11-30-10

Our Thanksgiving feast was a success..

I went up to IC Monday morning. Patti came up on Tuesday. Wednesday evening Joanne and Dave arrived.

Josie showed up Thursday morning

also arriving on Thursday were Kris and Kim.

And Peter and his oldest son Leon.

We started cooking around noon

Joanne Mashed 15 lbs. of potatoes.

Patti making the 2 quarts of gravy.

 

We had everything ready by 4:30.

There were two turkey's, two hams, yams, veggies, mashed potatoes , gravy, roles and more pies than we could possibly eat.

   

Cheers!

The meal was great and we were all too full and so thankful.

My nephew John and his wife Cindy from Reno came up for the day on Friday.

John and Dave

Patti and Cindy.

On Saturday J&D’s son Mat came up with his father-in-law, Ray.

Dave and Kris both brought up portable on demand water heaters.

We put one in the bath house

for the shower.

and tied one to the tree behind the wash stand.

 

Hot water is GOOD!

The weather was typical for for the end of November. It rained Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday morning there was frost every where and it stayed frozen all day, Thursday morning was clear and the temperature dropped to around 26 degrees and never got over 45. It began to rain around 8:30. PM and continued off and on all day Friday. We had planned to do some trap shooting on Friday  but canceled that because of the rain and cold. Rain and occasional hail  on Saturday. Sunday was clear and very cold. Joanne, Dave, Patti and I, cleaned up, took down the walls of the Dining hall and packed up to go home. We got home around 5:15 Sunday evening.

Monday morning we went to the storage yard and got “Plan B”.
I think we will be ready to leave for Quartzsite in a couple of weeks.