Happy St. Patrick's Day to You All!

Just couldn't stand to see my daughter outdo me so had to figure out how to add these cool animation holiday things to our Blog. I'm impressed, don't know about the rest of you thinking "What is Dee thinking doing this?".

Weather here is absolutely gorgeous - we hit 90 degrees yesterday. Larry was out on the patio trying to read the auto manual and photo says it all!!!!

Guess the warm weather put him to sleep.

It was a tough week for us. March 1st my only remaining sister passed away very unexpectedly - Medical Examiner thinks she either had a massive stroke or massive heat attack. Her request was to be cremated and no services, so we didn't make the trip back to Boone. There was a Memorial Service on March 9th. Hazel would have been 72 this month, which seems so young now that I'm approaching a big zero year myself.

Things are winding down here at the Resort - year end parties (we have at least 4 parties to attend ourselves) and several people already leaving to travel back to their homes. We extended our stay until May 5th so we won't depart this area along with thousands of others.

Tuesday one of my classmates and her friend is driving to Mesa to have lunch with us. We going to the Midwestern Meat Restaurant (owned and operated by former Iowa residents) and the food is always wonderful. Of course, our favorite thing to order is breaded tenderloin sandwiches and made the old fashioned way like they used to make them back in the late 50's in Iowa. You just couldn't beat good old pork tenderloins back in the day.

We wish some of you were here to share the corned beef & cabbage and my speciality "Green Cake" for St. Patrick's Day. It just isn't St. Paddy's Day without the green cake! Some would argue it's the green beer that makes the holiday though. Our grandson, William, is flying off to Ireland Saturday, March 12th for a week. His golf coach and the Astoria, OR golf team are going there for spring break to golf for a week. It's quite a trip for a 16 year old. Sure wish we could fit in his suitcase. A big bonus is that they get to participate in the annual St. Patrick's Day parade while they are there. What a lifetime experience this will be for him.

More later on. Take care of yourselves and stay healthy.