Today was the 2nd to last day of the 53rd Escapade / 35th anniversary celebration of The Escapees RV Club, and the last day for the inside vendor booths. There were seminars scheduled all day, but we decided to stay at our rig and work. I edited draft blog posts and finally uploaded my first one. I also added a picture to our home page, although not exactly where I wanted it, so I removed it. Linda worked on our personal accounting and additional arrangements related to the sale of our old house. We were unable to find a charitable recipient for our Yamaha E-50 electronic organ, so our daughter is taking care of having it moved to the new house prior to the closing date for the old house.
We walked over to the Wyoming Center and signed up to have our black and grey tans hydro-cleaned by All Pro Water-Flow on Fri morning at 8 AM. We then went to The Row party to check on our ham radio BOF friends who were setting up a special event station and any other BOFs that were there.
Having exhausted those possibilities we went back to our rig, had a bite of lunch, and continued our computer and accounting work. It was warm this afternoon, with a forecasted high of 91 degrees F (which we hit), so we closed up the coach and turned on the air-conditioners.
We got a late start for the 4:30 PM HFH C-BOF business meeting and social, so we accepted a ride on one of the many golf carts that transport Escapade attendees between the various campgrounds and the activity buildings. The HFH C-BOF membership has fallen way below minimums and those present voted to de-certify and continue as a regular BOF until April 2015. A new treasurer was elected, so the funds will remain with the HFH BOF. The Bylaws and standing rules are technically no longer valid and will be re-vamped as standard operating procedures. It appeared that current President Steven Gullette will take care of that and continue as the “leader” of the BOF. There were 13 members present and they all stayed for the social. We managed to find enough snacks to get partially filled up, so we had a light dinner before going to our 7 PM Freethinker gathering.
It was still warm at 7 PM, so our Freethinkers group met inside VJ and Carol’s Fleetwood Bounder at Boxelder RV Park (which turned out to only be 7 RVs up from us). They had the air-conditioning turned on and it was very comfortable inside. Besides the hosts and us, Jerry Stauffer and Marc Matheson were there. It turned out that Mark is a ham (KD6KR) and Jerry is a former ham. Mark had to leave to watch a friend in the talent show, but we all enjoyed his company while he was there. Consistent with our prior experiences meeting up with Freethinker RVers, we had a wide-ranging, enjoyable conversation, fueled by some wine and snacks.