Our Mexico Adventure Begins

and no adventure begins without a trip to Walmart to stock up. We are leaving early tomorrow morning and should be in Kino Bay just in time for Happy Hour.....

Adios

Boomers in Q at an Almost Willie Concert

and he could almost sing like Willie. We had a great Texas BBQ dinner then enjoyed a little music. What a great afternoon we had.

Bottom Row; Frank & Gretchen Knapp, Willie, Cathy Oppie Top Row; John Crawford, us, Betsy Crawford, Frank & Gretchen, and Cecil Oppie.

Newmar Rally Quartzsite 2007
This little piggy did not make it to market- He was dinner tonight.... YUMMO
We really enjoyed our first Newmar rally there were about 300 Newmar RVs. The entertainment at night was fantastic, the meals were caterd and very tasty, we met some wonderful folks and joined the fulltimers chapter.
Next stop BOOMERVILLE....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I hope your holidays were great!!! We finished up with Christmas Trees we had a lot of fun working this season. We are now in Yuma out in the middle of the desert with our Boomer friends for the New Years, had a festive New Years Eve celebration complete with fireworks- Thanks to Boomer friends Barry & Jan. Normally the weather here is great, but, today we are in the middle of a dust storm- maybe tomorrow will bring calmer winds and then we start to clean up all the dust, just in time for another dust storm- We are heading into Mexico Bahia Kino on February 1st for a month. When we come out of Mexico we are heading to Las Vegas for NASCAR were we will be working for a week in the RV lot!!!! What a life!!!

Well here we are in Pleasanton Ca at our christmas tree lot. The lot is now decorated and we are ready to go. John is having a great time learning how to flock a tree. For those of you who are unfamilar with flocking - You spray white stuff that resembles snow onto the trees- people go crazy for it. I am not sure if its a California thing or not. John and I would like to wish all of you a very joyous HOLIDAY and a Happy New Year. 2007 will take us to Mexico, and the Indy 500 race- Stay tuned......

Notice the trees on the ground the wind is not our friend- we will have the trees back on their feet again just in time for the wind to return- ahh the joys of the christmas

John has achieved the title of Master Flocker

Moving these flockers can be a real pain- By the way that is my Son who came to work for us this season

Bring on the customers we are ready

Open and ready for business

Our lot before the trees arrived

Our finished projects- Looks like a candy cane to me....

The two Johns painting candy canes

Cathy & Betsy painting candy canes for our lots

We are back in California for the holidays. We spent Halloween with my son and his family. It had been quite awhile since I went out with small children trick or treating- we had so much fun. Jeffery came away with a ton of candy, my first thought was glad I don't have to pay dental bills- Then I quickly relized- that thought made me feel so old- its halloween - let them eat chocolate!!! This Christmas season we are going to be managing a christmas tree lot in Pleasanton CA . This will be our 4th year doing this type of work and we really enjoy it, the families and most people are in great moods besides it is a really fun job- I will try to get some pictures posted of our tree lot. Until then stay safe and healthy.....

This is my sons house in Modesto CA all decorated for the trick or treaters.

This is my 4 month old grandson, the cutest lilttle scarcrow, with his mother ( Stephanie my daughter in law)

Isn't this a scary face, this is my 6 year old grandson

We finished crabbing and we did very well we will have crab well into next year!! We moved about 50 miles down the coast to Coos Bay the weather today has been beautiful with lots of sunshine. We drove to Charleston a small fishing community and found Sunset Bay State Beach with wonderful hiking trials and a beautiful bontanical gardens that we enjoyed this afternoon. We also stumbled on Sampsons Reef, where there were a ton of sea lions at least three different types. We ended up in Bandon for lunch at a small chowder house. I hope you enjoy the pictures of our hike this afternoon..... Until next time-