Saturday - Dec 20th

  Early start to the day, I was up and in the hall kitchen by 6:15 AM to get things started for the breakfast crew.  Got all the stoves, etc lit and ready to go after a small problem with the large convection oven.  Got the coffee urns out and perking, the steam trays filled with water & plugged in.  Two more of the crew came at about 6:30 & the rest about 7.  We ended up with 2 ladies and one guy, so were back up to our normal level.  Marg brought her new electric grill and for the first time since we have been in the park, fried eggs were offered as a breakfast option.  It was a big success with about 1/3rd of the diners having them instead of scrambled.  We  had a few bumps, like when one of the new people forgot to plug in the slow cooker with the gravy & sausage for the biscuits and gravy option, but the girls got it handled.  Pretty good turn-out as well, feeding 49 breakfasts plus the crew.
  We were done clean up by about 10 AM and when we got back to the trailer, Richard was already there.  He had the water lines apart and was looking for the parts to get us operational.  With all that happened yesterday, never got there, so we went to Ace hardware and got what we needed.  He had us operational within a few minutes of getting back to the trailer.  Fingers crossed that this is our last water problem this winter.  Put the fan on for the balance of the day to circulate air in the crawl space and speed up the drying to get back to normal.  By the end of the day things were looking pretty good.
  Started to clear out the Az room & took more stuff to the dumpster bin.  Also left the old TV there for anyone who wants it.  Anything of value you don't want you just leave by the bins and it's usually gone within a day if there is any interest.  I will go by tomorrow and toss it if no one has picked it up.  It works fine, but is one of the older types; big and bulky for a 20 inch model.
  At that point we heard sirens and saw smoke rising off to the northwest, so jumped in the rhino and went over for a look.  A double wide mobile home was fully engaged and there were about 6 fire trucks responding.  Bad situation with 4 firefighters on the roof, one with a chainsaw opening the smoking roof.  Must have been a dangerous operation as a second man had hold of a safety harness on the guy, likely to yank him out of trouble.  Nice park, sure must have ruined someone's winter plans. 
  Marg went out to pick up a few things she needed at Fry's.  Apparently they had a really attractive package of scotch, so we may have to return tomorrow and see how attractive.  Then went for a walk, saw our friend who was having the problems and not able to help on the breakfast.  Looks like he has things sorted out and is on the mend.

   Went to happy hour where we had our appy's or in reality our food day.  All the ladies brought delicious stuff and lots of it.  There was so much that we never had to eat supper after.  There was even desert.

 This is the men's section, LOL.  Just like the Hutterites.

 The hummingbird feeder usually has one or two at it, unfortunately not when I snapped this pic.

    This is the women's section.






  It was a nice day, but had got a lot cooler by 4 PM when we got together for happy, so very few short pants today.
  Tomorrow is Patti's birthday, sorry we cannot be there to celebrate with you.  This is the first of the many family birthdays in Grande Prairie and England that we will miss while in Arizona.  One of the unfortunate aspects of this snowbird lifestyle.
  Pretty funny, Larry & Nancy's dog Cooper gets all excited when Nancy gets his coat, well it's more like a horse blanket.  Larry says the dog is smarter than he is.  LOL

Cooper with his coat.