This week I...

 Took a few more photos than normal

Spectacular Fall Color


Made Susan VH's Ham Ball recipe and it was delicious. Next time I will make a double batch of the basting sauce.

 

Ham Balls (Susan VH)

1 # smoked ham

1 # lean pork

½ # hamburger

Grind meat and mix together. If you can find a store

 that sells ham loaf use that.

Add:

2 beaten eggs

1 cup tomato juice

1-2 cups cracker crumbs

Salt and pepper to taste

 

Make into 9 or 10 ham balls, place in a baking dish and

baste with the following:

¾ cup brown sugar 

1 tsp dry mustard

¼ cup vinegar

1 small can crushed pineapple

Bake 1 ½ hours at 350 degrees

(Fareway's Ham loaf is equal parts ground ham and ground pork)

And then I have spent far too much time thinking of what I need to pack for the trip to Texas! And what am I forgetting!!

The next to last Trivia session was on Thursday night as usual. Glen D. found the questions and asked them. I enjoy very much being on the other end of it now and then.

We took Mickey to Carroll for her weekday treatment on Friday. The sad part is that it is a necessary thing but the good part is we get to visit for a couple of hours and that we see how tough and determined my lifelong friend truly is. We love you, Mickey!

3 Handy Tips

 https://www.thundercloud.net/infoave/new/three-chrome-tricks-you-might-not-know/

Ever take a photo of a plant or animal that you could not identify and wish there was some way to find out? One of the above tips will tell you exactly how.

A couple of years ago I took a picture of a crop growing next to Trophy Gardens in Texas and I did not know its identity. Turns out it was arugula! I found this out today!

Connecting

 I have connections to at least 3 blogs. I am most loyal to the one I started in 2002. Yikes! 20 years ago! https://brooker3.blogspot.com/ I started it as a way to keep in touch with friends and family as we traveled. It also doubled as a journal. It worked well except in the beginning I couldn't add pictures. As the Blogger progressed so did I. I remember how tickled I was when adding photos was doable. I took full advantage of it. I sometimes like to look back at those beginnings.

But then... We were in Magnolia Park and I thought I should do one for the park because there were times I wanted to put only park stuff on the blog and times when personal stuff was not particularly appropriate.

Thus we have... https://magnolianews.blogspot.com/ And I kept it very much park-connected until our much-loved winter destination fell apart. So when the departure happened, Deon and I decided to keep the blog going. We still do to this day. The posts are fewer and far between but we retain the function of going back over all those years and seeing the posts of the good old days. And we add new ones as they come to us.

And then I found myself in a new park-Trophy Gardens- and was asked to start one for that park. I feared I was getting in over my head ...and I was...so I have kept it as simple as possible but it suffers for life as you might expect. Anyone can find it here: https://trophygardens.blogspot.com/ I would love to have help with it to keep it current. I do have a few rules in that regard. No rants, no negative angled posts, no personal stuff etc.

With a new policy from Blogger that they do not have a sign-up for the blogs to be delivered to people by email, the views have fallen off. I have been looking for a new solution. I have had a long-standing LOVE/HATE relationship with Facebook. Still do.  Amongst my peers, it does seem to be the one site most looked at so I will follow through with posting new blog entries on Facebook until another obstacle is placed in my way. 

I do have a personal issue with putting my personal blog, the original one, on Facebook so this will be a trial and if I get too much negative blowback I will not continue.

So here goes!

Color Change

 The leaves they are a changing!

You Decide

 

Preparation

 The preporation for departure is a bit daunting this year and the subject of a few nights of lost sleep. I knew it was going to be a challenge and it will be nice to have it behind us. My plan is to take lots of photos's on both ends in an attempt to keep track of what we have in each place. The days of living full-time in the motorhome made it so simple. This too shall pass.

Old Enough!

I have become hooked on this Japanese reality show.  You can see an overview by clicking on this link:

Old Enough!

So far as I can tell it is only on Netflix.

Huh?

 

Blue Jay

 Taken this morning...

The Hamiltons

 Johnny and Alice hosted a party comprised mostly Class of 61 grads and a few other friends and neighbors. Bob and Kay Maddux were here from Texas and Bob is known for his Texas BBQing talents. It was a wonderful time with old friends and the meal was superb. If you had told me in my teen years that the class of 61 would be such a tight-knit group I would not have believed it but the knit seems to be tighter the older we get!