My hard working elf has been working overtime as I've been very good this year!

A home full of good times :)

Tom is one happy camper :)

Phillip has definitely mastered the art of dice throwing!

Kay was the grand champion of the white elephant lottery ticket drawing!  Thomas was a big influence in the outcome.

We are very thankful for this gathering of family and friends!  We pray we are able to have a repeat next year...

Welcome back to the Ice Age!  46 degrees on the way back from the restaurant last night, -8 degrees this morning with a wind chill of -35 :(
Connie's supposed to be off from work today....NOT!​

A few pics from around town.

It finally warmed up to +14 today :)

We stopped at a familiar B&B in Mt Airy, NC, after dropping off "Cassie".  We stayed in the same room (posted last year).  400 miles later we arrived at Connie and Tom's home.  Our first night we went to a local restaurant, Nasties.  We like to walk there but it's too cold for us.

Connie hates to have her picture taken but we snuck in a quick blurry photo and posted it.  We won't tell her but I think she'll figure it out when she next reads the blog.  We're going with the story that we were just trying to get a picture of her new friend :)

There's a story behind the purple guy but I'll withhold the details at this time :)

We left in March and are now back at Gwyn and Veston's home for a couple of months.  Our old trailer needed cleaning up for its new owners.  And the dogs jumped in for a cleaning as well :)

It's sad to say goodbye to "Cassie" but she has moved on to a young, new family!  Its really hard to believe we had her for 5 years...

I just had a cataract removed and Veston thinks I'll benefit from these larger cards...wise guy!!!

Wendy's sister, Diane, stopped by for an overnight visit at an Air B&B on her way down to Florida Keys for a week of off-shore sailing.  We visited Folly Beach while she was here and went to the James Island State Park Christmas light display.  We really enjoyed her visit.

My brother's truck has been very well taken care of by his son, David.

From Grapeland we went on to Tunica, MS, for a 2 night stop and then on for one night stop at a Cracker Barrel in Ft Payne, Alabama.  We didn't get a picture but I will tell you we got pinned into our parking spot at the Cracker Barrel.  I saw the person park next to us but didn't take note of her appearance and the close proximity to us.  I went inside a few minutes later to try spotting her so we could leave but could not remember what she looked like.  So....we just decided to get breakfast and wait it out.  We figured the person was there to eat and would then leave.  Not so!  After we finished eating we waited, and waited, and waited.  She must have went to the nearby shopping mall after her breakfast.  We reevaluated our situation, had Wendy lift a tree branch, and escaped our parking predicament.  But as she was looking up and holding the branch, she slipped off the curb and went rolling.  We were very thankful to escape injury and left for Georgia.

We've grown quite fond of Lake Hartwell and find it to be a wonderful stop when we are returning to or leaving SC.

On the way back to SC we attended another Pineknot rally in Grapeland, Texas.  The weather was perfect and good times were had by all! 

Doug and Mary came here directly after picking their trailer up from the Casita factory.  They had a few major problems with the installation of the kitchen sink.  We worked on it for a while and made some progress.

Phil and Mary are taking notes :)  When I first met Phil at a previous rally in Bandera, Texas, we had identical issues with the toilet in our trailers.  We helped each other to come up with solutions.  Here at Pineknot we again had identical problems, this time with the furnace.  I had just fixed my problem the week before Pineknot.  So we operated on Phil's furnace and fixed it...yay!  We decided to take notes on any problems we had until the next time we meet since we seemed destined to have identical problems with our trailers.

This was Dave and Linda's last time to host Pineknot :(  They have done a wonderful job to ensure the success of this event and will be dearly missed.

Just walking around camp making new friends and reacquainting with old friends is what it's  all about for us :)