Mission, Tx - 4th Week - 1st Month

Jan 30th - (Monday)
Light Rain and 65° F this morning so likely not do too much today


Rainy day so Denice says it's good for baking. I do cinnamon buns!!! Don't believe me do you??? Well I did!! But I must admit they were easy. You know Pilsbury. The ones that pop from the can!!! Still they turned out excellent and were delicious. Then while the Rival oven was hot Denice made biscuits so we could have sausage gravey and biscuits for breakfast tomorrow morning. Getting pretty domesticated around here !!!
Jan 31st (Tuesday)
Nothing to report in the AM, but after lunch took a short drive down to Anzalduas Park, a couple of miles from here. It is a rather nice, big treed oark right on the Rio Grande. It is between the river and the levy, so, like our Chimney Park is vulnerable to high waters. The park is immediatly upstream from the Alzulduas Dam that back water back to where we are. The Park being inside the lowlands is also the start of a flood water system, that during times of very high water can divert water away from the river and protect urban developments close by. It must cover a hundred acres or more and has lots of pinic tables under big live oak trees and well manicured grass.. We cicled to outside parimeter a couple of times slowly, giving Denice lots of time to watch the birds that are there. Then we left and as we needed some oranges for out birds. Drove up Shary Road to mile 7, north of Interstate 83, until we found a road side vendor. Paid $5 for a big bag of juice orangs. then started to circle back to Conway and home. Some how screwed up and missed Conway (We are just off Conway) and got onto Inspiration. A bit of a round-about way home, but it still worked out OK. Just a nice drive!!   
Feb 1st (Wednesday)
Back to the Stained Glass project, only with the real colored stuff today. Traced out the pattern on the various pieces of colored glass to make the design. Then came the cutting.  OOOPS slipped and broke another piece, by not where its supposed to break. Need some more practice with the cutting. With my broken throw away pieces do some test cuts- some reading about proper technique, then try again. There "that works better." Agin trace my pattern and start over. Much better success this time. Able to cut out all the pieces that I have glass for. Found I need just a couple more small pieces of a different color' so tomorrow will have to make a return trip. likely to Hobby Lobby as it is the closest source, and they seem to have fairly large selection of colored glass. Until I started this hobby, I had no idea how many different designs and colors of glass there is!!
Feb 2nd (Thursday)
Over to Hobby Lobby for some more glass. I just needed a couple of small pieces to be able to complete my first project, but what-the-heck, might just as well get enough for the next project. Maybe getting a little ahead of myself, but we'll see! Once home set up my equipment and fine tuned all the individual pieces I had cut out. I know now that grinding them to a near perfect fit is crucial for a good project.
While Denice was over at the laundermat today Rosemary, our next door neighbor came by to invite us to a small "Get Together" they are having tomorrow night. Some small snack to share would be most welcome.
Feb 3rd (Friday)
Lets see, what happened today?  Went into town  and bought a few things we needed for tonights "get together" a couple of doors  away. Denice is making some type of hors d'oeuvres using sausage in a sweet sauce. While over there she went to the spa for a little uplift- oops better re-phrase that, not uplift, but just maintenance. Then home to let her prepare the goodies while I read. My book, _______ got real interesting so read most of the day until I finished it. So much for the day!!  Went to the "get together" or "Happy Hour" about 4:30. Seemed all the neighbors there, about 10 couples. I guess over time we will get to know them all, but for now difficult to remember all the names, Rosemary and Bill, Ruth and Bob Anderson from Lincoln Nebraska,  Chris and Jeff from Manitoba,Sheila and Bill from Ohio, and _______ and _______ and ________. I'll fill the blanks later. Just a senior thing! Names! Remember!! Not good! Anyway had a great evening with lots of food. Returned home just after dark at about 7:30PM. Then Denice and I went for a walk around the park to get our exercise for the day.

 Feb 4th (Saturday)
Started out very nice warm and calm this morning, but at about 1:00PM a cold northern front moved in. Can't be an "Alberta Clipper" can it? Temperature dropped from 87°F to 72° F in about an hour and wind picked up to about 15MPH from the North. Blew hard for an hour or so and then eased off some, but now quite cool at 67° F at 3:30PM
Feb 5th (Sunday)
Rain all night and quite cool this morning at only 49° F. Did little except read and compute for the day. Skyped Kids back home. All good on that front!!