Father's Day

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, To all the Father's out there. Hope everyone has a great day either making new memories or reliving old ones.

We are winding down another week here at Escapees Racoon Valley Rv Park. It has been busy. Working the first three days. But on Tuesday we made a trip to Middlesboro to sell some motorcycle stuff.
Thursday Corey brought the grand babies over to visit and to swim. We all had a great time. But they sure does wear you out, wish I had all their energy.

Friday Joe went to the car auction and bought Jenelle a car. We worried about her driving one that she has. This one is nice and clean. Runs and looks good. Hopefully it will last her a long time.

Today our friends from Ohio Phil and Linda Roberts left heading back home. We enjoyed spending time with them. They got to meet Corey and the babies and Jenelle. We spent the rest of the day with Jenelle. Just messing around the house and then we went to the store to get the stuff to fix fried bologna sandwiches. Just like my dad used to make when he had a resturant. Man they were so good.

Tomorrow we all will go over to Joe's dad's to spend some time with him. And of course to make homemade bisquits and gravy. Yum Yum.

Hope everyone has a great day.
Have fun and be safe. Till next time.

Day with the kids

Well tomorrow (Thursday) will be my last day of work for the first week. Only six more to go. It's slower here than the other places that I have worked. But we have great Managers. Kris and Jim Todd, we worked for them at Bushnell Fla.



Today (Wed) Corey brought all the grand babies over to spend the day with us and to go swimming. We had a great time with them. But man do they wear me out. But that is the good thing about grand children you can play with them and then give them back. And take a week to recoup.
Our daughter Jenelle received some good news yesterday.She was approved for her home loan. Her and Joe went to look at the property today and they will start on hers next week. It is supposed to be finished the middle of August. She is really doing good here in Knoxville. She will also start college in August.
Everyone have fun and be safe.

Racoon Valley Rv Park

We made it to Escapees Racoon Valley Rv Park. Checked in the office and since we will be here for 7 weeks and I am hosting, they told us we could either be up front or way in the back in the corner. Well you know us and we chose the corner in the back.
Jim and Kris Todd are the managers here until the 1st of August,the same as us.
After we got set up, our daughter (Jenelle) came over. She lives right here in Knoxville. She made the move from Staten Island NY, last year at the time. We were staying here in the same park. She stayed with us while she looked for employment and an apartment.
Now she has her own apartment and 2 jobs, and she starts school at University of Tennessee in August.
Yesterday we went to the Green Acres Flea Market, I have never seen it so empty. but listening to the regulars, looks like Sunday is the day to browse the flea market. Any way I found a slow cooker, like Miss Molly's. I even had to call her and tell her about my find. Now she just needs to send recipe's.
We came back to the rig and Nellie went home to rest and Joe started cleaning all the mud off of the tracker. I painted new boards for the leveling jacks to sit on.
I had to put out the hummingbird feeder. Love to sit and watch them fight over the food.
Work starts on Monday. Will be working Mon. Tues. and Wed. Not a bad deal and get to see family and friends while we are here.
Till next time, have fun and be safe.

We arrived back in Kentucky on Sunday. First thing we did was go to the store to get the fixings for Biscuits and Gravy. We always gather at Butch's (Joes dad) for biscuits and grave and call everyone to come up and it's a good way to see everyone at once. And we had to check on Scott and see how he was really doing and not just what he wanted to tell us. He looked like the old saying (Road hard and put up wet). Corey and Jennifer brought Jaelynn up to Butch's to see us. Corey had to work, so Joe and I put a rush on the gravy and biscuits so he could eat before work.
Miss Jaelynn is sure growing, by leaps and bounds. She will throw you kisses and wink at you. Love those kisses.



On Monday, I went to the lake with Corey and Jaelynn and some of his friends from work. We had a blast. He has two wave runners and they are fun. We all took turns riding. Here is Corey posing Jaelynn on the wave runner just for pictures.




Corey's friend Sarah, has a camper at the lake and we were able to just play around her dock. Jaelynn was having a blast splashing in the water.



I love to babysit Miss Jaelynn, while her daddy gets his work around the yard done.

If it is not raining today, we will be moving over to Heiskell Tn. to Racoon Valley Escapees RV Park. We will only be 1 hour away from the family. Our daughter Jenelle lives in Knoxville. So we will get to visit with her some while we are there.

Till next time have fun and be safe.

ESCAPADE 2009

We are having a great time here at the Escapee Escapade.
There is always something to do. Lots of classes and lots of people to see. We volunteered to help Bob Pinner, drive the golf cart around the fair grounds and offer rides to people.

Of course the first couple of days were great, and then the rain started. And when you get rain, you get mud. Mud and heavy duty trucks and RV's do not mix. There were a lot of people stuck in the mud and the wrecker service is staying very busy.
Here is a picture of one gentlemen's van and Rv.
I do believe he will be very busy cleaning the mud off of both of them.




We have had several '07' get togethers. The margarator made an apperance at the potatoe bake. And if you look close you will see two of them. Faye was getting lessons from Joe on how to make Margarita's.



Today was the Pet Parade. Here are several pictures of some of the entries in the parade.
Hank and Patty's dogs, Scooter and Molly.
3 Yorkies (triplets)
The Clown
And the other 3 are therapy dogs



And there was even a bird named Dusty. Dusty's owner would lay him in her palm and with her other hand she would act like she shot him and he would play dead. Wonder if I could teach Leo that. LOL





And Elvis and Peggy Sue even made an appearance!



Wonder what Fay had to promise him to get him to do this? What a great sport he is.



Till next time everyone be safe and have fun.