{"id":8023,"date":"2016-12-13T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2016-12-12T02:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T02:31:12","slug":"happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=8023","title":{"rendered":"Happy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7509 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My next stop was\u00a0Fort Boonesborough State Park. It was a good stop over place between Beckley, West Virginia and \u00a0Campbellsville, Kentucky, where I was going to work for Amazon as part of their CamperForce.<\/p>\n<p>It was a rather long drive. I think I was behind the wheel for almost five hours, so when I got there, I pretty much got backed in and hung out inside until it was time to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, however, I just had to get out and enjoy the decorations.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the campers in the area come back year after year to celebrate Halloween, and they go all out with their decorations. I was there mid-week and people would come over to the campground after work to put up their decorations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8032 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-3-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-3-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-3-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-3-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-3.jpg 1961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the decorations were kind of understated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8027 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-1-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-1-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>yet elegant &#8211; in a Halloween-y sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, do you notice the golf car parked under the awning? I was surprised at how many people had them here at the park. A major activity seemed to be driving around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guy-with-the-photo-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8026 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guy-with-the-photo-books-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guy-with-the-photo-books-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guy-with-the-photo-books-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guy-with-the-photo-books-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came upon these folks relaxing in the shade. They filled me in on what was going on with all the decorations. They also handed me books that their children had made of trips they made with their them and their grandchildren. Beautiful photos. Of course I returned them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8028 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-2-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/simple-2-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can only assume that these people were not finished with their decorating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pumpkin-patch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8031 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pumpkin-patch-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pumpkin-patch-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pumpkin-patch-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pumpkin-patch-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Near the camp store there was the pumpkin patch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/withc-and-zombie-inflatables.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8037 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/withc-and-zombie-inflatables-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/withc-and-zombie-inflatables-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/withc-and-zombie-inflatables-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/withc-and-zombie-inflatables-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really &#8211; there were golf cars all over!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trailer-full-of-fire-wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8034 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trailer-full-of-fire-wood-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trailer-full-of-fire-wood-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trailer-full-of-fire-wood-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trailer-full-of-fire-wood-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People must make trip after trip to get all this stuff out to the park. And, would you look at that trailer?! It&#8217;s full of firewood!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/firewood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8038 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/firewood-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/firewood-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/firewood-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/firewood-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of firewood, I noticed that many sites had stacks of lovely dimensional lumber. I came across a guy who was working on unloading some from the back of his pickup and asked him about it.<\/p>\n<p>He told me that there were companies that made trusses. When they had cutoffs available, they would sell them by the pallet-ful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Truss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8053 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Truss-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Truss-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Truss-768x267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Truss.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in case you are not up on your building terms, this is one example of what a truss is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/inflatables-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8042 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/inflatables--1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/inflatables--1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/inflatables--300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/inflatables--768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/inflatables-.jpg 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were massive inflatables all over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8040 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-2-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-2-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I particularly \u00a0liked this black cat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8039 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cat-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It moved its head back and forth!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/classic-combo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8041 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/classic-combo-1024x640.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/classic-combo-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/classic-combo-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/classic-combo-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this classic set up wonderful? I love how they match!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8046 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-1024x471.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-1024x471.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came upon this guy who was busy building things for his display. When I stopped to talk with him, he told me what he was building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8047 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/christmas-tree-guy-2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was going to decorate this Christmas tree for the season, too. He took me to meet his wife, who was busy peeling and dicing apples for apple sauce. He wanted her to show me the photos from last year&#8217;s decorations that she had on her phone.<\/p>\n<p>These folks are really proud of their displays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Skeleton-in-graveyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8052 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Skeleton-in-graveyard-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Skeleton-in-graveyard-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Skeleton-in-graveyard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Skeleton-in-graveyard-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These folks had a small haunted house in their display, along with tombstones and skeletons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skelletons-climbing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8050 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skelletons-climbing-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skelletons-climbing-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skelletons-climbing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skelletons-climbing-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across the way, this rig was really into the skeletons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/flamingo-skeleton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8051 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/flamingo-skeleton-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/flamingo-skeleton-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/flamingo-skeleton-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/flamingo-skeleton-780x1024.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, they even had a flamingo skeleton!<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, there was much more, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/light-up-milk-jugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8045 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/light-up-milk-jugs-1024x337.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/light-up-milk-jugs-1024x337.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/light-up-milk-jugs-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/light-up-milk-jugs-768x253.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you had a happy Halloween, a wonderful Thanksgiving and that your Christmas is going to be delightful!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween! My next stop was\u00a0Fort Boonesborough State Park. It was a good stop over place between Beckley, West Virginia and \u00a0Campbellsville, Kentucky, where I was going to work for Amazon as part of their CamperForce. It was a rather long drive. I think I was behind the wheel for almost five hours, so when I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=8023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}