Christmas Eve - Eggs in a Bag

Today was the Christmas get together for the HDT group and we decided to have a brunch. It is a slightly gray day, since the cold front is supposed to come through tonight, but it was pleasant enough to sit out on the patio.

On the menu for brunch was egg in a bag and since I had no idea what that is, and therefore was not able to explain it to my dad during our video conference this morning, here are the instructions.

1) Get a ziploc bag and write your name on it. Make sure it is a ziploc brand bag, since cheaper bags apparently can break in the hot water and you loose your omelet.

2) Fill the back with two or three eggs (without the shells of course) and everything you might want in your omelet, like cheese, sausage, bacon, onions, etc. Close the bag and mix all ingredients as well as you can. Let the air out of the bag and put it on a tray with everybody else's bag.


3) Next, all the bags go into a big pot of boiling water and are being carefully watched by our two great cooks Larry and Linda.

4) While the bags were boiling in the water for 13 minutes, we started on the delicious coffee cake, banana bread, blueberry cake and cookies. :-)

5) Remove the bags after 13 minutes and guess what!!! It really kind of looks like an omelet and it tastes just great!!!


What else can you wish for at Christmas - great friends, great food - it does not get much better!! And now it is time for a nap!!

Mystery Night at Retama

Last weekend we had our annual mystery theater night at the Retama clubhouse. The theme was the "Murder at the Trailer Trash RV Park" and Doug had decided to take part in the play. It was a nice and warm evening for the group to put on this play. The characters in the play sure dressed their parts.


The play consisted of three acts with dinner being served during the intermissions. At the end we all got to guess who done it. This play sure was different, since the person that was supposed to be dead ended up still being alive in the end and I sure did not see that coming.


We all had a good time and by the time we were done, the cold front had arrived and we all headed back to our homes.

The weather has been somewhat strange this season. We warm up to about 80 degrees for a couple of days, than the cold front comes and we go down 20 degrees. Two days later we are back up to 80 degrees and then the next cold front shows up. We had three cold fronts in the last week and are expecting another one tonight.

This of course makes it a little bit difficult to work on the outside of the rig, but we have managed to get the axles on one side greased and the stems in two tires changed. Hopefully the weather will warm up again sometime next week and we can get the other side done.