Our February meeting was held the 2nd to the 4th, 2007 in the Old Mill Stream RV Pk in Umatilla, FL.  We shared facilities with the Ocala Sunbirds, and everyone had a good time together.  But...several of our group came a day early so they were in their motor homes when the tornado struck the Villages just 10 miles to our west, lifted over Umatilla, and came down again 10 miles to our east in Paisley.  So those folks had a wild ride that Thursday night.  Otherwise the weekend was wet but calm!

 

Hosts were the Monzillos, Trads and Richardson and the Sunbird hosts who provided a bountiful breakfast of pancakes and waffles, and a ham dinner with beans and scalloped potatoes.  Pot luck on Friday also was shared with favorite dishes from both chapters.  Friday night Ruth Monzillo organized a game of Crazy Cards.  The male winner was from our chapter...Harry Jones, and the female looser was his wife Lois.  A good laugh was had by everyone.  Saturday afternoon, our chapter met to paint designs on aprons for our task as food servers at the March rally.  There were many clever and colorful paint jobs with a few smudges on faces and hands.  That evening, our own special troupe of Mid-Florida Strummers entertained with an hour of lifely, toe-tapping music.  Dick Warner played guitar and Dell Warner strummed the dulcimer and sang a song.  Bill Jackson is a strummer with his wife Judy doing so well on the hammered dulcimer.  Lois Jones sing, plays dulcimer and guitar, and husband Harry plucks a base to add depth to the music.  Loretta Fiebrandt was a strummer and fiddler with her husband Bob shaking the tambourine.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the evening with the variety of mountain folk songs the group plays. 

 

Next morning the sun was up and everyone said their goodbyes until our next gathering at State Rally in Orlando.

  Contact:  Dick and Dell Warner 407-365-7433.