Crazy/Busy week 12/1-12/9

Of all weeks to be sick!!!?? DANG!!
Our Christmas Party was a wonderful success! Had fantastic turnout in spite the “storm of the century”!! <<well maybe not that bad, but it was blowing (50mph gusts!), pouring rain, fog, etc. went all night.. In spite of all that our family & friends came.. Great people you know..
Sunday spent the day cleaning up from the party.. Monday was our dinner at the Moose, Lasagna. When I woke Monday morning, could feel this slight tickle in my throat with an occasional cough..uumm..?? But I proceeded to get my lasagna’s out of the freezer to thaw for the Monday night dinner. We also got all the pre-orders all together and marked for delivery. Soon 3pm rolled around and off to the Moose we went, food in hand.
Got the ovens going when we got into the kitchen and started the large trays of Lasagna that I had made up early in November in anticipation of this dinner. Thank God I did all this prep way before hand with everything that has been going on for the past month. It was nice to be prepared. We made us some green salad, sliced some bread, had some dessert on hand and we were good to go! Ev was my helper, Laura took the money and served through the window.. After dinner Doc helped with a few cleanup details as well.. Thinking we had about 35 or so people and the with all the pre-orders we did pretty well..
It was a profitable dinner..
After clean up we headed home and I could feel that tickle and cough was escalating..By the time I woke up on Tuesday morning, I had a bad sore throat and horrible cough.. just terrific! Tried to take it easy all day on Tuesday, had some things to get done, like pay the property taxes!! OMG! After doing that I really became ill!
Most of the rest of the day stayed on the couch watching Christmas movies and eating “bon bons’.. hahaha just kidding.. just wanted to see if you were paying attention..
My wonderful sweet husband while in Clearlake picked up some chicken soup for me.. what a great guy he is..
We have quite the itinerary this week. However it looks like I might not make the Bakers Luncheon on Thursday in Oakland?? But knowing me? I am afraid I might miss something? so I will probably go.. :) Thinking I should stay home ? Then Friday go down to Lindsy’s.. My sister is having a dinner on Friday night celebrating her daughter’s homecoming from Hawaii. However she will be returning to Hawaii on Monday..
The next big day, Saturday is over at Toni & Phil’s for Olive picking.. This will be the first time to do this.. so not sure what to expect. Sounds fun and like a lot of work.. Start time is 9am till?? well into evening.. Hopefully it won’t rain.. I just want to be all better for all these activities!!
This week the lap top crashed.. Ev took it in and had to have it fixed.. I designed the New Year’s Eve flyer for the Moose and also designed their tickets for the event..

Hope your holiday season is going well.. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Hope to get started on my yearly newsletter soon..

Swesey Christmas Party 2012

I love our Christmas Parties!! I love it because we get to have so many special family and friends celebrate what I feel is the real meaning of Christmas. Being with people you love and care about! All having fun in one place, our home. There were 67 of us this year!! Amazing.
In anticipation of this wonderful event every year, we started decorating our home weeks in advance, to be sure that every detail is tended to. I love all the decorations and lights! When people arrive here at our home, it is like they step back in time as if they were a kid again. When our guests arrive you can see the gleam, the spark that triggers that they feel like they in a “Winter Wonderland or coming to Christmas Town” They are excited and feel warm and happy! It gives me great pleasure to give that kind of happiness! I love the smiles, the laughter, the warmth of that the season brings.
Several of our family and friends traveled a great distances to come to our annual Christmas Party. This year they had horrible weather to contend with and they still came. Says a lot about the wonderful people we call our family and friends.
We love you all and Thank you so much for sharing with us the real joy of the season!
God Bless you all.. Merry Christmas and be safe in all your travels. May the New Year bring you prosperity and Good Health..We hope to see you next year!
Hugzzz xoxoxo Linda & Ev

I want to especially thank Maryann & Mike for all their help the day of to help me get it all together and for consolidating the food on the table as the trays got emptied! I also wanted to Thank Lee & Laura for all their help during the party.. Laura for getting everyone to sign up their tickets for the raffle.. Lee for bartending at the “redneck” bar.. Thanks everyone for helping in everyway! 

This year we introduced the “red neck” bar. We set up 2 bays in the garage for entertaining. We used the two 4 wheelers nose to nose with a piece of plywood stretched between them as a secondary bar. We also did a raffle this year and everyone one went home with a gift. We set up the Karaoke Machine for singing.. need to get some more disks for that machine.. uumm.. next year’s karaoke hopefully will be better..?

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My Birthday/Thanksgiving Week/New Trailer

WOW!! A whirlwind week!! We decided on the trailer we wanted last week! So on Tuesday when we left home we had the truck and checks and off we went in the rain.. :( We called the “rv” place to let them know we would be a little late.. and the owner of “rv” place says to us “you did bring the tv you wanted mounted”? uuummm no we didn’t.. well had to hit Costco and spend an extra $200 bucks for the TV for the bedroom.. we also bought some batteries, 2-6 volts we had wired in series.. longer lasting power.. When we arrive at the “rv” place they were working on getting the trailer ready for us.. After a short time we were hooked up and on our way.. LOVE OUR NEW TRAILER..
We parked out in front of Lindsy & Chris house for the next 4 days.. We are so excited to have the new trailer!! We shared with all family and friends while visiting..
Tuesday night Lindsy & Chris took us too Graziano’s  (dinner house) for dinner in Petaluma.. Their food is always consistently good for years.. a very good choice for dinner.. :) Lindsy and I did a little bar hopping after dinner.. however it was pretty dead everywhere.. probably because it was Tuesday night before Thanksgiving..uumm.. Still I managed to feel the drinks from Tuesday night on Wednesday, my actual birthday.. But managed to survive.. We did quite a little shopping on Wednesday to get ready for Thursday’s feast.. When we got home I made up some homemade clam chowder for our dinner.. In the meantime we were joined by friends and family dropping by to help with with they could. Charles came by to give me a little wine and home made cake.. very nice.. Jeff and Cesar came by to help set up tables.. Sister Kim came by to have a birthday cocktail with her sister.. Very nice day..
Thursday, we were up bright and early.. busy day today, lots of cooking.. For some reason this year I was a bit disorganized?? not sure why, but things didn’t fall into place as they usually do..?? Maybe due to the new trailer or other things?
Guests started arriving at the Jacob household about 1pm that afternoon.. Everything cooking was spiking everyone’s appetite. The appetizers were munched up like there were no more coming.. Thankfully everyone brought their appetite!!
Before long dinner was being served.. Dinner was delicious as it always is.. Everyone ate till they were probably miserable, I know I was included in that I also ate way too much! and they say “turkey” makes you sleepy.. I was ready for a long nap.. Thankfully the weather was lovely that day!! A well heated day that toped 70 degrees plus! Bright sunshine, really lovely day! We served up about 26 dinners in all that day.. and I believe everyone left quite content..
Friday was shopping day.. We didn’t leave at the butt crack of dawn as we did a few years ago. We didn’t really get a start till nearly 11am. A good nights sleep.. We hit a few stores and got a few bargains, but then back home we went.. We were serving leftovers to some of the people that were our Thanksgiving guests… mostly family.. We had another nice visit with everyone and retired early on Friday night.
Saturday we were going home.. Early to rise on Saturday, headed over to my sister’s and she cooked us a nice breakfast and from there we headed over to Phil &Toni’s for some bottles (for homemade vanilla)  I had ordered and they were at their house.. Soon we were on our way hook up the trailer and get that beast home!!
We had a few more stops on the way home and arrive home about 4ish pm.. A little nerve racking getting the new (longer trailer 26’, compared to 23’ previous trailer) in the driveway) trailer in the driveway and parked!! YIPEEE we got it all done..
So we are all parked and now all the stuff is all put in the new trailer and ready for guests!! And our Christmas party this weekend coming up! Still have some decorating to do around the house,, hope to get this all done by Tuesday this week..  
Check out the pictures from the past week.. fun..

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Philosophical Society at Riviera Hills Restaurant

Due to the Rob Roy closing in September of 2012, we had to find a new place to hold our meetings once a month on the second Sunday. We have now tried the Greenview Restaurant at Hidden Valley and now the Riviera Hills Restaurant in Kelseyville. Both were wonderful. For now we are trading off every other month until we decide possibly on one..
Our December meeting will be December 9th at the Greenview Restaurant.

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Our New Trailer!!! Rockwood 2012

We pick it up next Tuesday.. Nice birthday present?? Happy Birthday to me!!

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Length: 26'*

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Equipped w/ following options: Cherry Wood, Power Tongue Jack, 4 Power Stabilizing Jacks, Raised Panel Refer Fronts, Heated Holding Tanks, Convenience Pkg B, 26" TV w/ 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound, Day/Night Shades, Rear Ladder, Aluminum Wheels, CO2 Detector, Heated Mattress, Water Purifier, Create A Breeze Bathroom Vent

My New Hat

November my Birthday Month 2012

Had a great time at the Moose Turkey Dinner.. really delicious.. Last night Larry & Lynn took us out (they drove) and we went to dinner. Early celebration to my birthday.. Lynn had these cute snow globes she had bought last year after Christmas and she wanted to be sure I got them before I started decorating the house for Christmas, which will probably take place sometime around the middle of the week this week. Due to having our Christmas party the 1st Dec, I want to get it all done a head of time.. and besides I love it so much and enjoy putting it all together and then enjoying it all up for the short time it is up.. We stopped a cocktail lounge in Kelseyville on the way over and one of the patrons (sure he is a regular) came over and serenaded me/us for my birthday..  He sang “Waltzing Matilda” in his “aussie” accent.. Then went to TJ’s for dinner in Lakeport..

Spent the last couple days making Lasagna for the Moose, for my dinner Dec 3rd. Already have 20 plus orders for take home Lasagnas. And I also got two big trays made for my actual dinner on the 3rd. If I happen to get more than 40 people the night of the dinner, will run out..Normal turn out for most of the dinners is about 25 to 30 and sometimes less.. I have had it happen to me before when people know I am cooking, I sometimes get 50 plus!! That is scary..

This morning we are headed over to Riviera Hills Restaurant for our Philosophical Society monthly meeting. We are trying out new different restaurants since the Rob Roy Golf & Country Club closed.. sad..  We loved it there.. However there was an article in yesterdays paper that someone bought it and they will be opening the golf course in a couple of weeks, as for the restaurant it make take a couple of months due to the liquor license taking forever to get ok’d.. you know the government??!
I have invited a new couple, Gary & Pam Pryor to join us this morning for Brunch.. I am hoping they will love the group and join the Philosophical Society..  They are a couple from Palm Springs area.. She is so sweet and she works at Safeway doing the flowers over there.. needed something to do and somehow to meet people when she came here.. Not sure she likes it here, but hopefully the group we are meeting this morning will probably be right up her alley!! He is a substitute teacher, with some serious type of Math.. Very intellectual seems and very quite, and he smiles a lot.... It will be interesting to say the least..

Tomorrow will head over to Willits to see a friend that probably I only see about once a year and this the time.. We started out being friends when we met about 9 years ago in the corvette parade in Lakeport. Ev had a corvette for a while, but never drove it so we sold it and bought the boat..  much better.. Anyway they had a corvette too and we just became friends.. However she lives in Willits and I live in Clearlake Oaks, about hour and half drive.. In the past 4 or 5 years she has been caring for her father who lived in Ft Bragg.. she spent so much time with him and helping her Mom there wasn’t much time for anything else.. Now her father has passed and she is healing.. she loved her Dad so much and now that he is gone she misses him horribly.. She will survive.. Anyway we started doing a little gift exchange once a year, that covers birthdays and Christmas.. and she loves Christmas as much as I do.. so mostly we exchanged Christmas decoration type gifts.. Then got through that phase now share food..  She makes the best Blackberry pies!! and I make great Lasagna!! and then it seems are always some other little things that slip in there.. Mostly it is a good time to reflect and hug each other. She is a great gal.. and a great “pin” pal..

Tuesday hope to go back down to Santa Rosa to look at that trailer again.. the one we looked in Fairfield is out of the question they no way were budging off that price.. oh well.. found a better one I think anyway.. Will keep you posted..

This shot below is last week we met with Rich & Judy and went to dinner at Zino’s.. One of the worst dinners ever, and not just me, everyone.. so sad.. and it isn’t cheap! We have tried them about 4 times now, and still isn’t very good.. I noticed a lot of people seem to only come for drinks??

Ernie & Shirley’s Halloween Bash 2012

Ernie & Shirley host a smashing Halloween Bash every year! Shirley is crazy for Halloween as I am about Christmas! They out did themselves this year! Ernie made 3 bird houses that look like pontoon boats and on HUGE hotel type bird house! He does such a fabulous job on them! Then he gives them away as he did last night. (We were one of the lucky ones last year!) They give tickets out and then draw the winning ticket.. Everyone is always thrilled when they win one of his bird houses!! They also did an array of other gifts as well. They have cute little party favors..

We vote on Best Costume, last night we even voted on 2nd Best Costume and prizes are awarded. They both put so much thought into the celebration! The house and yard are all decorated with decorations! Food galore! Most of the food is all done by Shirley, amazing..  They had little games that they also planned, a ring toss (couldn’t get the ring on the witches hat!) and a ping pong ball into glasses that had little candy type prizes (I won some candy).. too too much!!
Fun time was had by all.. Thanks for a grand time Ernie & Shirley!!

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Swesey’s Annual Christmas Party 2012

 

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Weigand’s and the Harvest Dinner

After fishing up at Medicine Lake for a few days, we had let Stan & Glorianne that we would be coming by to visit them and give a helping hand for Ft Crook’s Museums annual harvest dinner held at the Veterans hall there in Fall River Mills. Stan & Glorianne are very active members with the museum. Glorianne is the secretary along with many other duties. We had offered to help with the dinner earlier last week when we were all camping together at Hat Creek. Plus it was another reason to see them!!
We arrived at the Weigand’s about 3pm.. S & G had made plans for dinner at the Spinner Fall Resort <<(check out this place) for a very nice dinner.. Great ambiance! Lovely grounds and elegant restaurant!
Unfortunately I forgot my camera.. imagine that?? well I did.
We had a nice visit sharing our adventures of the past week with them..
Enjoying our surroundings.. so nice looking off over the Fall River and seeing the paddle wheel moving ever so slowly as the river gently rotated it.. Dinner was delicious. 3 of us had the sole and one had the prawns.. everything was delicious.. The cocktails were a bit skimpy and a bit tasteless.. The margaritas were watery/salty.. My martini didn’t have much vodka and Ev’s bourbon and 7 was somewhat weak as well. They could work on the “bar” issues… Food was wonderful..
We had parked our trailer out in front of S & G’s house. We parked over by the horses by the barn/garage. That way we could have water and electricity.. It was great!
We had some apple crisp when we got back to the house after dinner.. then retired soon afterwards.. Long day on Sunday.. Harvest Dinner..
Got up early and left about 8:30am to get the Veterans hall set up for the dinner at 1pm. We stopped off at the museum first to get the supplies we needed to set up the tables etc..There was lots of help.. Nice to see everyone come and and help! Everyone did their part. We packed up the cars and trucks and took what we needed to the hall.. Everyone had a chore it seemed and they knew it well. Everything came together rather quickly and it wasn’t long before we were ready for the 100 guests they would expect. There were lots of raffle prizes, gorgeous barn wood with local brands framing large mirrors, a very nice rifle someone donated, along with various other prizes..
Stan & Ev and another cowboy went to someone’s ranch that wanted to donate a “tack” room (OLD) that was about to fall down to the museum.. So they had to go out and measure it to see what they could fit the building on to move it.. Turned out the building was only about 12’X18’ so they could probably move it on a low boy trailer (un-assemble) and then re-assemble it at the museum..
Glorianne and I served on the food line and served the dessert too. We had about 100 people for the dinner. We ran out of food.. but that happens sometimes because you just never know how many will show up for a full dinner at the price of $8! Pot Roast/roasted potatoes/gravy/carrots/squash/biscuits/butter/dessert! It was wonderful meeting new people and making new friends. We really enjoyed ourselves helping out! After the dinner we broke everything down and took it back and put it back in the places we had gotten it.. Then off to home we went.. The guys got their dinner, however Glorianne and I were not as lucky to have the dinner as they ran out.. So Glorianne made us some potato soup and some snacky foods and that was our dinner.. Had some dessert (homemade rhubarb pie.. ) and played dominos for a couple of hours.. S & G shared with us some wonderful history and great family stories.. so interesting to listen to. Ev & I loved it!
We were gifted with some of Glorianne’s books she has written (history of family and friend of the Big Valley area of CA/OR). Glorianne’s books>>
http://www.amazon.com/Glorianne-Weigand/e/B001K93MQ4
we will treasure them..

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Got a note from Glorianne today after getting home and now they are going fishing up to Medicine Lake this week and try their luck!! Good Luck! Keep us posted!!

Medicine Lake last day..

Burrr soooo cold this morning.. ice in the tubs outside, ice crystals everywhere.. too cold to jump up this morning.. started generator and finished watching our movie that we started last night.. It was just too cold to get going early..
Ev wanted some trout this morning for breakfast. I put them in some foil with some lemon, butter, salt & pepper, wrapped them up and put them on the bbq on low for about 20 minutes and they were perfect.. cooked up some eggs and toast.. good to go.. Today is surely colder than the past couple of days, more wind.. not sure if we will get to kayak today or not??
Went down to the boat luanch to fish.. threw our lines in and again and probably 30 times, NO BITES NO FISH!!?? OMG!! The bite was done.. Ev’s reel isn’t working the best so we decided to get some water for the trailer.. uumm but on our way we decided to stop at Little Medicine Lake.. here the bite was good!! Not terrific, but much better than the boat launch on Medicine.. Wind was still strong, but the small lake was more protected.. took us a couple of hours but we limited once again…
When we got back to camp, the neighbor/next camp over asked if we had seen the 10 year old boy named Michael when we were driving?? We said no, but were happy to go looking.. So we hopped in the truck and started driving up and down the loops asking people if they had seen Michael.. Went down to the boat ramp and asked there as well.. people were genuinely concerned! After about a half hour of looking, someone from our neighboring camp said they had found Michael.. He had gotten disorientated and walked down by the water where his Uncle saw him and picked him up..Thank God.. such a relief.. we were so worried!

Ev cleaned the fish and I made lunch.. we had our lunch and then Ev took a rest while me and the dogs took a walk around the camp ground.. I put in an apple crisp in the oven before our walk.. uummm smells so good…
We will be leaving in the morning.. good thing.. we are almost out of fuel for the generator!! and we are low on propane.. didn’t think we would be this far from any services.. need to be more prepared next time..
Dinner is a bit late this evening… wanted to get some things packed up.. And needed to get the last bit of fishing in.. caught a couple more but let them go.. too much cleaning of fish today… Had to worry about getting things packed.. weather is changing.. rain/snow possible tonight.. got what we could packed and what we couldn’t went under the awning.. In the meantime.. we had a gourmet dinner.. Filet Minion, twice baked potatoes and sautéed mushrooms along with some home grown sliced tomatoes<< last of the season..and dessert was homemade apple crisp…uuummm ummmm so good.. great last night dinner..

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Saturday we leave Medicine Lake.. We will spend some time with Glorianne & Stan at their place in McArthur.. They are putting on a Harvest Dinner and the closing of the Museum at Fall River Mills for the season..
Can’t wait to help Glorianne and give her a hand in getting things ready for that Harvest Dinner.. .. and then on Monday we will be home.. Looking forward to our cooler weather.. By the 15th of Oct.. should be pleasant..

Medicine Lake

We don’t usually get up too early while camping.. 7am seems to be the perfect time.. Of course camping in the mountains this time of the year is a bit COLD at night! Like FREEZING!  Heater is running all night! Daytime is gorgeous, like about 65 to 72 or so.. Medicine Lake is about 6500 feet..
This is our second day here… aww and it is gorgeous.. We met our neighbors Gina & Patrick.. Gina is retired school teacher from Sonoma County and Patrick is a wine maker.. Both are serious kayakers.. We ran out of eggs.. no stores for more than 50 miles…We were very grateful to them.. … They were kind enough to leave us their 6 eggs as well as some left over ice, they were heading out for Tule Lake.. Our ice maker seems to be on the FRITZ! It’s a camping ice maker, Mr. Freeze.. got fried earlier this year when we were at Hereford Ranch when they were having power problems and got a big power serge.. fried.. well not working right at all! As the day progressed we decided to take our kayaks out.. We started paddling across the lake down by the boat launch.. we noticed that people were catching the trout like crazy! Every cast! OMG how  does that happen?? We hurried and paddled back to camp so we could go fishing..
We got our poles, and gear and drove over to the boat ramp so we could fish.. We weren’t out here for an hour and we both limited!! OMG it was crazy! Every cast nearly there was a bite or fish on! Some we let some go and some got off, but mostly they stayed on!! Incredible day fishing! These kind of days are not a regular happening!!
So really today, we did about 2 or 3 miles kayaking, we did a 2 mile walk with dogs to “Little Medicine Lake” and caught our limits of fish.. Perfect day! Dinner was Chicken Faitias, refried beans (homemade) and some pumpkin bread for dessert.. Perfect day!!

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Travel Day heading for??

We left Hat Creek campground about 10:30 this morning.. We had originally planned to go to “Cave” campground here at Hat Creek, but changed our mind while we were the dump.. Said to Ev we should try McCloud Res, where our neighbors/friends Craig & Jane go.. Ev agreed so I called Craig the directions and off went, Craig was so nice to give us a great detailed info how to get there.
We pulled into McCloud just before lunch so had lunch at “Floyds Frostys”, I think that was the name of it?.. had a hamburger (very good) and headed for the secret place where Craig & Jane camp.. Well we drove out to the lake, and just as we got to the boat ramp, the rest of the road was CLOSED!! USFS had placed signs that read “road closed”!! DANG! Turned around and now the questions is “where do we go now”? We drove back to McCloud to the “ranger” station.. Stopped and asked a “ranger” what was open?? We were pretty irritated thinking that everything “forest service” is Closed??!! It is only October 9th and it is like 80 degrees! Hat Creek Campground closed 10/9?? OMG, trout fishing season is over November 1st ! TOO MUCH REGULATION! TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT! Punish us who pay our taxes.. but waste where the government wants it!! ok ok.. no politics!
So when we were talking with the ranger at McCloud he was surprised that Hat Creek was closed!! It is only 1 hr south of McCloud.. anything government, the “right hand don’t know what the left hand is doing”, so typical (WASTE). Ok.. so we asked the ranger “what is open”, he said I do believe (he believes? this is his job!~)“Medicine Lake” is open.. Ok so we decided to take our chances.. too us about 2 hours or so to get here!! To our surprise it is OPEN!! Yipeee!! We drove through the campground looking for the perfect spot.. We found it.. however it was a “son of a gun” to get into.. we had to have lake front! So it took some maneuvering, but we got it!! Had to jack knife the trailer to get it in! But did.. aawww… pheeewww.. but all worth it.. GORGEOUS! Love it! 2 Reasons why we love it.. The obvious reason is that it is gorgeous! number 2, the price is normally $7 a night, but there is no water on in the campground (due to freezing weather at night) price is $5 and if you have the senior pass it is half that price!! YEP $2.50 per night!! wooo hooo we scored!!!
As you can imagine we are pretty exhausted after all our travel today..more than we had anticipated at any rate! We are about 50 miles from the nearest “service”, store/gas/etc.. happy we have everything…
I did txt a few people telling them where we would be, that was when we going to McCloud.. no one knows where we are now.. oopps…

        

       

Hat Creek/Stan & Glorianne

We left bright and early on Saturday morning so we could meet up with Stan & Glorianne at the Hat Creek campground. It was 7:30am when we left home.. this has to be a first in a very long long time.. Ev and I don’t ever get out of home before 10am.. It was nice to leave early and get to the campground before NOON!! woo hoo! We weren’t here about 5 minutes and here come S & G!! It wasn’t till the day before we left that S & G decided they were going to join us! So happy they did! They didn’t have far to come to meet up with us.. They had about an hour’s drive from McArthur, up off hwy 299, just east of Burney…Soon as we got camp set up we packed up into the truck and went up to the “Bridge” fishing.. we had a little luck.. caught a few but let a couple go, and came home with one.. put that one in the freezer, hoping that we might fill the bag??
That evening we had a crab lasagna, one extra one that I had made up from earlier in the week. uummm Very good..
That night was cold, freezing I do believe. We felt the cold that night even in the trailer… Thank God for the generator, we fired it off early that morning got the heater going..
During the day the temps warmed nicely nearly 80. But, at night the cold returned. Changing our clothes probably 3 times a day.. warm to cool and back to warm.. Stayed close to camp today and fished.. no luck.. but still it was a great day.. We took some nice walks, had some nice talks, had a great lunch with friends and shared some great stories. Dinner was ribs and more stories and a great bon fire with friends. The day couldn’t get any better than this.. Hat Creek campground closes on the 9th of October.. so S & G left on Monday we are scheduled to leave on the 9th and probably head over to “Cave” campground as it will stay open till the first snows.. Before S & G left we had “lunch”, that would be brownies and berry pie with a glass of milk.. pretty good lunch I thought!! At lunch we discussed what Ev & I were going to do for the rest of the week. We decided on joining Stan & Glorianne at their place on Saturday.. for a couple night stay.. Plus there is a celebration at the Fall River Museum on Sunday night.. The closing of the museum for the winter.
We took a ride into town (Burney) after S & G left, so we could check email, phone messages, etc.. Checked out some other camp areas but settled on the “Cave” campground.. with our “Senior pass’ it will only be $5 a night to stay.. we are fully self contained.. There will be no water, no other facilities, we will be fine for a few days.. Hope we get some good fishing in over the next few days.. also have the kayaks, maybe we will hit Balm Lake or another lake??

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