Monday Jan.11
We worked around the house doing odds and ends and watching TV. Patrick grilled chicken for dinner.
Drew came home Monday evening and had dinner with us and watched the National
championship football game. Alabama beat Clemson for the title.
Drew and Mom (Noel)
Drew with Grandma (Lela)
G'ma , Drew & G'pa
Tuesday Jan. 12
It hasn't rained for a few days so we helped to empty a $200.00 per month storage locker.
Patrick in the locker
Every job needs a foreman!
We took most of the boxes stored there to the garage at home. Patrick has a (30 foot ?) flatbed trailer and it was fully loaded. The driveway had dried out enough so we didn't have the muddy situation as bad as previous days.Wednesday Jan. 13
We returned to the storage and moved the furniture stored there to the garage at home. Later we went to Huntsville, TX to see Drew's house. He shares it with three other fraternity brothers.
G;ma, Drew and Mom in front of his house.
Drew and his dog, Bailey
Out for dinner at Fajita Jack's Mexican restaurant. http://fajitajacks.com/
Fajita Jack's
Lela and Paul with the 3 amigos in the background.
It is Nicolas' birthday (14) today. We will celebrate in AZ on Saturday.
$1,000,000,000.00 ...Looser
(that's 1.5 BILLION)
Thursday Jan. 14
We arose at 4:00 AM to leave for AZ when Noel left for work. We said our good-by and prepared for a long day in the truck. We set the AZ border as our goal, with the idea to see how we felt about continuing to the Ranch. As it turned out we decided to go all the way. Lela drove a couple hours through NM, which gave me a chance to close my eyes and rest. When I resumed the driving duties we had 5 hours to go. All in all it was an 1180 mile trek which took 18.5 hours. We were pretty well bushed.
Sunset entering AZ
Friday Jan. 15
The unpacking and organizing took most of the day. Lela worked to organize closets and kitchen, while I worked on the outside setting up patio stuff and moving other things into the shed.
Then I set up the satellite receiver and worked to get the TV system up and running. It didn't go too well. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Dish Network. It is sort of working now, but they are sending me a new "card" to see if that will resolve the problems I am having.
Lela is currently at Fry's Supermarket to stock our fridge. I did my online banking and am writing this entry. It is kind of a slow go as AT&T data is slow where we are.
Saturday Jan. 16
We heard from Gary and Lou that they were in Queen Creek on their way home from Hawaii.
Gary and Lou
Gary was a classmate of ours in High School.
On the Patio at the Bistro
Saturday was also the day we celebrated Nicolas' (Grandson) birthday. We were invited to his house for BBQ chicken and burgers. Zac (grandson) did the chicken and Junior did the burgers. After dinner we watched an exciting playoff game between the Cardinals and the Packers. The Cards won in overtime. It was very exciting watching with the boys.
Nicolas @ 14
Grandma, Grammy and Nic
Sunday Jan. 17 (today)
We attended worship this morning at the Queen Creek Church of Christ. http://www.cocqc.com/
The website is under construction. Everyone was very glad to see us. Our home congregation sent a generous check to aid in the support of this new congregation. We are very grateful.
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