We did our morning routine then at 10 am, we went with Carol and Kim to the ESTURO LlANO GRANDE STATE PARK near the border here in Weslaco, 230 acres of wetland with different local birds and many varied butterflies. There were numerous paths and we followed a couple of them ending spending over 3 hours taking pictures and watching birds. Kim had a powerful telescope so we got to see them quite close. We even saw a pond with a huge alligator. We were standing by the view point observing turtles and birds and were just about to leave when he floated by. It was quite neat to see. There is also an arm of the Rio Grande call Llano River where one could actually kayak as it is out of the Park. We came home around 2 pm and relaxed for a while then went over to our neighbours and had HH with Jack & Pat, Al & Judy and a new couple Charlie and Nancy.
DEC 7, Friday,
Very
foggy this morning, Val went for her group power walk around the Park and
Tucker and I did ours. We went back to
TARGET to exchange the I-pod Nano then stopped at H.E.B for groceries. From here, we went across the highway and
checked out a RAVEN trailer made by Winnebago...very nice! We then went to another local restaurant near
our place call “Ranch Burger”. Quite a
neat and funky place with delicious hamburgers and live music and dance in the
barn on Wednesday evening. We came home
and put everything away. I don’t remember if I mentioned this but back in November while at Casa del Sol, Val did laundry and one machine ruined the load by spilling oil on it. We had called COINMACH on numerous occasions but they never called back. Well, yesterday they did and refuse to make good on our claim to replace the clothes and towels we lost in that machine because the Tech never found anything wrong with the machine even though the Park manager had seen the machine and agreed it was oil from it. I argued with the guy but no avail so after hanging up, I wrote to the BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU in Houston where the company HQ is situated and filed a complaint. Today I received confirmation that BBB had written to COINMACH so now we wait.
Another hot day! The forecast is for rain and a cooling trend by tomorrow evening, looking forward to that. Charlie came over to ask me if I was going to the “Men’s lunch” but I had to turn the invite down as we were going out shopping at Donna Flea Market on US 83. We ended up buying a couple of t-shirts for both of us and a new chair for me (we needed a second one anyway). We then drove to Best Buy where I returned my X-mas present that we bought a week ago as I am not using it and to Michaels for some wool and a needle for Val. We came home, Val went to the club house and I put the new chair together. We joined our friends for HH at Eddy’s place. Another busy day!
It was so warm overnight that the A/C came on quite a few times according to Val. This morning is humid, cloudy but the sun is burning the clouds pretty fast. This is supposed to be the hottest day of the past week before the cold front tonight.
We went back to the Donna Market to exchange a couple things but didn’t buy anything. From here we geo-cached and found three more then came home. Val cooked a roast for dinner with all the trimmings; it was delicious. In the evening we watched “Amazing Race” then football so Val went upstairs to watch her program.
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