We had our usual Friday donuts with the Floyds providing them, it's their 54th Wedding anniversary today!
As some of you know, Paul Turner passed away while we were gone, his boys and one daughter-in-law were here with him, also a very good friend of mine, Shirley Julian from Woodstock Ont. passed away suddenly, I will get a list from Beverly on cards she sent out besides these two.
No one from Management there. They have many projects going, making the new shed for the maintenance men, (already have a new awning in front of it),just snapped a picture of connie out at the shuffleboard court with the Asst. mgr. the rubber that is stung along the court has come loose and rusty screws sticking out and some laying along there, so they're putting in new rubber. I see there's gravel out where the storage area is, to level out, they are having to replace some posts which were damaged and pushed over some from the hurricane last Summer and have to concrete them in,also replacing bad wood in fence and power washing it and staining it again.
Since we have been gone to Iowa for the R.V.E. campout at Clermont, some of the folks here took a picnic lunch and went over to Padre and ate over there in the pavillion, went to Willie B's for B.B.Q. and they are still going to The Tex-Mex Restaurant on Thurs. morning for breakfast.
I have a slide show, just a small one of some pics from the campout, we had a great time and we were there early and it was fun to see who was coming in next, we had over 20 campers there for the whole time, we came early along with Quails and Shermans. some of the ladies went on a road trip around the area looking at all the beautiful barn quilts, then stopped for refreshments...they all purchased bright orange shirts and came back to camp looking like a bunch of construction workers lol
we also had a group go over to a riverboat casino one day. During the week in the evening we usually cooked our own meat and then brought a side dish to share, oh my too much food! Shermans provided some good ole Iowa sweet corn each night, never got enuff of that! One night The Bensons provided smoked pork loins for all of us smoked by their good friend Jake, and Sat. morning we had a real neat breakfast, we had omelets in zip lock bags which they dropped in boiling water. This was Tom and Connies idea and they provided everthing for it, cracked a couple eggs in the bag with whatever you liked in your omelet, ham, cheese, hashbrowns , what ever, than smooshed it all together, really fun. 103 year old Ruby Baechler, Mother of Tom Benson came for it along with Toms Sisters and some more family of Tom and Mary Lous.
Ruby really enjoyed that and Mary Lou says she's still smiling!!She new Bobby and I and always says "you live across from the Griffins"!
I have a picture also of some field near Clermont which were hit by baseball sized hail, not a pretty sight. I heard over 300,000 acres severely damaged by the hail, and it looked like many homes got damaged also.
But oh, the cool weather there for the whole trip was so refreshing, 50's and 60 for lows and highs 80 or so, I am ashamed to say it but we had our furnace come on in the early mornings and I wore a sweat shirt about each morning, loved it!
Our outing this year was a cruise down the Mississippi on a huge pontoon,I have just a few of those pictures on here today , I have alot more to show you later.We went through a lock and dam, and our guide explained it to us, and all along the trip he had interesting things to say and point out.We had 39 on our trip , I think.
Well, I will post more real soon as I am very busy yet, getting settled in lol
We are in a severe drouth here, yards are so brown. And temps 100 each day!
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