Sunday May 23rd 2010

Another beautiful day in the neighborhood.  My fingers aren’t working good at all this morning.  Can’t blame my fingers, my brain is still asleep I think. The day looks like another beautiful day.

When we went to work we worked with James and Janice again and Marian after she got back from lunch.  There were a lot of rooms to clean but tomorrow there wouldn’t be any more checkouts.  We cleaned the rooms on the main floor and the other couple, Wilbur and Bernie, cleaned at the Main Park.  When we were finished at 3PM we still had a couple more rooms to do but tomorrow is another day, no arrivals today.

We made plans to go to church today with James and Janice and we picked this church:

This is a very friendly little church.  They had a special speaker tonight from “Bearing Precious Seed”.  They print Gospel Tracts and the ones they are sending to Prague are “John & Romans”.

They have 250,000 of these and 250,000 tracts all boxed and in a shipping container ready to go to Prague.

This is Barry and his family, the girls are beautiful singers.  They didn’t introduce them tonight so I’m not sure if one of them is his wife or not. He was really on fire tonight though.  I was just noticing the man in the left corner, I think he must be a Blue Grass fan and they definitely didn’t sing Blue Grass. (I’m just kidding!!).  I had a hard time following Brother Barry in his sermon.  He told us to turn to Numbers 4:4.  Then he proceeded to quote scriptures from Psalms and different books and when he finally got to Numbers 4:4  I have no idea what it had to do with what he was preaching on, which was, to a non believer, the book (Bible). Now I may be wrong and anyone can correct me if they want, but I don’t think we are to put a bible on a pedestal to worship, now the Word contained in the Bible is the Word of God which is to be read, memorized, used to live by and instilled in our hearts, but because they printed the Word it sounded to much like we are to worship the book.  I know better and the Bible shouldn’t be misused or abused because it does “contain” the Words of God.  OK, off my soapbox…..to something else……

This is a little “after the fact”.  Doesn’t look to good does it?  It was so good it’s gone!!  We stopped at Pizza Hut after church.  I’m not cheap or anything but a $10 pizza shared by 4 people isn’t real expensive!!  We had a good time and enjoyed the evening.

We plan on going back to Sikeston Tuesday to do a few things, pick up a few things and take back a few things.  Tomorrow is another day, as if everyone didn’t know that, so I am going to take it easy and relax before going to bed:-)    Nite Ya’ll………

Saturday May 22nd 2010

Rainy season must be over for a few days now.  Beautiful sunny sky, light breeze, warm, I can handle this kind of weather.  I put the awning out last night and left it out.  Guess the wind isn’t blowing very hard so I think I will leave it out while we go to work.  Should be OK.

When we got to work we found out that the bottom floor of the Lodge flooded.  The sewer back up.  Not good.  It wasn’t all that bad, but bad enough.  We didn’t have to do that part of the clean up but finished it later, sanitizing the bathrooms etc.

James and Janice worked with us today and actually we didn’t have a lot to do. We cleaned one room and made sure four others we ready to be occupied.  I kind of made a mistake.  I filled up the washer to do the sheets and towels etc. but then remembered that we weren’t supposed to use the water so I turned it off.  Guess that was a mistake.  It wouldn’t start up again.  I was told it was to full and that is why it wouldn’t start up.  I was also told when we started to fill it up, full.  Guess I need more training.

I didn’t really do a lot of walking today but my feet hurt, bad!!  After work I took a shower and sat with my feet up.  Took a long time for them to quit hurting.  I am going to wear a different pair of shoes tomorrow.

I wasn’t thinking this afternoon.  Linda made macaroni and cheese from scratch and we used the left over chili from yesterday and had chili mac. It was really good.  When we were finished eating I remembered the camera, so I didn’t get a picture of it.  I also made Jalapeno bread this morning and didn’t get a picture of that either.  I do think we have a problem with the convection oven.  The first loaf turned out nice and brown and the second one wouldn’t brown.  I think the fan quit working and that is going to be a problem.  We have used the convection oven (new) maybe six or eight times in the last month and now the oven is broke (I think).  We have over three months to go before we go back home, long time to go without an oven.

Well, so much for today, not a real good day but the sun was shining!!  Going to try to get a good nights sleep tonight…Nite Ya’ll….

Friday May 21st 2010

What a beautiful morning!!! Sun is shining, it’s a little cool but not bad.  Left the awning out all night last night and now the wind is starting to blow a little and we have to go to work this morning so I think that I will put it back up again.  Supposed to be a little cool today and I’ve been wearing my sweater while walking around the circle.  I think I will take it off before going into work though.

Work was kind of fun today.  We had one unit to clean and three to refresh,  which is pretty easy.  When we finished we started the laundry and I walked over to the main park to see if there was anything else to do. David came by on the golf cart and Robert told me to go work with him.  Well, he changed his mind and wanted me to weed eat a lot where a camper just came in.  I did it and I think all the lots need to have the weed eater knock down the tall weeds.  Can’t believe they don’t keep that part up good.  I would volunteer for the job but Linda says if she has to work alone she would quit so I probably won’t volunteer.  I think there will be plenty of work after Memorial Day.

We asked David and Marian over for chili dogs after work.  I didn’t get a picture of the dogs but I did get one inside the camper.  It got to warm to stay outside.  The sun was really warm and I think it got up to about 75 today.

This picture is a little blurry but it shows how low the cabinets are and how tall Marian is.  I have a hard time doing dishes here because the cabinets protrude out so far.

This is another picture of Marian banging her head on the cabinet!!  This is just right for Linda.

We had Hot Fudge Sundaes for desert and then had to take it easy the rest of the night.

I will have to apologize, I think I have been spelling yall wrong all this time, I feel so bad, I was corrected by Cindy from Carriere MS that it is Ya’ll, she didn’t really correct me but she spelled it that way and my spell check doesn’t correct that:-)      Night Ya’ll ….

Thursday May 20th 2010

Sunny and cool today.  That is how it started!  It got warm this afternoon. We don’t have a lot planned for today, Linda is sleeping in, I took my shower, did my reading and did a load of clothes so we wouldn’t have to do them while we were working.

Got Linda up and we went to Wal Mart, the big one.  The one in Branson West is a super wal mart but this one is bigger.  We still couldn’t find all we needed.  I was looking for a shower rod that was at least 90 inches long. We are going to try to cover the sleeper over the cab.  It is a collection point for our “junk”.  We don’t have a lot up there but it still is an eye sore.  I may have to improvise. We picked up a few things that we needed.   I know why they call it the $100 store!

We got some free tickets to this show tonight (perk!) and so far it was the best show that we have seen.

They put on a BBQ dinner with potato salad, Cole slaw, chocolate chip cookie and a bottle of water.  Not bad at all!!

This is James and Janice, they are parked next to us at the campground. Well, not right next to us but there is nothing between us right now.  Very nice people from around Texarkana TX.  I think they pulled in the same day we did.

The place was about packed!  I’m not sure but I think most of the people were like us, workers here in Branson, or affiliated with businesses here.

This was the cast.  The one in the middle with the cowboy hat is the comedian and he was GOOD!  We really enjoyed the show.  Got out of the show about 10:00PM and got back to the camper about 15 minutes later.  Made good time for the traffic.  This last picture isn’t real good but with them moving and not a lot of light and no flash, I’m happy with it.

Going to go to bed, supposed to be nice tomorrow and we have to go back to work tomorrow so…..nite yall….

Wednesday May 19th 2010

It’s another cloudy day.  It isn’t raining yet but I think it is supposed to. I would like to go to Silver Dollar City today just to walk around and see if it has changed much.  I walked over to the office to check if we could still get in today for free, one of our perks.  They said that today and tomorrow is still free.  They explained that they have festivals going on and we can get in free for the 1st week of the festival.

We asked David and Marian to come over so they could watch Dancing with the Stars.  Marian wanted to see it, David wasn’t real keen on the idea and I don’t really like the show either.  After they watched the show I showed them a couple hundred pictures on the computer.  After that boring ordeal they had to go take a nap.  Of course it was raining and walking around SDC in the rain didn’t sound like fun.

Well, it quit raining and the sun came out for awhile so we decided to give it a try. It isn’t warm!  The rain quit for awhile though and we did get to see some of the park before it started again. We got to see a couple of the bands, Blue Grass, and they were quite good.  We aren’t real Blue Grass fans but they sounded good.

These are the Sons of Silver Dollar.  They work here most of the time.  They change there song style to fit the occasion. They even sang some of the Beatle’s songs in Blue Grass style.  Very interesting!

Don’t they look excited???  We are close to half way through, the rest of the way was up hill and by the time we got to the exit Linda was hurtin!!!

No, we didn’t go on this, not a good day to get wet.  Way to cold to be walking around soaked.

This little squirrel wasn’t really very scared of people.  I wanted to get a picture of him on the ground but some one put their foot on the planter he was on and he decided to go up into the tree.

This is the clover we know.  A little different than Mississippi clover. I had a picture of the Mississippi clover in here about a month ago.

Well this is a good night to take it easy,  We got a little wet at Silver Dollar City when it started raining and I think it will rain all night now.  There are storm warnings out but not really for Branson.  Thank you Lord!  Have a great night yall……

Tuesday May 18th 2010

Sun is going to shine today, should be a  glorious day!!  After getting my things done this morning I decided to take a walk around the north park where we are.

These are the cabins in the park, I think there are 10 of them.  They look nice inside for a cabin.  I’m not sure how many it will sleep but there is a bedroom plus a futon and then the 3 windows on the top is a place with 2 queen beds, so it would hold a pretty good sized family.

 

We  had a meeting this morning and this is our entire cleaning crew. Some of them aren’t cleaners but do, or will, have part in the cleaning. Our boss wants everything done the same.  We can’t do our own thing.  The towels on the table are examples of how to fold them plus how to fold the sheets. The meeting was informative and all the people are very nice and I think we will get along great.

I know this picture is a little fuzzy but this was our “mandatory” pot luck. They furnished ribs and brisket and everyone brought a dish to pass.  It was excellent.  Have a lot of good cooks here.  The fellowship was also good, we got to know some of the workers a little better and learned some of their names.  I was surprised, I think I counted 28 workers and these are all workampers!  The party ended about 8:30PM and we went home. When we got home we saw a person trying to set up his camper in the dark.  I went over to see if I could help. I lent him our little flashlight, then he couldn’t get the cap off the sewer so I gave him my channel locks and I went over with him and he got it off only it was part of the pipe also.  I had to break out my big channel locks to get them apart, Took us awhile but we got it.  I found out they call him Brother Bryan, he is a preacher.  We talked for a little while and he finished his hook up.

 

It has been a long day and we found out that we can get into Silver Dollar City free tomorrow.  I would like to go for a little while just to check it out and see what it going on.  Will have to see what we feel like tomorrow.  Nite yall…..

Monday May 17th 210

I think today may be a nice day.  I got up early enough to bake a couple loaves of bread but couldn’t find the measuring cup so I use a juice glass. It worked OK but my 2 loaves of bread were pretty small.  They tasted good but I really need to use a measuring cup for the water. That and the milk, other than that I just put stuff in and mix it up.

Linda and I worked today, we knew we wouldn’t be working together so Linda worked with Bernie in the laundry.

This is Bernie.  I didn’t get a picture of her husband Wilbur.  Wilbur worked with us cleaning the pool.  I really should have gotten a picture of the pool before we started cleaning it.  The rust was terrible and it was stainless steel!  David cleaned on it for a couple of days then yesterday there were four of us cleaning, so it went a lot faster, in fact we finished it and started filling it.

We are done with the pool here and even the bottom looks nice.  It had yellow stain over the whole thing and now it looks white!!  In the upper left corner you can see our camper.  Nice enough today to put the awning out.  I think this is the first time we have used the awning  The temperature only got up to about 72 today but the sun was hot!

This is a little oak is tree right outside our window and the leaves are the shiniest I think I have ever seen on an oak tree.  They shine like the leaves of a magnolia tree. Very interesting.

This will be another lazy night. Going to stay in and take it easy. We don’t work tomorrow but we have training at 11AM and a pot luck (mandatory) at 7PM.  Supposed to be the nicest day this week.  Then going to rain again on Wednesday and probably the rest of the week.  Oh well, such is life.  See yall tomorrow…..