WINTERFEST & A GOOD ENDING

The annual Winterfest weekend started yesterday morning, so we ventured to the downtown area to check it out. The main street through downtown (McCulloch Blvd.) is closed for two days, and hundreds of mostly arts and crafts vendors set up their wares for display, and sale. This picture was taken at the upper end of McCulloch after we walked down to the other end and back. We rarely buy anything, but it was an enjoyable 2 hours, looking at all of the STUFF from hundreds of displays.

We had made arrangements to meet our friends, Len & Ellie Meachum, who had just gotten their motor home back from a lengthy repair job, and were parked at the Emerald Cove RV Resort in Parker. When we arrived, one of their two cats (Ruffles) was sitting on top of the drivers chair, watching his favorite TV Show, Animal Planet - Cats 101. We've never had a dog or cat who watched TV, but Ruffles actually does. He pays particular attention when the cats on the TV make any kind of noise.

Len & Ellie have been displaced from their motor home for several weeks due to cracked frame rails at the rear of the coach. When it was first discovered, the initial diagnosis was that it couldn't be fixed. Fortunately, their friend Ron, owner of D&R Family RV in Glendale, AZ, tackled the job and successfully made the repair. He had to remove everything from the basement, including the holding tanks, to get at the cracked frame. After bolting 4 steel plates over the cracks on the inside and outside of the frame rails, he put it all back together just a couple of days ago, and a once desperate situation had a happy ending. We always enjoy spending time with our buddies who are getting close to once again taking off on their jobs with the Indy Racing League, which has their first race in Saint Petersburg, FL in a few weeks. They also work at a few of the N.H.R.A. drag races during the year.

The weather forecast for light winds today is all we needed as a excuse to launch the boat this morning. We're picking up our friends Tom & Barbara Westerfield, who have their motor home parked at Cat Tail Cove State Park. Should be a good day for a boat ride!