Winter in South Texas

Louise and I are finishing up our winter in South Texas and it has been a wonderful time here.  We continue our weight loss program - I've lost 102 pounds to date and she is at about 75 pounds down.  The closer we get to our goals, the harder it is to lose weight.

This is about our 10th (or 11th) winter in the Valley and every year gets better as we make more friends and meet up with old ones.  Our neighbors are wonderful!  Cecil and Brenda just left to go back to Kansas and we will surely miss them.  Ray and Jane are our next door neighbors and they will leave on Monday.  They are entertainers and spend their summers doing a show on the Celebration Belle, a riverboat which sails out of Moline, Illinois.  In fact, we plan to time our summer trip this year to go on one of their day cruises and see their show.

Bill and Rita live in Wichita, Kansas and they will be leaving in a couple of weeks as will Jim and Judy from Wisconsin.  Judy is Louise's shopping partner and I think they've made shopping into a contact sport!  We did miss Norm and Charlene this year; they live in Vermont and are building a new home so they had to skip the winter trip.  Larry and his wife, Joann, are from Missouri and we've sure enjoyed our time with them too.

I've played more golf this year than I ever have.  South Texas is about the only place I play - when I get back home, I'll hang up the clubs and not touch them again until next winter.  I must tell you that my game never improves - it seems to get worse as the winter goes along.  In spite of that, I look forward to playing golf in the winter.

Staying in an RV Park is just like living in a small town.  Everyone knows everyone else and knows what they are doing!  We stay at La Feria RV Park in La Feria, Texas and I wouldn't consider staying anywhere else.  We had a park "happy hour" yesterday and had a large turnout.

When we leave the valley this year, we are going to go to Houston for a few days to see Aunt Pat, an old school mate, Frances, and some other friends.  After that, we are going to Frederickburg, Texas (in the heart of the Texas Hill Country).  We'll spend a few days there with Don and Lynn from Sanger, Texas, then we will head home.