We set things out Friday afternoon and I sold my table saw, portable work bench, extension ladder, sabre saw, 10 lattice work panels, old rolls of new carpet yesterday afternoon. Didn't take a photo when first set up - sold within an hour to people who live in the park or workers in the park.
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| Last of our group is Theresa Van Oenen from Lowbanks, Ontario |
Well, once again, I got side-tracked -- it is 6:30 pm now. I checked the rain gauge about 5:15 and we had .3" of rain at that time and it has rained continually since. We only had about 4" of rain since mid-November so this rain is welcome.
Our next-door neighbors LaRhoda and Harold Nehere visited a while as we were sitting out with our yard sale stuff yesterday.
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| If you click on this photo to enlarge it you will be able to see a few blossoms and a lot of little arms growing o |
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| Butch Geisking from Titonka, IA in his "hobo" outfit. We kidded him that was usual clothes at home inTitonka, Iowa. |
Thursday was the Appreciation Day put on by Corporate RHP who own Kenwood RV Park. Phyllis, as Activity Director, had worked on it for better than a week and all day Thursday.
One of the first events (after about an hour delay for an Ambulance to come in to pick up a lady who fell and broke an arm and a leg) was the parade of "funny costumes. Phyllis has the big hat and pink blouse with red pants.
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| She is talking with Butch, who was later given 1st Prize as best costume. |
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| They had several golf-cart races. Here one of the guys, with his battery powered 3-wheeler raced. He came in a distant 2nd. |
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| Several people tried the obstacle course with driver blind-folded and passenger verbally giving directions. |
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| There are 20-some guys with radio controlled cars in the park. They had a lot of runs, both straight out races and then figure-8 races. Many bumps into each other and roll-overs. |
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| Lining up to start a drag-race |
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| Oh, this is Phyllis about 7:30 am mixing up the 16-20 lbs of Pasta for the lunch |
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| Though the temperature was in the upper 60's they went ahead with the water balloon toss. Some got wet. |
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| The sit-down cake walk had about 20 cakes awarded (I got one!) |
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| By 2:30 or so we were inside - local La Feria Police force gave a presentation on Crime Watch. Then some 5 or 6 timed games around the room - stacking pennies, putting weighted pop cans in order, guessing prices of some items, moving cups, putting odd shaped things in holes, etc. Then was time for the hot dog, pasta, and baked bean lunch. |
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| With around 160 people, it took a while to go through the line |
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| The office help served the meal. The Park Manager, Rosie, is in the pink. |
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| Phyllis and Robert (the Maintenance Man) bringing out the baked beans. |
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| Phyllis gave out a lot of "joke" awards, the winners for the various games, and the drawing prizes which we had gotten donated from many merchants in the area. |
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| Almost forgot this photo of the pinata that had been put on Facebook by the Manager. It was broken hanging from a tree outdoors. Contained Mexican candy. This is Phyllis and Elva, the cleaning lady for the park, putting the candy in. |
Well, it is almost 7:30 pm and still raining. Phyllis has rested much of the day. We did go a few blocks into town to El Centro, the local grocery store, for their appreciation day at noon for a hot dog, and changed the signs out front of the Park from Yard Sale to Entertainment for tomorrow evening.
More later, Lynn
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