Jimmy taking his picture in the mirror!

Well, it's Monday night and Jimmy called...the birthday boy (our friend Kim) and his friends are going out to dinner and party, get this..... dressed like Pirates! Kim's wife (also named Kim)had this planned and they are going to a bar that has a pirate theme.....serves Rum drinks, etc. I think that they're having too much fun...without me!

Don't you think Jimmy looks good in dreadlocks?

Kim looks like one of the Royal Navy and his friend Dave, looks like a swabby!

Well, Thanksgiving was nice. We had a big cold front come in Tuesday night and my brother and his wife drove in from El Paso on Wednesday. On Thursday, Jimmy picked up the turkey that I had ordered from Luby's and his nephew (does that imply something???). Then we had our friend David and his mom (he's the one that lent us the gurney for Jimmy's mom), so we had a real hodgepodge for dinner! Good food, watched "Transformers", then the Dallas Cowboy game.....They're 10 and 1! Who woulda thunk?? It was really cold and rainy all weekend then Jimmy flew out at 6:55 Sunday morning to Seattle for our friend Kim's surprise 50th birthday party. My brother left to drive back to El Paso by about 9 am.....The news said there was about 6 inches of snow aound Midland.....hope he made it okay.

Then we left for the Phoenix International Speedway for the next weekend NASCAR race! Jimmy's aunt Margaret is involved with CASA....a national court appointed advocate group for children. They get celebrities to autograph Ostrich Eggs and then auction them off for money for CASA. We got several of them...Kasey Khane, Scott Riggs, Reed Sorenson, Kerry Earnhardt and even Mike Helton ( the head of NASCAR) to sign, in Texas. Then we took them to Phoenix with us and got a couple of more signatures.
Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Cup Champion, signed them and then, we got "THE KING" Richard Petty and his wife Lynda Petty to sign them. He had come to our Marathon Coach Rally to see about buying one of their new $1.8 million dollar coaches! He also seemed interested in our little Road Hog!
Once again, my driver just missed out on winning the race. DRAT!

November 4th, 2007 weekend was the Dickies 500 NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway.

We took the coach up to our parking spot on Thursday. Jimmy had agreed to meet a new business client, for the satellite dishes, at the shop on Friday, to install an "in-motion" dish and an F1 (internet capable) dish, on the roof of his "Command Post" truck...so, after a myriad of electronic problems, stretching into Saturday, he finished and came out to the track. I was pretty bored, out there in the coach all by myself, with the animals. Unfortunately, my driver didn't win, but it was fun seeing friends from Tennessee, Mississippi, California, New Mexico and Louisiana. I also sold another Road Hog to another couple who own a Marathon coach, too.

Well, hello everyone!
Sorry it's been so long, but there's been a lot and nothing going on.....
It was pretty quick, but Jimmy's mother, Pat, passed away on October 22nd, of kidney cancer. Just about a month after she was diagnosed. Jimmy and I think she knew something, but was ignoring the symptoms. At any rate, she would have wanted to go quickly, so it went like she wanted.