One of the things we always loved doing at our home in Pennsylvania was having a Christmas Open House where friends and family could drop-in, enjoy some food and fellowship, and stay as long as they were able. We did that for many, many years and Josh, our son, always said it was a highlight of Christmas to have everyone over. As he grew up, he also started inviting his friends to "drop-in." Depending on the weather, the younger crowd might be ice skating on our pond, sledding in our pasture, riding the ATVs in the fields, or just sitting around the fire in the fireplace. It was a time of such fond memories. So Doug and I decided to continue the tradition now that we have a "place" in South Texas. Only difference here is we need to coordinate it with the weatherman since our motorhome can hold about 10 comfortably and our party would need to be outside! So we watched the 10 day forecast. The weatherman did not cooperate in the days leading up to Christmas.... We had days full of mist... not rain, but just damp, cool, foggy weather where we didn't want to be outside. Then we saw a break in the weather after Christmas and we scheduled it for Thursday, the 29th - we had to work around Doug's softball schedule, too. God was good it turned out to be a beautiful day! 81 was the temperature and a beautiful blue sky. In fact one of our friends, Dudley and Marilyn, loaned us their canopy to give us some additional shade from the hot sun.Here are some views before everyone arrived. The calm before the fun!
Now here are some views of the folks....
Below is Eddy and Ann from Arkansas.
Doug hung large Christmas bells in the grapefruit tree with the snowflakes
Above is Dudley, Eddy, and Bill discussing important items... most likely baseball!
Even in the shade, my cheese cubes melted in the heat! Never had that happen at our Pennsylvania Christmas Open House!Below is Dusty's master in the plaid shirt. Dusty is a little chocolate toy poodle who loves Homer and Homer loves him. Homer lets Dusty jump and climb all over him and Dusty just loves it.
Below is Dale and Donna - friends from our second year here in the Valley. You might remember the story from back in October of running into them in San Antonio. I saw Donna posting photos of San Antonio on Facebook and we discovered we were parked across from each other at Traveler's World. We had a great couple of days with them in San Antonio.
Above is the "guy's car corner." That is what I named it. Every time I floated by they were talking Chevy and Ford. ;-) Allan has his back to you, then it is Daryll, Gary, Don, and Vern.Below is the lady's corner. They didn't discuss cars as far as I know! Ha, ha! Left to right is Debbie, Barb, Lori, and Bev. Bev and Allan have very good taste in motorhomes... They bought the same year and model as we have! ;-)
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