I am on a three day week end to SPI

Make a Smilebox slideshow

and I shot these photos from my deck last night while enjoying a cocktail aka Martini and cheese and crackers. The restaurant is in the way of my sunset, have to go out to the pier tonight. Low tide this morning from the deck and lastly, in the distance, the palm trees, that is where I lived last winter. Carry on.......

Around the Valley

This is a photo of the Border Wall at the Progresso cross over to
Mexico. Left of the trees is the Rio Grande River.Maybe a football field
from the river to the cement fence.

Goofy and I are at a rest stop at Bentsen park, Palmview TX.
the next crop of oranges are growing. As soon as they have a small touch
of yellow, they will be stripped from the trees. Free fruit.
Today it is 95 at 340 PM. I am working on my taxes, boring. I set today's
deadline at 4 PM, then off to the store and to pick up carry out for dinner.
Tomorrow a trip to Mexico. Friday I'll pack a suitcase and some toys for
the week end at South Padre Island......I'll be right on the gulf, my deck
faces west for a beautiful sunset/cocktail time........carry on

For those of you from

HOME, that have following along with my business dealings.....the latest........

SOLD......mobile home sold, money in the bank...sweetness, sadness, great memories
from both parents, mom alone, AJ and UGH living in the back yard, the Canadian
friends that lived there one season, Jeff and myself living there for a few seasons....
October vacations for Greg and Cyndy.....2006 New Year's eve with the neighbors,
fire works, lots of booze, a pinata, the kids having so much fun.....time to move
along, which I am doing. what the future brings for life in the Rio Grande Valley
is still a question......doing OK......happy.....81 today and NO wind........


Carry On.......

A Great week

for the most part, down here in the Rio Grande Valley. 70's plus on the weather station scale, not much wind until today, Sunday. Golf league and scramble were real golf, you did not have to guess about your club. I shot a sweet 39 on my own, our three some had a 5 under par to win last week's scramble. I sold the mobile home, Monday I will get the paperwork to finalize the deal and get my money. Friday I went with a group on a bike ride to Mexico. We had to drive 70 miles to Roma Texas. We were supposed to go to a school for entertainment, but that was not to be, a big sore point for the bike riders. It was an enjoyable ride none the less, to a very poor town on the border, Miguel Aleman, Mex. Today, Sunday, I went to do laundry early morning. A little before 10 am there is great traffic to attend church services. I saw an elderly man trying to get in the gate, I went to help, it was Bob, an Iowan that I had breakfast with last week. He said, "I was the one who was shot!" I was shocked. Bob and his wife were going home, the other night, when he was hit in the neck. 5 hours of surgery. Bob is around 80 years old. A tough SOB. There is a levee that surrounds our RV park to help protect us from floods. In the distance south, open fields and when I am working late at night cleaning swimming pools, I hear the gun shots. One night last week I know I heard machine gun shots. Bob did not get hit by random violence, you need a clicker to get in the gate to our park. I think the guns were firing and one was caught by the wind..unless there was someone standing on the resaca and shot when this person saw someone in the park....go figure......
Today, Sunday, I ordered a 21 foot by 40 inch high screen to block the wind so my tomato plants have a chance to bloom. I have a lot of small toms, none red yet. LIFE IS GOOD.....no sense in being scared about bullets. I believe when my time is up, it happens. Neil Diamond is performing on the Grammy's tonight, I hope it is before I turn on Brothers and Sisters......carry on my friends, I will post some photos soon from the Mexico trip...which you will see before you read this....HAHAHAHAHA......