It's been a while since I've put anything on the blog mostly because we've been busy and frankly, there just isn't that much Magnolia news. I did find out that Don Loring passed away on November 3. Don and Marilyn Loring were long-time Magnolia residents before moving over to Siesta Village where they could own their own land. Don was an excellent pool shooter and when we first started shooting pool at Magnolia he took me under his wing and helped me get started. Neither Jim or I had ever held a pool cue in our hands before that so his help was very much appreciated.
As I've said several times before, there are lots of former Magnolia people here in our park, Trails End which does make it very nice.
We've been busy working on the mobile home that we bought here last December. We weren't able to actually take possession until April so did nothing on it last season. Today we had the pleasure of trying to figure out how to lay Vinyl Plank flooring. It was a struggle this morning but we think we have it figured out so tomorrow should go much better. It's not quite as easy as I thought it would be but once we understood how the best way is to click the planks into place it went pretty well.
We got here November 14 which is a little earlier than usual for us but we knew we had lots we wanted to get done this winter. And speaking of winter, right now it is certainly more summer-like as it's quite warm and also quite humid. It finally stopped raining, the first week we were here I think it rained hard, every single day.
The "Texas Crud" as everyone calls it has been going around, some people get quite sick and others just more or less a nasty cold. Jim had it last week but it only lasted a couple of days. He thought it would be nice to share it with me so my throat has been scratchy but at least my nose isn't running - yet! His throat was scratchy about a day and a half and his nose ran steadily for one day and that was it, thank goodness. I heard from some friends back home and one of their employees has covid so they thought maybe they should get tested. No symptoms, fully vaccinated, but both tested positive. Thank goodness for vaccines as most likely they would be quite sick without them. Neither are really youngsters and the older we all get the weaker our immune systems get.
It's hard to believe that Christmas is almost upon us. I took a quick and short walk tonight after taking a bag of garbage to the dumpsters. The park is filled with lots of beautiful Christmas lights. We are behind this year in getting anything up. Our lawn needs to be mowed and I think maybe the guy who mows it will come Sunday and then we can put our stuff out.
We have driven past Magnolia a few times, it looks pretty sad to say the least and probably most of you know that the big Don Wes flea market building burned to the ground this summer. Some of the vendors are putting up little buildings and are open but I rather doubt that the big building will be replaced. It looks so different with it gone and lots of Winter Texans are missing it as it was a very popular place to gather on the days they were open and so handy to Magnolia. We walked up there many times each season.
As always, if you have news to share, please do let me know and I will be happy to post it.
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