Barry & me cooking scrambled eggs
Getting set up
The biscuits & gravy with scrambled eggs serving line
Two guests went out and bought 17# of halibut chunks and hosted a pot luck dinner for the entire caravan. Once again, we are stuffed! After dinner, Vicki Parmley, a previous guest of ours, brought out her new toy…an ugly stick. 
Vicki and her Ugly Stick! 
Vicki, Doug and me
Our next day was Sunday…a day of rest…RIGHT! Claudia cleaned house and I worked outside doing “stuff”. After the house was clean, I came inside and dirtied it up by re-stringing a broken window shade. After fixing the shade, I started in on the washing machine. The dryer part has been acting up and only coming on occasionally. After calling the company, I did some electrical tests but couldn’t figure anything out as the machine now decided to do something totally different. After screwing around for a while, it totally shut down and quit. Then the handle that opens the door broke. I quit fooling with it and put it all back together. We will call the service center tomorrow.
After the washing machine fiasco, I took a well-deserved shower and then started getting ready for ANOTHER pot luck waddle-fest. Claudia and I cooked the last of our really great Canadian beef steaks and added more than a few pot luck offerings to our plates. There were several salads, pulled pork, spaghetti, meat loaf, barbecue beans and several desserts. Too much food. I had to be polite and try everything. It took two trips to do it but I succeeded. Again, the result was not pretty. I keep looking at the scale in the bathroom. I will continue to look at it. I will not touch it nor will I even think of stepping on it. Not for a long time! I waddled back to the rig and started putting things away. We leave tomorrow morning for St. Anthony for two days and then on to St. Barbe (not much more than a fenced-in field) for one night and then the overnight to Labrador. There will not be any Internet and probably very little or no cell phone service until we get back from Labrador so this will be it for a while. Y’all stay safe.
Getting set up
The biscuits & gravy with scrambled eggs serving line
The breakfast was outstanding. We had plenty and everyone went away stuffed. After breakfast clean-up, Claudia and I holed up in the motorhome and started working on our Grand Circle tour. We got the calendar all filled in with the tours, meals and other events. This will be the basis of organizing the trip. Now we just need to contact all parks and vendors to confirm the contracts. We are in motion!
Two guests went out and bought 17# of halibut chunks and hosted a pot luck dinner for the entire caravan. Once again, we are stuffed! After dinner, Vicki Parmley, a previous guest of ours, brought out her new toy…an ugly stick.
Vicki and her Ugly Stick!
This is a traditional Newfi musical instrument (?). It is built around a stick about 5’ tall. The traditional stick has a small boot or shoe attached to the bottom and a dolls head at the top. There are about 16-20 nails driven into the stick in four vertical lines so each line has four or five nails. Each nail hold several (about six) beer bottle caps loosely impaled on it. A second part of the stick is a smaller 2 to 3-foot stick, with or without the nails and beer caps. The stick is held by one hand near the top and the boot is stomped on the ground, preferably on wood, to keep time with the music. The smaller stick is held in the other hand and is used to strike the main stick to keep an intermediate beat to the music. Since we were out on a gravel parking lot, Vicki climbed up on a picnic table to “play” her stick. I had my strumstick out and another guest had spoons. We did a wild rendition of “You are my Sunshine”.
Vicki, Doug and me
It was a hoot! After a few songs, we got hit with a light rain and everyone bailed. It was a good day!
Our next day was Sunday…a day of rest…RIGHT! Claudia cleaned house and I worked outside doing “stuff”. After the house was clean, I came inside and dirtied it up by re-stringing a broken window shade. After fixing the shade, I started in on the washing machine. The dryer part has been acting up and only coming on occasionally. After calling the company, I did some electrical tests but couldn’t figure anything out as the machine now decided to do something totally different. After screwing around for a while, it totally shut down and quit. Then the handle that opens the door broke. I quit fooling with it and put it all back together. We will call the service center tomorrow.
After the washing machine fiasco, I took a well-deserved shower and then started getting ready for ANOTHER pot luck waddle-fest. Claudia and I cooked the last of our really great Canadian beef steaks and added more than a few pot luck offerings to our plates. There were several salads, pulled pork, spaghetti, meat loaf, barbecue beans and several desserts. Too much food. I had to be polite and try everything. It took two trips to do it but I succeeded. Again, the result was not pretty. I keep looking at the scale in the bathroom. I will continue to look at it. I will not touch it nor will I even think of stepping on it. Not for a long time! I waddled back to the rig and started putting things away. We leave tomorrow morning for St. Anthony for two days and then on to St. Barbe (not much more than a fenced-in field) for one night and then the overnight to Labrador. There will not be any Internet and probably very little or no cell phone service until we get back from Labrador so this will be it for a while. Y’all stay safe.
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