Archive for July, 2010

Tractor pull at Campground

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

We went down to the campground again this weekend. Got down there and went to the Creekside Cafe but they had quite a few people in line so we put our name on the list. They said it would be about 25 minutes so we went to the camper to set it up. Our friends had already turned on the refrigerator and air conditioner so all we had to due was put in the wheel chocks run out the slides and put the food in the refrigerator. Took about 10 minutes and then we went back to Creekside and they were ready to seat us.

Just about the time we were ready to sit down some other friends and their granddaughter came in so they sat with us. Kept them from putting their name on the list and waiting. Had the salad again. We just ell the waitress “the usual” and she knows what we want. Had an enjoyable meal. When we finished we sat with other friends under their awning for a while until we decided it was too hot and went into the camper.

Saturday morning we went down to the farmer’s market at Creekside and bought some Georgia peaches and a cucumber. We ordered 25 lbs of peaches to be delivered next weekend. The guy goes down every week and picks them up.

At 3:00 we went to the antique tractor pull. Only tractors 1959 and older are allowed to enter. The first tractor to pull was driven by an 87 year old lady. We stayed for about three weight classes and then left. Oldest pullerThe problem was that the tractors would add weight and then pull in the next class again. After we had seen the same tractors about three times we decided to get out of the heat. We went back to the camper for awhile and cooled off and then Beth went up to the duck pull. The first one hundred members could pull a duck and get a prize dependent on the number on the bottom of the duck. We have two memberships so she got to pull twice. She got an LVL mug and a $25 gift certificate to Olive Garden. One of our friends got an electronic picture frame and another one got an AM/FM/CD player. The rest of the friends didn’t fare quite so well. When they got back we went for a pitch-in at friends camper. Inside this time since it was so hot.

Had storms this morning but it did cool it off for a while. We sat around and shot the bull for a while and then went down to Creekside and had another salad for dinner. We came back, closed up the camper and came home. A really good weekend even though it was hot.

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A little behind

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Didn’t post last week. We did go camping but didn’t really do much due to the heat. Mostly just stayed in the air conditioning. We did have a pitch-in for Saturday evening and then went up to Fort Wilderness instead of sitting outside in the heat. Beth had rented several movies so we did watch a couple of them. Even though we were not outside a great deal we did get away for the weekend which we like. The new door on the guest bedroom is finally completed. It looks great. Makes us want to hurry and get the rest of them done. Still have the baseboard to put down and the closet door to paint and put back up. Going camping again this weekend. The weather is supposed to be hot so I don’t know if we will do much more this weekend then we did last weekend.

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July 10 and 11

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

We did go to the picnic last night. It is a huge picnic. They had carnival rides, a silent auction, a regular auction, bands, food, etc. We found chicken kabobs and grilled corn that we were able to eat and still stay on out diets. We were there for a couple of hours and then came home. Today, Beth painted the rest of the frame for the door in the spare bedroom and I just finised getting it nailed into place. It looks pretty good. It is not 100% level but no one will be able to tell my looking at it and I don’t think anyone will lay a level on it to tell. It looks pretty good. I have to finish nailing it in place and then put the second half of the frame on and nail that in place. Then the only thing left is to put the new baseboard back on. Beth bought some new curtains for it today so we are close to having it done. I guess then we will go back to working on the dining room. That wraps up another work weekend. Next weekend it is back to the campground.

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Catch up from vacation

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Well, it took me a while but here I am catching up from vacation. Thursday we spent some time putting decals on the truck. We had ordered them last year from Heartland so they match the camper. We got four of them put on the truck and then Beth looked on the internet to fnd out how you are supposed to do it and found out we did it wrong. Turns out you are supposed to take the backing off and spray the decal with a soap and water solution. Also spray the area of the truck where the decal goes. This allows you to move it around and also makes it easier to get the bubbles out. Oh well, it looks pretty good. I’ll send a link to some pictures. We have one more on each side to put on and then I will take a picture of the truck and camper both.

I don’t remember what we did on Friday but I do know we went over to another camper for a campfire. Saturday afternoon they had a band called the Creole Jazz Band. www.creolejazz.com. They were really good. If you go out to the web site and click on the musicians link and then click on the picturs you can see their background. Some of these guys have played with some well known people. At 7:00 pm on Saturday they had a group called Smash Band. They played at the new bandstand in the resort. I was concerned because with a name like Smash Band I figured they would be a rock band but they played a wide variety of music. www.smashband.com. They played for 3 hours until 10:00 pm when the fireworks started. The fireworks were really good. They lasted for 35 minutes. They had a lot of ground effects fireworks. Kinda like roman candles only they shot off faster then roman candles and went back and forth. Hard to describe in words.

Sunday we went to another concert by a guy named Carl Rose. He played the fiddle and guitar and sang. He also had a woman guitar player with him and her daughter also played the fiddle and sang. They did a mixture of gospel music and patriotic music. Sunday night we had a fire again and said goodbye because we planned on coming home earlier then normal since we had been gone for two weeks. The trip home was uneventful. And then, of course, the dreaded Tuesday when we had to go back to work after two weeks of vacation. It really did not go too bad though and now we are staying home this weekend to try to catch on work around the house. I mowed the grass and trimmed this morning and also cut some stuff growing along the fence. It was warm but not so hot that I had to quite every five minutes. Beth spent much of the morning cleaning stuff that she got from the farm when she was there on Memorial Day weekend. Then, I unpacked the prehung door that we got for the spare bedroom and took it into the garaged. Beth is painting it. As soon as it dries I will take the frame out for paint and then get it installed. I think we are going over to a picnic that a church is having close to us. It is a three day affair with carnavel rides, etc. Some camping friends of our go to this church.  Anyway, I guess that about catches us up. I’ll try to get some pictures posted soon.

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We are home

Monday, July 5th, 2010

I got behind in posting but will catch up tomorrow night – I hope. Just wanted to let you know that we are home and it is back to work tomorrow.

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