February - Over already?

February over already???

I guess we must be on a jet plane – because time is flying right by us.

We had a good January – the temple was closed for 2 weeks and we used that time to go down to our home in Mesquite. We had good friends,Mark and Carolyn Baird,visit for several days, then we took off to see friends who spend the winter months in Yuma Arizona. Yuma was wonderful – much warmer. We stayed in a hotel since we no longer have an RV, but we got to go to Mexico and to the swap meet. We ate some good food and enjoyed being with our friends.

After we returned to Mesquite, our daughter, Julie and her husband Dave came down to visit and enjoyed a little warmth plus go on adventures on the RZR. Felt let them take the BMW roadster for a drive and they enjoyed that also.

Two other friends,from our home area came by to see our home and we enjoyed their visits very much.

After coming home we were able to spend some time with Julie’s family and with her children and grand children. Oh my, we are so smitten with those great grand children.

Early in February, all the great grands with their mothers and their Nana came up to spend a day with us. We decided the easiest thing would be to take them all to Wendy’s for lunch. Then we came back to our home and took everyone to our homeowners’ clubhouse pool for a swim. At first they were a little reluctant but by the end the older three were jumping into the pool and loving the experience. I think they will plan another day at Nana and Papa “G’s” before too long.

The last week in February we took off right after Sunday School to drive down to our second home. We hit some snowy spots along the way but we were in our all wheel drive car and we didn’t have much traffic. It rained hard all night and the next morning was cool but the last several days have been wonderful. Bright sunshine, blue, blue sky, our plants are looking good and coming back with nice new green sprouts. We shave taken several rides in our Mesquite car – a red BMW Z 3 convertible with the top down and enjoyed sitting in the sunshine soaking up some good old vitamin D .

To top it off we decided we would try our hand at Pickleball. Pickleball is played with a flat surface racquet rather like a large ping pong racquet, and with a tennis sized ball that has holes rather like a whiffle ball. The court is similar to a tennis court but smaller in length and width. And should be played with 4 people, but since we were seeing if we liked it we tried it with just 2 of us. And we had such a good time! We finally decided to just play on one half of the court with the net between us. Since that is how we would be playing if there were 4 of us. We got the racquets from the clubhouse and they balls were in a large container on the court with wire baskets you could put some in to take to your court. We will definitely do that again. We both got more exercise than we usually do and had a really good time.

Tomorrow we go back to reality for a week and then hope to com,e back for a few days - Are we enjoying our Mesquite home? That answer would definitely be a resounding YES!