'18/#30 'Tis The Season

We are well into our winter season here in southern Texas and are getting back in the rhythm of the park we are staying. It is getting close to the end of November and that means the holiday season is kicking off. First and foremost Mary and I would like to thank everyone who wished us Happy Birthday. To quote Clarence Oddbody of It's a Wonderful Life, "no man is a failure who has friends!". By that account Mary and I are way beyond successful in life when looking at the list of people we count as friends. Thanks again for all the well wishes.

Now on to the holidays.  First up is Thanksgiving. This year we are going to keep it simple and have a Thanksgiving for two. That means we will sleep in, watch the recorded Macy's parade, get a start on all the holiday programming on TV, and of course eat too much delicious food. We will probably stay in our PJs all day and make phone calls to friends and family before falling into a food induced coma.

The rest we get from the previously mentioned coma will come in handy since Mary has found a few Black Friday sales she wants to go to. Fortunately Black Friday is not the insanity it was years ago thanks to Internet shopping and Cyber Monday. Our holiday shopping is going to be curtailed this year.  We are planning ahead for the next couple of years and need to enhance our financial status if want to take on the adventures we hope our future holds for us.

The next holiday we celebrate is Chanukah. This a celebration of the miracle of the rededication of the temple. The story goes that one day's worth of oil lasted eight days during this time. We will celebrate it like most Jews with the lighting of the menorah but we seem to have started our celebration a  little early... only with propane instead of sacred oil.

We have a propane cylinder that needs a new valve and the propane tech told me to use up the full cylinder so we didn't waste 9 gallons of propane. For the last 3 plus weeks we have been using propane for everything even though we get our electricity for free. We heat our hot water, heat our house, cook, and even run our generator all with propane instead of electricity which is our normal procedure. And still the propane cylinder is not empty! In West Yellowstone where we used electricity for everything, and propane only to supplement the electric heat, we used a cylinder once a week. I am not one to believe in miracles but....... Anyway, it has lasted way longer than we thought it should. We are glad that we will be able to get by on less propane when we go back to normal but we also would like to get the defective valve fixed.

Well the laundry is done and needs to be folded so I will end this with a "Happy Thanksgiving" to everyone from our home in Pharr because....

Home is where we park it,
Frank and Mary