RV Parks Christmas program

Saturday evening was the annual Christmas program put on the the snowbirds of the park. We have gone to 2 or 3 of them and they are "cute". I am not a fan of singing and there was a lot of it, in groups and by individuals but I survived. The best part is the skit they put on.

Today Judy went to Biloxi on the bus with 50 or 60 others from the park. They went to the Hard Rock Casino but.....we are not rich, oh well, we are happy. I stayed home as I don't enjoy squeezing myself into a bus seat. Tomorrow we'll travel to St Augustine to spend some time with Clayton & Pat, Saturday is his birthday.

The weather is warming up, 68 today and a fair amount of sunshine. It will be in the 70s and lots of sun the next few days.

Living the RV life

We moved this week a block down the road to and area of the park where we have many friends. One is our neighbor "Corn" who is making turkey soup for a few friends. He used the turkey carcase' from the parks Thanksgiving dinner.

Judy and I spent and hour or two and make fruit cakes and they came out pretty good. Our picture was taken at the Shrimp Basket where we went with friends so dinner. Good news Don & Zola....we went to the one in Foley and it was REALLY good. Much better than the one in Gulf Shores. The weather has been so nice we ate outside but it is starting to cool down. What makes the cooler weather acceptable is all the blue skies & sunshine.

Now that we have moved we started our Christmas decorating as you can see.

Thanksgiving with Jody & Renato

We packed up Patches, who was guarding her stuff, & drove to Biloxi Wednesday afternoon after playing poker (I'm on a big loosing streak) and then the four of us went to Bonefish Grill for their Bang Bang Shrimp special.....lots of spicy fried shrimp for $5. On Thanksgiving Judy & Jody fixed the full boat turkey dinner with pumpkin, apple & pecan pies. Renato's family was over....his mother Dowage & boyfriend Ted, brothers Ivan & wife Larina plus Roger & wife Daniella and Nathan (Kimberly was with friends so didn't make it over) & Rogers mother in law Rosa. We all stuffed ourselves and the pies were outstanding. On Friday Renato started putting up Christmas decorations & we went to Five Guys Burgers & Fries. On Saturday Renato did a BBQ and the rest of us were busy baking cookies....sugar Christmas cookies and Lebkuchens. Sunday after lunch at Newks we drove home sweet home.

Weather wise since returning home we've had a cold spell, 60 daytime and high 30s at night, some rain & clouds but sunny & clear today.

Cell phone picture assortment

Here's some pictures from the last couple weeks on the cell phone.

Every year we come down here we buy 10 pounds of cracked pecans at the Broken Branch Farm....and here it is. We sit at our campsite and shell them the next several weeks.

Hey Zola.....we stopped at Papa Roccos for some warm beer and lousy pizza and IT WAS GOOD!

Here's a cotton field along AL59 &

Judy & Jody on the Gulf Shores Beach.

Patches doing what she does best......I taught her one of my favorite recreations and she practices it a lot.

Blue Angles Homecoming show

Well, I'm back. Since the last post we have been enjoying the nice weather with Craig & Jenny, HitchHiker friends who are here for most of the winter. We have been playing poker, euchre & cribbage; Judy played Bingo one night. Craig & I spend a few hours replacing a relay in our Electrical Management System. One power connection was loose causing it to overheat and damage the relay & melt some insulation. Today we went to Mobile & met Jody & Renato at Felix's for lunch to celebrate our 45 anniversary. Happy anniversary Charlie!!!

Our prayers are also now with Renato's younger (29 years old) brother who suffered a stroke Monday evening. He's in the hospital and slowly recovering while his doctors figure out what the next steps will be.

A week ago Friday we went with Jody & Renato plus Jenny & Craig to the Pensacola Naval Air Station all day for the Blue Angles Homecoming Air Show. We arrived at 9:30 and left after dark about 7:30. Although it was a long day we all enjoyed it.

Scary night

We went to Jody & Renato's for Halloween, Judy has been wanting to see trick or treaters for the last couple years and I think she had her fix Monday night. We drove over Saturday and went to Newks for supper, we really like their soups. Renato was busy decorating and his niece and nephew came over Sunday afternoon to carve their pumpkins. Monday night they had enough candy for the first 327 kids before running out of candy a little after 8pm. Judy moved her chair to the end of the sidewalk to let the kids know we were out of candy, they were still pouring in. We left at 8;30 returning to Gulf Shores and our own bed. Other than that we have been playing euchre, poker & Judy has been leading her water aerobics class. The weather has been real good and more snowbirds have been arriving. We have washed the truck & RV and been doing lots of small fix it & clean it tasks.