Happy Labor Day and Reservations

Ratnoul, IL.
58 deg. clear, S. wind @ 7 mph.
Forecast today = high temp. mostly sunny, breezy with winds increasing to 20 to 15 mph with 30 mph gusts.

Happy Labor Day!!!!!

Any of you who have been following this blog for a long time know that today is my favorite Holiday! :-)  For those of you who have been following for less than a year, and asking, "Now why would labor day be his favorite Holiday"?, here's the reason.

You see, after today, almost none of the campgrounds and RV parks will be very busy.  For most people the summer is over, the kids are back in school and many of the RVs will be put away for the season. Oh some of them may come back out for a short weekend, but most of the people won't be camping again until next year. ;-)

This means I can go into State, Corps of Engineers and National parks and find a site without any problems. In fact if it's like it has been in years past, there will be times when there is almost no one else there!

Ahhhhh!!! Peace and quiet!!!! :-)

Yesterday morning, Jim took CLT and did a bunch of running around to different stores. First he went to Rural King to by some peanut butter/pretzel snack things that he really likes, then he went over to the IGA grocery store and picked up a few items, then to Wally World to try to find a new coffee pot. He had looked at Wally World the other day for a new pot, but they were out of the little 5 cup model that he likes. Since then, they had gotten more in though, so he was able to buy one.

Then after he got back, he called the River Plantation RV Park in Sevierville, TN and made reservations for me for the RV Dreams Rally. He was able to get a site near Howard and Linda's so that Linda won't have too far to walk to get to the informal get-to-gethers that always seem to happen at their site. We'll be getting there Saturday, April 9th and leaving Monday, the 18th.

Oh, and for any of you that want to know, I'll be in site #231, and,..... I found out that Thor is coming too!!! :-)

Linda did a load of laundry yesterday, worked on the budget for August, and worked on her embroidery project. Then, for dinner, Jim cooked a couple of brats on the grill while Linda cooked some more sweet corn on my stove.

Today, I'm going to just sit here and watch all of the people pack up their RVs and head for home. :-) It should be interesting.  Some of them will be in a hurry to leave this morning but some will take their time and probably won't be leaving until this afternoon. Some will have trouble hooking up, some will have problems getting everything packed into the RVs and at least one will have problems getting the awning rolled back up. Oh, and someone will forget a water hose, a "Y" connector or a water pressure regulator.

Ahhhhh!!!! Labor Day, my favorite Holiday. :-)

Did you know that more than a century later, the true founder of Labor Day has yet to be identified? Many credit Peter J. McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, while others have suggested that Matthew Maguire, a secretary of the Central Labor Union, first proposed the holiday.