Brrrrrrrr - it's cold out there

It looks like we overstayed our welcome here in Arlington, TX.  The price of gas at Costco went up 10 cents a gallon and it has turned very cold.  The forecast for tonight is around 27 degrees and it was 31 degrees and windy at 5pm.  We are fine and I will disconnect the water hose before we go to bed tonight and just use the water in the fresh water tank.  

We had a late lunch with Judy and Herb and she fixed a pork roast for the lunch, along with scallop potatoes and scallop corn.  The beer batter bread she baked was extremely good and I could have just eaten it as a meal.  It was a very nice feast and we were just expecting some ham sandwiches.   I think we will move in with them and enjoy her cooking.

After lunch we visited some more and made plans to see them in Ruidoso, NM in March 2012 if the weather holds out.  It can be quite cold and snowy there that time of the year.  

After saying our goodbyes we stopped by Costco for a few items for the road and filled up the gas tank on the car.  I like to travel with a full tank when we are traveling through West Texas since there are so many open spaces with few towns.

We video chatted with Gloria & Doug for a while and had to listen to them give their temperature in Melbourne Beach, FL at 70 degrees.  It was around 30 here, windy and damp to go with it.  Maybe we should have headed south instead of west.  Next year.

This will be an early to bed night so we can get on the road around 9am and make the 500 mile drive to Van Horn, TX.  That is the plan, subject to change as events may dictate otherwise.  I hope to at least get to Odessa, TX by the evening, but Van Horn would be better.

Good night all and I hope you have a nice day on Wednesday and think of us as we tool down the road.

Lazy Sunday

It sure was a lazy day up here on the mountain with not a lot going on.  We sat out on the porch and had a nice breakfast and watched the squirrels and chipmunks scurrying about gathering food for the upcoming winter.  Gerry has been collecting walnuts to feed the squirrels and she threw a few of them out to draw them closer so she could watch them.  The haven't found them yet, but I imagine in the morning they will be gone.

Her Christmas cactus flowers have been thriving and have a lot of flower buds on them.  I think they will be Halloween flowers this year rather than Christmas.  The flowers usually bloom early like this and then again in February or near that time.  We have been carrying them in the motorhome for the past 4 years and they are getting quite large to carry, but we like them so much we will make room for them.  

Gerry made some of her delicious spaghetti today along with garlic bread and also baked a cake for my birthday.  We couldn't celebrate it with Cassie, Jack and Lexa on Friday so we did it today.  We got there in time to watch most of the Green Bay - Chicago Bears football game and had a great time.  The Bears got robbed on a punt return for a touchdown and lost.  Cassie is a Green Bay fan so she was happy.  I enjoyed watching the game with her just to hear her comments.

The cake was Lemon Supreme  with lemon icing on top.  It doesn't get much better than that.  They couldn't find any number as high as I am old so a big number 40 was on the cake.  I managed to blow out the two candles and now am waiting for my wishes to come true.  Lexa brought the cake in and they all sang happy birthday to me and I sang along with them.

Today is also the birthday of a friend of ours, Herb Randol.  I won't say how old he is, but he is getting closer to me every day.