Snowbirds

Greetings dear family

We have been here in Indio for 10 days and finally feel like we are settled. Chuck has played golf, I have shopped, and we have been to 2 dances at the clubhouse. We have also got a lot of work done on our contracts, and Chuck built an enclosure for Chester out of plastic lattice, so he does not have to be continually tied up. Chester is now officially back into using a litter box, which only took a day for us to re-teach him....makes it much lot easier to clean up after him!

It looks like Chuck will be able to volunteer as a course marshall at a nice golf course here, and get to play free in return. He was actually offered paid employment at a really posh country club course, but cannot accept due to no work visa!

Tomorrow I plan to start attending the weekly quilters group here in the park, and Chuck played poker last night with the weekly poker group (he was up $4 at the end of the evening :-) There is also a daily aquasize program which I will eventually make it to! We are learning how to take Chester along when we go bike riding....Chester is really very adaptable and the only problem occurs when he stops in the middle of the road to take care of business....

We are still struggling with our email as we can only use webmail at the moment - this is a pain, as there is a limited storage capacity...but hopefully we will be able to sort that out with the ISP. In the meantime, if you want to send us any photos or large attachments, please use cmmarles@yahoo.com

Looks like we may have several sets of visitors here - possibly Wendy, Cindie and Bob, my cousin Elizabeth, and of course Mom and Dad are booked for January. We are planning to go to Houston for Christmas and then come slowly back and do some exploring along the way.

We travel to Long Beach this weekend to attend a big antique fair, so are trying to explore a bit further than we did last year. The weather is mainly high 70's low 80's and very cool at night, so we are enjoying that very much.

Hope all is well with you.

Much love Christine and Chuck