We are here for the week - get to enjoy Thanksgiving then on Saturday we get to celebrate Kathy's B-day. It will be a great week for some R&R for her. We have a couple of projects but nothing big. Today, she is repainting some of the furniture in her studio. She was not happy with the tops of the buffet and table. She enjoys that stuff and I am sure do a great job. I have some painting outside but will wait for the temperature to climb a little before I tackle that project. Pretty good excuse and I am sticking with it.
I played golf 3 times last week - the course is in very good shape. Found lots of golf balls and got some very good exercise. For some reason they are really increasing the maintenance on the course. They have always been a little slow in mowing the rough - now they seem to clean it up several times per week. Some rumors are floating that the owners (husband and wife) may be preparing the course for sale. The husband has recently recovered from major heart problems. He is back and work and looks great, better than I have ever seen him. I use the term "work" loosely as he only hangs out in the golf shop and bar taking care of customer etc. In these economic times I would imagine the course may not be that easy to sell. More rumors, there is allot of cash coming in the the shop and bar and much of that ends up in their pockets and not in the books. They own everything outright and don't really have much in expenses except for the groundskeepers, taxes, utilities etc. Their P&L statement might be a little light on revenue?!!
I did manage to get my burn piles gone yesterday before the rain. Two weeks ago I tried and it was too wet but they went up nicely this time. One of the piles was still smoldering this morning. Now it is time to start new ones with all the weeds that will fill the yard with all the rain we are getting. Now that the blackberry bushes have gone dormant I am tempted to touch some of them as well. The problem is that they are typically on both our property and adjoining property - I would not like to start a major fire on the neighbors property. Still have to ponder that decision??!!
We are looking forward to a nice big Thanksgiving dinner - - still have to go shopping for the turkey. Can't believe the price of those things have climbed 50 percent over the last year or so. We always enjoy the bird and will likely have one of Christmas as well. Not sure which is best the actual dinner or the leftovers? Speaking of prices - - got gas recently for 3.34 that is over dollar less than what is was in the August time period, not sure what it was last year? The last price increase in Ca was due to a refinery fire at the Chevron plant. I heard on the news that that price increase was not really due to the fire but was a good opportunity to jack the price up once again!!??
This is a great time of the the year to look back and reflect on how thankful we are for such a good life. We are truly blessed and very thankful to be in this time and place. With all that is happening around us in this world, we really have a much better appreciation than ever.
We hope you have wonderful Thanksgiving!!
More later
Ron, Kathy, Tessie and Sammie(holding down the fork in Tracy)
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