Day 4 SMART National Muster - September 11th - Saturday
Sunny, slight breeze 77 degrees high 42 degrees low
Lou and I have each put our shift in for the day and are free for almost an hour, before we meet up with the rest of the gang for dinner. I am attaching pictures of our lunch group to give you an idea of how many people are here. The final count is 188 rigs and 386 people in attendance.
This morning we were able to sleep in until 6:30 and after the last few mornings, that was a pleasure. It is easy to see now that the early and long hours are beginning to tell on all of these elderly retired people. I have heard many folks remark that they are going back to their rigs for a short nap and ask someone to cover for them. They come back to their posts with sleepy wrinkles on their faces along with their smiles and are ready to go again.
We have a couple of guys that drive the big John Deere Farm tractor with the attached covered wagon to just pick people up at their rigs and deliver them to the site of their choice. We see people using walkers and canes and happy to be able to still get out and go. I give these folks all of the credit in the world. Go while you still can.
Our friend, Bill Zinnert did his special program with the flag and the military uniforms last night. Finally we had an evening of entertainment that could be enjoyed. The evenings have been ever so cold and windy that it was difficult to truly enjoy the programs, but last night, it finally cleared off and the wind subsided. I spoke about Bill’s presentation is the Blog post prior to this one, so won’t go into a lot of detail. It was wonderful, and with my love of history, I found it so interesting. I had no idea we had an Abraham Lincoln flag, but we did and it was a special one made just for President Lincoln and his coffin was draped with it and it was buried with his body.
Lou is still selling 50/50 raffle cards, and really doesn’t have to work at it, people come to him to buy them, and if they can’t locate him, they hunt him down. One of our friends won almost $300.00 on Friday night.
Preston and Susie drove down on Saturday morning and dropped off hand thrown items that Preston has made and donated to the organization. They were place in the silent auction and we will know the results of that tomorrow. He made a variety of things, from batter bowls, casseroles, coffee pots, tea pots, mugs, honey pots and sugar bowls. Everyone is always anxious to see what he is bringing, and hopefully, the auction will be high on these items.
Tonight our entertainment is a patriotic pageant , “One Nation Under God” and it is produced by Woody and Jean Miller. It promises to be a good night to have an activity
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