BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:01 amGOOD MORNING AND A BELATED NEW YEAR TO ALL!
It ended up that, at the last minute, Melissa bit the bullet and got us reservations at Lake Marian Paradise Resort just a bit south of their house. We hauled the trailer, got a pull-through site, arrived on Friday at about noon, and had to come back yesterday as they don't have today off from work.
Friday night, New Year's Eve, the three of us were about the only ones celebrating in the entire park! Most of the residents and long-time guests are geezers, and went to bed at dark! We were trying to be oh-so-quiet while staying up what seemed to be an interminably long night so we could watch the ball drop in Times Square. We played some shuffleboard in the dark, a few people in electric golf carts drove past us and waved, but showed no interest in joining us whatsoever! We weren't sure if shuffleboard was allowed after dark or not! Later, we set up the new croquet set I got Melissa for Christmas, in the nearly pitch dark, with a lantern at each end-post area. The wickets are white vinyl-clad ones, thank heavens, so we could almost see those! Our course was in our site, on top of heavy-duty wood chip mulch on the ground-----a challenge to hit those balls straight. Luckily, nobody was in either site next to us, but one huge Class A was quite close a site over. They put out their lights at about 9:00! We held our breath to see if our balls clacking against the mallets would cause them to wake up and shout at us! We played some cribbage to kill time until the ball dropped, (we got about 30 or more TV channels broadcast over the air, including NBC) watched the last 15 minutes of that event, including poor Dick Clark who did a fantastic job talking after his serious stroke, shouted RABBITS, then Happy New Year, and should have gone to bed. However, we got out the cards for more hours of card playing. We finished off 4 bottles of Champagne that Melissa got a huge deal on...7.00 per bottle!
Saturday we had a rented pontoon boat for the entire day. The night before, as we were walking around the docks, we tried to pick out the one they would rent us. There was one decrepit, small, icky-looking one, and we were sure it would be that one! It was a really nice one, however, with a pee bucket under a little lid that, when raised up, made a private little area. Lots of comfy seats, a full tank of gas (which we did not have to replace) and that was exciting to find out. It even had a fish-finder depth thing on it.
We loaded in tons of fishing poles, a cooler full of beer and soda, some jackets, towels, my bathing suit (as my plans were to swim, but the lake was too murky to see the gators under the surface, so I opted to stay on board!) and off we went! Lake Marian is 8 miles long, and reknowned for crappy ('crappy' meaning a type of fish, not poopy!) fishing with a few bass thrown in. The wind soon got so wild out there that fishing became impossible, so we cruised in whitecaps of monster size and breaking rollers----it was more like being in the ocean than in a lake! Somewhere along the line, I took my sweatpants off with my cell phone in them, and later, when I wanted to put them back on, I realized they had gone overboard, phone and all! It was a TracFone with about 2400-2500 minutes on it, all pre-paid. My first task today is to call TracFone and see how that works. I don't want to lose those minutes.
The night after the cruise, we had a steak dinner and got totally inebriated on Recipe and whatever else we could find to drink, like eggnog and rum. So, needless to say, packing up and hauling home yesterday was not a helluva lot of fun!
To top it all off, when we tried to get the trailer back in the exact same spot at Goog's as it was parked before, the front where the jack needed to stand was a bit 'off'. When Goog got on the truck to cause the ball to release, the entire trailer slipped backwards and the trailer and jack landed on the ground with a thud! Hmmmm.....what do we do now??? (First of all, it was my stupidity that I hadn't blocked the trailer wheels to keep them in place!) Luckily, my truck jack was able to fit under the ball socket enough to finally re-hook the trailer to the truck, stabilize it, and get it into place! What should have taken about 5 minutes took us over an hour in the heat.
I see that no one started a morning coffee thread yesterday, which must mean that either everyone was sleeping all day, or you were all too busy, as I was! We had no reception at the campsite, and, although Melissa had her WiMi card, we never used it.
So now to call TracFone and then go buy me another phone and, hopefully, get my units transfered to a new one. At least I have my manual with my old ID number in it, so they can cancel that one. Then I also need to return to the trailer to get my camera, Molly's heartworm and flea and tick meds, and a few other things I forgot yesterday. I will also put the furnace on low and leave the hot water heater on to protect against another cold spell headed our way. Pictures will have to wait until tonight. My one red rose is even more spectacular this morning than it was when I took its picture the other day.
Happy 2011 to everyone!
It ended up that, at the last minute, Melissa bit the bullet and got us reservations at Lake Marian Paradise Resort just a bit south of their house. We hauled the trailer, got a pull-through site, arrived on Friday at about noon, and had to come back yesterday as they don't have today off from work.
Friday night, New Year's Eve, the three of us were about the only ones celebrating in the entire park! Most of the residents and long-time guests are geezers, and went to bed at dark! We were trying to be oh-so-quiet while staying up what seemed to be an interminably long night so we could watch the ball drop in Times Square. We played some shuffleboard in the dark, a few people in electric golf carts drove past us and waved, but showed no interest in joining us whatsoever! We weren't sure if shuffleboard was allowed after dark or not! Later, we set up the new croquet set I got Melissa for Christmas, in the nearly pitch dark, with a lantern at each end-post area. The wickets are white vinyl-clad ones, thank heavens, so we could almost see those! Our course was in our site, on top of heavy-duty wood chip mulch on the ground-----a challenge to hit those balls straight. Luckily, nobody was in either site next to us, but one huge Class A was quite close a site over. They put out their lights at about 9:00! We held our breath to see if our balls clacking against the mallets would cause them to wake up and shout at us! We played some cribbage to kill time until the ball dropped, (we got about 30 or more TV channels broadcast over the air, including NBC) watched the last 15 minutes of that event, including poor Dick Clark who did a fantastic job talking after his serious stroke, shouted RABBITS, then Happy New Year, and should have gone to bed. However, we got out the cards for more hours of card playing. We finished off 4 bottles of Champagne that Melissa got a huge deal on...7.00 per bottle!
Saturday we had a rented pontoon boat for the entire day. The night before, as we were walking around the docks, we tried to pick out the one they would rent us. There was one decrepit, small, icky-looking one, and we were sure it would be that one! It was a really nice one, however, with a pee bucket under a little lid that, when raised up, made a private little area. Lots of comfy seats, a full tank of gas (which we did not have to replace) and that was exciting to find out. It even had a fish-finder depth thing on it.
We loaded in tons of fishing poles, a cooler full of beer and soda, some jackets, towels, my bathing suit (as my plans were to swim, but the lake was too murky to see the gators under the surface, so I opted to stay on board!) and off we went! Lake Marian is 8 miles long, and reknowned for crappy ('crappy' meaning a type of fish, not poopy!) fishing with a few bass thrown in. The wind soon got so wild out there that fishing became impossible, so we cruised in whitecaps of monster size and breaking rollers----it was more like being in the ocean than in a lake! Somewhere along the line, I took my sweatpants off with my cell phone in them, and later, when I wanted to put them back on, I realized they had gone overboard, phone and all! It was a TracFone with about 2400-2500 minutes on it, all pre-paid. My first task today is to call TracFone and see how that works. I don't want to lose those minutes.
The night after the cruise, we had a steak dinner and got totally inebriated on Recipe and whatever else we could find to drink, like eggnog and rum. So, needless to say, packing up and hauling home yesterday was not a helluva lot of fun!
To top it all off, when we tried to get the trailer back in the exact same spot at Goog's as it was parked before, the front where the jack needed to stand was a bit 'off'. When Goog got on the truck to cause the ball to release, the entire trailer slipped backwards and the trailer and jack landed on the ground with a thud! Hmmmm.....what do we do now??? (First of all, it was my stupidity that I hadn't blocked the trailer wheels to keep them in place!) Luckily, my truck jack was able to fit under the ball socket enough to finally re-hook the trailer to the truck, stabilize it, and get it into place! What should have taken about 5 minutes took us over an hour in the heat.
I see that no one started a morning coffee thread yesterday, which must mean that either everyone was sleeping all day, or you were all too busy, as I was! We had no reception at the campsite, and, although Melissa had her WiMi card, we never used it.
So now to call TracFone and then go buy me another phone and, hopefully, get my units transfered to a new one. At least I have my manual with my old ID number in it, so they can cancel that one. Then I also need to return to the trailer to get my camera, Molly's heartworm and flea and tick meds, and a few other things I forgot yesterday. I will also put the furnace on low and leave the hot water heater on to protect against another cold spell headed our way. Pictures will have to wait until tonight. My one red rose is even more spectacular this morning than it was when I took its picture the other day.
Happy 2011 to everyone!
The next nights we made it a point to play a game that would keep us up longer. Didn't wait for the ball to drop though.
Isn't that the day for the new diet, exercise program, budget?!? 
hehehehehe I think that recipe still has a hold of ya too. There's 3 pages of posts for yesterday, Sunday, in the coffee thread! Shake that recipe out of your head and get some coffee in ya! 
Scared the bejeebers out of me and I grabbed Shade and picked her up. She was fit to be tied that the Lab was running around. I waited to see if anyone would come out? Nope not until about 8 or 10 minutes later. Then he had to drive around looking for the dog, stopped and asked me if I had seen what way it headed! GOOD GRIEF!!! Now I don't hook shade up when I take her out. She stays right here in our site or Jodies and I clean up after her when she poops. Jodie has already had to clean up one pile from that neighbors dog at the bottom of her steps. I think today I will see about catching up with the manager here and put a bug in her ear!!!! 
To tell the truth? She's got a wicked temper on her and I'm just waiting for that Lab to poop on her site again!!! 
For sure would liven things up around here for a bit.