Howdy partner. Me n Jeni Lynn have been sprucing up the "ole" golf cart for the Harvest festival.Thursday afternoon we decorated the cart and had it ready to go for the decorating contest and poker run on Friday.Thats us in costume in the picture with our cart.in the back of the cart we had pumpkins,boxes of apples,pears, and tomatoes.also flowers and straw.Well to our surprise, we won first place for the best decorated cart. We were thrilled!
We have had a ball these last three days with the harvest festival.It started Thursday with the annual meeting.Then elections for the new
president and board members and a patio cocktail party at 4pm. Jeni and I didn.t attend the patio party as we were decorating the cart and the time got away from us.But we did make it to the Wii bowling tournament Thursday night. The girls kicked us guys behinds.Friday morning we headed the cart over to the clubhouse for the poker run and deco. contest(which as I said earlier we won). I took a picture of the parking lot it was full of carts and cars.They had all kinds of activities going on in the clubhouse and outside Jeni and I were competing in the golf cart "poker run" They give you a map with 5 stations marked on it.you drive
to each station where they give you an envelope with a playing card inside(1-10 jack queen king). After going to all 5 stations, you head back to the club house where you turn in your 5 cards and make a poker hand out of it. The highest hand wins.we didn't even have a pair.I think the winning hand was 3-eights.Back at the clubhouse we were in the cake walk which I won a very nice sour cream peach bundt cake.yummy!Another event we enjoyed was the pony races.Six people held wooden horse heads (made by my buddy Gary) and stood at the starting line,then the the race official(my buddy Gary) rolls two different color dice. One color is
for the number of the horse and the other is how many spaces the horse moves.We didn't win a race.I bet it all on the horse the clown was riding (see clown in pic.) but that horse must of been lame!All in all we had a great day.Friday night they had a delicious pork dinner with mashed potato's and mushroom gravy and veges.They served over 200 people.The clubhouse was at capacity.The hard working volunteers had us all fed in no time at all.This park runs on it's hard working members and our hats are off to all of them.Jeni even volunteered Friday pulling K P duty at the hot dog stand(I ate 2 foot longs!yummy)and she played security guard at the raffle prize table f
or a couple of hours .Me, I just played games and ate hot dogs.But if somebody needed something I was their Man!The guy who runs these dinners for the members is Ed George(in the blue apron)He does a great job.The pork loin he prepared for the dinner was the best I've ever tasted.The price of this gourmet dinner including coffee and dessert,5 bucks,what a deal!
After we chowed down it was time for entertainment.the members put on a variety show called "Hillside hillbilly hoedown".What a hoot.They have some very talented people at this park.
after the play we headed home very tired but with great memories of the harvest Festival of
09.Saturday morning we went over to the clubhouse for the "hitch up" breakfast. this is the end of the harvest Festival and all the guests will be hooking up and leaving today.What a great three days we have had.
Today also happens to be our wedding anniversary. 39 years! wow it seems like just yesterday.We went to dinner at a nice little Italian restaurant in Oakhurst called Decicci's.On hwy 41.I highly recommend it. Then we headed home to watch a movie Jeni bought earlier this week.We curled up on the couch and snuggled.and enjoyed the movie.I think it was called "the proposal".Life's Good!
