Well....the Fall Nationals of NHRA drag racing were in Ennis, Tx. last weekend and we had a motorhome parking place at the finish line! My brother from El Paso called on Thursday and asked if we were still planning to go...I said "yes" and he said...."I want to come!"
So, on Friday, he loaded up and drove all the way from El Paso. On our arrival to the Motorhome Corral.....A big Newell Motorhome was stuck in the mud....in the entrance! So, Jimmy unhooked the Hummer and we pulled it out. We got parked and Jimmy got a call from the "Colorfast" racing team...that their satellite dish internet was not working right, so off he went to work, on the other side of the track! On Friday, they called and asked Jimmy to pull a Suburban out of the mud, then another Newell Motorhome, on the other side of the track. Then, my girlfriend from high school, and her husband, came out and spent the day...later my brother showed up. It was really fun....the rumble of the top fuel and funny cars was really something! Unfortunately, Saturday and Sunday were really hot, so we didn't stay in the stands very long....but it was fun to see Ashley Force Hood beat her daddy's time (John Force)!

We came home for the rest of the week, my brother headed home on Monday morning, then we plan to go spend another week or two in Ruidoso, N.M. Jimmy broke a tooth at lunch, today, so we will be back in time for his crown to come in! Besides, I want to be here to pass out Halloween candy....then the Texas Nascar race, the first weekend in November.

After being home for about 4 days...Jimmy decided that he wanted to go to Ruidoso, N.M. to watch our friend's son play high school football??!! So off we went....arriving Friday afternoon, just in time for the Friday Night Football game. We stayed at our friend's John's house, (he has a lot of room for parking the bus). The weather was wonderful...cool...60s in the day and low 50s at night. after a few days, we were driving around and found a nice RV resort, in Alto...just North of town. As we were driving through, we saw antother Marathon Bus that we recognized. So we left a note, for them to call us and we'd have lunch.
When Rex and Peggy called us, we drove back up to see them and they showed us that 2 lots away...some other friends from the Marathon club, Bob and Harriet, had a place, too! Anyway, Bob showed up too and said.."why don't you be my neightbor?" It seems that Hollis (the guy that owned the 2 lots in between) had built a house up here and decided that he wanted to sell his RV lots.
Jimmy took one look at it and said "done deal"!
It has covered parking for the coach, with a full outdoor kitchen, stove,sink fridge, microwave, etc. a huge deck with drop down window enclosures, a nice sized little "casita" with a full bath and laundry room, another room that had been made into a tool workroom, and another little building that was a storage room/tool shed.
since we had the tool shed, I decided to cut a doorway between the laundry room and the workroom....cleaned it out and made it a little room with an Aerobed, for a "guestroom". My brother and his wife came up and spent the weekend....now all I am planning, is to put the fake grass (better than astroturf) in the little yard, up front...and paint! Jimmy is planning to get the season ski pass, so we can come up in the winter and he can Ski Apache! I'll sit in the lodge in my cute ski bunny wear, and drink hot chocolate!
Right now, we have the bus pulled halfway out, so we can have the internet Satellite dish up, but by Tuesday of next week, we will have the permanent one mounted on the roof, and be able to pull all the way in.
In the middle of all this, we went to the All American Futurity...the world's richest quarter horse race, at Ruidoso Downs.