Odds and ends

                                            Here's Patches in her spacious single story ranch home.

 

                                         Here's patches in her cozy get away week end cottage.

                             The two love birds snuggled up when we were there for Thanksgiving.

 

Renato likes to cook and he's VERY good at it.

 

 

Judy relaxing on a typical nice afternoon.

 

 

After Thanksgiving but before Christmas

The tulip tree across the street has decided to bloom in late November.  It looks like a decoration on the top of a Christmas tree.

The pressure is off, some might think like Clark Griswald (Chevy Chase in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie) that if your neighbor decorates we have to out do them, nope not us.Tony, our next door neighbor from NY, has really lite up the neighborhood so we don't have to so won't!  The park has a riverboat float they use for the Christmas and Marde Gras parades so they went through the park all light up (ya can't see it in my picture with the flash) playing Christmas music.

Get your pecans now......

We took Rudy & Linda with us today to the Broken Branch pecan ranch where we always get our nuts.  $3 bucks a pound and we get 10 pounds of cracked pecans which we'll shell and place in our freezer, they will last until we return next year.  The cracker looks like it's from the 1950s but still going strong.  We were told that this years harvest is WAY down, about 10,000 pounds compared to 45,000 pounds last year.  A spring hail storm and a class 1 hurricane did the damage.

Trick or Treaters

I wish the flash would light up the street for a block so you could see the hundreds of kids out here plus parents.  They were thicker than the mosquitoes.  Last year Jody & Judy ran out of candy after 300+ kids.  This year there were prepared for the 521 kids that came to their house.  There were 2 bags of Snickers left.  The one I liked I was not prepared for, a little lad with 20 some balloons all over him, he looked like the grape guy from Fruit of the Looms, he couldn't even reach his bag, mom had to help.  Hilarious!

Halloween in Biloxi

We have been settling in and meeting old friends, I played poker once and Judy has started up her water aerobics class.  We have been out to eat with our HH friends and went to see the movie Alex Cross.  On Halloween day we drove to Biloxi for the night.  Before the trick or treaders started to arrive Renato was making dinner....pork loin, rice & black beans.  I will continue to say he's a very good cook.

OK winter.....we are ready now!

OK winter......bring it on!  We are in Gulf Shores, AL and ready for you.  Patches is resting up & will be ready too.

Biloxi, Mississippi

You know, it's kind of fun typing Mississippi.  Anyway, we arrived Tuesday afternoon and after setting up Jody & Renato stopped by and picked us up so we went to Newks and then to the movies to see ARGO.  Tuesday is cheap movie night.  We were there for 6 nights and would you believe I never even thought about taking a picture of them!!!!  I'm not loosing it.....I've lost it!
Judy's birthday was Wednesday and her goal was to bet $5 at every Biloxi casino.  She started out by herself in the am then picked me up so we hit a few more.  She didn't make her goal and even went to Treasure Bay while I ran errands but still only visited 4 of 9 in our stay.  If you are wondering she was $27 up at the end.
Renato & Jody are busy fixing up their home and Renato was sanding, staining and finishing with polyurethane the front doors.  He also made a very good pizza before we left.....turkey sausage pesto, basil, onion & mushrooms.  One day we had some buffalo and elk burgers.  Jody & Judy got some shopping done too.
Saturday & Sunday there was a Civil War , excuse me.....war of northern aggression, reenactment at Jefferson Davis' estate, Beauvoir, on the other side of the fence from us.  We didn't go but I was home Sunday and got to hear & feel the cannons and muskets firing.  It was a change from the trains, many many train, passing the other side of the RV park.
Mississippi    Mississippi   Mississippi, OK, that's enough.