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SUN Rallies at Churchill County Fairgrounds - Cantaloupe Festival

September 2012 Rally Review

8 SNU - Total Rally Participation

Diane Leipper

What a weekend! Pink flamingos, the sound of whinnying horses, pink flamingos, rain showers with thunder and lightening, pink flamingos, the smell of cows, pink flamingos, cantaloupes, pink flamingos, the smell of popcorn, pink flamingos, the thumping of the bands playing on stage, pink flamingos, Indian tacos, pink flamingos, allergies, pink flamingos, a very special birthday celebration and so much more. This was definitely NOT your typical SNU rally but everyone had a great time and wants to go back next year. There were eight (one in disguise) Airstreams at this rally. Dean & Shelly from Downieville and Russ & Debbie from Yuba City had the longest drives to the rally site. This was Russ and Debbie's first SNU rally. It was great to meet them and have them join us for the weekend. Russ and Debbie are both ham radio operators. The SNU now has 13 hams, almost half our membership. We hope we'll see Russ and Debbie frequently in the coming years. Rally participants also included Wheels & Doris, Gary & Anita, Bryan & Diane, Baxter & Marlene, RoyLaine, and Jerry & Dyann who had a long and arduous eight mile commute to the rally site from their home in Fallon. Sunday SNU member, Steve Erickson stopped by for a visit. His MoHo is still having some work done on it. Hopefully it will be all finished in time for the rally at Hickison.

Thursday was arrival day for the rally and set-up day for the Festival. Friday was the first official day of the Cantaloupe Festival. We decided that instead of our usual shared meal to walk over to the Festival for dinner. Jerry had gotten some Indian tacos earlier in the day and that got everyone wanting to try them for themselves. Most of us got tacos but a few tried some of the other food vendors. There was definitely something for everyone. We also wandered around and visited the other vendors at the Festival. The Lattin Farms spot was high on everyone's priority list. Although apparently the Hearts of Gold cantaloupes ripened early this year and there weren't many for the Festival, there were lots of other delicious melons. There was also a good variety of other farm fresh produce. When we got back to the campsite we sat around for a while and enjoyed a beautiful evening. Having electricity, several of us hung up decorative lights on our awnings. These augmented our solar lights. All these lights made our campsite look pretty special in the dark, especially with the blue lights on Russ and Debbie's awning. The entertainment started up and although we could hear the thumping of the bass till after 11pm, almost everyone got a good nights sleep.

Saturday was the first day of the Fallon Lions Club Junior Rodeo. The open area by the campground filled up fast with horse trailers and horses. It was kind of neat listening to the horses whinnying nearby and watching some of the kids practicing their roping skills. Saturday we had a shared meal in the evening. I think the SNU cooks could provide some good competition for the food vendors. After we had a chance to digest our meal, Dyann and Doris brought out cantaloupe and ice cream for dessert.

Sunday was the big event of the rally. Sept 1 was Dean and Shelly's granddaughter, Jessielynn's first birthday. Shelly has gotten a bad case of pink flamingo fever so this birthday party was a pink flamingo extravaganza. Jessielynn's dress had pink flamingos on it. The birthday cake was decorated with pink flamingos and also an Airstream. Dean and Shelly's whole campsite was decorated with a variety of pink flamingos. Doris's unique pink flamingos made the perfect back drop for the buffet table. Doris's pink flamingo crown fit Jessilynn perfectly. Dean BBQ'd some chicken and Shelly cooked some corn on the cob. Other people contributed a variety of salads, dips and other goodies. It was quite a feast. After we ate we watched Jessielynn open her birthday presents with her Dad, Jessie assisting. This was definitely a birthday party nobody will forget. As if the Cantaloupe Festival, the Jr rodeo, and the birthday party weren't enough excitement for the weekend, there were also a few trips into town to do some shopping or go walking in a nearby park. Perfect weather, perfect weekend. What more could you ask for.

2012 Participants

September 2013 Rally Review

5 SNU - Total Rally Participation

Diane Leipper

We had a great rally in Fallon over the Labor Day weekend. There were plenty of Heart's of Gold cantaloupe this year. We were delighted to have some of the SNU's newest members Richard & Sharron Baldwin and Jim and Lynda Kunter join us at this rally. Other members at the rally were Jerry & Dyann. Wheels & Doris and Bryan and Diane. Saturday Steve and Jan Erickson came by for a visit. They have been doing quite a bit of traveling since we saw them at Green Creek. Friday we walked down to the Cantaloupe Festival for dinner. Each person picked a food vendor to suit his or her own taste. After dinner we spent some time checking out all the booths and other festival activities. Smoke from the fire near Yosemite was pretty thick on Friday but it was fairly clear the rest of the weekend. We spent a relaxing weekend visiting the festival, enjoying the Jr Rodeo, sharing dinners on Saturday and Sunday evening and most of all, just visiting. Sharron bought tickets for the quilt raffle and although she didn't win, she felt she had contributed to a worthwhile cause. Monday morning, while enjoying our coffee we watched a steady stream of RV's heading down hwy 95 from Burning Man. Jerry and Bryan quickly learned how to tell which vehicles where which. If they were covered in white dust or had white wheels (because the car had been washed but not the wheels), that was a good indicator. If they had white wheels and a bicycle, it was almost a certainty they had been at Burning Man. Diane recently discovered the 1980 and 1981 WBCCI membership directories in some of her parents stuff. Those directories listed all the activities of each unit in WBCCI. It turns out that the SNU held rallies at the Cantaloupe Festival both of those years. So what we thought was a new event turns out to be a tradition for the SNU. We all enjoyed carrying on the tradition at this year's Cantaloupe Festival rally.

2013 Participants

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