Thanksgiving Dinner 2014

Just finishing up the harvest in the Date Orchards.  

Marlys has been in the hospital for a few days.  She's on the mend, and will be back in the park with her friends soon!

There are 5 full time units for sale here in the park.  This is one of them.

Myrna is hugging on Mario and his wife.  He's the "all around gardener, fix-it man, and general do everything guy" in the park.  Fine people.

Could handle these names, but not going to start adding, later down there will be some I don't know well yet. :-) Hope I got a picture of everyone.

The guests are starting to arrive...hmmm, we're all guests :-)

The park furnishes the turkeys, and other things.  The rest is pot-luck. Always more than enough to go around.

Janet,Sue, and James...The last table to get their food, but it was worth the wait

Ruth, our Manager. Her husband Frank, and Nancy.

Sunset over Rolle's Lynda Vista

Volunteers cook, prepare, and serve.  All the side dishes are buffet style

Happy people!

Ray just had a hip replacement less than a month ago.  His wife, Val, had foot surgery a couple days ago.  Always good helpers in the park, we let them off the hook today.  Just glad to have them there.

Starting to set out the food,  there was a LOT more than this.

Char just got back from checking out the dessert table.  She thinks it would be a good idea to start there :-)

Each table has a number. Then the numbers are drawn to see what order you get up to get your food.  Works well that way

Don and Jo are on the wrong side of the table today!

The young lady is Mario's daughter Maria.  Today is her birthday.

Lois and Sharon are struggling over the last bottle of wine!  All in fun, they were playing a joke on non-drinker Lois :-)

Under one of those tin foil covers, is a pumpkin cheese cake.  Yum!

Social hour starts an hour before serving time.  People enjoy visiting.  Most of us have only been in the park a short time, the season is just starting

Yep...Char got her dessert!

Frank and Don make a toast

Nancy is Don's sister.  She's new in the park this year.  And does a fine job of walking George...Don's very nice little dog.

Sue getting a little mushy. :-)  As you can see, some of the old timers here, know it's a good idea to bring a BIG plate to these potlucks

This table was the last number drawn to eat, but there was no shortage of food.

The turkey, potatoes, dressing and gravy are served, but you can always ask for more.

I went pretty light today

Janet and Sue. Good friends.  This was a good "welcome back" dinner, as well as Thanksgiving. Thanks Bob and Lynda, Ruth and Frank!!!!!

August 28. Mid Summer in the park

Aug 28, 6 AM  The kitties are out looking for attention

Sunrise over the park

Doesn't exactly look like Winter :-).  I rode in last night.  Had cooled down to 109 from 115 plus in the Imperial Valley. Since Marlys has two good A/Cs, I stayed in her motorhome (with her permission, of course).  Except for Bob and Lynda, and Frank and Ruth, I was the only one in the park.  It was quiet!

The Conti traveling home.  Frank suffered from a slight stroke, and is on the mend.  Thankfully, he seems to be recovering fine.

Morning greeters

There were several "early birds" out looking for a work. Or something.

The Green, green, grass of home.  Looks like Mario has been watering good

Our poor little Tangelo tree doesn't look very healthy, but it has a huge crop of fruit this year.  Can't wait for these babies to get ripe!
I had been on a 3 day motorcycle trip, destination was La Mesa, CA.  Stopped in the park on my way back to Kingman.  See you around the end of October, or when y'all get here!

May 2. 2014

A quick trip to Yuma today.  The park is almost deserted.  Bob is preparing some areas for cement slabs for store rooms

There were 2 more little black babies following too.  I counted an even dozen.  Pretty mom and cute babies

Everything is nice and green.  Mario has leveled and seeded this spot that was torn up last Winter.  It will fill in fast.

105 degrees on our porch

Removing loose gravel and leveling up some spots

Bob and Lynda's Kitty out enjoying the sunshine and Hibiscus flowers.  Between Rolle's and Janet's units

Some more chickens out there in the lawn by the Ramada

Artichokes.  There are also some Apricot and Nectarine trees with fruit on them

Rosie, the puppy we hand fed, is now 3.5 months old, and doing well

Our friend Redd has 2 Fig Trees that are just loaded!

Yuma has new signs on Main Street. Nice. This is Early Saturday morning. The temp will hoover between 105 and 110 later this afternoon.

April 15, 2014

Dinner at Linn's in Yuma.  Needed to pick up a few things from the house in the park, so made a one night visit.  What a difference a couple of weeks can make!

All the grass is green and looking good.

The potted flowers are looking good too.  The front of the Clubhouse.

The park entry is well kept.  Mario does a fine job

A row of empty homes

A reletively cool afternoon.  Summer is on the way

Verizon has a Palm tree disquised as a cell phone tower

Beautiful blue shy.  Tonight it will hold a Special Moon

Dave and Romy will be moving this monster out in the morning.  We'll see them again in November

The pool is behind the fence.  It gets a lot of use this time of year

Dutch's very nice trailer is for sale

Bill's trailer is also for sale.  It has a lot of nice features

Some of our long time residents will remember Redd.  He lives in town now, and has this little puppy that Pat and I hand feed when she was just a few days old until she was able to make it on her own.  She's a real Sweetie.

Redd has quite a green thumb.  He's planted a lot of cactus and other plants, and they are all very healthy

A very cute dog

The park chickens are very colorful this time of year too. :-)
Since we only live about 4.5 hours from the park, we'll be making it down there several time this summer to check our trailer and say hello to those that are left. If anyone want to give an up date on their summer, send me an email and I'll post it here if you'd like.

Who's that knocking at my door.  Dave settling up until next November.  Something we all go through. :-)

April 15, and not an exceptionally warm day. This is one of the reasons why the park empties out about this time of year.

Ruth doing what Ruth does.  Among a lot of other things she does to keep the park running and making people happy

Our owner comes with very good credentials

I know he will be upset because I posted these.  A humble gentleman.  But, I think people know we are in a stable park

And anyone that doesn't miss a meeting in 6 years has proven to be stable!