Larry & LaFon Anderson    

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2010 - Our best decade begins... Gasoline $2.55/gallon...    Daily golf at Mill Creek & fantastic Ranger baseball plus the RV is ready for overnight golf trips this summer/fall & a month long, winter sightseeing and golfing trip between December & February to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida.   Salado girls golf team won state in 2A.  We spent three days on the beach in San Juan, PR in February & returned to a trace of snow in Salado.  We are still trying to improve our health numbers ... for me 2010 goals are mid-1960's #'s.... below 200 lbs/17% body fat/38"waist & Fon a size 4... daily exercise for both of us in our gym and calorie control.  Ta's Boerne house closed in June, she and the boys took us out for Father's Day & all the Richardsons are regulars at the Lake this summer with Mike's jet ski... and loving it!  We are expecting Dan & Joy from CO for the first-time this fall... if we see the whites of their eyes... we will know!

2009 - Jumped a few hurdles of life...   Gas $2.43/gallon... 29 inches of rain for 2009. We had a nice, relaxed visit and two rounds of golf with Dan & Joy via Southwest to Centennial, CO for 4 days in June.   Played two new courses in May...  Forest Creek in Round Rock and Olde Page in Tulsa while visiting Clyde, Wanda & Donna... fun time. We switched to Horizon Bank in Salado... a perfect fit for us.  We enjoyed Clyde & Wanda's short visit and golf in July.  We also had a nice Thanksgiving dinner at our house with all the Richardsons.  Andy & Mark played some golf.   8" rain resulted in flash floods in both our creeks & swiftly put 22" of water in our RV garage, 10" in our car garage and 6" seeped in & through most of our house between 3:45 & 4:15 p.m. on 9/11/2009. Interior walls & doors, some furniture & personal items... basically anything touching the floor was damaged. We missed some golf  & spent some money... but no big deal... we were okay.  The casa was back together after 6 weeks!   In between rains we went to Shreveport for a three day break... rain there too... so we came back to work on the house.  Then former clients from 25 years ago in Tulare visited us while the house was under repair for an afternoon and dinner. .. nice time!   The golf course remained wet... almost 16" of rain in 30 days was too much, too quickly...  several creek overflows since the 9/11 incident made keeping 18 of the 27 holes of the golf course open a real challenge! We averaged 4 pars/ea by late summer 2009... steady improvement... 6 pars and most fairways our best .  No annual RV/golf trip in 2009.

2008 - A near perfect year... Gas hit a low of $1.29/gallon... just enough rain, 30" in 2008. A little better than bogey golf... 1+ pars/ea/round!  Played golf and had most of the Richardsons over for Thanksgiving  & Christmas eve.  Clean bill of health again from VA... check-ups changed to every six months from every four months!  Fon had her best 9 hole round on 11/9 & mine was on 9/29... a birdie and 4 pars!   We enjoyed a golf packed five day visit with Jerry and Carol here in Salado.... eighteen holes per day.   Donna & Wanda stayed three nights and left with the Tracker.  The September trip to CA was fun... played golf 5 times in San Jose, Santa Cruz & Pacific Grove, on three nice muni courses, saw everything we wanted to see from our past... boardwalk, beaches, our first house,  & ate lots of clam chowder.  We bought a 2008 Smart Cabriolet... our day-trip car & RV dinghy... keeping the 2007 Nissan Quest van... both great cars... 40+ mpg and 20+ mpg! We switched to Horizon Bank & were playing bogey golf most days in August (6 days a week X 9 holes) and both of us are a-okay... weight, blood pressure & cholesterol are all LOWER.  Mother's Day & Father's Day... perfect... four new golf shirts & 5 pars for Lar, Salado won state in baseball Tiger won the Open, Boston won the NBA Championship.   The Jenna Bush pre-wedding party here in Salado was big news.  Also hundreds of  huge oak trees destroyed in Mill Creek & Salado by 75+ mph winds... we had little damage to our recently trimmed trees.  Kudos to the golf course maintenance crew... the golf course was back in operation in two days.  Generally, the weather in central Texas is perfect & conducive to year round play... 330 days/yr according to Golf Digest... and we have it accessible out our back door with our golf cart.  During our month long 2008 RV Golf/vacation trip we visited in Boerne , visited in Tucson, played golf with Jer & Carol in Phoenix & watched the Super Bowl, checked our waterfront lots in CA, visited with Neil & Debby in Desert Shores and had dinner, visited with Dean & Carlene in Desert Shores and had lunch, also visited with Don & Nelly in Palm Desert before heading back for a little golf & a week with Jerry and Carol in Phoenix and ended with three days in Boerne. 

2007 - Getting settled in Salado... After the decision to move from Boerne, TX to Salado, TX, a golf cart friendly village, was made in August, 2007, we immediately purchased a home, began moving and started some significant inside remodeling (45 miles north of Austin and 155 miles south of Dallas on Interstate 35 exit 285)...  432 O. W. Lowrey, Salado, TX 76571... two miles from the I35 & the shopping center! Built in 2000 with 3,000 sf heated (an ideal double master suite floor plan with all living areas in-between), 500 sf of covered patio, and a three car garage - 840 sf.  We doubled the garage space with a custom RV area & expanded patio area & added walkways, privacy walls and landscaping on our 3/4 acre lot in Mill Creek Springs... on the golf course & a Salado Creek tributary on the Springs #3 course where the 1st, 2nd, 8th & 9th holes converge. Mill #1 - Creek #2 - Springs #3 are all challenging courses -   at least two impossible holes on each course and two others that are tough, and five that will give you a par if you are hitting well.  Robert Trent Jones Jr. and the original owners redesigned a challenge... for sure!   On October 1, 2007, we joined Mill Creek Golf Club and on November 1 played the Creek course 9 for the first time and attended a membership appreciation dinner hosted by course owner Morris Foster (A local & owner of key anchor properties in of the Village of Salado & a former EXXON CEO!) and joined nearly everyone in attendance in embracing his "A New Beginning" concept. We are very, very lucky to have a guy like Morris here... as this  "is a great 27 holes and the only game in town"... a good place to kickback and enjoy life.  Each nine holes from the White tees - about 3,000 yards and the Red tees - about 2,500 yards... rated at 70 - 72 & slopes of 120 - 124...   It took five months to move from Boerne and get settled in Salado and another 5 months to get the house sold. Just over 32" of rain in 2007.The Spurs won it all, plenty of golf and our zero stress time really began!    Fon had a great visit with her sisters in CO and Clyde and I played eight rounds of golf in 6 days in OK...  We visited some old friends on our 2007 RV golf vacation trip to FL after  Clyde & Wanda spent most of January here.... great visit and lots of golf and puzzles!  Clyde birdied the 18th hole at Alamo on January 21 and I got  a birdie on February 20 at Champion Golf Club in FL where Fon also had a golfing event. (Read about it!)

2005 - 2006 - The transition from CA to TX... In December, 2004 we became Texans again after we purchased a 1.9 acre Hill Country home in Boerne, TX and moved from Desert Shores, CA (Near La Quinta/Palm Desert) in May, 2005, the remodeling began... after we finished, we began playing the back nine at Alamo Golf Club in San Antonio, 2,200 yards... par 32... two - three days a week... 1 3/4 hours walking the course was perfect for us & we became  "bogey" golfers!   We bought our 1978 GMC Royale motorhome & got it to TX after a three week, August, 2006 drive from Sequim, WA... we are the 3rd owner... up to 3/4 of the units made by GMC are still on the road today.  On the trip we had a great time visiting Jer & Carol in Spokane, WA, Dan & Joy in Centennial, CO and Clyde & Wanda in Laverne, OK.  Played golf & worked on the rig.   

 * Every year in TX gets better for us *

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 Updated 07/29/2010