2018-11-24 Thanksgiving Rally At Winton Woods

We did our annual NOVA Thanksgiving rally at Winton Woods campground in Cincinnati. Great campground but popular during the high season and can be tough to get in to. This late in the season it's not usually a problem. Last year we were practically by ourselves at Thanksgiving but this year the campground was 80% full. Unusual for this time of year.

This rally is a lot of fun! We had three couples last year and six this year including one couple, Caleb & Halie (Tom & Ella's son and daughter-in-law) who rented a cabin. Additionally joining us was John & Suzie's son Tim and Tom & Ella's oldest son Micah.

Some of the gang went out on Friday and did some pistol shooting at a local gun range then went go-carting nearby. I did not participate in any of that this year so no pictures of those events.

For Thanksgiving Tom deep fried a turkey and had previously smoked another turkey and also had a third bird that was a boneless from Cooper Farms up near where Tom & Ella live (Thanks, Tom, for doing the bird cooking and carving! Much appreciated!). We had all the fixings and everybody each brings a couple of side dishes.

On Saturday we all watched the big Michigan vs. Ohio State game under my big event tent. John & Suzie are the Michigan fans in the group while everyone else roots for Ohio State!  :-O 

 

Preperations for turkeys...

 Calleb, Halie & turkey -

Carie prepping a million deviled eggs!

Cooking!

 

 

 

 Carving...

 

 ...and eating!

 



 John and Micah -

 Tim chillin'

 Ella snapping pics for her awesome blog

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Larry & Lou

 Micah and John

 Larry, current NOVA President:

Halie, Caleb and Larry warming up by the fire...

 Rupert & Penny

 Jasper & Charlie Button

 Lou, John, Penny (the pooch) & Tim

 

 Penny and Suzie...

 Caleb & Halie

 Caleb, Micah & Halie

 Alan & Larry in purple for cancer awarness for Lou

Lou crafting. Knitting...

Basket crafting!

 Larry & Lou

Micah and his growler full of Hoffbrauhaus German beer!

 Snacks!

Selfie!

The annual T-giving frisbee game!

 

 Halie refereeing the game...

Our Airstream

 

 Tom & Ella's Airstream

 Randy walking the dawg

 We had a fire going near continously. I had two bins of wood, I think Tom had three bins and Larry had two plus we bought five bundles from the camp store!

Our "stadium" set up for the big game!

 The game was a blow out with Ohio State beating Michigan

John & Suzie's set up

 Randy & Chris' rig...It's identical to ours, a 26U but with the dark "Truffle" leaterette...

Two identical Airstreams!

 

2018-10-27 T@B & Friends Fall Rally

Some of our T@B friends started a new group late this Summer called T@B & Friends (on Facebook) and although at this point it's mostly T@B's any RV is welcome and at this rally we even met another Airstreamer (in a 2017 22' Bambi Sport) who is not in our NOVA unit. Although I did try to talk her into joining which she may do after she does some more investigating into it and the WBCCI  ;-)  Our T@B friend Dawn started this new group and so far it's a lot of fun having now attended two of the rallies. This rally was at Alum Creek State Park just North of Columbus, OH and it was cold & rainy with a slight wind and it was wonderful.  :-)  The wind wasn't too bad, though, and wind is what really makes a cold rally miserable. No worries, though, with campfires, heaters and warm food, friends & drinks. No events were planned and we all hung out together and chatted up a storm especially late into Saturday night. Saturday some folks ventured out to see the surrounding area and most folks lived locally to the Columbus area. I think we had eight couples/RV's. Well saying couples is a loose term as the common theme was most of the husbands weren't into camping this weekend so they did not join us so was mostly women. I think only three couples had husbands attend. There were 11 rigs originally signed up to attend and a few cancelled last minute.

Some of us chatting around Signe's T@B, where most of the gathering took place in her clam tent room.

Carie -

Jeannie -

Dawn -

Signe's clam shell T@B is a one of a kind as it has the "Tabitha" model and this is the only Tabitha model ever built in a clam shell!

 Notice the Tabitha custom cabinets!

 Our Airstream...

 Karen's (and Dan, who was absent) 2017 22' Bambi Sport!

 

Lorna & Mike in front of their brand new week-old T@B 400! Last rally we saw them at they were in a T@G...

 

 Jeannie's T@B

 Dawn's pink T@B!

 Blythe & Gary's halloween set up -