Tuesday Afternoon

Today is another raw day in the valley.  We awoke to temps in the upper 30's with a 25 mph wind.  I know it was 0 degrees at home, but it is cold to us here.  We haven't ventured out for our daily walk and we don't intend to today. We had hot soup for lunch and will have crock pot roast for supper.

Our good friends, Teddy and Becky left for their home on Sunday morning and we miss them a lot.  They beat the snow to their destination and arrived safely.  Thank God.

On Saturday evening we went back to Fat Daddy's BBQ restaurant with them and two other couples, Russell and Dean and Gary and Mary. 

After dinner we went to Teddy's trailer and learned to play 3-13, a card game. Lela is becoming quite the card sharp.  Then it was off to Dairy Queen for one final Blizzard with them before they were to leave.

Sunday morning we left to go to Port Isabel Church of Christ.  It is about 40 minutes from here.  We were welcomed and made to be honored guests.

I offered the opening prayer, and enjoyed Brother Tom Crum's lesson. 

We were invited and accepted lunch at The Mexiquito restaurant in Port Isabel.

Afterwards we went with one of the members to their home for an hour or so.  They were very hospitable and we enjoyed them very much.  Larry was a western gunfight re-enactor, and also a Viet Nam veteran.  He as a very interesting guy.

After that visit we headed to Padre Island for a look around.  We didn't spend much time there, but we did drop in on another Airstreamer, who we knew was staying on the island.  Then it was back home for our evening walk.

Monday, after a breakfast of steak and eggs, we headed into Harlingen.  We are looking for a rectangular oven stone.  It seems that the biscuits burn on the bottom in our oven before the top browns.  The oven stone is the remedy.  Lela also wanted to buy some plants to put in the pottery we bought last week.  Spring flowers are the norm in the nurseries.

Becky had given Lela a plant already potted in a very nice pot, but we need a cactus.  When we got home, the temperature was in the low 80's, so we walked into La Feria to the Carnitaria (meat market).  We passed our evening with TV and ice cream.

Genevieve sent us an audio file of the baby's heartbeat at 24 weeks.  I hope I can attach it here. I had to try to make it into a video file as the blog does not allow audio files.

I am afraid the audio portion of this file won't play.

Go here:  http://youtu.be/uSVBnvfUDCg

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We are getting very excited waiting for our new Grandbaby at the end of May!