January 19th - 25th, 2021 - Fun and Projects

Wednesday was a nice day so the guys got out the cornhole game and set it up on the street. Here are a couple of pictures of us old-timers at play.

Dave and Jean's trailer needed a major cleaning when they arrived from Michigan. Dave just had a pacemaker put in so he is not allowed to do much for a while. Others quickly jumped in to get the trailer cleaned up. Here is a picture of Terry cleaning the gutters.

Thursday morning I did laundry here in the park. There are always magazines and reading materials laying around on the tables to read. On the table nearest me was this.

Who would think you would find a map of Croatia in a laundromat in an RV park in Florida?

Friday, the 22nd, there was a porch posted for sale in the park. The folks were moving and couldn't take it with them. My neighbor Chris is a little unsteady on his feet so I thought it would be great for him to get in and out of his rig.  I checked it out right away. It was really nice but BIG. Here is a picture.

The steps didn't go with it. It was large and heavy. Really well-built. I rounded up Chris, he liked it so he then rounded up some help to move it. Luckily the guy getting rid of it had a trailer so eight of us walked it on to his trailer and he delivered it to Chris' lot. 

It had been built for a fifth wheel, which is taller than a trailer, so we had to cut the legs down in height. We also cut off the angled section you can see in the above picture because it stuck too far out on Chris' lot. We made new railings for the new shape. We then found a used set of steps at the park dump area and added those. Here is a picture of it all installed and in use. Chris and Marj are thrilled.

On Saturday the women on our street organized a potato bake. It was a warm, beautiful day. Several guys built a fire to cook the potatoes on and each rig brought a potato to bake and a topping to share. Our topping was Steak n Shake chili. It was a great time and we had plenty of room to social distance on an empty RV lot.  Here are some pictures. There were 34 in attendance in a huge circle all around the lot.

Our street, Audrey Street, is known throughout the park as the "party street". Almost all rigs on the street have one or more palm trees in front which we light up at night. It is cool.  Here is a picture of the street as I left the potato bake. Our rig is the first on the right. We had one palm tree and Kelly bought another.

For next week the women have organized an iron pie cook with folks bringing different ingredients to put in the iron pies.  Should be fun. The following week is Super Bowl Sunday so we will start earlier with a scrambled egg brunch. Every rig will bring scrambled eggs in a bag which are then boiled on the fire and served with toast. Should be fun as well.

I've been waiting all morning for tech support to call me back about a continuing issue with the new Dish receiver we bought since down here. She had me change a few settings and wait and see. I'm not optimistic.

77 degrees, sunny and breezy today. NICE. Sitting outside to do this blog.