Good Advice This Time of Year

We could not help but notice that the temperature back home this Friday morning was 3 degrees.  We have also seen on the recent news that there have been some pretty decent snowstorms across the Northeast United States.  The snow has caused numerous traffic accidents and delays.

Therefore, we pass along this advice to any who are not still working:

We have found that these instructions work pretty well.

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A New Wednesday Afternoon Park Guest

Just what we needed!  

A weekly Wednesday hot food truck.

Pretty fancy - right??

It serves up hot beef brisket tacos, chicken tacos, stuffed baked potato, and beef and chicken nachos.

It only serves food from its widow for a couple of hours and is gone.  No drinks no frills.  A Ma and Pa business, no doubt.

Of course we had to try it.

Not bad, but Karen says we won't hurry back next week.

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The Military Graves and Their Christmas Greens

 After a couple of very cool nights the weather in the bottom of Texas is warming back up.  We have both started riding our bicycles for fun, exercise and adventure.

Bill likes to venture of his bike farther outside of the RV park and recently noticed that the graves of fallen soldiers in the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery were still wearing their Holiday Decor.

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Humpty Dumpty Has a New Place to Sit Across The Road

 We now have a new obstacle blocking our view of the sunsets each evening.  As you can see, the border wall  is just across the road from where our trailer is parked.

Two years ago, when we were last here, there was no wall at all.

The current wall is now only about a quarter of a mile long, at this location, but as you can see above - construction is ongoing.  We do not know who/what is paying for it, but plan to find out.

More to come in the future.

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The New Year Brings In Different Weather

 We awoke Sunday morning to a howling wind that was shaking the trailer and dropping temperatures outside.  We saw wind gusts of up to 45 MPH and a high temp of only 55 degrees.  Quite a difference from the high of 92 degrees the day before!

  People taking walks were wearing stocking hats and gloves.

When we walked around the neighborhood outside the park we again noticed the Christmas decorations - with a Texas spin.  

Poor Santa.

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Many Football Bowls and Hot Weather to Start 2022

 Temperatures here in the Rio Grande Valley hit 92 degrees on New Years Day

The park had a "Polar Bear Plunge" at the swimming pool with hot dogs and chili, so we joined the group for lunch.  (The pool feels like dish water now but cooler weather is coming.)

Karen picked up her phone/camera and took these nature pictures below for the blog:

As you can see - flowers are in bloom.

We have seen a few Monarchs but these beautiful butterflies are different and plentiful.

Cooler weather on Sunday will be a refreshing change.

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A Tough Night of Football - But Happy New Year to 2022

Our RV park has cable TV hookups included in the lot rent, but we soon found out that the service presented a major problem for us:

No ESPN channel to watch college football.  Therefore, we had figure out how to  connect to ESPN or go rent a motel room for Friday evening to watch the college playoffs.

Luckily, Bill happened to bring along one of our ROKU devices.  A ROKU  connection makes any TV into a "smart" TV that will connect to the internet.  With a few calls to Charter/Spectrum and some password updates - we were up and running in our travel trailer at no extra cost.

Now for the bad news - Georgia walloped Michigan 34 - 11 in the Orange Bowl.  Ouch!

Hopefully the Wolverines will be back again next year,

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