Sept. 19, 2024

So sorry to hear that Ione Hayungs (Ritter) passed away, she was on lot 245 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This Friday I will furnish donuts.Jack and Donna Haney furnished donuts last Friday. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We are going to do another park photo directory. We have so many new folks and it's due. I wont start taking appointments until mid Nov. or so as the first photo session will be on Dec. 3rd. Now if you wish you may use your picture from last time. I will set you up an appointment to come in during one of the photo shoots to do that, you may wish to order an album and pay for it then. no credir cards only check or cash.Be prepared to pay for your album aand cd when you come to be photographed. Please let me know if there are any changes in your info from the last directory, such as phone nos. emails whatever. the photo albums will be $20.00, if you would like extra pictures you may purchase a cd for $20.00 and take it anywhere and order what ever pictures you wish. Getting your photo in the directory is free, and you dont have to buy the directory. Hopefully I will get the list of new folks and all their info so I can put it in my data base.

My Yorkie "Mia" is Queen of everything. Having a terrible time trying to get her a spade appt ____________________________________________________________________________________________ There are 4 cards up to sign: To Marlene & Dan McKinnon who live at lot 407, there Daughter passed away A card for Emily Armistead, lot 406, knee sugery A card for Ed Sanders, lot 292 Hernia repair A card to Patty Lamp, lot 86, knee surgery____ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Nichols in lot 224 has been doing mobile home washing for folks, I just talked to him and he is doing 2 over in Ranchero Park today, I am going to have him wash mine If you would like to try him, let me know. I just saw that his No. is not in the book ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Enjoyied playing Mexican Train with a new lady in 227, her name is Viola, "Vi" and I am fixing her husbands picture for the Veterans wall I know there are quite a few of you that were Vets and need to give me a picture for our "Veterans Wall" So bring one with you this Fall!!! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________As of right now I think we will have a photo album this year, I just need to get with our Photographer, Rod Grayham and decide what days would be good for taking pictures. We got some nice rains but no flooding that I know of around Weslaco _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I am having problems with writing my blog, it won't do paragrahs so trying to seperate with lines, helps some until I can figure the problem out

Potluck on Labor Day Nice turnout for the potluck When I got home after being gone 2 months, I was curious as to what some interesting things may have gone on in the park. One thing is just before I left the pool was drained and it appeared they were sanding the pool and thats all I saw, so when I got home, went to the office to maybe ask what had gone on while I was gone, was just told go look at the pool, take pictures if you want for your blog, well, so I went to the pool, looks just like it always looked so no info about what was done or a dang thing. Some other people said they finally got the message that the pool and steps were slick and decided they needed to repaint and texture the bottom and steps. No other improvements were told to me. I do know every time they hire the palm cutters, they only remove a few frawns and in know time the palms are all shaggy and earlier when they were trimmed, since they only trimmed a few, seed pods were coming out and spewing seeds all over. I just came from a park I go to a lot and they only keep about 4 to 5 frawns and cut all the rest, I asked one time why they didnt cut off more and was told the Mgr said he wanted them cut like at 3 o"clock. Meaning very few got cut, just the lower ones this was several years ago so dont know what mgr they were talking about.

June 7th

Former resident Virgil Mittleberg passed away, June 5th. Virgil and Aileen first came to our park in 2004 and were on J-9, then the next year bought park model #423. They owned park model 423 until 2021 or 2022. they were from Quincy,ILL Address is 6331 Ellington Rd, Quincy, ILL. 62305. I hope this is still a good address for Ailene if you would want to send a card.

I remember them working at Don Wes Flea Maeket selling popcorn, then opened a little building at Don Wes, called the "Bean Barn" I am blessed to have Aileen's wonderful recipe for Bean Barn Corn meal muffins, a very sweet corn bread recipe.

May 31st

A pretty Cactus at Marylyn Masons

Lots of pictures being taken of the motel getting bulldozed. It's been said Murphys gas station is going in

May 29th

Of course you all know how terribly hot it is here in the Valley. I have been here since 1987 and never saw such hot temps. day after day the same A few showers the last couple days did not bring much relief. I did not attend the Memorial Day Potluck but there are quite a few pictures on Facebook. Ken did a great job on the chicken and the Mariachi band that entertained was really neat. Here is what I read today on my computer about our water supply down here

As the spring sunshine continues to scorch, the combined storage at the two international reservoirs that supply the bulk of the Rio Grande Valley’s freshwater has done something it hasn’t done in decades — fallen below 20%. “Everything that we had forecast is happening. We’re dwindling in our supply. There’s no indication that Mexico will do anything for us,” Sonny Hinojosa, general manager for Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 2, said Tuesday. “It’s pretty bleak,” he said. Together, the United States’ share of water stored at the Falcon and Amistad international reservoirs stood at just 19.7% total conservation capacity as of May 18, according to data published by the International Boundary and Water Commission, or IBWC. The IBWC publishes the report every Saturday using data that are about a week old. That’s how much time it takes for the commission — which oversees a binational 1944 water sharing treaty between the U.S. and Mexico — to figure out how much of that water belongs to the Valley. That May 18 figure is a worrying number for Hinojosa. It represents the second-lowest volume of American water in nearly 30 years. The last time the levels fell below 20% was in August 1998, according to Jim Darling, former McAllen mayor and president of the Region M Water Planning Group. It’s been a tough year for Valley water. The binational treaty obligates Mexico to deliver some 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the U.S. in five-year cycles. But well into the fourth year of the current cycle, Mexico has delivered only about 384,000 acre feet, or about one year’s worth, of water. That has, in turn, caused the two reservoirs to hover at dangerously low levels for months. Each week the reservoirs continue to plummet at a rate of about four-tenths of a percent per week, Hinojosa said.

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Just a note to show you all our "privacy" fence

The word is it was mandatory to put up. We had 11 for a game of "tic" last night Mexican Train tonite, may be hard to find enough players. Ken and Sue got the donuts last Friday. Not much else going on, some of the palms were trimmed last week. The park looks nice