Casino’s, BBQ, and more Casino’s

We left our Gate on Saturday, September 20th and moved to the Carthage RV Park for a few days to get some rest and cleaning on the RV done….

Sunday we decided to head over to Shreveport/Bossier City, LA

Our next to the youngest daughter, Christie, was born in Bossier City 39 years ago, and we thought we would check out the hospital where she was born while we were there, but it is no longer there….

then we were on to The Margaritaville Hotel & Casino to check out the area. Margaritaville hasn’t been open very long.

It is nice. The Casino area looked pretty small to us for as large as the building is.

It was getting kind of late so decided to have Dinner at the Casino Buffet…boy were we surprised when they rang up our dinner and it was $49.00…that was with a Senior Discount.  I never get full benefit of a buffet because I just don’t eat enough for the price. They had lots of Seafood on the Buffet, but since Mac & I are not big seafood eaters, the other selections were limited.

We didn’t do very well in the Casino either…LOL

It was still pretty early so we decided to head over to the Sam’s Town Casino to see if our luck would change….

It did change for me as I left with more than I went in with…I think Mac broke even.

On Monday, we decided to go back to Shreveport to do a little shopping at Academy Sports and Sam’s Club. It was still early when we finished, so we decided to head back over to the Sam's Town Casino.

We ate dinner there and was not impressed at all with the food there…Most of it looked like it had been sitting for quite some time, and it should have been fresh for the dinner crowd as it was only 6pm. I understand that being a Monday, they probably weren’t real busy, but they should have kept the trays full & warm.

I guess we struck out on food while we were in Shreveport, but I came away a little heavier in the wallet from the Casino’s

On Tuesday, we just stayed around the RV getting things done so that we could head up to Lake Texoma Thousand Trails on Wednesday.

I suggested we drive over to Marshall, TX to Bar B Q Express for dinner. The reviews were really good and it had been a while since we have had good BBQ. Man are we glad we did!

This restaurant is pretty small, kind of off the beaten path, but WOW…it was awesome!

Herbert White is the Owner & Pitmaster.

He was very helpful while we were deciding what we wanted…and told us what his specialties were…

His granddaughter was also working…

We decided on the 2 Meat Plate with Ribs & Brisket. I had homemade Potato Salad & Beans…yummy. Mac had the Baked Beans & some other Beans..not sure what they were.

Probably the best BBQ we’ve had in a long time. We were so hungry that we forgot to take any photos of the food…

So if you are ever in the Marshall, TX area make sure you stop by and have lunch or dinner at Bar B Q Express, and tell Herbert that you read about it in our blog!!

Wednesday morning we were up and on the road heading for Lake Texoma Thousand Trails for a few days. It was a very normal travel day and we were all checked in and set up by mid afternoon.

While here at Lake Texoma, we have been over to Sherman, TX  for some shopping, and yesterday, Tuesday, the 30th we went over to Gainesville to the Kitchen Outlet, and then to the Winstar for dinner at NYC Burgers & Dogs.

We decided while we were there to make a small donation in the Casino. The Winstar is listed as the Biggest Casino in the world. I can understand this because you can walk, and walk forever.

We played a few slot machines and I came away with more than I went in with…I call that a good day.  

We have plans on Friday to meet our Son-in-Law, Dusty, his parents, Terry & Carol, and his aunt & uncle for dinner at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, OK. We haven’t seen any of them in a few months and it will be nice to catch up. Our daughter could not make the trip, so we will really miss getting to see her.

On Sunday, we will start our trip north to Enid, OK for an overnight stay. My sister Lyvonne and hopefully her husband, Carlson, are going to meet us for dinner in Enid.

Monday, we will hook up and head on up to Kingman, KS to take care of some doctor appointments, see Teri & family, and put some things in storage.

Thanks for stopping by….

Hugs!!

 

Trying to catch up….

It has been a very long time since I updated our blog. I am going to try to catch up on what has been happening with us since the first of the year.

In January, we were working as Gate Guards in the Texas Panhandle outside of Wheeler, TX. We had been there since September 5th, 2013. During that time we traded our Heartland Landmark in for a new to us 2012 DRV Mobile Suites. Some friends of ours had one of these and we really liked them.

At the end of our job here we were getting ready to leave the location and our bedroom slide would not come in. We tried everything, but nothing worked.

We made several calls, and ended up finding a place in Denton, TX that would work on it for us….so off we went.

We had several mishaps along the way…a blow out on the truck, and Mac found some leaking under the hood of the truck when we stopped for fuel.We limped in to Wichita Falls, TX and made it to the Ford Dealership before they closed for the day. They were great and stayed late to get the truck fixed for us, although we did have to spend the night in a Hotel.

We made it to Denton, TX and dropped the RV off at the RV Repair Shop on January 3oth and went and found a hotel.

Needless to say, we ended up staying in a hotel for a month before the repairs were completed…

After picking up the RV we headed to Lake Conroe Thousand Trails RV Park in Willis, TX for some relaxing, visiting with our friend, Arlene, and waiting to see if there was a new Gate job for us.

We ended up staying there for a couple of weeks and then headed over to Columbus, TX to the Colorado River Thousand Trails. While we were at Colorado River we finally got to meet some friends, Greg & Jan White. We had kind of met Greg a couple of years ago in AZ but hadn’t me Jan. These are great people and they also do Gate Guarding.

While there we were invited to a Potluck and met several other people that we continue to keep in contact with…Ed & Debi Hurlburt, David & Janice Evans, and Rick & Janice Binns.

After our stay there, we headed back to Lake Conroe and Arlene brought here motorhome out and camped with us for a few days.

In April, we left and headed to Amarillo, TX to see our daughter, Christie & son-in-law, Dusty for a few days.

We also attended  part of the Suites Rally that was taking place at the Oasis RV Resort and went to dinner with the group….great time.

April 13th it actually snowed for a little while…brrr. Too cold for me.

We left Amarillo heading to Ulysses, KS to see Mac’s sister and her family for a few days. We had a really good time and got to eat at our favorite Mexican Restaurants also.

I actually got to see a few of my friends on this trip. It was really nice to see Tammy, Robin, & Cindy.  Also we got to see Kenny & Kathy.

Leaving Ulysses we headed to Plains, KS to see another daughter, Dana, & her family for a few days. We attended a couple of our granddaughter’s softball games, and a couple Soccer games that our great grandkids played in. It’s such a fun time to spend with all of them.

Our next stop was Kingman, KS to our daughter, Teri & family. We spent a lot of time just hanging out, and getting some things put in and taken out of our Storage Unit there in Kingman. Our grandson Ryan would be graduating in a few weeks, but we were off to another adventure….

On to Emporia, KS to see daughter Jenni & family. Had a great time with them and the granddaughter’s.  Mostly just hanging out together and a some meals together.

Now it was time to head back to Kingman for Ryan’s graduation… He is such a great kid…and we are very proud of him.

Our next stop was going back to Garnett, KS where we had lived for almost 20 years prior to retiring….I was scheduled to had that dreaded test to clear me of and return of Colon Cancer….ugghh. The prep is the hardest.

I had increased my time up to having the test to 3 years, but this time the doctor found a few Polyps. He removed them and said he didn’t think they were anything to worry about, but he would send them in for biopsy just in case…and he was right! Still cancer free, but now I have to start back over at 1 year intervals again and start working back up.

We spent time with our friends Gary & Rosemary, and ate a few meals together while we were there. Also, we drove by our old house and the new owner is keeping things looking great.

Soon it was time to leave there, so we headed to Waynoka, OK to see my sister, Lyvonne & her family for a few days. It always seems like our time is gone before we know it, but we did get to spend a lot of time together.

When we left Waynoka, we drove to Lake Texoma Thousand Trails, and visited the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, OK and the Casino in Durant, OK…we came out ok, but didn’t walk away as big winners….

While there, Jamie, with Gate Guard Services called and he had a Gate job for us, so we left a few days early and headed south, arriving at the job on June 15th. We are currently working a Gate just about 5 miles south of Carthage, TX.

I think that brings us up to today….I’m sure I forgot several things, but wanted to just kind of catch up. If I remember other things, I will post on a later blog.

I will only add a few photos since this blog is already so long that it will probably bore you to tears….

Have a wonderful day!! (((HUGS)))

 

Merry Christmas from Texas!

I'll post a year in review soon!

Love y'all

Looking back at 2012

Here’s a little look at our 2012 adventures….
Dec 31st 2011 in Yuma….
Me & Phyllis…

Fun at the Moose in Yuma
Me & Phyllis

and Mac & Bob


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In February, we lost a very dear friend. Kevin Sullivan...
We Love & Miss you Kev...
Kevin & Arlene on a Dolphin Watching Tour in 2010

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While we were in Yuma, we spent some great times in Mexico with friends…



Fajita Dinner that we made for Yuma friends

Friends come visiting to Yuma…Chuck & Kathy..a day in Mexico

Donnie & Karen..

A day at Mike & Bette’s with friends in Yuma

We left Yuma in April and headed to Amarillo, TX to see Christie & Dusty..had a great time with them..sorry I didn’t even take one photo there.. Mac & Dusty went on a Golfing trip with some of the relatives for a few days while Christie & I stayed in Amarillo...

Chris & I did a little shopping, had a few lunches out, and a couple of Dinners out. Lots of visiting...

We left Amarillo and headed to Waynoka, OK to see my sister & her family….here is their business…

We left Waynoka and went to Emporia, KS to see our daughter Jenni, and family for a couple of days…Here’s a photo of Natalie with the bag I made for her…

While we were in Waynoka we found out that our Storage Unit in Garnett was broken in to and almost everything was stolen…

We took care of that problem with the help of our daughter, Teri, son-in-law Lynnie and grandson, Ryan…moved everything from the other unit to Kingman, KS…

Now we are ready to celebrate Samantha’s High School Graduation…first her Party…Samantha with the table that our daughter, Teri set up with lots of memories…




and then on to the Graduation..

We had a great time in Kingman, but it was time to move on to Plains, KS for Britny & Cody’s wedding…


Grandpa & Jaelynn dancing…



Our daughter’s Christie & Teri at Britny & Cody’s Party…

During all of this fun we were helping Dana & Russell remodel a building for Russell’s new Law Office…



Too soon it was time to head south for our next adventure…a couple of days in Weatherford, TX visiting our friends Donnie & Karen..

then on to Willis, TX to the Thousand Trails Park to see Arlene, and to meet a Chatroom friend Penny…

We stayed and spent about 2 weeks visiting with Arlene and helping her with some things that needed taken care of…also, we purchased a (old)2000,  new to us Honda CRV…

Our next stop was  Aransas Pass, TX for a few days to relax and head over to Port Aransas for a couple trips to the beach….



On July 2nd, we drove over to Corpus Christi to the Gate Guard Services Office and filled out our paperwork for our new Gate Guard Job…
On July 5th, we headed to Whitsett, TX to start this new adventure in our lives…

September took us to Victoria, TX for me to try to recover from a serious Upper Respiratory Infection…while we were there we finally go to meet, my sisters good friends & my Facebook Friend, Larry & Nora…

we were back to to work soon for a short job and back to the Karnes City Gate Guard Services Yard….where we found this little guy almost starved to death…Meet Jynx..



We took him to the Vet and got him all fixed up with medicines and some food…
We have been back working on another Gate and we spent Christmas working but a very quiet day that allowed me to fix a nice Turkey dinner with all the trimmings…
New Years Eve was spent with me up working the Gate & Mac in bed asleep…
Happy New Year everyone!


(((Hugs)))

Still in Gate Guard Land down in South Texas…..

We are still Gate Guarding down in south Texas…..

 

I know I haven’t posted for a couple of months, but it is hard to try to find something new & interesting to write about when you do basically the same thing every day…and can’t write about the parts of our job.

Back in September I did wind up in the hospital after a trip to the ER with some pain in my chest. Spent 3 days in the hospital and didn’t get treated for the Upper Respiratory Infection/Pneumonia that I had…had to self medicate after I got home.

We did go to Victoria, TX for a few days after the hospital fiasco to just relax and recuperate. It was nice because we didn’t have anything we had to do.

An RV Service Repairman came and fixed our Bedroom A/C…and ordered the motor for our Awning, and told us that we needed a new A/C for the Living room…

This is our 4th Gate since coming back from Victoria…some have lasted a while and others just a few days. We like the longer ones because we don’t like to pack up and move every few days.

We sure are thankful that we bought that little blue Honda CRV this summer. It sure has saved us a huge amount of money on fuel driving it around instead of that great big truck!

We also have a new member of our family….we found this little thing all by himself and almost starved to death. We took him in and took him to the Vet for a check up…Fleas, Worms, Ear Mites, a Stomach Parasite, and Mal Nourished. The vet fixed him all up and we took him back home and named him Jynx…

He is now about 12 weeks old and has almost tripled in size with some loving care…he has made himself at home.

  

He caught a cold and had to go back to the Vet for some more medicine…and you can sure tell he feels better…

and he has several things to play with….LOL

 

As luck would have it, we finished our last Gate Job on Wednesday before Thanksgiving so we moved to the GGS Yard in Gonzales and had a nice quiet Thanksgiving Dinner without the interruption of the Gate Bells…it was really nice.

We are now on another Gate East of Kenedy, TX about 5 miles. We’re not sure how long this job will last but we’ll take the pay!

Our granddaughter, Britny posted a photo of some of our Great Grandkids at Halloween this year…

Caiden, Treyson, Carley, Jaelynn, & Brylee…you can tell that Brit is trying to keep them all corralled for the photo…the only other one missing is Kailynn and she lives in Hays, KS.

Our daughter, Dana text me a photo of our oldest Great Granddaughter, Jaelynn getting ready for her very first School Christmas Program…can’t believe that she is already in Kindergarten!

Christmas is just a round the corner…and we will miss seeing our kids and grandkids again this year. It gets harder every year not seeing them…but usually we see all of them in November, but with working we didn’t get to this year. Sigh….

Mac & I have both been dealing with yearly Dr appointments. We both had to find a doctor here since we weren’t going to be back in Kansas. Mac found a Cardiologist that he really likes and I found a Primary Care Doctor for myself. We both have had to have tests and Lab Work…and Mac is getting his results today and I go tomorrow for mine. Wish us luck!

I think that pretty much catches us up for a while…