Happy New year-January 1,2007
Spending the Holiday season here in Florida is an experience. We have been in shorts most of the time and the weather has been in the 80F plus. On Christmas day it rained all day and it was sunny on Boxing day. We had our Christmas turkey dinner at the club house and as usual there was
alot to eat. On boxing
day,December 26th we awoke to 2 boxes left by our trailer. Our reaction was that someone had left their garbage on our site. It so happened that we had a meeting that morning at the club house ..the resident association ..to keep us up to date with all that is happening at the park. So I went up to the president and told him that someone had left their garbage on our site. He told me to report it to the office which I decided to do after the meeting. Before the meeting was over, one of the resident named Dick came to the microphone and said " We have some Canadian residents in our park who are celebrating a holiday that isn't celebrated in the states. This holiday is called Boxing Day and the reason it is called Boxing Day is that it is the day the Canadians box their gifts and return them. To make things easier for us he has placed boxes on all Canadian sites." Needless to say there was
alot of laughter including myself. So the enclosed picture show one of the boxes.
On new Year's Eve , we went a dance at the club house and enjoyed ourselves. Today ,January 1st it is raining and it is warm.
On December 26th in the afternoon until December28 in the afternoon, Stew's daughter and her family--
Shell,Chris, Kandace ,
Kor and Craig stopped by and visited with us . They were on the way to Fort
Lauderdale , Fl. to go on a cruise. It was great to see them. We shopped and went for Strawberry shortcake at Plant City.
Well,here are some of the renovations we did to our 5Th wheel. We took out the table-bench seating which was difficult to have anyone over for a meal. the new free standing table and four chairs make the trailer more like home and a pleasure to entertain. We had that pleasure on December 30,2005 when our friends Jim and Pat came to visit and we were able to have our supper around the table rather than cramped or out side with plates sitting on our laps. the wood from the benches Stew was able to make a cabinet which he hung over the computer desk.This gave us back some of the storage we lost when we removed the benches. The desk is also, a new addition and it is really a great blessing . Now we do not have the clutter on the table when we want to use the computer. Our next major project will be replacing the sofa with wall hugger love seat rocker recliner. One day I would like to replace the window coverings. When we removed the benches there are holes in the wall from the screws that will be need to be filled or covered with new wallpaper. Oh well !! That will mean more pictures and blogging. There never seems to be a lack of something to blog about.
