LAST HOORAH!!!

One can consider this past weekend as the last of the season at the campground. Temps were in the 80's and not a cloud in the sky. Took advantage of the weather by having a early cup of coffee and sitting in the rocking chair on the deck. Very little wind but the leaves were still taking their turns letting go of the branches and fluttering down to the ground. This brought to mind the harsh reminder of things to come. Snow, ice and cold.

Next weekend will be the process of taking a last golf cart ride, finishing putting things away, locking up the camper for the last time until next spring and the worst part of it all is saying goodbye to good friends and wishing them a good winter and holiday season.

Hope to see you all again next spring.

FOOTBALL TODAY - BEARS @ PACKERS.

I watch the Chicago Bears play football whenever they are on tv, but there are certain games that I look forward too. Today is one of those games. Today's game is with our neighbors to the north, that being the Green Bay Packers.

Today is perfect football weather. 61 degrees and raining. These days are for die hard fans. I consider myself a fan but not the extent that I would sit in the rain or snow or temperatures in the negative numbers. My private seat is a Easy Boy rocking chair with a snack tray next to it with my favorite snacks on it and I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for them. The washroom is near by with no line and best of all I get all of the close-up action on my 46 inch tv. When the game is over I don't have a long drive home and I won't have a problem finding my car in the parking lot.

Am I a good dedicated fan? YOU BET I AM!!!!!!!!!

END OF CAMPING SEASON.

I know I said it was the end of camping season but not exactly, it is not really over until October 17 when they turn off the water. I was referring to the activities during the day and night. No more dances, hay rides, and whatever else the park does to entertain folks who come here to camp. It is now closed to the public and only lot owners can enter.

Last Saturday was the big event of dropping candy from an airplane and letting the kids run onto the field to gather the goodies. In the evening it was time for the giant fire which was the burning of skids donated by one of the lot owners. There must have been 500 skids to burn and that is just what happend them, they were burned. Hot dogs, chips and brownies were also part of the party. The flames were two, three stories high and heat from the fire was something else.

From now until the 17 of October it will be putting stuff away for the winter and at night sitting around a campfire and talking about what went on during the summer and of course trying to stay warm as the temperature drops in the evening.

All I can say is that I will miss all my friends with their jokes and laughs.

Hope I will be there again next summer.

It was a sad weekend with the final activity at the campground and let me say that the weather co-operated to make it a great weekend. It was the weekend that all of the little kids were able to dress up in the favorite costume and go around to collect candy and enjoy a early Halloween. My grand-daughter has enough candy to last her until next year. The evening was topped off with a hay ride through the haunted woods which is always a favorite with the young and old. That all happened on Saturday with Sunday being a day or relaxing and dad catching up on the opening day of football.
From now until October 17 (when we close) it is quiet time at Yogi Bear Camp Resort in Plymouth, Indiana.

NEW FIRST'S THESE PAST FEW WEEKS.

These past few weeks at the camper have been both hot and fun. For instance I played golf for the first time in 50 years, pitched horse shoes for the first time in at least 20 years, went swim, ming at the pools for the first time in 9 years, went to the Four Winds Casino (lost) and had a good time and lastly played hide and go seek on golf carts. Each event was great fun. Had to come back home for laundry and check on bills and then I will head back

AT THE CAMPER.

It's Tuesday morning and I am sitting at the dining table in the camper writing this and looking out watching the temperature guage go up, up, and up. Arrives here Friday and it has been hot, in the 90's every day, so for the first time in nine years I went to the pool with my neighbors. They are in their early 40's with killer figures, maybe that's why I hang around with them. LOL.

Well any way they just knocked on my door to go swimming with them. So I will cut this short and my grand daughter and I will get our suits on and go swimm

NEW ARRIVALS.

For a few weeks now a duck has been sitting on eggs in a flower bed at the camper. Yesterday as I sat on my deck I noticed a large duck with four baby ducks stumbling around behind her. I wondered it those were from the eggs she had been sitting on. I took a walk to where the nest was and sure enough the eggs had hatched. There was one chick in the next who was not moving and another who had made it way out of the nest and lying on the ground peeping. I guess it was looking for the others who were quite a distance away near the waters edge. I picked this chick up and carried it to the group of other chicks and placed it on the ground near them. This little guy heard the others peeping and hurried toward them peeping and stumbling all the way. It made it to the group