Today about 25 of us got together for a “farewell party” before any more left for the summer.

Linda Ringenback was the hostess with the help of Renay Andren. Linda’s husband, Ron, was in charge of the grill with my husband, John, as his assistant. It was held in the gazebo at the North Clubhouse. The facility is lovely. The clubhouse provided a large grill, ice, tables, and chairs. It was much easier on the hosts to have it in there.

The meal was great! a wonderful spread of bar-be-qued chicken, hot dogs, sausage, a lovely salad, lots of great desserts, hor devours, vegetable salad, layered jello. Everything was really good. We had rain and cool temperatures about noon, but it cleared up and was lovely.

What a great bunch of friends!

We’d planned to go swimming, but the weather didn’t cooperate so we stayed in the gazebo.

In the above photo, you can see Ron and John on the grill and Janet Outhwaite and Sherry Walker in the lower picture.

It sounds like everyone would be agreeable to putting on a gathering (or several of them) next year. Two or three couples could host each of these events. It’s lots less work than doing it in your home.

We even did a little dancing to music provided by our friends, Bill and Donna Markland.

Janet and Doug are leaving Tuesday, Caroline and Stephen this next week, and others will soon follow.

The weather up north is reported to be miserable anyway, so we sure aren’t anxious to leave here until it’s warmer there, but according to the forecast, that will happen by May 8th, when we plan to arrive at our Michigan home.