The 2018 rally begins...

Also with Allison's permission is some photos to share..



Here is Austin (great guy) schooling some of us in camping facts...  Really, I don't know what they were talking about.... grin



Austin's co-worker, Mark...  I thought I saw him doing more more than Austin, but I could be wrong... Don't quote me on that, and if confronted, I would call you a liar to your face..... grin



This is a great shot of the pizza night dinner, before the "hordes" desended in it...



This was my favorite bean bag contest.  Basically, they let you toss the bags till you lodged two on the shelf....  Winner winner, chicken dinner....!



Lastly, this is cool.  These are cut and then gathered by hand and piled in this fashion...  My dad grew up on a farm.  Same kind of work ethic..  Amazing, what happened to me?

Two interesting signs...

Well, thank you very much Ratkity!  My first award.  Honestly, I had such a great time, I had to share.  Actually, I’m basically a man of inertia, finding myself being given plans of travel hither and yon.  ( wow, who ever says that anymore?). I always have fun, but it is my beloved wife who plans these trips.  What?  We are going where?  Paris?  London?  Okay....
And my sense of humor actually has always been an attempt to find the funny side of things, thus keeping away the blues that everyone experiences from time to time.  I’ve always tried to be an optimist.  My mother in law always said that if you don’t expect too much, you won’t be disappointed.  I found that kinda funny.  I got up this morn to read the paper, while on the couch, my ever loving was reading a large tome on genetics.  She always claims that I share too much, but there you go...  I met a couple from South Carolina who were great.  I thought she had a wonderful southern accent, only for her to tell me that she liked mine.  What?  We got onto local phrases from our areas and we laughed and laughed.  She imitated me saying yeah,  while I brought up y’all etc.  Nice person...  She could be a good friend...

Okay, I’ll stop now...   Wife would say, honey, the grocery clerk doesn’t need to know about your great grandma.  As the tv character McCloud would say, “there ya go”.

 Thanks for the thanks... grin

The first day or so we had air on at night and then sometimes during the day.  As the nights got cooler, we used the ceiling fan vented out, with the windows open a bit.  It got quite cool...

Tink, 
In the earlier models, the area where your gycol is, you had the long narrow board you had to lift up to access that.  If you looked inside, it was an open space where you could see the alde heating fins.  Now, they have framed that in and made that board a hinged unit or units...not sure.  They have provided a gap for heat venting.  I want to do that to have some more space.  As long as i dont store my ice cream there.

Oh yes, I came across this stellar moment where you know who, won yet another mod master award.  I’m not sure where this was taken.....   Errr...   To be clear, this is not meant as a joking attempt, but to recognize someone who has helped us all out.....