HAS OUR FIVE SEASONS PARK BEEN SOLD.....AGAIN??

Checking our Park's real-estate site this morning we found out our Five Seasons Park has been 'conditionally' sold (again??) for $3,900.000.  Five Seasons Estates 'Conditionally Sold'.  No point in jumping to any conclusions yet because our Park has been down this road before so we'll wait to see what, if anything different happens this time.  

 IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY INTO THE FIELD BEHIND THE HORSES YOU MAY SEE A DEER OUT THERE....I DIDN'T NOTICE IT UNTIL I EDITED THE PHOTO

Our snowfall ended Saturday evening and with our temps up a few degrees to around the freezing mark and with diminished winds, we had a clear air day with a few Sun splashes making their way through the cloud cover.  Not too bad a day at all.  How nice to see a little bit of sunshine again:))

 NOT SNOWING AND NO BLUSTERY WINDS BLOWING THE WHITE STUFF AROUND TODAY

Food Basics in Goderich is the only supermarket carrying 'diabetic' Boost so that was a destination for Pheebs and I this morning.  Roads were in good condition so for the first time in two days I took the Jeep out of 4-wheel drive.  A swing through McDonalds for coffee and it was down to the harbor we went.  I knew Lake Huron would have been busy building ice sculptures along the shoreline so it was those ice works I was looking for.

 WITH LAKE HURON'S SHORELINE COATED IN ICE THIS MORNING I HAD TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHERE I STEPPED

 A PAIR OF MALLARD DUCKS BOBBING IN THE COLD LAKE WATERS

We were back home just short of 11 a.m.  I didn't need to do any snow shoveling but I did have some Christmas lights to dig out of the snow so I busied myself uncovering them.  While doing that a few rays of sunlight broke through the clouds, landing on me, and sparking an energy surge.  I quickly shoveled out two-thirds of our driveway and also started up our little Class C to let it warm up and run for a while.  In short, it was a reasonably good day because I finally got a few things done for a change.  Thanks for your help Mr. Sun:))))))

 

Want to thank everyone for all the 'Merry Christmas' wishes we received.  It is always encouraging to know we have so many caring friends out here.  

Took a picture of the Deer Park Lodge sign Saturday and of course that brought back a few memories.  Shortly after moving here in late 2002 Kelly landed herself a job there that lasted for the next 10 years.  By 2005 she was very instrumental in running the lodge.  Deer Park Lodge is a Seasonal place and closes up for the winter but Kelly most always did the bookings for the following summer.  A lot of those reservations were made by phone during the winter months and that posed a problem.  It was in the Fall of 2006 we bought ourselves an RV and so began our Snow Birding years to the Southwest.  But what about the Deer Park reservations??  Well, no problem, Kelly took the reservation book and Deer Park cell phone south with us.  We could be in New Mexico, Arizona, or California when her cell phone would ring and she would have to stop what she was doing and write down all the info for the reservation.  And this could happen at any time anywhere.  I remember one call coming in while at a Walmart store in Douglas Arizona. Kelly was in front of the milk cooler and had to fumble some groceries to get the phone out of her purse.  Often times we would be whooshing along one of the Interstates or crawling along a rough and tumble desert road somewhere when her Deer Park phone would ring.  It was March 12th, 2012 when we were precariously making our way up the narrow and steep drop-off roads of Harquhaula Mountain west of Wickenburg Arizona.  We were on a narrow shaky bend in the uneven rock-strewn road when.....her phone rang.  I had to stop right where we were and not let the Jeep move because a foot or two either way and we could easily lose the sketchy cell tower signal on those rocky slopes.  If you click on this Harquahala Link you can ride along with us and you can see a photo of Kelly on the Deer Park cell phone taking a reservation from someone. (remember to click on the pictures to enlarge them when you get there) Quite often the person on the other end of the line would ask Kelly how the weather was, thinking they were talking to her in snowy Bayfield.  Imagine the confusion for that person when Kelly would respond with, its sunny and seventy degrees:))  It was March 12th 2012 when we did that drive.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( You Might Be A Redneck if you've ever given a set of Tupperware ice tea glasses as a wedding present.

- Your idea of heaven involves two shotguns and a keg of beer.

- You picket your horses on your lawn so you won't have to mow it.

- You're wearing a camouflage jacket and orange hunting vest in your driver's license pic.

- You stop to flirt with the person running the drive-through at McDonalds.

- You save old kitchen appliances for target practice.
- You save old kitchen appliances for children's Christmas presents.

- You get up early on Saturday to go yard sale shopping for entertainment.

- Your gun cabinet takes up half your living room.

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BOUSE ERRANDS, BYE BILL, AND HEADING OUT IN THE MORNING

Not many stars visible in the pre-dawn sky so I knew we were in for a cloudy start to the day.  Luckily it was not a solid cloud cover like those lifeless depressing gray days we get back in Ontario during the miserable month of November.  Cloudy skies here in the west usually have a lot of texture giving them a moody personality all there own and I visually love those kinds of skies.

EARLY MORNING SUNRISE

CAN YOU SEE MORNINGS BIG HAPPY FACE

Decided to Bouse ourselves this morning so slipped into town with a small load of laundry.  Popped into the Roadrunner General store for some milk, refilled 4 jugs of water at a roadside water station then took us for a drive around town stopping to take a photo at the Bouse Airport of a plane on the runway waiting to board passengers for a non stop international non stop night flight to Hong Kong:))

THE 'HONG KONG EXPRESS' AWAITS IT'S PASSENGERS

FILLING UP WATER JUGS

HAD NEVER BEEN INTO BOUSE'S ROADRUNNER MARKET BEFORE AND MUST SAY I WAS IMPRESSED

USUALLY THESE SMALL DUSTY LITTLE WESTERN TOWNS HAVE KINDA SMALL DUSTY LITTLE GENERAL STORES.....BUT NOT THIS ONE

FOR IT'S SIZE IT'S WELL STOCKED

ALSO FOUND THE BOUSE LAUNDROMAT TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE AND NO THAT IS NOT ME....TOO SKINNY, AND NO THAT IS NOT KELLY.....TOO HEAVY

With our Bouse errands all wrapped up it was back out to the rig under clearing skies.  Southwest skies sure don't stay cloudy long out here in these parts.  Decided to head out in the morning and head for an area we have only drove through one time years ago.

LOVELY CLOUD PATTERNS IN THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON

Drove down to Bill's site late this afternoon for a visit and to say 'good-bye.'  Although we may be back through this area later this month Bill is heading out for British Columbia a week from today so he will be gone.  A swell fella that Bill and he's been a good friend over the years.  If we make it out here again next winter we'll know right where to find him:))

BILL DEMONSTRATES IHS NEW TRAVEL TRAILER'S DOOR

I LIKE BILL'S BACK YARD

DON'T WORRY BILL YOU'LL REMEMBER WHERE BRITISH COLUMBIA IS ONCE YOU GET ROLLING AND SEE A FEW ROAD SIGNS

GROOVY TRUCK

A number of readers haven't been receiving the automatic email notifications for our blog lately so Kelly dug into our settings and found some things had unexplainably changed.  She worked on that for awhile and it might be Okay now.  Look to the top of our sidebar for 'Follow by Email' in case you have to re-subscribe.

SUNSET ON WHAT I THINK MIGHT BE HARQUAHALA MOUNTAIN

Don't know what kind of an internet connection we will have Tuesday night so if you don't see a post it probably means we are in a Verizon weak spot again.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen. "Careful," he said, "CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful . CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!" The wife stared at him. "What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?" The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving."
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- Why are frogs always so happy? They eat what ever bugs them 
Q: What happens when a Buddhist becomes totally absorbed with the computer he is working with?
A: He enters Nerdvana.
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A man was recently flying to New York. He decided to strike up a conversation with his seat mate. "I've got a great politician joke. Would you like to hear it?" "I should let you know first that I am a politician." "That's OK. I'll tell it really slow!" 
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