Merry Christmas

I know I haven't written any thing for quite a while  but things are getting started for the season and I haven't taken time for the blog....No excuses just lazy I guess....Pool leagues have started and that has kept me busy with other things going on in the park....I am almost ready for the quite season to be here ....I know that is surely a sign of getting old....Most of the time my mind says do this or that , but my body says "no way Jose" .....Oh well I am happy doing what I can and let it go at that.....I want to wish both of my readers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....This last year has been a good one I feel and am looking forward to the next one smiling....Later....

This weather is super

Oh if it could only stay like this all year round this would almost be the "perfect place"...I say that cause there is no perfect place all the time....HA HA...Well more people have come in here in Siesta, but in other parks they seem to be coming in very slowly...I don't know just what the problem is, I have heard that it is very cold up north so that isn't the answer....I don't know if they have heard of the border wars over in Mexico or what .....If you must know not much of that affects us as we don't go to Mexico and Walmart and the restaurants are as violent as we get... HA HA...Other than the usual not much is going on....I kind of like that as I can do just only what I want to and no more...What more can I ask....Later...

Oh Boy

I don't know about you but I am still kind of full from Thanksgiving, but some how I am still able to eat....HA HA...In all seriousness we had a great Thanksgiving with more food than any one should have....We were with Jerry and Diane , Don and Sally , Darlene and Phil, and Margrett V. for the day.... Well more people are coming in for the winter and it is getting busy around here again, at least crowded on the highway and in Walmart...It's harder to find a parking spot close to the door any more...HA HA..There are several friends that haven't made it down here yet and I don't know just what is keeping them up north as I keep seeing that it is cold up there...Well not much else to say , but wanted to at least put something down on here...I don't know if anyone still reads this but if they do HI  I'm still here and mostly well for an old fat boy...At least I'm happy....Later...

Thanksgiving coming up..

Golly it hardly seems possible that thanksgiving is just around the corner, but here it is...I have much to be thankful for this year....I didn't have as much health issues as I did last year so that is a big plus and I have got to celebrate another birthday....HA HA...The only bad thing is I keep getting OLDER in body and it doesn't want to do some of the stuff that I use to do....Oh well I am glad for the things I am able to do...I am very blessed compared to a lot of people in the world...God is so good to me and my family and I thank him for all he has done and doing for me...

I got the new computer and finally am getting things straighten out....I told some one that the Texas room looks like "Best Buy store exploded" and the remains are all over the place.....Oh well I am working on it a little at a time and am making progress as Marilyn said "well at least we can see the floor now"....I am glad that she is patient with my doings....I know that it is going to cost me several trips to Walmart for all the mess, but that's alright it's some place to get out of the house for a while....Well I'm looking forward to thanksgiving and hope everyone else is too.....Keep smiling....Later..

Time is flying by

I can't believe that a week has gone by since I wrote on the blog, but when I post on the Magnolia blog for  Sunday service it reminds me of the time....Well this week we kind of kept busy between greeting back folks from the far north back to the village, going to Walmart, eating out a couple of times and playing some pool, the time slipped away...

Well the old computer has been acting up a little so I have order a new one and should get it some time in the next week....I don't look forward to setting up a new one cause when I do I like to take my time reinstalling my programs.....When I do get the new one set up I am going to complety wipe the hard drive on the old one and reinstall the operating system and some of the programs.....I just hate to try and rearrange all my files that I need to back up so I can reinstall them....There is always some I seem to lose.....I have done it several times before and I dread it and do learn from each screw up....HA HA   ..Of course by the time I have to do it again I forget something until to  late and lose something again....Oh well ....what else have I to do....Keep smiling ....Later....

Well the summer is over it seems

Well I guess I have goofed off long enough and haven't put any thing on the blog for a long time...I really haven't had any thing exciting to put down and didn't want to bore any one with just trips to Wal-mart and going out to eat...And believe me we did PLENTY of just that...Oh well what else have we to do.....We did go up north to see our kids, grand kids and greatgrandkids for a while....I didn't want to put that on the blog at the time but we had a great time seeing almost everyone....We only missed two grand kids in the visit so that's not too bad....We got to visit our parents grave sites for the first time in a couple of years so that was nice....The only thing bad was it was so hot that we were glad to get back to Texas to cool off....We like to have burnt up coming across Kansas coming home...I was sure glad the car had air-conditioning and that we didn't have any trouble at all...

Well I am going to try and put a few things on the blog more often now that the new season has started, but am not going to promise to a set pattern...There is still not much happening yet ....At least one good thing.....We are in pretty good shape for OLD people and we're quite happy with life....Later....

All most the end of the month

Here it is almost the end of the month and I am just getting around to posting something here again....I told you that not much exciting was happening last posting, so don't want to bore anyone with the same old stuff, but here goes....A couple of weeks ago Marilyn pulled some muscles in her back moving some furniture ( which she shouldn't have done anyway ) and she has been trying to get over the soreness....She sure has had to watch just how she moves and not try to twist her back or it just pulls it again....At least she is doing better now....It has kind of slowed up the Walmart tours a little bit, but she has been using the motorised carts to get around in the store....I told her that was what they were for, at times like this we are just thankful that they are there for us to use....I know that last year before I had my knees replaced I used them and was glad there were there....On another note as Church services aren't being held at Magnolia, we have been going to  Donna at Pastor Stacey's Church ( First Baptist Church of Donna )....It sure seems different to go at 11 o'clock instead of at 8:45....Also there is a lot of new people for us to see....The service and the lessons are still great, but we miss going to Magnolia....Well this weekend we need to give thanks and honor to the brave men and women who have served in the military.....Many lives have been lost fighting for the freedom that we sometimes take for granted....God Bless all the men and women who have and are serving our country....

I have been having a little trouble at times with the Internet hookup and have been trying to get it figured out just what the problem was....Come to find out my old wireless router was becoming intermittent and was dropping the signal.....I did get a new one, installed it, rebooted the cable modem and problem solved.....I them tried to hookup my wii's on the TVs so we could watch netflix, but they wouldn't hookup.....I finally picked up a new ROKU system and installed it on one TV.....I even had a little trouble getting it to connect, but finally did.....It works great and has a lot of different channels that the Wii doesn't .....I kept working with the wii's and then I got them working also, so I have a great selection to work with now....HA HA ....I know....I know ...OLD MEN and their TOYS, but at least it keeps me out of a lot of other trouble....Well that's enough for now, till  next time....Keep safe and healthy.....

How can I be this busy??

I just realized as I was doing the Magnolia Blog that I hadn't written any thing on my own blog for a couple of weeks....I will try to catch you up on some of the going's on....Although nothing to exciting for most to hear, but anyway....A couple of weeks ago we did have some stormy weather in the valley but nothing happened here.....I didn't go at night to play pool in other parks as I didn't want to leave Marilyn here if it was storming....Luckily for me that wasn't often....Last weekend Marilyn and I went up to Temple , Texas to visit our grandson, his wife and our greatgranddaughters.....The youngest celebrated her first birthday and we got to be in on it.....She has grown quite a bit since we saw her last fall.....What a joy to be able to spend time with the grand kids, but at our age it's hard to keep up with them....HA HA...This week between resting up from the trip, playing pool here in the park and over at another park a coupe of nights , taking Marilyn on Wal-Mart tours and eating out  a couple of times nothing much else has happened....HA HA...Oh well I didn't say it wouldn't be boring, just busy....Later....I just hope my one reader hasn't given up on me...( DS)...

Where is the Time going??

It seems like only yesterday that I posted on the blog, but I saw that it was Sunday....Oh well not much has been happening other than I have played a little pool over at another park on Tuesday nite for  couple of hours and at our park on one afternoon....Of course there has been a Wal-mart tour or two so things are on track....Marilyn went with some of the girls in the park this morning out for breakfast...I have been after her to go with them, but she doesn't like to eat breakfast very early in the morning so she has been putting them off until today....She came home and said that she had a good time so maybe it will become a weekly thing now....At least that gives her time out of the house and some girl time....Another good thing is she is feeling a little better and is getting over her pulled muscles in her back....I am sure glad of that as I don't like to see her hurting and not sleeping well...I guess it just takes time so they say....I am going to try to get a couple of guys tomorrow afternoon to get a pool game up here in the park and it that doesn't work I will go to another park tomorrow nite for a couple of hours...It's tough when everyone up and leaves to go up NORTH and not many to play with...Boo Hoo....Well enough complaining  so will stop for now.....Later...

I'm Still Here

I know that I haven't posted any thing for quite a while and I'm sorry to any of you that have checked my blog to see if I was still around.....Now that the season is slowing down and I will have some time to write on this blog more of the little things that are going on in the Loring homestead at Siesta Village....Well one thing pool has slowed down a lot so that leaves me to look for something else to do...As you know Marilyn is always ready to make a Wal-Mart tour so that if they move something around she will be able to find it easily....HA HA...I know I am just as bad as I keep up on just where the man toys are displayed so I can't talk to much about some one else....I have started to learn to play shuffling with the summer crowd on Saturday evening, so that is something different for me....I kind of like it so far, but I have a long way to go before I even know what I am trying to do...In time I suppose it will come....The people I play with are very good about showing me some things....Of course they are beating me badly while they are doing it, but that's the way you learn as long as you can take it in fun...Well this is a start again and I know I have said this before , but I will try to do better in blogging...As ever till next time....

OK I get the message

Today I was reminded that I hadn't put any thing on this blog for quite a while so here goes....We had a great Christmas and a good new year....Heard from all the kids during the holidays and that was our greatest present that they could have given us....I have been playing pool a little more now that the new year has started so that makes me happy....I haven't been shooting very well and seem to be in a rut and can't get out of it, but that will turn around if I just keep up the effort....The old knees seem to be working out for me as I can do some walking around the pool table and taking Marilyn to Wal-mart so that is on track for me....I know that we are both thinking about just what we are going to do this summer....I know that we are looking forward to doing some traveling....We weren't able to last summer as I was trying to get clearance for surgery and then the knee replacements and rehab....That all just shot any traveling that we might have done....Oh well things are looking better now....Well I will get off here for now, but I will try to do better on writing from now on....I know that I have said that in the past but I have been assured that more than one person is reading this....HA HA...Till next time.....