Jan 23rd to 25th - Yuma

Jan 23rd - Sat - Yuma
Our brakes have been squeaking so Terry took the truck to Meineke (where we had them replaced in Spokane) to have them looked at. He had to go back at 2:00 and they said there were heat cracks and it wasn’t something covered on the lifetime warranty on the work we had done. So the brakes are OK - we just have to live with the noise until we bite the bullet and get them fixed.
I backed up some files on the computer before doing a bunch of work on my expenses and then tried to back up our pictures using Picasa which has always been easy. Today there was some type of error and I spent ages unsuccessfully trying to find an answer on the internet. I finally just went ahead and got some expenses entered.
We went for a short bike ride as the wind was blowing fairly hard which makes for a tough ride.

Jan 24th - Sun - Yuma
I made breakfast this morning, pulled out the sewing machine for a couple of mending jobs and then we headed for the laundry room with 6 loads of laundry. More than usual with extra bedding including our old electric mattress pad which we will keep in case we have guests sleeping on the cold air mattress again.
We went on a 4 mile bike ride and then had an early dinner. We went to card bingo with Karen & Bob (Karen won twice) and then they came back with us for a drink so we could look up their new park model on the internet and hear all about it. We were very surprised to see it was 10:45 when they left.

Jan 25th - Mon - Yuma
We went to the Paradise Casino for a $1.99 (decent) breakfast and $10 in free play on our cards. The line to get the free play went out the door and half around the building but we figured we didn’t have anything else pressing to do so waited our turn - only took about 20 minutes. We saw a guy turn his $10 into $81 but that didn’t happen to us!
Next we went downtown to the Lettuce Festival. Main Street was lined with art & craft vendors and it was a beautiful day to walk. Next a quick stop at BigLots for some ginger cookies that they still did not have and then on to Fry’s for some groceries. We put the groceries away, fixed a drink in our “go” cups and rode the bikes to Charlie & Julie’s. They had just returned from a trip to San Felipe in Mexico and we wanted to BBQ steaks in the daylight so we didn’t stay long.