A Week for Firsts!!

Between all the work we have been doing on the rig and the truck, we still find time to have fun. Wednesday night we went to a hockey game. I have seen the NJ Devils play on TV lots of times, but never been to an actual game. Well, the home team here are the Killer Bees and they were playing the Odessa Jackalopes. The Retama Village entertainment committee ordered the tickets so that the everybody from Retama Village could sit in the same section.

We sat to the left of the goal, protected by a large net. It always amazes me how the game field looks so much bigger on TV than it is in reality. The same thing happened when we went to a football game in the Meadowlands in NJ. The home team mascot was the coolest!

This guy had way to much energy, but was getting the crowd going for the two 1/2 hour game. Unfortunately, in the end our team lost, but it was a high scoring game and we had a good time. We actually got to see ourselves on the big screen thanks to the lady next to me that kept jumping up and down every time a camera looked her way.

Saturday we had our annual Retama Village yard sale. This year was the first year I participated, since we brought our stuff down from Sioux Falls and found out that we saved some things that we really do not ever use.

It was 43 degrees at 8 am when we started the yard sale and we were all bundled up as much as possible. Thank you to one of our neighbors who brought a pot of hot coffee and some delicious muffins to keep our spirits up. I actually sold almost everything that I had put out and by 10 pm the sun had come out and it was not that bitter cold anymore. For that it was my first yard sale I have to say we had a good time standing around talking and waiting for people to come by and buy our junk. One man's junk is an other's treasure!!

I have to say a goodbye and travel safe to our friends Mike and Pat McFall. They left Saturday morning has we were setting up for the yard sale.