YEAR'S END 2011

Best wishes for the holiday season and the coming new year to all of our friends and family.
This has been a busy and eventful year with a big change to our lives. Gone are our toys: power boat, houseboat, RV. Our traveling is greatly curtailed and we are reveling in staying home in our new house. This is a new role for us and we are adjusting. In fact, our place is so cozy that we sometimes find it hard to leave it.
We did venture out this week with a three day two night trip to Laughlin with a club from the village. We did not want to drive the five hours ourselves. We went not to gamble but to see our friends Jan and Sally who stay near there for the winter. They are full time RVers. We had a wonderful day with them, it seems we never run out of things to talk about. The time at the casino though was awful with smoke and lousy food. We will not go again.
Old friends, Sitara and Sue stopped by on their way back home to New Mexico. We have also met three new women who have joined the Rainbow Club and we look forward to getting to know them better. I am planning to have a meeting after the first of the year to determine the interest in forming a “Foodies” club. What form it will take will be determined: fine restaurants? Cooking? Organic foods? Sustainable farming? Wines? We’ll just have to see what the members want, if anything. It could be interesting.
I am still doing my oil painting and look forward to learning even more this next semester. I was hoping there would be a class in abstract painting but it was cancelled.
I was trying to figure out what I could do with all the limes on our tree. Then it hit me, margaritas! Duh! Our dear little lemon tree is coming along fine and should be producing next year.
We think of you all often and wish the very best for you.