Monday evening, 11-3-08

[Liz]

Karen greeted everyone with a wonderful welcome package filled with flamingo themed items, including stemware. How thoughtful, thank you Karen!



Ernie made a big pot of smokin’ chili for dinner. Thank you too, Ernie.



Tommy volunteered to be the lamppost, Thanks, Tommy!



Lori kept the smoke going her way, Thanks, Lori!



Jill and Tommy bought these cute boots to protect Molly and Sammy’s feet from the sandspurs around their campsite. They were not amused.



Sammy: “I’m sitting here until they take these silly things off!”



We’re all looking forward to the other’s arrival today. More good times to come.

[Paulette]

Wow, looks like all are having a good time!

Whose MH is that in the dinner table picture?

[retiredhappy]

Talk about having a ball!! The MH in the dinner table picture is mine. We're waiting for Diana and Beth today. Wish you all could have seen Jill's poor dogs trying to walk with those booties on - high stepping and kicking out sideways with each step. They finally took pity on them and took them off. We're all just a bunch of partying fools and all were in their rigs by 9PM.

[rvgrammy1953]

Great photos, Liz.....(note to self: keep your eye on Liz with a camera...and also sit up straight and smile )
yep, we party hard, really fast, and then in our PJs by 9PM.....

[Cedar518]

Great pics!

ok,..gotta ask,.... what are "sand spurs?"

[carold]

I sure am enjoying this GTG carold

[rvgrammy1953]

Sandspurs......well, you and I would call them "stickers", Cedar......but they grow here at ground level....really hurt if you get one in your foot.......the poor "puppies" get them in their paws... will try to get you a photo of a sandspur...they are all over Texas....North, South, East and West.....

[Cedar518]

OK,.... guess I know what they are, just not by that name,.... thanks for looking for a pic to show me,....

[AlmostThere]

In Illinois we call them stickers, or sandburs, as they usually grow in sandy areas best. When we got one of the little points stuck in our skin, we'd say we got a sticker.

[SeeyaGal]

hum is this sandburs any worse than Goat heads? We have those here in AZ and it will flatten your tires of the bike and stick to the bottom of your shoes. Then you track them in the house and if you step on one you scream!

[rvgrammy1953]

As promised....photo of sandspurs....

Jill thought I was nuts bent over taking pictures of the ground until I told her what I was doing.....

[Bethers]

We won't say what else we might have thought about Lori

I call them burrs - or burs - and, yep, Jenny- same thing - Peaches can't walk with them in her paws, she'll stop and pull most of them out - but sometimes she stops, rolls over, puts her paw in the air - and waits for me to do it. Now, she rolls in the grass also - and they get into her fur - then she comes in and they fall out of her eventually, I step on it - and I scream, yessiree I sure do. My shoes come off at the door - have to down here - and with the dry summer and fall, they are harder and more painful than ever.

[Cedar518]

ooooooooohhhhhhhh,... those look nasty. Haven't go them here. And i'm glad of it! Be careful out there,...