Thanksgiving Day!

11-24-11 - Wow! What a great Thanksgiving here in the Valley of the Sun. Didn't have any sun but was about in the middle 60's. We had a room full of people that were all hungry for turkey. Did the park provide or what, as the turkey, potatoes, dressing & gravy was excellent. We had a total of 56 tables with 8 people on each table. No one came away hungry and had a great time for talk, etc.

Then this afternoon we got in four pickleball matches. Ione played with her partner she is going to play with in the Classic, starting Jan 23rd and I played with his wife. The games were all close and ended up each winning two games.

So now it is time to make some phone calls to family back at home. They had a great day to meet at Pam & Brett's for Thanksgiving. So hopefully everyone had a lot of great food and played games, etc.

Two More Days until Thanksgiving!

11-22-11 - Well, we are still enjoying some pretty good weather here in the Valley of the Sun. The temps have been in the mid 70's.

We are looking forward to eating a great Turkey dinner with about 400 other Happy Trails residents. There will be about 50 tables in our ballroom, with 8 people seated at each table. The park where we live furnishes, turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy & cranberry sauce. Then the 4 couples at each table add in, sweet potatoes, salad, dessert & rolls. So we are getting excited and ready for our Thanksgiving dinner with friends.

Still playing pickleball and did do a tournament last Saturday but didn't do that well with my partners. Oh Well, don't want to win all the Gold Medals.

Birthday for Ron!!

11-11-11 - Well, we have been at Happy trails for just about two weeks. Just had my birthday yesterday. It was low key and just went to out dinner with a couple of friends of ours. It was a fun evening and a fun time. The weather has been on the cool side for the last week or so. We aren't complaining too much but would like some warmer weather. I think we are about a week away of warmer weather so will just have to wait.

Have been playing lots of pickleball and doing pretty well. So will just keep pickleball on our list. It's been fun playing with friends. We have been keeping busy getting our lot in shape.

We have been listening to a 2A State playoff in Lacy, WA with Lynden against North Thurston and it has been a good game. We are now down 26-23 and just starting the 4th Quarter. We have to just keep moving the ball to take the lead. Looks like it will go down to the wire. final report coming later.

We made it!!

11-02-11 - We arrived at Happy Trails about 5:30 Oct 30th. We did a good final leg down after spending the night at St. George, UT with the Dueck's - Rod & Barb. They fixed us a nice dinner and a soft bed to sleep in the 29th. Then the morning of the 30th played about 5 games of pickleball before heading down the road to Happy Trails.

The weather was excellent for our trip down from WA. with not a drop of rain the whole way. So can't ask for anything better then that. We had washed the motor home before leaving home and the only thing we had to clean when we arrived was bugs of the frontend and windshield. So all and all an excellent trip down.

The weather has been really nice the last three days since getting here. But change is on the way as we had a strong wind today which is going to bring us cooler weather starting on Friday. Will have to keep things buttoned down in the yard so wind doesn't blow things away.

Day Three on the road!

10-27-11 - Well, we left Darby, MT on Hwy 93 this morning and south the road was very curvy and had a 7,100 ft. pass to go over and all the way down the south we only averaged about 40 miles per hour on the curvy part and that was just about 4 hours of slow going. The weather has been really good except the nights are cold. All the way through ID & MT on Hwy 93 was very interesting and looks of nice things to do. A lot of this area is ranching and seen lots of animals, Cows & Horses. With me being an old farm boy was a fun area to go through.


Then after getting off Hwy 93 we came down on Hwy 20 and then Hwy 26 and hooked into I-15 which is freeway and our speed picked up and did well the rest of the day. We are spending the night at Wal Mart in Bringham City, UT which is about 20 miles north of Salt Lake. We picked up groceries and should keep us going for a few days. The motor home has been doing really good.

So now tomorrow we will be heading to St. George, UT to see our friends, Rod & Barb Dueck. So maybe we will get there early enough to play some pickleball.

We are on the Road!

10-25-11 - Well we have the motor home packed and ready to hit the road. We pulled out of our place at about 9:10 AM on the 25th. We had a very good day of driving from Lynden/Seattle and then over hwy I-90 and ended up at Medical Lake near Spokane. A total of 365 miles for our first day on the road, not bad. Spent the night at Silver Lake Bible Camp and took a couple of dear friends out to Mexican Food and had a fun evening.

We had a very cool evening as we weren't plugged in and it was cool this morning when we got up. Our friends said it got down to 23 degrees last night. So we had frost on the grass and everything was white and also the fog coming off Silver Lake was beautiful. This morning I had a chance to take some pictures of the camp as they are always improving things. Terry Andrews the manager does an excellent job of keeping things up to date.

Jessie Beisheuvel!

This was our granddaughter getting ready to
serve against Whatcom Community
College. Their team is doing a great job and
are in Second Place in their league