Getting Ready to Leave

Starting around mid March RVers and Renters are slowly starting to pack up or for the Home owners , they are preparing to close-up. Closing a home in TX does take some preperation such as getting the Pest Control company to spray inside your home, along the baseboards and under the cupboards to make sure those little bugs don't use your home as a residence while you are away. The outside perperation is slightly more enduring. The Pest company has to remove several pieces of skirting so they can crawl under the house and spray for those bugs that like to live under that area home. The main culprits are Ants and Termites. However, I must admit I have never seen a Termite nor has anyone I have spoken too. But as long as the Pest company convince you that it is there " Spraying " that keeps them at bay , people will continue to pay the 65.00 to ease there mind. I can just imagine how much Chemical must be soaked into the ground under these homes after 10 or 20 years of spraying. 25 Mar; All this to say that we had the Pest Control company spray Doreen Ludwar's home as she did not come this year due to the passing of her husband in Dec. 26 Mar; OH NO; another Happy Hour to say so long to some more friends that we met while " serving time" as a winter Texan. Mel and Ron are from Ottawa ( Ron was a Mountie ) and where leaving on Tues so they invited several friends to "clean up " the residule snack food and refreshments than might not last until next Dec. I realize the Rye, Rum etc will not spoil but beer must be consumed as it would get Skunky. 27 Mar; We decided this would be Pool day as we have not taken advantage of the pool as we should have. They Pool is always a great place to Swap storys with peole you never met before and , amazingly enough, it is were you find all the necessary info about where to go and what to see and ,more important where the bargains are. You must remember, Seniors like to hear the words ; Cheap, Discount, Coupons and Free. Anyhow, we had our last " Happy Hour " with our neighbours ( Roy and Bya Jewsbury ) and from Dauphin, MB as they were leaving for home on Monday. We became good friends our the past 3 months and I'm sure we will keep in touch and hopefully meet again on our travels.