Happy Valentines! For our Valentines, we traveled a half hour west to McAllen (pronounced here MaCallen) and went to Saltgrass Restaurant, had a great steak and admired the desserts that we will return for some time. Nick and the Norris’ were all sent hearts and kisses and except for Holden (who “puked all day”) seemed to be doing well. Friends at home needed some extra love—Doug and Becky Hellerson dealing with Doug’s bacteria invasion that caused him blindness and minor strokes. Cheryl Petty lost her mother (99 years old!). It is so hard to lose your mother. Then 2 weeks later she lost her sister.
We like to listen to local radio for the weather and the community events/businesses but here there are very few English spoken channels—a disappointment but we have been listening more to our cd’s and that is good music. On TV, basketball season is in full swing and the men Vols are far outpacing expectations. They have been in the top 20 almost all season and all the starters are stars headed up by Grant Williams and my favorite Admiral Scofield. The Ladies on the other hand are doing pretty well but it seems that every time we watch them they lose to somebody they are supposed to beat. Maybe we jinx them. Also we watched our new favorite—Better Late than Never- codgers Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner, Henry Winkler and George Forman along with young sidekick Jeff Dye traveled to Europe and Africa—made us laugh a lot. I hope they do more of this show. NASCAR starts this weekend with the Daytona 500 which brings back fond memories of our venture there last year with Steve Gilliam. Space-X launched the "Heavy" rocket successfully with a tricked out Tesla aboard for advertisement for owner Elon Musk--last year we saw the light version from Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral--again memories.
We sit here in south Texas and watch in wonderment the weather. There are literally 30 degree swings in temp in a 2 hour period—it happened last week. If it is 40 degrees here it is so cold you can’t go out and businesses close. 70 degrees is pleasant if the sun is out but it is foggy or overcast a lot and then it can have a chill in the air and at night it is sweater weather. All this week we will be in the 80’s but have wind gusts up to 40 mph. Weird—we are hoping for the warm to continue the rest of the winter (the cold sucks).
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