The sun is shining like crazy today and according to the weather forecast, it is supposed to start getting warmer over the next few days so I think I can see a quad ride coming soon. Man, it will be nice to greet the New Year with an awesome ride.
I headed into town today to get the wood that John needs to finish the trim around the windows. I think we have now got all the boards we need but of course this means MORE staining for Marie!!
I stopped at the grocery store and picked up a few things for tonight's little New Year's party and with all the goodies tucked safely in the truck, I headed back to the park.
The wood was unloaded and then it was time for me to spread a little birdseed out for the feathered friends and sit in the sunshine and enjoy the last of today's heat.
Kay came over to sit with us and watch the birds. We really have no life here in the park when the highlight of our day is watching the birds and waiting for the javalina to show up!! Or, on the other hand, maybe we have the best life ever that we are blessed to be able to watch the birds and the javelina!!
Ray is not expected home until around 6:00 o'clock so I got busy and had all the food prepared for the evening's festivities before he arrived. Knowing Ray, he probably has not eaten today so he will have lots of good stuff to munch on when he arrives.
Marybeth came over for an hour or so before she headed out with some friends to ring in the New Year. While she was over, John and Kay got busy and opened the two boxes that came the other day with the fireplace in them and got the managed to spread tiny bits of styrofoam all over the floor!! They were rather messy little creatures!! John got he fireplace part going so now we had more heat and "ambiance". It looks awesome!!
Ray arrived back at the park and looked tired. He was hungry and took good advantage of the food that was out on the table. He had his choice of chicken wings (2 flavours) beer sausage, ham, cheese, pickles, shrimp with seafood sauce, crackers, veggies and dill dip, and sourdough bread chunks with spinach dip. The table was full and looked awesome and I introduced Ray and Kay to "grazing". I think Kay was surprised by the amount of food there was out on the table but after the evening was over there were only a few leftovers. The four of us "grazed" all evening long.
With all the family new year greeting out of the way, out came the cards and we played several games of kaiser. Kay and I even made a decent showing and at one point, actually won a game against the guys.
New Year arrived and the four of us went outside and greeted the New Year with Ray's "special" Saturn Missile fireworks and shots of Tequila Rose. It was awesome but we damn near froze while we were out there!! We have definitely become warm weather lovers!!
Now that we were into the New Year, John and I learned a new dice game. Ship, Captain and Crew and we played that for a bit and I was the ultimate winner. Woo Hoo!!
Ray had finally had enough and gave into his fatigue and went to bed. The three of us then got out the Yahtzee and both Kay and I were soundly trounced by John. NO MERCY ~~ even on the first day of the new year!!
With that, it was time for everyone to head to bed although, John had to dive into the "hot" wings before he called it a night and I heard him rummaging for the "tums" before he finally laid his head on his pillow.
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