Week before Thanksgiving 2023

 68º at 6:45 pm Monday.  Bright sunshine all day with high of 74 degrees.  Local weatherman talks about a cold front coming in.  

Actually will have a few days with highs in the 60's and lows of 50 & 47.  10-day forecast is at right.  This compares with Clarinda, IA having highs in the 40's and lows down to 14 degrees.

Though Larry & Gail Ferguson are leaving in the morning to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with their family in Ansley, NE there are quite a few residents returning to Kenwood. Larry & Gail had accompanied Larry's father, Lawrence from Ansley down in mid-October.   Gary Pitt and his new wife Elaine got in from Missouri yesterday and Richard Pozzebon got in from Canada a couple days ago.  Nancy Koss returned from Michigan.  Nancy & Cliff  Weldon were here long enough to buy a 5th wheel that was for sale in the park, arrange to have it moved to another spot, and went back to Iowa until after Christmas.  Sharleen Stivers from Callaway, Nebraska, called today and said Lynn is having some medical issues and they won't be coming until after the first of the year.  She had told us a month or so ago that they intend to sell their place when they do come down, and not come back.  Jan Engle got here this week from Indiana.  Jan's mother Jean Snyder, sold her home and is in a facility in Maryland near one of her daughters..  Mike & Mary Jo Banken from Minnesota arrived this week (Bob Raab is her father so she will be returning to Minnesota shortly)  Brenda and Ed Wood from Canada got in this week.  Shirley Dagget and Larry Harris arrived from Winterset, Iowa.  Pam Keiper returned from Indiana a week or so ago; her mother died and she flew back there for several days and is back in the park.  Carol Brice spent the summer with Pam, but did not return for Pam's mother''s funeral.  Our neighbors, Pam and Bill Ellwanger are in the park - Pam was here when we got here on October 30th and Bill returned from a hunting trip in Minnesota early this week.  Helen Miles got here a week or so before we did.  Dan Perez is here full time.  Sisters Maxine Koch and Judy Chroninger got in from Ohio a few days before we did.  Morris and Luella Azure got in from North Dakota (His farm is almost on the boundry with Canada) before we did.  Larry Reep from Harlen, IA got in this week.  Pat & Lois Sumner (used to be from Colby, KS) live here permanently, but had done some travelling this summer and are back in the park.  Deanne & Dick Messer got here a couple days ago from Minnesota.  Dick & Jan Story from Canada returned here last week.  Dave & Peg Gilmore, from Michigan, were here when we arrived.  I may have missed some of the "winter Texans" - will think of them later.  There are quite a few "locals" who live here permanently in the park, also.  Most of them are young enough they are still working.  I didn't mention it before, but Ed Stanger, from Independence, MO, passed away early this fall.

Bobbi Raab, who used to be neighbors, called just after lunch today and said that her husband Bob had just passed away.  She had phoned us yesterday that this was expected to happen within 24 to 48 hours.

We have car pooled with Bob Weise from northeast Iowa to our Men & Women of A-Chord barbershop practices (a 60 mile round trip) each week for many years.  He informed us this week on our trip to practice that they had sold their mobile home in Snow to Sun RV Park in Weslaco and will give up residence when they leave first of April next spring.  He is 85 years old and has had some health problems for several years (he can't drive account eye trouble following a brain surgery several years ago account of a fall) and his 86 year old wife has to do all the driving and this gives them the option of not coming down, or renting a place if they do return..

Well, Thanksgiving is coming up a week from today.  Time flies!