We had around 135 members here at Thousand Trails Resort for Thanksgiving dinner. The room was full, plus a few sat outside to eat. This was my 2ND Thanksgiving dinner.
Picture I took Thanksgiving night. Been off of work all of this week as the kids had the whole week out of school for the holiday. Back to work Monday.
These 2 dogs are Samoyed, direct descendants of the wolf. Yesterday these two dogs got into a fight & bit the owner while trying to separate them. I tried to let Pickle up to their cage to see if they would play, but they scared Pickle. Samoyed dogs are used as sled dogs in Russia.
Chiengora means dog hair in French.
Two ladies here were demonstrating it Saturday as I cam into the park. You can use any animal with long hair. I can remember when angora was so nice & soft. Angora is rabbit fur.
She makes different items with the spun yarn. Shaws, hats, etc.
This past Friday we had the Thanksgiving Dinner for school bus employees. Mr. Daggett is the head honcho & so he is carving the turkey.
We got started at around 11:15 AM as some of the drivers have to go on routes at noon.
As you can see there was plenty of food. I took deviled eggs filled with onion & olive pieces. Sure was some tastee sweet potatoes. I got 2nds on that. I got 3 pictures of people with food stuck in there mouth, BUT NOT PUTTING THE PICTURES ON HERE, LOL.
Lori is leaving us as her family is moving. It was a sad day to see her leave. She is such a nice lady. Besides the balloons & cards, they presented her with some pictures of days gone by.
At the Golden Coral they gave us veterans a sticker to put on our shirt to show we served, so when I got home, I put it on Pickle's forehead. He absolutely hated it & rolled & tried everything he could do to get it off of him. He finally got it off.
During the past week he has chewed his halter apart partially & his leash of which it now has a knot that I tied it back together.
I had a butterfly fly in the window. I was really surprised he didn't eat it. Maybe it doesn't smell like food, LOL.
He did follow it around though until it flew out another window.
When he is good, I give him treats. He has 3 different treats. One is these generic Cheerios, which I don't care for, but he likes. They were given to me, so I am making use of them.
Got chilly here the last few nights, but we are in a warm up trend now. Suppose to be around 80 on Thanksgiving.
Hope you are having a good weekend. Kids are out of school here for the week of Thanksgiving, so I am on vacation. I have been driving morning & afternoon, both halves with all those BRATS!!! Ron
Today I spent over an hour squeezing juice from oranges. It is an electric juicer, but you have to hold down on the 1/2 orange as the juicer turns. I got almost 1 gallon out of 2/3rds bucket of oranges. The oranges were given to me by a gal at Bowling Green who was just picking them up & throwing them away. Worst part is getting the seeds separated.
Last night I received these miniature vegetables. So a fork lift operator dumped a whole skid I heard. I remember once getting a whole case of bananas when a load was refused somewhere in Indiana. WE HAD BANANAS COMING OUT OF OUR EARS, LOL!!! Banana bread, pie, & whatever.
This morning I went to the Veteran's Day program. This is the Honor Guard marching to the ceremony outside.
Placing the wreath was a local lady. I didn't get the picture I wanted as I went to the next picture of the bugler playing "TAPS"
Tonight I am riding with 3 other friends to Lakeland, Fl. to Golden Coral to the free Veteran's supper.
Weather is still beautiful here & the weather forecast is good for all week. Ron
I seemed to assume these came from Hawaii or South America, but here they are close to the campground. A gal here sells oranges, etc. to the snowbirds. Since I took my camera, she showed me around. I'll have to go buy some from her myself this year. She only had a few pineapple, but quite a few bananas. Some are a smaller type. The red piece under the bananas is the bloom.
This is a Navel Orange tree & the oranges are starting to ripen. She also showed me a lemon tree & she said the lemons she has are real juicy.
This is some kind of a thorn (by name) that Hummingbirds like. She had lots of other flowers there also & some trumpet flowers that she said will be open shortly. She has a lot of variety of plants. 
Here is the Papaya tree with fruit on it. You can go read more about it at: http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/papaya.html Guess I'll wait till she says they are ripe & try one.
Weather is beautiful here again today. Yesterday I talked to a friend & Indiana & he said he'd like to be down here, but can't come for maybe another several years. Ron
