Into The Desert and Up Into the Mountains

Jimmy and MM (me)

Finally have that new windshield on the passenger's side of the Winnebago -- after the storms cleared here Friday afternoon, the two guys from Alamo Glass arrived and replace the piece in about 2 hours.  I decided to stay here another night to allow more curing time for the adhesive and give me some recovery time from having a little poolside cookout at my cousin Shirley's apartment building -- her friend Jim Johnston joined us with his niece Margie Jo, her daughter Stephanie and her 2 children.  Only expected 5 people so we had to cut the bacon wrapped steaks in half and share them -- plenty of potato salad, deviled eggs, and fruit salad to go around with leftovers (not the steaks though).

The visits here with cousin Shirley had been nice and only wished she could have been more physically able to move about and enjoy the time we had together -- minus the spells of pain and discomfort she experienced at various times too.

Blazing Star site 212 (mine)

The previous Saturday evening we had gathered at the nearby Longhorn Steakhouse for a really tasty meal with Tina (Shirley's daughter), her husband Marty and two of their children Katelyn and Brendan.  I had brought Shirley out to the RV park a little earlier in the evening so that she could see the set-up and meet Tiger and Molly -- not able to get her up in the RV because of the steps.  Her son Mark had helped us get her into my Jeep with her walker for the outing to the restaurant.  Mark had been here for about a month helping Shirley relocate from her previous place and he left Sunday to get back to Colorado (Salida or Buena Vista).  Below is the picture I had been waiting for showing all of us at the restaurant.



Brendon, Katelynn, me, Shirley and Tina

 Originally, when I first saw Shirley in her apartment for the first time since last year, I thought this guy was somebody just helping her out like some gal had done at her previous place off Bandera Road.  The light finally went on in my head when the name "Mark" registered and I had to ask Shirley to confirm that it was her son -- information she had not conveyed in any notes before I arrived.  Also, hadn't heard that Marty had recently had a "new" pacemaker installed a few months earlier too -- information I would liked to have known earlier or sometime over the past year (rather than getting some of the forwarded emails I had most likely discarded at various times during the months passed).

I hope my beloved cousing will listen and respond to my plea to keep me informed of the important things going on with the rest of her family and maybe get down to that nice pool and get more active.  All of the above would be nice.. and putting down some of those stories she has in her head (ones that will be important to the rest of the family as we search the family ancestry).  She has touched so many of our families over the years and has been with us all at various times we all can remember (somewhat).

I haven't focused much on the RV park here but, did take a few pics in case someone might be heading this way and looking for a nice place to stop -- close to Sea World too.

Half hour in the sun then a dip

It really is a pretty nice place and the sites are fairly well designed (though some may have a reverse slope that people should be cautious of).  The pool is really nice and the facilities are quite good and well maintained.  Too bad some of the golfers in the Valero Open didn't pull in here -- I would have enjoyed meeting some of them for sure -- between visits to my cousins place, of course.

For those future Grandmas and Grandpas, there is a nice playground -- and did I mention that Sea World is nearby??

There's also a nice sitting place adjacent to the pool for watching a beautiful sunset -- where I might head shortly.  Didn't get there and instead enjoyed sharing a bottle of wine with Debby and Tom Mnning in the site two spaces up the hill -- night before my departure from San Antonio.