Betsie's Bits & Pieces Thursday 3-10-2022

Betsie's Bits & Pieces

Thursday 3-10-2022

 

 

***Flag Sunday is this Sunday.  I want to let you know that after typing the list of those signed up to carry the flag there are 16 States and only one from Canada caring any province flags.

 

***Lynn reported at the park meeting that there are 504 people in the park on 280 sites with 85 pets.  The numbers are going down as some people are heading home. 

 

***The Park Party is Friday from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.  Leslie Blasing will be performing.  If you came to the Pop Up Dance on Tuesday, you will know she is great to listen to.  Serving will be Brats, chips, ice cream sandwich.  Be sure to get your ticket so Stephanie will have a headcount for food.   

 

***Steven May will be the music for the dance Saturday night.  If you were at the Pop Up Dance on Tuesday you heard him perform then too.

 

***    Last evening  March 9th.  the POOL HALL  banquet was held with happy hour at 4:00 and dinner at 5:00 p.m.   There were 102 in attendance...   Our Busy Bee Quilters prepared a wonderful meal for us and even surprised us with a beautiful appetizer buffet which we all enjoyed.    A group of Pool Hall Babes showed up in the afternoon to prepare the dining room and make it look so welcoming...we were under the supervision of Terry Steinbeck.   THANKS, GIRLS, AND THANKS, TERRY S. -- MANY HANDS MAKE FAST WORK...     50/50  winners were Millie Olson, Bev McEnaney, Lorne Evans & Jason Hull.  A short meeting was held and then the pictures of the groups of players were taken... We appreciate the fun pictures that Candy Dewey took and shared on Facebook... Thanks, Candy!

    Thanks to everyone that helped make this a success and supported this event... 

 Pool Hall Babe- Bev McEnaney

 

Take Care!!

Betsie Brown

 

 

Pool hall reboot

 I am going to try this again regarding our mixed Doubles pool tournament.  For reasons unknown the first report did not send correctly ---  so bear with me --  here I go again ...  Each team played 10 games --  here is how it went...

Team winning   8 games were Bev McEnaney & Greg Dowhaniuk

Team winning   7 games were Barb Utech  & Butch Brooker

Teams winning 6 games were Janet Yeley & Terry Steinbeck,    Barb Jacobson & Lonnie Hull

Teams winning 5 games were Barb Brooker & Don Wulf,     Sally Kelleher & Jake Jacobson,   Lola Wulf & Don Riley, Gayle Steinbeck & Kinley Paulsen

    I forgot to mention that the Pool Hall Babes have a famous jockey.    Mikie Patrick entered the horse races on Friday the 4th, of March.    She named her horse PASSING WIND....    Her horse was constructed using a pool crutch and decorated with ribbons, and MIkie was all decorated out with her cowboy attire...  Mikie and Passing Wind were a great success and we were there to cheer her on to victory - even tho two more steps would have made Mikie & Passing Wind a big winner....  Another fun time....  Thanks, Mikie for joining in the races......

Pool Hall Mixed Doubles Results-Sunday

 The time is going fast and soon we will all be headed north for the summer...  Another fun day enjoying our Mixed Doubles pool playing.    As usual, there were many comments made during the playing of the games..."We got lucky,  do we get a prize for the most games lost,    when you break the balls and if you scratch the cue ball,  your opponent has to shoot from the kitchen but the opponent wanted to know if he could shoot from the bedroom,   and today for the first time this year my partner and I won the most games played in this tournament and I was accused of cheating, lucky and the score sheet was fixed...

    We also had a PHB celebrating her birthday --  we all signed the back of this week's signup sheet wishing Barb Brooker a happy birthday making this her birthday card.  ....  We also sang her Happy birthday... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BARB !!!

We had a treat today as Janet Yeley brought us some great cookies  Of course they didn't last long... Thanks, Janet.

  

  This week we had 11 teams playing and each team played 10 games. 

Teams winning 8 games 

Bev McEnaney & Greg Dowhaniuk  

Barb Jacobson & Lonnie Hull

Team winning 7 games   

 Barb Utech & Butch Brooker   

  Team winning 6 games         

Janet Yeley & Terry Steinbeck                                                                                                                           

Teams winning 5 games                                                                                                         

   Barb Brooker & Don Wulf                                                                                                                             Sally Kelleher & Jake Jacobson, Gayle Steinbeck & Kinley Paulsen, Lola Wulf & Don Riley

  

       Pool Hall Banquet is this week Wednesday, March 9 --  Happy Hour 4:00  Dinner at 5:00   ..  Pool players please wear your blue pool shirts for the group pictures...     

 PHB BEV MCENANEY

Betsies Bits and Pieces 3/2/22

 Bits & Pieces

Wednesday 3-2-2022

***First I want to thank Barb Jacobson for all her help getting names and their 

crafts for the Craft Exhibit on Thursday.  I want to thank everyone that came to 

help set up the tables and get rid of all the chairs for the Craft Exhibit on Wednesday

 night.  There were so many it didn't take us long to get the job done.   Also thanks 

to those who helped us return the hall to where it needed to be again.  

Thanks to the Busy Bees for their lunch.  The Walking Tacos were fabulous!!  

I hope everyone came to see all the great work the people of Trophy Gardens 

showed on Thursday.  We have some very talented people.  Betsie Brown

***MOVING SALE.  Everything you need to start golfing!!! Clubs, balls, tees,  bag & cart $25.

Also a 2 wheel cart (like to move gas bottles etc.) like new $18.

Electric lawnmower & 2-speed blower w/long cord $15.

Lot 645, Blue Ribbon St. Or text 605-351-4944

***We are currently renting a park model here at TG. It has been sold so we are looking for a nice clean rental for next winter ( Dec, Jan, Feb, and Mar). We prefer a 2 BR mobile, no pets/no smoking. Will provide references. Jon and Linda Pierce. 402-499-8403

***1998 Park Model 1 Very Nice Size Bedroom /1Bath, Completely Furnished, Ceiling Fans, New Washer & Dryer, Large Covered Deck w/Patio Furniture, Metal Roof & Carport, Nice Shed, Good Location. Asking $19,000 Call Lynn 540-533-6240

 

***1994 Park Model Lot #638 Sunlight By Destiny, 1 Bedroom Queen Mattress/1 Bath, Very Nice Open Living Area, Ceiling Fans, Completely Furnished, AC/Heat, Propane Stove, Nice

Flooring, Washer & Dryer, Extra Living Space off Deck, Wooden Deck, Metal Roof, Carport, Storage Shed with room for Golf Cart.  Call Lynn 540-533-6240

 

***Park Model Lot #356 Furnished, 1 Bed/1 Bath, Ceiling Fans, Washer & Dryer, Storage, Covered Deck & Carport. Rent Paid in Full till 3/31/2023. Asking $17,000. Lynn 540-533-6240

 

***Finally, we can get back out and play Hoss Collar.  The results for Monday, February 28th are as follows: We had 33 participants and Les “Fish” McKinney won 1st Place with 689 points; Karl Pettersen won 2nd Place with 680 points and Bob Davis came in 3rd Place with 679 points.  Come on down and play. It’s lots of fun and you will learn how to play in mere minutes.

 

Wednesday, March 2nd was nice too.  We had 29 participants and Dale Zahrt won 1st Place with 660 points; Karl Pettersen won 2nd with 644 points and Vince Yount won 3rd Place with 617 points.  Bring a one-dollar bill (no change please) and be there to start playing at 6:30PM. Meet new friends and get some mild exercise. We play three games of Hoss Collar.

 

We also play regular shuffleboard Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 9:00AM. Get your day started early and get some Vitamin D and meet new people. Bring$.30 cents and play three games.   All teams, courts, and competitors are decided by random draw. We usually have anywhere from 16 to 24 people for the regular shuffle. Come and have some fun.

For those that are heading home, safe travels!!

Betsie Brown

 

Interesting photos

 Thanks, Dan and Linda Lang. I really enjoyed seeing these old-time photo's so thought I would share.

 

Some VERY Interesting Photos

 

 

 

 

 1 The 'Tier Avto', the 1930's version of a GPS. Developed by Touring Club Italiano, this device was more like a “map guidance tool and came with a set of paper maps It was tethered to the car’s speedometer that kept the scrolling of the map in proportion to the speed of the car.

 

 

 

 2 A 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity circa 1930. Also known as the thylacine, this carnivorous marsupial was native to the Australian mainland and went extinct in 1936.

 

 

 3 Airline reservations before computers, 1945

 

 

 

4 The 1950s '3-in-1 Kitchen Combination.' It came with a stove, a sink, and a fridge - all in one!

 

 

 

5 American photographer James Ricalton posing with two extra tall men, fondly remembered as the 'Giants of Kashmir,' in 1903. 

The photograph was taken in Delhi during 'The Durbar,' a celebration of the British monarch Edward VII’s (the great-grandfather of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II) succession as the Emperor of India.

 

 

 

 6 Television shopping in 1974

 

 

 

 

7 A gas station on Brovarsky Prospect in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1979

 

 

 

 

 8 A woman standing in the doorway of an RV Camper at an exhibition in London, 1927. It was also called the "Road Yacht."

 

 

 

 9 Draft beer being served during a Lufthansa flight in the 1960s

 

 

 

 10. The Esso Hibernia tanker under construction, Wallsend, UK, 1970

 

 

 

 11. Niagara Falls without water, 1969

Here is a link to an article that tells the story of how they pulled it off.

 https://mashable.com/feature/niagara-falls-runs-dry

 

 

 

 12. An Empire State builder hanging on a crane above New York City, 1930

 

 

 

 

 13. An elementary piano class in progress in 1947 (photo by Yale Joel)

 

 

 

 14. Military bomber planes fly past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spurts from the top of the volcano. 

The devastating eruption ravaged the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 and killed 57 people. Meanwhile, the Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies.

 

 

 

 15. The original Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914

 

 

 

 16. A Phillips fridge from 1956 with a built-in radio!

 

 

 

 17. A horse being rescued from a canal that it fell in - Amsterdam, 1929

 

 

 

 18. Control Room of the German UB-11 Submarine (First World War)

 

 

 

19. Swedish Warship 'Vasa' being recovered from the seafloor in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 24th of April, 1961. It stayed underwater for 333 years and was still astonishingly well-preserved.

 

 

 

 20. A young woman of the Ouled Nail tribe, Algeria, circa 1905 (photo by Lehnert & Landrock)

 

 

 

 21. Philadelphia Electric Co. street light maintenance vehicle, 1910

 

 

 

 22. A tree house of the Koiari people, east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1886

 

 

 

 23. A woman using a vacuum cleaner in 1906

 

 

 

 24. The 1958 'Sir Vival.' Designed by Walter C. Jerome of Worcester, this unique two-section vehicle was made to protect its driver and three passengers from death or injury on the highway. 

The designer believed that, in case of a collision, the engine compartment would take most of the brunt and leave the passengers safe. Its standout features included a two-piece engine and cab, along with a driver turret. Unfortunately, only one Sir Vival was ever made, and it remains in the care of Bellingham Auto Sales in Bellingham, Massachusetts, even today!

 

 

 25. A Native American chief at the Canadian Rockies, 1938

 

 

 

Here's a chuckle!

 

Trivia News

 

We had three enthusiastic trivia teams last night. We were missing some regulars who perhaps celebrated too much at the Mardi Gras celebration that preceded us.😉 The scores are usually quite close and that was true last night as well with the winning team winning by 6 points and that team was "3 is Company".

We will not be having trivia on March 8th because Trophy has been gifted with some unexpected but very entertaining entertainment. Be sure to look for more info on this from the activity office.

We will resume our trivia on Tuesday, March 15 in the main hall at 6:30. 

I very much enjoy asking the trivia questions and watching the comradery between the teams. We all have a good time.