It's good to be with good friends in familiar territory after the isolation of Fontana. Long showers, live television, telephone service, internet service-all the comforts of a stationary home for a little while.
The title refers to the weekend festival here in West Jefferson. There's food, crafts, music & beautiful weather today. Nice & cool & a few clouds drifting by. And of course lots of unusual people. Not us, of course, but there are some very unusual people who attend these things. This is Christmas tree country, as NC is the 2nd leading producer of them in the US. It's not bad for the land & good for the farmers, so I'm for it.
I'm so glad to be with Cathy & Alan! Last night Ken & Raney Rogers came over for dinner and as always, it was good to be with them, too. There was lots of good conversation, more than a few pictures taken and some martinis by Raney that kicked this geezers butt, but good! Of course the scotch I was sipping may have had something to do with my early demise. Yep, ole dead Fred still does that thingy once in a while.
We visited the festival today & Cathy bought me a personalized pic called "Happy Camper" as you see. Love the painting! Cathy is such a kind, generous person & it's a pleasure to be around her! She has also filled me in on happenings at the church. She's on the board now & I'm very glad for her & for the church. She's also participating in a leadership development program there that I was privileged to play a small part in creating. So it's nice to know how that is going.
Hope to play golf with my old buddies John & Harry while I'm here. We had so many good times together at Mountain Aire & I hope we can have just a few more. They're fun, interesting people & fairly good golfers, too, sometimes. Will report more later on how the match(s) go.
The title refers to the weekend festival here in West Jefferson. There's food, crafts, music & beautiful weather today. Nice & cool & a few clouds drifting by. And of course lots of unusual people. Not us, of course, but there are some very unusual people who attend these things. This is Christmas tree country, as NC is the 2nd leading producer of them in the US. It's not bad for the land & good for the farmers, so I'm for it.
I'm so glad to be with Cathy & Alan! Last night Ken & Raney Rogers came over for dinner and as always, it was good to be with them, too. There was lots of good conversation, more than a few pictures taken and some martinis by Raney that kicked this geezers butt, but good! Of course the scotch I was sipping may have had something to do with my early demise. Yep, ole dead Fred still does that thingy once in a while.
We visited the festival today & Cathy bought me a personalized pic called "Happy Camper" as you see. Love the painting! Cathy is such a kind, generous person & it's a pleasure to be around her! She has also filled me in on happenings at the church. She's on the board now & I'm very glad for her & for the church. She's also participating in a leadership development program there that I was privileged to play a small part in creating. So it's nice to know how that is going.
Hope to play golf with my old buddies John & Harry while I'm here. We had so many good times together at Mountain Aire & I hope we can have just a few more. They're fun, interesting people & fairly good golfers, too, sometimes. Will report more later on how the match(s) go.
I bet you spotted a lot of "Uncle Dad"s in downtown WJ yesterday!!
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