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| My beautiful cactus flower, lasted 2 days |
Twelve days to home bound. The park is basically empty, except a few late travelers like us and of course those that stay all year, about 50 sites.
The park is under construction, the crews are here digging and installing pipes and cable to upgrade all the sites to 100 amp service. Most of the digging is complete. They were wise to hold off until all the guests left as there was constant noise and dust. I must say that the Hispanic' workers worked diligently through the heat of the day, most days from dawn to dusk. Much of the digging of the 4' deep trenches through the lots to the electrical panels were by hand. This coming Fall when we all return everything should be back to normal.The Park already re-surface the shuffleboard game area. They always seem to have many projects, new and old, to do during the Summer.
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| Campeko Party Room |
We have return to their Park on several occasions to utilize their large dog run and enjoyed coffee, friendship and home made biscuits by Dorothy. We brought grapefruits from our trees for Jack, Dorothy and Mary (who was Mabel in the play).
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| Mary, Jack, Dorothy & Jane |
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| Dog Run |
Last Saturday we had them over to our Park for a brunch and good bye's. Always a sad time of the year.
On April 5th we had our annual 'Adios Amigos' dinner with Ted and Connie (Ted went to Fisher Park HS with me) at 'The Texas Roadhouse'. We hope to meet up with them in Ottawa this Summer.
The Spring Flowers are out and new fruit is on the trees. My neighbours Pecan Tree is blooming, the leaves fall off in the Fall and looks dead all Winter. The grapefruit and orange trees are loaded with new small geen fruit.
I wonder what happens to them in the Summer??
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| Orange fruit still green
Next week I must start planning for close down, we spray the inside to control the Texas Beatles, bugs and ants. We spray under the mobile for carpenter ants, all ants and creepy crawllies. We turn off the water and electricity. We cover all the furniture with sheets. We put saran wrap over all areas where water may evaporate, sink, bathtub drains, toilets shower drains and then we put kitty litter (in containers) throughout the house to help control the humidity. Finally we lower the outside hurricane awnings, lock up, say a prayer and head home.
For those we don't see over the Summer we wish you Health and Happiness and for those we will see Big Hugs coming your way.
Paul & Jane
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