Jan. 25: Geo Caching Class

Another typical week of working and eating and playing cards.

Thursday night, one of the ladies, Janice, brought her quilt blocks up to the club house. The embroidery part was done at home before they left. She's been doing the piece work since they got here - at least a month ago. She laid them out according to the picture she was working from. It really is beautiful. We're all anxious to see the finished product. She said she thought it would be a couple of days before she had something together enough to photograph.




One of the men who lives in the park, made this really neat picnic table. He designed it, built it and painted it. He's trying to market it to Home Depot or Lowes. Also is going to make a pink ribbon one for the local cancer society to raffle off.








We did have a designated game night Friday night and a couple of folks showed up who don't normally. We played Mexican Train with the newbies and another guy learned to play Queen of Spades.

Yesterday, I taught another Geo Caching class. Larry and I had hid three simple geo's in the RV park and located 3 great headstones over in the cemetery. After some basic instructions, we divided up and headed out to find the ones in the park. All were found and they all got good at playing with their GPS.

It was a little chilly that day (60's) so some elected to hunt in the cemetery on a warmer day. The rest of us headed out as a group to the cemetery but when we got there we broke out into three groups again. One was our last name, one was the relatives of this Hatch RV Park and one was a Pvt. that was killed on Okinawa during the war. They found them all so I think they're ready to hit the real world of Geo Caching. The couple with Larry on the left, Mary and Rick (from Topeka) didn't know our last name, so even when Larry placed the GPS on top of the headstone, they didn't have a clue. I had titled the GPS "Name of a good friend".

The whole team: me, Mary, Rick, Elise, Judy, Pete, Larry and Claire.

Larry and I will probably get up a group to go out after my job ends this next Friday. Larry and I have decided for me to give up working for our last two months of retirement. When we go back to Wichita to work full time will be soon enough to be getting up early and working 40 hours a week - yuk.

Last night was movie night and we saw a DVD of Jeff Dunham and his "friends". He's a ventriloquist and his friends are Walter, Peanut and Jose Jalapeno on a Stick. Quite a funny evening. If you want to find some free videos, Google "Walter the dummy" and see what you come up with. Achmed the Terrorist is pretty funny too.

Larry helping Claire and Lawrence get down some more delicious grapefruits.








Tonight the park got together a group and we all headed to Fudruckers. Great burgers and malts.

Tomorrow, my cousin, Connie, and her husband, Dave, will be here for a couple of days. We're excited to have relatives coming to see us. It means more exploring the area and more great food to eat not to mention getting caught up on all their news. They are on their way to the Valley to lead a caravan on into Mexico.

Finally, just for those of you who think it's always great here in Corpus, here's a photo that was taken in 2004 (I think) of a snow that lasted about 20 minutes before it was all gone.