Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day is here and the weekend is winding down. All the campers will be packing up and heading home this morning. It has been a good weekend.

Had a great cookout Saturday. The whole campground ate and had a good time visiting with each other. The campgrounds furnished all the meats and table wear and most campers brought a passing dish. As always lots of good food and lots of B.S. flying around. We had garbage can turkeys and barbecued chicken quarters. Took a few pics to share with you all. One pic is of the garbage cans the turkeys were cooked in. A pic of the turkeys right after we took them out of the cans. A pic of the chefs at the grills cooking the chicken quarters. A pic of the chow line and all the food on the table and finally a pic of all enjoying the food.

A prayer was said before we started eating and part of it was thanking our troops past and present for their sacrifices for our freedom.

I hope everyone remembers what this holiday is all about as I for one feel it is one of the most important we have. We have 2 sons in the military fighting for our freedom and are very proud of them for the selfishness they give of themselves. They both spend A LOT OF TIME AWAY from their families for us to have the freedom we take for granted every day. And I would also like everyone to think of the courageous ones at home alone taking care of the family while they are gone. It is a tougher job than I have ever had or will have so THANK YOU LEVI AND LESTER AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF OUR ARMED SERVICES AND THE FAMILIES BEHIND THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At The Campgrounds

Denise took some pics the other day and I thought I would share them with you.

One is of the wood shed I built, one is of me on my favorite piece of equipment here. This John Deere has saved me from so much back breaking work I should be paying it. The one of our 5th wheel is on our new lot. It is a very nice lot. Close to the laundry, across from the office/store so we can see if anyone is coming or needing anything from the comfort of our own home.

Denise has been busy planting potted flowers to make it homey and look nice.

The bird pics are taken from our dining room window. We have a feeder hanging just outside the window so we get a close up view of a lot of birds. The cat goes nuts with all the birds so close and yet not accessible to him.

We have deer come in the grassy area right beside the trailer. We call it our yard even though it isn't part of our lot. (We take care of it and use it so it is ours) LOL

May Is A Beautiful Time Of The Year

I love spring. The trees come alive and grow their leaves. Mushrooms come out to play with your eyes. Everybody starts sprucing up the yards with flowers. The grass gets green and the birds come back and sing for us.

It is amazing the change we have seen since we have came here. We arrived back to Michigan in the beginning of April. It was still in winter dress. No leaves on the trees, they were on the ground and hiding the grass. What grass you could see was all brown and looked dead. No flowers or birds to sing for you. Now everything is coming alive.

I've been working on a wood shed this week. Before we just stacked our wood here at Matsons Campgrounds and covered it with tarps to keep it dry. Now it will have a new home. I am building a 12ft x 20ft wood shed. It is closed in on 3 sides and open on 1 side. A lean to style. Will post pics when I have it finished. It will look a lot better in there back yard that the tarped piles of wood.

Denise has been cleaning and remodeling the cabins and trailer rentals. She has them looking great. The Jayco is an older trailer and needed some TLC. Well Denise went to work and transformed it in to a great rental. It is amazing what a good cleaning and new curtains will do. In between the jobs I have for the Matsons she keeps me busy putting up curtains and blinds. She is always finding something that needs repaired or just not to her liking so she calls "SUPER STEVE". She thinks I can fix anything. (of course I can)

Today is a day that I try to get our 5th wheel looking as good as the rest of the campgrounds. We have been neglecting it sense we've been back. It needs a good outside cleaning to get the road grime off. Yesterday I took the time to put our new window in. After I get ours cleaned then I will Plant some trees for campgrounds. Cheryl has been planting flowers and getting the place looking nice this week end. We planted 4 new trees and will plant 7 more today. Of course we have to build protection around the new trees because the deer really like them, so 1 more job for us to do. (Oops I all ready built them yesterday.) Mark them off the to do list.

OK I'm rambling now so I will get off here for now and go get some of that to do list done. Life is GOOD. I should have started this life years ago.

Later

1024 Mushrooms

We did pretty well on our quest for the ALL MIGHTY MUSHROOMS. We found 1024 in 9 days of hunting. Had a great time with my Aunt Vicci, Uncle Muddy and there friends John and Deb (AKA Hoover). They call her Hoover because when she leaves the woods it's cleaned. I can attest to this as I have seen her in action. She doesn't miss many mushrooms.

We are now back to Matsons in Manistee, Michigan. Good to be back and lots of work to do. The to do list seem to grow while we were gone. Oh well, I'll work hard for a few weeks then sneak out for another vacation if I feel the need. (I Might even if I don't feel the need.) Places to go and people to see ya know how busy this lifestyle is. I don't know how I had time to work full time before. I might have to go fishing today just to calm myself from thinking about it.

Later