Improvements to our site
- Jun 7, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: 18 hours ago
June 1, 2025 - It's been three weeks since we arrived at our new site in New Hampshire. We have been busy getting everything set up. The campground is large, and everyone has a golf cart, so, we just had to get one too.
We purchased a 2023 EZGO gas golf cart that's in excellent condition and runs great.
We added and shoveled three yards of blue stone to the site, doesn't sound like much but you shovel it all out.
We put in railroad ties to finish the look of those already here.
Put in a stone pathway to our future gazebo.
Built the foundations for a shed and gazebo.
Built steps to our fifth wheel that are five-feet wide with the help of Mike, the resorts handyman. I love them!
Jack even built a flower box for our name sign out front.
Then we purchased a 7x7 foot shed and put it together so Jack could immediately fill it up.
We purchased a 12x12 foot gazebo, that we put together.
Built skirting around the fifth-wheel. The campground requires us to install skirting around our fifth wheel, so we purchased lattice to build that.
Placed bricks around the firepit and filled with blue stone.
Jack built a flower bed around the gazebo but filled it with blue stone and garden lights.
Our new golf cart and our site now
We have also found plenty places to eat, met more campers, and the local hardware store knows us by name.
I played a game called Card Bingo. They don't play regular bingo here, yet! Something to do with paying money and rowdiness. Card Bingo is the closest we can come. It was fun and 38 people attended. It's a simple no think about game.
Tables with four players are dealt 13 cards each (entire deck) and choose a white or red poker chip. each player lines up their 13 cards by suite. Each player puts a quarter in the cup which is collected from each table and becomes the winnings for that game. They play ten games for 25 cents each and the last game for $1. Object of the game is to get rid of all cards to call bingo. The caller holds up the cards (really large ones) and calls out what it is. If you have that card, you discard it to the middle of the table. When you are down to one card, you "knock" on the table. Now everyone knows you need one card to win. When that card is called, call "Bingo!" and win all those quarters. The biggest difference is before the game starts, the caller tells everyone to discard certain cards; discard all 2's and 3's, discard all two of a kind, or even all men discard 6's and all women discard King's. Wondering what the red and white poker chips are for? Well, one of the games, the caller tells all those with a "red" chip to discard all hearts or diamonds and those with a "white" chip to discard all spades or clubs. It's a lot of fun to play.
Well, that's what we have been doing. Updates to follow.
Loretta & Jack
Update 6-22-25 - We received the gazebo two weeks before we could finish it. Two weeks it rained, and we really needed four people to put the roof on, so we had to wait for help. We got our help, including me and finally, we finished it. Wow, does it look good and it is really well made. The company is Purple Leaf. I just love it and have already had my morning coffee sitting inside. It's a 12' x 12' gazebo and we can put a table and four chairs for playing cards and still have some room.
Update 6-29-25 - It took us seven weeks to take our site from having nothing to the site it is today. What a job and we are both glad it's done! Now, we are all done with any big jobs for the site and can sit in our new gazebo and enjoy it all. I especially like the look at night. We can sit outside and not worry about bugs. I have already enjoyed margaritas with my neighbor. I LOVE IT.