Saturday, January 5, 2008 (DAY 9) We joined our new friends for breakfast in Weslaco; a good restaurant but nothing to write home about. Visiting with the Canadian folks, however, was a treat, as we continue to learn about Canada. It seems that most of the Canadians down here have houses in Canada, a cottage on a Canadian lake, an RV, and a place down here as well. After returning from breakfast, I washed Dunn Gone—a laborious process that took two hours—and she was dirty from the trip down through rain and road debris. Kay went shopping, and didn’t return home until 3:30 PM, a lengthy shopping trip for her. I exercised the generator, turning the air conditioner on for the day, and began working on this journal, considering I had not begun writing anything at all. After a late lunch, I dropped the 5 books by the library, and picked up 4 more. Kay returned from her shopping trip, we walked our one hour, Kay practiced a song for church, we played shuffleboard (and I got beat like a drum), and we settled in for the evening.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 (DAY 5)  I slept to almost 9 AM. After waking, Dunn Gone got a good cleaning, as did our laundry. What a way to start the new year. Next, the peas were prepared by sautéing celery, onion, and bell pepper in bacon grease, and adding the cooked vegetables to the 5 cans of peas Kay bought yesterday. We joined Vicky and Larry, and their neighbor, Lynette, for lunch of ham, potatoes, candied carrots, black-eyed peas, creamed corn, and rolls. We returned home for laundry, and a quiet afternoon and evening, with me finishing the second book of the trip. Larry brought over the largest lemon either of us had ever seen. It was the size of a cantaloupe (see photo). Oh yeah, the Razorback football team got a good licking from the University of Missouri.