New House

Early picture before shutters. This was probably on moving in day!

Guest shower and washer/dryer. It was nice to use the washer.

Well, we finally moved in with what we had. Furniture still in storage. The boat just fits as you can see.

The motorhome is at rest in the rv space now. This picture is before the gates were built and then below is a picture of the finished gates. They still need to be stained and the wrought iron needs to be painted.

The shutters and shades arrived so I have several pictures of the installed products. Also, the stereo and tvs were installed last week. Right now we have lovely camp chairs!!

I love the kitchen!. Great place to cook. Right now in the middle of cooking an omelete.

Breakfast room shades and outside patio and rv garage.

TV !!

TV on and roman shades. One of the shades had to be returned since the pull cord was on the wrong side!




Well, that's a little peek. More later. Terry is on the way with the furniture!

Sandy

Hello Everyone

Here are some of the pictures from the B.A.S.S. Club World Championship held in Wagoner, OK in October 2008. Below is the state park where we stayed on Ft. Gibson Lake. We had the place pretty much to ourselves until Thursday and then the weekenders started rolling in. Each night we had dinner at our campsite. All the team is in this picture except for Bill since one of the team members didn't show up. We had to get Bill to fly out from OR since he was the team alternate. We also had lots of deer in the campground. They would come thru every morning and again early evening.

These are white tale deer. Oregon has mule deer so these are a little smaller.

After dinner shot trying to get a game plan for prefishing!! Dan H., Kevin G., Don H., Terry B., and Don Hollis. We also had good weather as you can see.

The motorhome in the background is Kevin Gray's.

On Day One, Terry and Don weighed in 13 lb 12 oz. At this point the team was in 3rd place.

Below is a picture of Terry and Kevin's boat. They are sitting waiting to get on the trailer and weigh in. We had one car between the three teams so everyone loaded up on the same trailer to get to the parking lot. When they finished weighing their fish, we put the boat back in the water at a secondary ramp and loaded up the next boat. It really worked pretty good, it was just strange having a Triton and another boat on a Ranger trailer. It worked!!

Day two pictures of Dan and Don with 12 lb 11 oz and Kevin and Don Hollis with 12 lb 5 oz. Pretty good.

Also have various pictures of the team standing in the weighin line.




Don and Dan

Don, Dan and Don waving.

Kevin and Don!

Terry and Don the first day. The team finished in 13th place and the money stopped at 7th place!! Good thing they didn't finish 8th!! Anyway it was a great time with the guys.

Day One after Terry and Don weighed in with 13 lb 12 oz. Terry, Don Hollis and Don Holw.

More pictures to come of the house!! Now have internet so will get things posted soon.

Sandy

Oklahoma

Hello from Oklahoma. We are at Grand Lake of the Cherokees which is the Crappie Capitol of the World according to their literature! We haven't seen a crappie! But we have seen some nice fish as you can see by this picture. It was caught on a buzz bait. We got here on the 26th and will be leaving here tomorrow to go down to Ft. Gibson Lake in Wagoner, OK for the Bass Club World Championship. Terry will be fishing with a club from Oregon. If they win, they each get a new Skeeter bass boat. Each club has a 6 man team and there are 38 clubs represented across the country. This was the same tournament we went to last year in Shreveport, LA, but Terry didn't fish in that one. We were just there to support the Oregon team.

The campground is very nice and right on the water. We have a deck that sticks out over the bluff above the water and the property is well maintained and mowed. They even have free firewood for all the campers next to the office. You just help yourself! In this picture, we have the boat parked in the site next to us since it is late in their season and some vacant spots. Lots of people leave their motorhome or trailer here year round and just come for the weekend from Kansas, Oklahoma, etc. Nice place.

You an see our view from this shot. All the spots are pull ins for motorhomes and back ins for trailers. That way you have a great view from your front windows. We are facing east so see the sunrise every morning. It comes up about 7:18 am.

They also have a dock to park the boat at night so Terry could go fishing early. Obviously, I didn't go out that early. He had to come by to get the keys for his lockers so I got this picture and the next one of him heading out. He fished about two hours and came back for breakfast.

The sun wasn't quite up at this time, it was just about 6:45 in this picture of him heading up the lake. We are on the dam end of the lake.

Then we had this heron floating in on a piece of styrofoam that had come off of some dock somewhere. At first I thought it was a boat, and then noticed it was a bird!! It floated in from the lake and just walked back and forth on this float!

Anyway, that's it from Oklahoma. Hopefully we will have some pictures of the tournament next week.

Sandy