84 Degrees!

What a change today was after the last few wet, cold rainy weeks. The sun was shining when we got up and it stayed that way all day. It peaked out at 84 degrees early this afternoon! It was warm enough in the RV that I actually had to open the windows. Such a tough day!

It's the weekend after Thanksgiving, so the TV is full of football games. One after another. At least that's what it seems like to me. I try to bury my head in my Kindle and find other things to do and to think about, but sometimes even I get sucked into watching.

Late this afternoon we decided to make a Costco run to pick up some of the vitamins we were out of. There is a Costco in Chico which looked like it was only a half hour away. I looked on the web for the address and saw that it closed at 6 PM on Sundays. We left at five, but it took over 45 minutes to get there and they were getting ready to close. Well, that took care of that. Guess we'll have to go back over in the morning...

We did stop at a Sav More grocery in Orland and stock up on a few things. Then to Taco Bell for a nacho supper.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

We've had a reprieve from the incessant moisture of the last week. Yesterday there was sunshine and Thanksgiving Day dawned clear as well. We had a late light breakfast and then headed up to Seven Feathers about 2 PM. We checked out the The Gathering Place Buffet, but the line was about an hour and a half long according to the hostess...

Forry checked out the Cow Creek Restaurant (where we had the rib eye steaks a couple of evenings ago) and reported back that it was pretty full, but there was presently no line. We decided that rather than wait in line, we would go back to the restaurant. It turned out to be a VERY good choice. Their special turkey dinner was $9.99 per person and turned out to be way more than either of us could eat. They had an incredibly good butternut squash soup for an starter. Forry opted for the green salad instead, but after a couple of tastes of my cup of soup, he said he wished he's chosen it instead. Next we were served large plates with three thick slices of turkey breast and several pieces of dark meat; large scoops of both dressing and real mashed potatoes and gravy; haricot greet beans with bacon; whole berry cranberry sauce and yeast rolls. We had a choice of pecan or pumpkin pie with the meal, so we ordered one of each.

It was a busy place. I felt a bit sorry for our waitress who seemed a bit harried already when we were seated. She was waiting on quite a few tables, but almost everyone seemed to be ordering the special, so at least there were not a lot of confusing orders. About halfway through our meal, she lost a plateful of the special off her tray, just missing the man at the next table. Everyone kept their cool -- the man she almost hit was quite nice about it. It's tough to have to work on a holiday, but one of the staff told me they had volunteered because they were being paid time and a half. Our bill seemed to be awfully small for such great meals. I did leave a 50% tip...

One of the items I added to my thankful list was "not needing to work on holidays anymore." (Hospitals are open 24/7, so I've worked on many of them...) 

Since we've taken the Seven Feathers shuttle every time we've gone anywhere, we haven't even unhooked Toad II. The lady driver is the same lady who guided us to our site when we arrived. It's been fun visiting with her about her years of working here. She says that times have been tougher since the economy has taken such a hit and they don't have near the perks they used to have. She was looking forward to a complimentary turkey dinner this evening however. Seems to be a good place to work. There's not a lot of turnover.

This is the last of the sunset we saw on our return via the shuttle to Auntie Violet --

 

I hope this Thanksgiving Day was a blessed one for all of you who read my ramblings! (One of the other items on MY Thankful List is all of you who have encouraged me in my writing!)

An Aborted Tour

We took off after lunch to visit the Adena Mansion and Gardens high upon the hill overlooking the Scioto River Valley.  I had checked the website and thought it was open today (closed on Mondays), but when we got there, the sign said "Closed on Mondays AND Tuesdays." So much for that!

Our drive did take us through some of the older residential sections of Chillicothe.  We saw some gorgeous old houses on our way to Krogers.  We stocked up on groceries at Krogers, then headed back to Auntie Violet for a spaghetti supper.

We've been in touch with our friends Leslie and Bill, who are in Red Bay, Alabama at the Tiffin factory getting some needed repairs done to their coach, Serenity.  They had a pretty long punch list of things to be fixed (they had purchased her used, as is).  I think all of their list has been taken care of, but the factory also had a couple of things to be fixed under warranty.  One of them had to do with the roof -- they are actually cutting the roof loose and replacing a portion of it with aluminum!  Kind of scary to think about.  Evidently they do it one day, then paint it the next.  I almost feel like we should send Serenity a get-well card.

Our friends Tom and Juni are also in the south.  They are in Tennessee visiting Juni's family and will also be heading for Red Bay after Thanksgiving.  I'm not sure when we will cross paths with either set of friends, but since we are slowly but surely heading in a southerly direction it will happen one of these days.