UPDATE

Well a new month has started.  Billie is still in Amarillo.  Her mothers surgery has been postponed  until 9 March.   I still am going to Amarillo for a fitting of my hearing aids at the VA.  Hopefully we can come home at the end of March.  Things are going well here.  Weather has inproved to about 70 each day and 50 at night.  That is about all for now.

Billie's mother

Hello to all.  Billie has gone to Amarillo to take care of her mother.  She will be there until sometime in March.  I will go up there to get some hearing aids and hopefully she will be able to come home then.  If not, she will come home later on.  I will be accepting cooked meals here in Victoria until then ;) ;)

Global Warming , May The Force be With Us.

Well all this ice and snow we have here on the Texas Gulf Coast is from the effects of global warming.  In fact all this ice and snow we have in the USA  is caused by global warming.  Besides being proven to be good at faking and changing documents these global warming nuts have to come up with ingenious ways to explain this cold weather.  I have even heard that now we are moving into another ice age.  Imagine that.  Wow.  Now that is some change!!!!  I wonder if  all these nuts  are going to get rich off this new weather change.  Well  ,we only have ice and no snow to go with it.  Better than all our friends up North. ;) ;)  Better close this for now before ,THEY, start a new file on me. ;)

From Billie

I haven't posted anything here since October and the Baloon Festival.  Lydell has done a fairly decent job of keeping the blog up to date.  From him you get the facts and that's about it.

We truely are having a wonderful time.  We may not DO a whole lot, but what we do we enjoy.  We sleep late, eat a late breakfast, do what chores we have to day for the day, Spend time on the computer, and then pretty much do what ever else we want to do.  We spend a lot of time watching old movies on TV, reading, and crocheting.  We spend time visiting with the folks here in the RV park. 

One of the beautiful days last week we went to the Zoo here in Victoria.  A very nice clean facility.  It's not a big zoo by any means but it was very nice.
Saturday we drove over to Port Lavaca, Seadrift, Rockport, Aranasas, then took the ferry over to Port Aranasas drove along the island and back to Corpus to Christie.  Stopped and ate dinner at Catfish Charlie's.  Great food. Then on back to Victoria.  A nice day trip.  We will take more day trips once the weather warms up again.

We have found a church home here.  We are attending First Baptist Church.  The people are warm, loveing, friendly and have made us feel welcome since the first time we visited.  The pastor is a good bible teacher and a very godly man.  I have joined their choir---about 30 member strong.  The choir is robed every Sunday morning and sings with pinano, organ, keyboard, drum, 2 guitars and sometimes a saxaphone. A great balance of hymns and the more contemporay praise/worship music.  I am loving this opportunity to serve God by singing.  We are already working on the Easter Pagent music. 
The Sunday School class is great.  We attend the Senior Couples class.  Our teacher is a 90 yr gentleman who accepted Christ after he turned 60 years old and he has truely dedicated himself to studying the Bible and shareing God's words with everyone he meets.  He spends 4-5 hours everyday studying the Bible and praying.  A great Bible student and teacher.

The weather has turned cold here but not nearly as cold as others of you have.
Our lows are going to be down around 20 for the next 3 nights and the highs will be between 35-40 with winds gusting to 35mph.  We will be staying in for a few days.  I know, I know some of you would consider this to be a tropical heat wave right now with your 0 or negative temps.  Stay indoors and stay warm. 

I'll try to be better at posting more often.

Lazy Days

Well it has been a while.  Things are humming along here.  I walk and visit twice daily.  Seems like I talk   more than walk.  Have to solve the world's problems you know.  The city of Victoria put on a Winter Texans appreciation BBQ feed the other night.  Even had a good Texas Country band.  Yes, there was a fiddle in the band.  Good food and music.  Victoria does all it can to let us know they appreciate the $$$ we Winter Texans spend here.  I have to do some preventive maintenance on the RV today.  Tonight we are going to game night at the church.  Pot luck also.  Will get some 42 going.  Tomorrow some old friends from college will come over from San Antonio for a visit. It will be good to see them again.  Sorry they will be leaving in Feb. for parts unknown.  That is the way we full timers do it.  It is hard to hit a moving target.  With the way things are going in Washington DC, that is a good thing.  Well ,Billie is getting up so I will sign off for now.  Remember my motto, ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR, A MILLION DAYS A MILLION DOLLARS !!!!!!!!   Billie's mother,Bonnie, will be having back surgery in Amarillo in Feb.  Billie will be gone for 3-4 weeks.  About the middle of Feb. I will go to Amarillo to get hearing aids from the  VA.  Yes, those M-60A1 tanks are LOUD !! Hopefully Billie will be able to come home by then.  SEEYALATERALLIGATOR !!!

Hi guys,been a while

Howdy, from Victoria ,Tx.  We have been on the road a lot since the first of the year.  Hopefully we will be here for a while now.  Had a good visit with Billie's sister, Patsy and her husband Robert, this last weekend.  Have not lived close enough to where they live to visit for an extended period before.  We just stayed home most of the time.  We did go over to the Houston RV and boat show.  Really fun to wish I was rich.  We played dominos Sun. evening and had a good time laughing at our mistakes. Their Church folks were friendly people. We have had a lot of rain the last couple of weeks.  Texas needs it.  Maybe the burn bans can come off now Well better go now.  Billie is planning to clean the carpet today.  Guess I will have to go up to the clubhouse and visit  with all the other problem solvers.  We do a good job of it.  Well I better go.  SEEYALATERALLIGATOR   !!!!!

ANOTHER YEAR,ANOTHER DOLLAR. A MILLIONN YEARS,A MILLION DOLLARS !!!

Hello friends.  If you are reading this post, you have madeit into the new year.  We are HOME. Victoria is warm and beautiful today.  We had a great breakfast and will go for a walk later on. The forecast for the next 10 days is 60s and 40s .  Sounds great to me.  Then watch our favorite teams play football.  Go TCU !! No work today, just relax and visit with friends here in the park.  We are looking forward to a great year of adventure,GW, and new friends.  We will SAUNTER out in time to see the Bluebonnits bloom and explore the millions of BBQ shacks all over Texas.  Then in May to Mischelle's and on to Kansas City to see our Grandaughter graduate.  Then , hopefully, on up to Yellowstone and Black Hills area  before returning in the Fall to Victoria.  All in all, that is the plan.  Well ,YALL have a great new year.  Billie says hey !! Catchyalateralligator!!!!