Getting Ready For Christmas

When we got off work Saturday at 7:00pm, we headed to the HEB for a few groceries.  We were out of milk and bread, and anything to make sandwiches out of on Sunday when we had to work again.  There's a problem with going to the store when you're hungry (even though we ate dinner before going).

We came back with cherry pie (plus whipped cream), strawberry cheese stolen, and cranberry walnut muffins - oh so good!

Sunday was another long slow day at work.  Not many people coming into the park or moving farther south this weekend.  Sunday was our first Ice Cream Social that we had to work.  I guess we did ok - no complaints.  I think we filled the scoops a lot larger than other workampers, but no one said anything about it. 

There was this very strange couple that checked in on Saturday when we worked.  The lady means well, but she just won't leave whoever is working in the office alone.  I think she'd be perfectly happy just hanging out with anyone all day long.  The problem is, none of us want, or can do that.  How do you tell a paying customer to just get away?  We sometimes dread going to popcorn for fear of what she wants next.  Only time will tell if she and her husband will show up for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday.

After ice cream we learned a new game called Farkle.  It's a dice game with individual scoring. There's no skill to this, and between the two of us we decided there's not much fun either.  By the time we got back to the trailer, it was 8:30pm.  Butch doesn't like staying alone so long but we have enough down time that he got lots of visits from us, as well as a ride on the golf cart and a visit to the fire pit for an hour.

Yesterday I got my new kayak out of the box, inflated it, and tested it in the pool.  All is well and we can't wait to use them out on the lake.  Maybe next week if the weather holds.  It's still in the 80s.

Since Erik is anxiously awaiting for us all to take them out on the lake, we headed to Walmart to get life jackets so we'll have something to grab onto if we happen to fall in.  Since we don't really plan on wearing them, we bought the cheap ones for $19.99.  The $49.99 ones were very lightweight and comfy, but why waste money on something we don't play on using.

The hubbub with our card-playing friends - Bristol Palin on Dancing With The Stars.  I'm sick to death of hearing about her (and her mother as well!)  Luckily tonight's the finale. 

Since we cleaned out the basement of the trailer today to make room for the bags of kayaks, we decided to get out the Christmas lights and palm trees.

Mark hanging the balls in the tree on our site.  (His back is definitely better - last week he wouldn't have been able to be in this position.)

Several weeks ago I blogged that the problem with Texas trees, we never get to see the leaves change colors.  I was wrong, we have this one right next to where Mark is standing on the ladder.

It's not much, but those green leaves are changing to red.

The lights really look much better than this picture shows.  We're the first in the park to have up "lit" Christmas decorations.  Someone in the back of the park put a wreath up last week.  We need more. 

Next up - start Christmas shopping.  This year I'm buying on-line, and shipping to the kids back home to hold until we'll be hope in a few weeks.