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   16   This morning we have some thunderstorms moving through.  Hopefully it will clear up since we are golfing later with Reba.  We headed out around 10am to our sister-in-laws, Ada’s.  We had quite a crowd for a weekday morning.  We stayed until around 130p then headed to Portillo’s for lunch with Laurie, John, Stacey and Evan.  After lunch we headed to Salt Creek Golf Course.  We met Reba and golfed 9 holes.  It was perfect timing.  We finished up, had a cocktail at the golf bar, and then headed to Crossroads Bar and Restaurant to meet up with Jim.  Chris and Matt showed up a little later and we all had drinks and appetizers.  We had another great day and got to visit with family and friends.

   15   Another time out day.  I am working on our journal, updates and website.  John is researching his football picks for this weekend, making a new batch of salsa and greasing the slide outs on the cow.  I finally was able to get my adventure update on its way.  It was supposed to be for 2^nd quarter, but it worked out to be for both 2^nd and 3^rd quarters.  Tonight we hung around the cow.  Survivor is starting tonight, can’t miss that!

   14   Today is a time out day for us.  We are hanging around the cow and doing miscellaneous stuff.  I worked on photos, football picks, and our researched our trip ideas for the upcoming fall season.  John is starting to do maintenance stuff on the cow.

   13   Today is a domestic day.  In addition to getting our laundry and grocery shopping done, we had to go by the RV store and the Halloween store to work on our costumes.  We have everything we need for the Fantasy Fest Parade in Key West on Halloween.  We are on the Lazy Lakes RV Resort Float.  We’ll give you the whole scoop next month.  Tonight is Monday Night Football.  It’s not on antenna TV which we have at this campground.  We headed over to Captains Quarters for 1^st half of football game.  Kenny, Dan and Tom were there.  Kenny told us to stop by their place for the second half.  We watched a little of the second game and Kenny, Tom and John played some ship, captain and crew dice game.

   12   Football Day!!  Even though it’s a sunny and warm day, we are lounging today and watching football.  Anne stopped by and watched the games with us.  We are both confident with our picks.  However, at the end of the day with still two more games to be played, John and I are both in the gutter with our football pool.  I guess we didn’t do to well on picking our teams.  There is only one way to go.  Hopefully we’ll get out of the gutter next week.

   11   Fall is definitely on its way in.  It’s an overcast, rainy and cool morning.  We are heading go Granny’s for breakfast with Sandy, Rich, Paul, Crissy and Steve.  After breakfast we hung around the campground for a while.  It’s a warm sunny day and Blarney’s Island was calling.  John and I went in Ron and Rita’s pontoon boat with their girls and also Kim and Steve.  Paul, Crissy, Sandy, Rich, Suzy and Huddy also all headed out.  As always with Blarneys, we danced, drank a little too much, stayed a little too long, but had a great time.  Paul and Crissy had a fire when we got back.

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   10   John continued to work on Red cleaning the inside today.  I lounged around the cow.  Later we headed over to our Stacey and Ed’s and visited with family.  As always, we had a great time and it’s great to see everyone.  Soon we’ll be on the road again.

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   9   John is washing and waxing Red today.  I am doing some TCI stuff.  During the week we are catching up on all our domestic stuff, because the weekends are party hardy!!!  Tonight is the football season opener.  We watched the game over at Kenny and Kim’s.

   8   We are starting to research our costumes for the Fantasy Fest Parade in Key West this Halloween.  We made a few stops to check out stuff but wasn’t to productive today.  We’ll try again another day. 

   7   Today we need a timeout day from the weekend.  I am working on some TCI stuff and John is doing some reading.  It’s a windy and pleasantly warm fall day.

   6   Our friends Jim and Diane came over to the campground.  Mark was also supposed to come, but he’s missing somewhere.  It was a nice afternoon.  We had appetizers and various people from the campground stopped by to visit for a while. 

   5   This morning we slept in since we got home late last night.  Quite a few campers headed out to the chain today for a boat salsa poker run.  John and I stayed at the campground. 
        Today a bunch of people at the campground is having a Mexican Fiesta Party.  Sam and others cooked up beef and pork fajitas.  Everyone brought a dish.  Huddy and Susy had a cooler full of jello shots.  The corn bags were out and the music was playing.  We got a lot of people going on the butt drop game.  Johns sister Kate, her boyfriend Kirk and a few of their friends stopped by.  We took a golf cart ride around the park and hunkered down under the awning with some cocktails and music, while a few showers passed by. 

 

   4   This morning is a cold morning.  It got down to 47 degrees last night.  We got our little heater out this morning and as I’m writing this I have the heater cranking.  Right now, it’s a cold but bright and sunny morning.  It is going to get warmer, this is just a temporary cold spell.  You know, if it lasted to long, we would have to hit the road.  We’re here for another 3 weeks, so hopefully it will be warmer.  I know, I know.  We are now winter wimps, but YES, we are proud of it. 
      

We headed out early afternoon to our friends Bill and Diane’s house.  They are having a cookout and a lot of great friends we haven’t seen yet will be there.  It was a beautiful afternoon and evening. 

We had lots of good food and drinks.  Most of our group  go back to the Lodi Wisconsin days and Woodlake Trails Campground.    

  
 

 

 

3   This morning I did a little TCI work and then we headed out for laundry and grocery shopping.  When we got back, there was already a party going over at Heidi and Marks place.  The temperature is dropping and the wind is a blowing.  It’s getting cold!!!!!!  They got a fire going and I had to go in and put on jeans and a sweater.  After a bit, another sweater.  Then we all moved to Hotel California (Sandy and Rich’s place).  Luckily they have a big park model.  We had 15 people in there.  We ordered a bunch of pizza’s and chicken.  Of course we all had to have some shots.  After a while a few souls headed back out to the fire.  When we left Hotel California we headed for our cow.

   2   I was up and out early again.  I had another TCI appointment in Northbrook.  John hung out at the cow.  Later we headed over to the Landings for half prices pizza and beer.  It was pretty crowded and we watched the Bears football game.  When we got back to the cow, the rain was pouring down and we noticed Sandy and Rich were up.  We stopped over at their place for a while.

   1   I had to set the alarm today.  I have a few clients that heard I’m back in town, so I have a few consulting appointments.  I am heading downtown Chicago today and John is doing some miscellaneous things around the cow.