Lunch with Friends

We met Brian and Carol Thompson for lunch at Chili’s yesterday.  The Thompson’s are the area managers with American Land & Leisure for the Conejos District, south of here by the Colorado-New Mexico border.  Jim has been working with Brian with his water systems in their campgrounds.  I hadn’t met either of them so when they came to Alamosa with water samples, Jim suggested we all meet for lunch. 

Jim had a fav of bacon cheeseburger…….

But I was good and had a Caribbean Salad with fruit and avocado……

 I stopped at the library and picked up a book I’ve been so looking forward to – Debbie Macomber’s first in a new series, The Inn at Rose Harbor.

I really enjoy Macomber’s writing and read her different series.  Her paperback Cedar Cove series ended last year and I was sad, so when Macomber changed publishers and announced a new series I was excited.  I get the Kindle e-reader format for about $5.99 each. I was shocked to find out this new series was coming out in hardback and the Kindle format was $12.99!  Well, that was way out of my book budget, so I waited until I got back to the Alamosa area and checked it out of the local library.  I started reading it right away and it looks like it will be a good series.

I did go by and visited my best girlfriend, Naomi, in the nursing home.  She is still doing so well and she was sitting there reading yet another book….at nearly 97 her body may be wearing down, but her mind is as sharp as ever.  I should be so luck!!!

We ended the day by watching a Rockies game and also The Voice.  It was a good day.

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The Season is Over

On Labor Day Monday at 1:00 p.m. we ushered out the last of the campers, and as Jim said, “the lights went out, the gate was locked and the fat lady sang”.  It was all over for the season!!!!!!! Weeeeeeee, it has been an interesting summer. 

Because we don’t know if our company (American Land and Leisure) is going to win the bid for the next five-year permit with the forest service, we had to put all our equipment into a rented storage unit.  This was good and bad.  Good - because it required us to go through everything and I got to throw away a bunch of accumulated stuff (one of my favorite thing to do).  Bad - because it required a lot of extra work at the end of the season (mostly for Jim) when we were trying to do all our clean-up to close out. Plus we were already tired….Jim did a wonderful job tote and carrying everything in numerous trips into town bringing stuff to the rental storage unit. Plus in the last three weeks Jim painted eight bathrooms.  He is a working fool!!

I cleaned out all the fire pits and worked on the end-of-the-year paperwork. Jim met with our Forest Service Rep for our final inspection and got the OK to pull out of the campground which we did late Thursday.  We drove to South Fork Campground which our buds, Rich and Terri Deacon, manage.  We always spend a couple days with Rich and Terri as a little “vacation”. We eat together, enjoy happy hours, but mostly we just spend time together and enjoy. I finished up the paperwork Friday and got it mailed off and we were officially done.

Saturday Jim and I decided to put on a little barbecue to say thank you to Matt (A-1 Mobile RV Services) and Rich for the great job they did putting up our new awning.  Our friends, Shane and Audra Rorick, had moved to South Fork with Shane working at Holiday RV South, so we invited them over also.

Jim found a package that held two slabs of ribs that weighed 11.5 pounds!!  Jim did his magic with those ribs as they came out wonderfully – his best yet! 

       

After dinner we all just sat around and enjoyed each other’s company, laughing at all of Rich’s humorous comments. 

We ended up staying a third night just to relax and finally left yesterday, making sure we arrived in Alamosa with enough time to set up and get the satellite dish up and running so we could watch the Bronco-Steelers football game.  Boy, what a great game…very exciting…so much fun…and we won!!!

Well, it’s time to call it a night, so good night, dear friends, see you tomorrow. Oh, yea, I made it…four posts in a row.

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