Archive for August, 2007

Camping – Labor Day Weekend

Friday, August 31st, 2007

We are going to go camping this weekend. The weather is supposed to be much cooler than it has been. We almost didn’t get an A site for the weekend. We had a reservation but looked at the site last weekend and didn’t really like it all that well so we switched to another site. Unfortunately, the people that were on the site had a death in the family and had to go to FL and have not yet made it back to move their camper. More unfortunate for them then for us. (Our prayers are with them even though we don’t even know their names.)

FRIDAY

When I called this morning – expecting to have to take a B site – I was told that someone had cancelled and a better site was available. It seems that these people were previously tent campers but had ordered a motor home. The motor home is not going to be delivered until Tuesday. Sure helped us out for the weekend. Can you imagine going from a tent to a motor home?

Ran into some traffic on the way down to the campground so we didn’t get there as soon as I would have liked. And then the camper was not real level (off about 2 inches side to side) so we hooked up to the truck and leveled it. If we had brought the Focus we would have had the campground respot us but since we had the big truck we went ahead and did it ourselves. After we got set up we watched a little TIVO on the computer and then went to bed.

SATURDAY

Got up rather late. Walked up to the lodge and registered and got the schedule for the weekend. Not much going on except for the kids. Went back to the camper and ate breakfast. After breakfast we sat outside. Beth worked on the pool table cover that she hopes to finish this weekend while I worked on cleaning up old programs on the laptop. After the laptop was cleaned up I finished a tutorial program on Microsoft Expression Web. This is the replacement for Microsoft Front Page. I think it is harder to learn but is overall a better program.

SUNDAY

Beth finished up the pool table cover today. All that is left for her to do is to remove some stray threads. Finally done and she is sew ;-)  happy to have it done. I spent the day reading and watching some TIVO. Just plain relaxing. I know it doesn’t sound exciting but who needs excitement.

MONDAY

Happy Labor Day. We took it easy in the morning and then packed up and came home. A really great three day weekend. I spent Monday evening working on the campground web site a little and then on this website some. I’m working on the calendar portion of it. I have some more stuff to add to the campground website but I don’t think I will get to it today.

Square Dance Lessons – August 27, 2007

Monday, August 27th, 2007

We went to square dance lessons tonight. We’ve been going every Monday and Thursday and serving as ‘angels’. Angels are people who have completed the lessons and graduated and go back to assist the new students. We went to lessons last year and graduated in December 2006. We have started to dance more all the time but it sometimes conflicts with camping. What we need to do is find a camping club that square dances. If anyone is interested in taking square dance lessons let me know. It is probably too late to get in this year since you would be too far behind but next year or another club would work.

Camping – August 24 – 26, 2007

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

We went camping this weekend at our usual haunt – Meramec Valley Camp Resort. We got started in good time and got set up quickly. (It goes better each time.) We had purchased a new TV for our camper so after setup, we watched a DVD on the new TV. Worked good. Slept late on Saturday morning. We can also hook a computer to the TV so we watched some TIVO that I had downloaded to a laptop. Seems we don’t have time to watch at home so this works great. We continued the day with a walk around the lake and some reading. In the evening we went to a Wine and Cheese party hosted by a group at the campground called the River Rats. Had a great time. Thanks River Rats! Slept late again Sunday morning. Watched Salem’s Lot, packed up and headed back.

Hello world !!

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

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