Thanksgiving Day

Today is Thursday, November 27, 2008, THANKSGIVING DAY. Are you giving thanks today?

We awoke this morning to the clouds below us and blue sky above! Presently the sky is clear and blue, and the temperature is about 60 degrees! It is truly a day in which to give thanks! Look at the pictures. Isn't it beautiful? All the world is a wonder. Created by our GREAT GOD and his WONDERFUL SON!

Today we will have our Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner with new friends from Thousand Trails. Each of the campgrounds have such a dinner. They cook the turkey, dressing, and mashed potatoes and gravy, along with coffee or ice tea, for the low of price of $5.75 each. Then, each of the families brings a vegetable, salad, rolls and desserts. Melva is making a huge pan of sweet potatoes like my mother used to make, with butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows. There are two sittings, and we have opted for the early one at 2:00 pm.

When we bought this 5th wheel, it had no television, so we are going to leave here this evening and park at the Wal-Mart to see if we can find a good buy on a flat screen to put in. Where we are located presently we get about 5 channels with our antenna. We purchased a 13" at Goodwill for $15 and it is working okay. It has a built-in VCR, so we are able to view the videos we brought along, only they are so small that it is hard to see from the recliners in the rear of the 5th wheel. We then purchased a VCR/DVD player and have it hooked up to play DVD's, so we have all of the entertainment we need.

Tomorrow we will be checking into Minden Lake, near Nicolaus, CA, in the center of the Sacramento valley, about 17 miles south of Marysville/Yuba City. We will spend 4 days there and then travel on to Morgan Hill, CA which is about 20 miles south of San Jose where we will spend four nights.

The lakes around here are covered with large white geese and Canadian Honkers. There are deer all over this campground, and also wild turkeys, and of course, large gray squirrels.

Well, I will close this for now. We will be leaving in a little while for our community thanksgiving. May continue to bless you and provide for you now and forevermore as you serve and trust in Him.