Moving Day

We took a last walk around Bentsen Palm Village this morning. We were surprised to see several hawks circling overhead. Then they were joined by more, and as we looked around, we counted 17 hawks circling overhead, quite a sight.

We've been sitting still for three months, so packing up to leave and hitching up were very unfamiliar feeling tasks. We went up to the office to check out and pay our final month's electric bill. The nice lady at the desk turned out to be Mark Brown's wife, and we thanked her very much for being so patient when Mark was out so late working on our plumbing leak.

We drove over to Tropic Star for our C-1 lesson. When we arrived it was noon, so we fixed a lunch and went into the hall to eat and wait for the class to start. I finally had a chance to call Julie back. Yesterday she had left a voicemail that wasn't too clear, but mentioned an accident and damage to Ed's car but said he was okay. It turns out that he was the third car in a three-car pileup on a rain wet road. No one was hurt, and Ed's airbag didn't even deploy, but the front end of the car was damaged, and he was pretty shook up.

Doris came to class with her friend again, and without Bob, who felt even worse today than yesterday. We're hoping he recovers soon. Doris danced a couple of tips with Don and one with Ken. We learned Linear Action and Zing, neither of which is too difficult, and reviewed Percolate and Relay the Shadow and several others. We're really doing pretty well, but we don't like getting muddled, and that's bound to happen in lessons. Everyone is good natured about the mistakes and helps each other out, fortunately.

After the lesson we headed to Edcouch and checked in. I'll get to hitch up and park the rig for a while, because both require twisting around to look out the back of the truck. It felt good to get our house back together, especially since it was quite windy outside. After supper we went over to the exercise room, hoping to find treadmills and TV, but instead found an exercise bike and an elliptical trainer and no TV, so I played my Motzart Pandora channel on my Droid. The elliptical trainer is much more strenuous than a treadmill, and 15 minutes was about all I could handle. Ken rode the bike, which he also felt was challenging.

I talked with Carol. She is looking forward to the big Dorey reunion in the middle of April.  Gail will be flying into Dallas on Thursday and Fred and Gail will arrive on Friday. Andy is taking Friday off. We're hoping to join them for some activities before they head for Tyler Friday evening. They're talking about the Arboretum and/or the Aquarium. On Saturday Carol has made reservations for the whole gang in Tyler at a small Italian restaurant near their house. Andy will be bringing his boys, and Linda and family will come from Dallas too. We'll drive over to join them for the birthday dinner.


We played three rounds of Rummikub tonight. Ken won two and is ahead of me by 16 points on our new running tab.