New Venture - January 25, 2010

Since my marriage, Terry and I started working at a Mobile Home Community, Western Skies, in Gallup, NM. We got the job a week before Thanksgiving. Probably many of you thought I disappeard. Not so. I just have been very busy with over a hundred tenants, taking payments, recording water meter reads, etc... We have a lovely clubhouse, very large, with a kitchen and tables and chairs for birthdays, anniversaries...no alcohol allowed though. We seem to have many that want to rent it.

It has been very cold here and this morning it was one degree above 0. Brrrrrh!!! Just cold enough to freeze our pipes and it took a long time before we could get hot water.

Terry works on maintenance and we have another young man that helps us out, passing out the bills, doing errands, fixing things around the community.

It is the nicest mobile home community in this area and we live and work here. Moving from Vanderwagen was a chore. It took me almost a month to get everything packed after Terry only arrived here in July. He had to pack all over again. Yuck. Anyway, we moved everything to Gallup and some things are still in storage.

I had to give up my precious animals and before we moved, I lost both my cats, one to old age, 18 and the other to diabetes and kidney failure.. I miss them both.

This is just an update. I'll have more pictures to download soon. Hope everyone has a wonderful new year.

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