Thanksgiving over!

La Feria, Texas 71º

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Wednesday Dave and his crew worked up the turkeys, cooked them in the morning and then deboned them in the afternoon.  Phyllis and Pam made the dressing Thursday morning and had me and Kevin mix the precooked powdered potatoes with liquid she made up and put in roasters for serving.

 At about 12 Noon the servers lined up behind the two serving tables.  Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy were provided by Kenwood RV Park and all help were volunteers among the residents.

Darlene made announcements and gave prayer.  Note the long tables of side dishes everyone brought, as well as deserts.

I had provided photos a few weeks ago of the kitchen in state of being brought up to snuff.  Note the granite counter tops.

 Back sink and new counter tops.

Note new refrigerator/freezer and gas range on the far wall.  Existing grills were deep cleaned by Jim.

This is one of the server's tables.

Other table for servers to eat.  We served about 90 people in about 20 minutes.  Of course, they were on their own passing by the side-dish tables.

   This was taken before people started to arrive at noon.  Many had come down early in the morning and decorated and set up their areas to eat, making it quite "homey" for many.

On Wednesday I had used up 4 bags of quick-krete that I had originally bought to use on floor of the Texas Room addition--but then had it commercially poured.

This is just starting, with 2 bags down.

Pour completed.  This is at our back door.

Am showing here the pipe connection I made outside the back door that then went under the mobile home and to the front.

     And this is the business end of that 60 foot of 1/2" PVC pipe I put under the mobile home.  This is located just beside the Ford on the driveway and Phyllis can use it for watering flowers in front of the unit.  (If it quits raining every few days, that is)

Guess we are experiencing the beginning of "Fall" with the trees losing some leaves.  Note all the green leaves still on the trees.  This was taken on Thanksgiving day.

Some of the grapefruit I picked.  The smaller ones are from the tree on Paul's place beside us.  He is gone and the lot vacant, but grapefruit and orange tree still near the back fence.  The larger grapefruits are from the "over the fence side" of tree on Ernest Baker's place.  They were available from the street we ride the trikes on, but not reachable from his side of the fence.

These are lemons and limes that Don Ferguson let us pick from his tree.  Some of the lemons were used as juice on the turkey rub before cooking.

This is Don and his banana tree.  I hadn't realized bananas grew here.  And, they aren't very large -- just above the purple bloom in the left-center are three small green bananas.

One of our neighbors, Merve, who is always doing some woodworking.

Merve cut the wooden "tail feathers" for these pumpkins and his wife painted them and the pumpkins.







Rode the trike 6.5 miles Thursday morning while food was being finished.  Yesterday rode 10 miles.  With good weather today will try for another 10 miles.  Am weighing less than I have since the 1960's, but still have another 20 lbs. to go.

Later, Lynn