Ladies Pool League Starting the Season

You can sure tell the season is starting as the Ladies started the Pool League today.. All the teams came and all had fun competing and visiting about the summer happenings. They all got to see the Pool Hall after all the work was done painting and cleaning. It sure looks nice and bright now. It will sure get a lot of use this winter with all the pool players and cards that will be played.. It has been rearranged late last spring and gives everyone more room it seems now... Also new shades were put up to keep the sun from shining in and blinding people during the day (helps protect the tables and chairs also)...When you folks that are still up NORTH do come down you need to stop in the Pool Hall right away and see the change..

Char and Carol waiting their turn to play..

Some of the Ladies Pool Teams.

The Hall's nice and bright now..

Butch and his $4.00 haircut and yes, he did request it that short.

Mexican Fisherman

Rio Grande River

The Mexican Border- They are being more careful at the border checking ID's and asking questions thus it is taking longer to come back to the USA no matter if you drive or on foot.

Shufflers

Shufflers Ed, Bonnie and Esther.

  

Water Feature

A water feature at Jim & Kay's.

  

Landed again

The parrots landed again last night. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and they were properly posed in the top of a tree. This photo is the best I could do. I had to try!

  

Big Fire

There was a big fire about a quarter block east of the park on business highway 83. It was an abandoned mosaic tile company building. It took a very long time for them to get it under control. Fortunately the wind was out of the south so the smoke didn't come our way.

  

The Parrots

The parrots fly over morning and night. Rarely do they land but they did last evening. Even so it is difficult to get good pictures of them without some high dollar photographic equipment so I did the next best thing and purloined a good picture from Google images. Yup, this is what they look like and I would say there were several hundred here for their brief visit. Also, you can hear them coming from a long way off.

  

Thanksgiving Feast

The Magnolia Park Association put on our delicious Thanksgiving feast. Don & Barbara Howard spearheaded the preparation of the meal with help from able and willing volunteers. The result was truly magnificent. Pictured here is Dorothy H. dishing up the pies.

Barbara Howard makes gravy.

Don Soole, our fearless leader, cleans up.

Marj stirs the dressing

Thanksgiving Feast- The Dessert Table

Lots of things are happening in the park. Trees being trimmed and cut down, cement being poured, painting in various places in preparation for the big rush to the valley after the holidays. So come on down!!

I am reading "One of Ours" by Willa Cather. I am reading it online from this website and it is free. It is one of many places to get free books on the Internet. Once I went to the website I browsed a bit and stumbled on to this Willa Cather book. Let me know what you stumble onto.;-)