HAPPENINGS AT THE CAMPGROUND

Here are some of the "different" happenings at the campground.  We continue to be amused by our observations as we live and work in a campground environment.

Once in a while we have an unusual RV in the campground.  This RV belonged to a singer (husband) and writer (wife) who visited recently.  Doesn't this look like a Schwan's frozen foods delivery truck?

Each weekend during the summer has a theme. Recently, we had carnival weekend.  Calvin Klown visited our guests each day.  Calvin does a great pose with Paul during a work day.  Notice how spiffy our work polos are.

Miss Piggy Su also visited.  

Yes, it is a real live pig that was raised by her owner since she was 3 weeks old.  For a donation to St Jude;s Childrens' Hospital, you could have Miss Piggy Su kiss you.  She is wearing her Saturday night dancing costume.  After this posing, she attended our Saturday night karaoke and played along to the music on a toy piano using her snout to hit the notes.  All the best entertainment at Lake Ridge RV Resort!  Ann is patiently waiting for her kiss.

Paul took a turn next, hearing Piggy Su's snorts of delight as she did the kissing motion.

This is just a sampling of some of the fun special activities that go on each weekend.

For the first time since we began camping, we decided to experiment with cooking in aluminum foil.  We bought a campfire cookbook and followed a recipe to cook a pork tenderloin with Granny Smith apples, sliced onion, and onion soup mix on our charcoal grill.

Ready to seal the foil.

The finished product which melted in your mouth and tasted wonderful.  As you can see, the apple slices slid off the meat, exposing the onions.

Stinging insects have been a pest this summer.  We have never camped where there have been so many bees, wasps and hornets flying around and building nests.  This bee's nest was inside the front of our RV just below the headlight. It is the size of a baseball.  There were 3 distinct layers of honeycombs and a paperlike covering around it.  Paul sprayed three different times early in the morning when the bees were mostly asleep and then had to use a wire coat hanger to knock the nest loose from under the headlight until it fell to the ground. 

These experiences help make our work time go by quickly.