He lives at 401 and he has no living relatives. Pretty sad situation. He is quite hard of hearing but if you see him out on his porch stop and just say Hi, he would love that. He has a terrible condition called Lymphodema which his legs are swollen about 3 times the size they should be, makes it so hard to get around. He said he's had it for 60 years.

Sept. 29

 

Our club song dates back many years ago.

We will be having good chances of rain starting today and most days this coming week, highs below 100, we will have to get our jackets out Ha Ha! Our yards are looking pretty bad, lots of large brown areas, hoping they will green up.

They finally finished the overlay on the streets yesterday. Everything looking good here in the park.  3 new air cons for the big hall  were put in this Summer. The pool looks nice but it's very slick so besure to bring pool shoes. 

We had our first Wed. Happy Hour, over 24 attended and we just brought fingerr food. Sorry to say Sue Barnhart didnt make it as she was in the hospital for back problems then going to ReHab. She was encouraging us to come to Happy Hour and get  it going again. We just didnt have enough folks to attend this Summer. 

We have had a few folks coming in already for the Winter. My good neighbors, Del and Bonnie Hicky came in and also good friend Mardel Blom. Spragues are here now and Judy Dekoning. 

This morning was our Friday donuts, furnished by Patty Lamp, I picked them up for her at H.E.B. and they were nice and fresh, they now have Apple Fritters!

I have been an Elk member for 29 years, I joined since Bobby kept dragging his feet, so glad I joined.

The Elks do so much for the Community, they support youth,  serve Veterans, and meet needs of poor people in the Community. The Elks have joined forces with Donate Life America, to increase donations of organs, eyes, and tissue.They help physically handicapped children, they give scholarships, and have a drug awareness program, and observe Flag day which the Elks started in 1907 & it was later adopted by congress as an official observance. Maybe think about joining here in Weslaco, you would be very welcome at other Elks clubs all over the U.S.

 We are getting our streets overlayed , looks better. 

Expecting some good rains in the next few days, cooling down to upper 90's, 😄

We are going to miss the Hamlets, I see one of those "pods" at their house. 

Their mobile sold real fast.

Sept 12, 2023

 Thanks for the comments from some of you who read my blog. 

So sorry to hear Jackie Jacobs passed away.

Well, the heat continues, over 77 days of 100 or more temps. I hope most of the lawns with those dead grass spots will green up once we get some decent rains. 

Watched the tree trimmers trim the palms, can't hardly tell they trimmed them. Today the men were blowing the streets and gutters, a coat of paint was put on the pool deck. Still lots of painting to do on the hall. 

Quite a few  people in the pool at night, visitors I assume, as there's always kids with them. Funny how I was told we couldnt go over to our  sister park, was told "Liability" I guess maybe one or two would have wanted to go over, we go for Bingo over there, and a few years ago we were told we could go over there any time and use any of the facilities, infact one time our former assistant mgr. and I went over to their and used their tread mills. 

Still a lot of mobiles being remodeled, I wonder who will pay the high dollar thats being asked, Some are $75 k and 150k. and one being remodeled now will probably go for  a lot more.