The fashion show luncheon at Bentsen Palms Village was very nice. There were three stores modeling clothes and I wanted to go to Becs the next day and look for an outfit for our anniversary Mass and dinner. A beautiful lady with gorgeous white hair modeled two outfits from this store and she looked absolutely stunning! I will settle for looking "very nice."
It was so warm as Eileen and I walked back that I took off my white slacks and changed to shorts when I got home. Ted had put a load of laundry in and we were getting ready to get it out when Kathy knocked and asked if I wanted to play Shanghai with her, Linda and Sue in the coach house. I left Ted to deal with the laundry and went over. We started with fans whirring all around us and by the time we finished we had a heater on. Sue won again!
We had leftovers for dinner and settled in to watch The Bachelor and Castle. I think this farmer guy is a player. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
All four of us went shopping on Tuesday. Eileen and I were dropped off at Becs and the fellows went looking for a jeweler to fix Ted's chain and to buy a boot jack for Eileen for her birthday. In the meantime I found an outfit for our anniversary party and two tops to wear with jeans.
Tom loves Mexican food and found a restaurant nearby to try. Most of the menu and specials were in Spanish so we weren't exactly sure of what we ordered but it was really good! After a stop at the post offfice we brought the guys home and Eileen and I went back out to buy two baby presents. Babies, babies and more babies! I finally sent Jemma a gift card (she is one month already) but the two gifts I just bought I can take to the family reunion in June.
There was a Mardi Gras potluck and we attended though we only ate dessert. It is a nice way to meet new people or get to know the others a bit better. Eileen and I are in purple with our backs to the camera along side Tom and Ted. Lots of King Cakes!
Eileen wanted to play cards so we told them to come over to our trailer after they took their things home. When they arrived we received our first anniversary present, a new crockpot. Last year the handle broke on mine and Bill made a makeshift wooden one that worked fine. But Ted broke the lid while making his pulled pork so we really needed the new one! They are flying to Houston for our anniversary dinner so that is one less thing for them to worry about. We really don't want or need anything other than friends and family to help us celebrate but a new crockpot is great!
Wednesday got a little crazy. Ted went pistol shooting at 11 and skeet shooting at 1. So I did my walk around the neighborhood getting errands done. I stopped at Sharon's who showed me some fringe stitches for my afghan. Then Eileen and I went to Jan's to show her the T-shirt braiding technique but she was getting a haircut. We met her 47 oz. Yorkie who is so tiny! Tucker at 6 lbs. would look huge next to her.
Since we struck out I went to the laundry room to iron two pair of pants before heading home. Jan came over eventually so Eileen came back so we could work on T-shirts. Jan offered some more insight into the fringe question. Kara called in the midst of this and Ted returned from shooting. Then Niles came over to give us Don's shooting prize right before Don appeared with 15 packages of brats to put in our refrigerator for Thursday's German fest. Grand Central Station!
It was pizza night so we left for the clubhouse where we ate our meatless cheese and pineapple pizza before leaving for a 7 pm liturgy with distribution of ashes. There were 8 services and ours was totally full so I assume they were all full. We stopped at the grocery for green beans for the German fest and called it a day.
Today we joined 17 ladies for breakfast and then went to Jan's for her to sew a line in the afghan so I could pull the horizontal threads for the fringe. I tried doing the stitch with pulled threads but I couldn't discern where I had stitched because it all matched. I tried using the yarn but it was too thick. The machine zigzag stitch seemed the easiest answer! Ted came along with me to meet Harold so they could talk about Harold joining Ted on the shooting range to try his hand at shooting.
We came back so Ted could take the brats to Don and I could prepare my green beans. At 3 we went next door for the German fest. There were close to 80 people in attendance. We had a great meal and an enjoyable time.
Unfortunately Ted broke a tooth off his upper plate and Lord only knows where it went. We have our suspicions but I am not even going there!
So tomorrow it is back to the dentist in Mexico to see if we can get it fixed quickly.
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