Nov 13th to 15th - Mesa

Nov 13th – Sat – Mesa
The park was supposed to have a patio sale – individual “yard” sales at participating sites – next Saturday but the newspaper messed up the ad and used today’s date so we had to dig out some excess stuff and take it to Bill & Lauri’s site for the sale which began at 7:30. Then we helped Lauri as Bill was at a shooting match. We sold a few items, Lauri cleared out some stuff and Julie sold the bicycle that she bought for herself at a garage sale. We packed up the remains about 1.
When we were printing discount breakfast coupons on Friday morning, the wireless mouse on our computer quit so Terry replaced the battery which did not help. We had no time to mess with it then so I worked on it today. When I tried to go to the internet to find information, I discovered that our air card was also not working – all the USB ports were disabled. I was able to get to the internet using the park wifi, ran a Microsoft fix-it program and the air card started working. Then after another restart, the mouse was working. I still don’t know what happened and what fixed it.
While I was working on the computer and then the blog, Terry was playing cards with Lauri, Neil and Robin. I checked with them and then came home to enjoy some quiet time with a book.
Val invited us over for dinner and then we and Claude & Val went to a dance here at the park. Unfortunately, we were not able to get seats at the same table but we each met nice table-mates and had fun.

Nov 14th – Sun – Mesa
Terry made a run for doughnuts & a bagel for me to start the day with a nutritious breakfast! Then it was time to do laundry. A washer quit on us again but we caught it sooner than last week. We put everything away, made the bed and went shopping at Camping World to spend the money on our gift card.
We were trying to decide where to have lunch when I realized that it was close to happy hour (2 to 7) at Fat Willy’s. There were lots of people there watching ball games so we ate outside.
Just after we had a sandwich for dinner, Claude came over to see if we wanted to play cards so we ended up playing a couple of games of Wizard while sort of keeping an eye on Survivor on TV.

Nov 15th – Mon – Mesa
Claude & Val joined us on the weekly bike ride this morning at 8. We rode to Ben Johnson’s on Main for breakfast. There were 24 in the group today but there was lots of seating and a server for each of 3 large tables so we got breakfast in a timely fashion. We rode just over 11 miles total today and got back at 11. Terry went with Claude to get safety vests like the ones that we got from the bike ride leader. We don’t know where he gets them but he provides them for free to any bike rider who wants one.
Claude took their 5th wheel to Camping World to have a fan installed, Val went to the library & puzzle room and Terry & I went to the grocery store to get food for a party tonight. It started as dinner for Claude & Val since they are leaving tomorrow and mushroomed a bit – 14 for dinner & 2 more later. I did some dinner prep and then joined Val at the puzzle for a while until she went to get her hair cut.
At 4, our guests started arriving to eat, drink and be merry. We kept expanding the circle of chairs and even moved our truck next door to provide more room. Some guests had too much fun and we found that Wine Away works quite well on spilled red wine. We watched the last part of DWTS and played a game where one person gives clues to a word or phrase on an electronic, beeping gizmo. Lots of fun & laughter!
Since we started early, everyone was gone and the few dishes were done by 9.