The day started off as a very warm muggy day. We went to Donna to the Don Wes flea market and the veggie market across the street. Bought lots of veggies, but thankfully not nary a flea! This flea market is all Americans and is huge. The local ones around our park are mostly Mexican but since I've gotten braver, I like them better than Don Wes. I love seeing the little kids and at the American one it is mostly us old people! The booths that were inside, we couldn't even enjoy looking because it was so hot. Butch & Brenda were buying a sign with their name on it. As soon as it was finished we got our vegetables and headed back to the motor home.
There is a little hamburger joint in Donna that tends to call out to us at least once a year when we're in town. Today was the day to go to Gonzales. I'm sure I told you all about the size of the hamburgers last year and I forgot to take a picture today since I have a new fangled phone that would of done that. Let's just say that Dennis has agreed to share 1 next time. This is a family owned business, a Mother and her 3 grown children. It used to be an old grocery store and just did hamburgers as a lunch for the locals. Now it is all hamburgers/fries/onion rings. There is no sign showing that it's anything. They do NO advertising and they are only open from 10:45-2, 6 days a week and apparently are supporting 4 families on that. It is real beef and they cook it after you order it. There is at least a 30 min. wait and we heard them tell someone today that it would be an hour and half. It usually doesn't take that long but always a wait and people don't fuss about it. We've never been there when there wasn't a line, but today it was fairly short. We visited with some people from St Louis and another couple and their 2 grown children from Minnesota while we waited. They told us about some more good places to eat. Everyone always knows the good places to eat around here and there are lots of them.
The thermometer in the car said 85 on the way back to the motor home at 1:30 and at 3:30 it was 65 and now it is 59. I think this is our winter. We've had rain off and on all day and sometimes the roads/driveway even got wet. The weather forecast shows rain 5 out of the next 7 days. I really wish it would rain an inch or 2 and then get on with it, but guess I don't get to make that decision.
I'd had a ride around the park on the trike and about 3:00 decided that I would take a little nap. We are 1/2 block off of a business highway with 3 major hospitals within a 3 miles radius so we hear sirens ALL the time and have gotten to where we don't pay much attention to them. Just as I started to lay down, I realized that the siren quit right outside my window and when I looked out there was a huge fire truck in our yard! We had 25/30 people out watching a 5th wheel back in this week so you can imagine what a fire truck in the park brought out. Found out that our next door neighbor had numbness in her arm and she or someone had called 911. Not for sure why they sent a fire truck first but the EMT quickly called for an ambulance and they took her to the hospital. That is one real disadvantage to living in a 55+ park. This lady is in her late 80s and goes all the time. I said she probably just slowed down enough today to realize that she didn't feel right. My little 92 year old friend who I always said looked and acted just like Grandma Albertson would of at that age if she lived had a stroke before Christmas and had gone to stay at her daughters. She thought she was ready to come back so the daughter brought her and was planning to stay for 2 weeks and then leave Etta here. The 1st week she was here, she fell and couldn't get up so decided that she wasn't ready to be on her own. Another friend's husband who is on the go all the time is having balloon surgery on Tues. If you would say a prayer for all 3 of them I'd appreciate it and I'm sure they would too.
I added this picture just because it makes me smile. Dylan was helping Papa with something on Darren's camper.
Apparently senior citizens like fun toys. These are 2 pictures of golf carts we've seen the last 2 days while we were out riding around.
I love the red one that looks like a 57 Chevy but guess I'll just keep on using the trike for now. Wonder if that kit would fit on the trike? Think that all for today.
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