January 2024: It's Even a New Year!

Joe Vidales is a former history professor

who does presentations at the Weslaco Museum.

This was his first of the New Year on the 13th.

The next day we went to the Tower Theater

to see this parody of the kids' game

The Trail to Oregon.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, Trina took Annika

and Ariana skiing at the slopes near Dubuque

where Ari goes to Loras College.

Well, we watched Claire's (violin) 9th grade

orchestra concert,

Lydia's 6th grade choir concert, 

Cecelia's (cello) 6th grade orchestra, and

excerpts from the Middle School play. Do you

recognize Aunt Mary's clothes?

Luke served Mass for the first time

with Matthew and Grace. 

Couldn't sleep one morning, so I got up at 5:30

to bake muffins, buns, and cookies, and make

lamb stew (in the crockpot) and stuffing.

Janie comes twice a month to clean the house. 

She also works full-time for the Harlingen

School District! 

I finally got to Granny's Citrus to buy oranges

and grapefruits. The place is for sale....

any grapefruit lovers interested? (Doug?)

On the 21st we went to the Harlingen School District's

Performing Arts Theater to see "Into the Woods".

To me, the story would have been complete at intermission.

The second half didn't seem to connect with the first.

Of course the music, sets, and costumes

were as amazing as the high school students

who performed.

It even snowed in Virginia so Julia 

could draw a snowman.

Surprise birthday party for Deb at the pickleball courts.

We went into the clubhouse for cupcakes.

Deb is in purple  in the front row...the cupcakes 

had purple frosting, too!

We drove to South Padre Island on Sunday 

for breakfast at Yummie's. Then we went to the

monthly Marketplace and the weekly Farmers' Market.

At the end of the main road, we saw a lot of RV's 

and campers apparently enjoying beach time.

Several campers were also parked along the beach.

Later, I dropped Bob and his bike off at Clayton's,

and I went shopping until it was time to pick him

up at the south end of the island. We did stop

at the Davey Jones Locker, so I could get

some taffy and my mint chip ice cream.

To end the month, we went to the ABBAFab

concert in another park.  They did all the 

ABBA songs from the 70s.