Mar 12th to 14th - Mesa

Mar 12th – Mon
News flash!!! I caught up posting pictures to Google this morning!! It goes a lot quicker with our new 4G Mifi but still takes a lot of time to add captions and upload.
Pender & Donna stopped by to look at our 5th wheel and chat for a while. We went to WalMart for a few groceries before going to the courtyard to have a late lunch. There was Karaoke at 3 but we didn’t want to stay so rode around a bit on our bikes. We stopped to talk to Dan & Carol who were packing to leave at the end of the week. We saw that Neil & Robin were home when went by their place so we stopped for a nice visit with them.
I made strawberry shortcake for dinner and then we went to line dance lessons. We learned a couple of new, easy dances and stumbled around trying to learn the Wooden Nickel after the regular line dance lessons.

Mar 13th – Tues
Terry started cleaning the 5th wheel this morning so I felt I should help. Terry scrubbed off all the bugs from the front cap and I got to work on stubborn tar spots on the lower part of the front. We quit by late morning as it got too warm.
After lunch we sat outside enjoying music & sunshine – and people who stopped by to chat. Stephanie stopped on her way to the pool which was nice as we haven’t seen much of her. Susie came by on her new bike and stayed a while. Ernie & Dianne had been for long walk and came by to see if we were home.
At 3 we went down the street for a block party with nearly 40 people. We took appies and drinks and met a lot of “neighbors” – too many to remember all at one time. When it ended at 5, we move the party to our site as Dennis & Gloria had called and asked if we could get together for a drink. They had played in a bocce ball tournament and needed to decompress. We were joined by Ron & Terry, Jack & Judy (neighbors behind us) and Larry & Julie. Several people drank quite a bit too much but I won’t name them – I’ll just say I wasn’t included this time!

Mar 14th – Wed
I was a bit surprised that Terry go up and going on cleaning the rig this morning. I chose to sit in the sun with my coffee and then did some cleaning inside before making a nice breakfast which we enjoyed outside.
We made a trip to Lowe’s to find something to support the sun shade that we made for the end of our awning. We had 8 foot poles that were hard to store so Terry had cut them in half with the intention of finding a way to splice them together when we needed them. Well, we used them yesterday evening with a temporary fix and knew we had to do something. We ended up with a metal closet rod that telescopes from 4 to 8 feet for the top and a dowel to use with the cut pole on the bottom – good results.
We went to the courtyard at 4 with Ron & Terri and Ernie & Dianne to listen to a very enjoyable duo - Wayne & Deb – singing. We hurried home for a quick dinner and then went to Ernie & Dianne’s to play Canasta until 11:30. I think Dianne & I have a masochistic streak as the guys beat us again – but not as badly this time – and we talked about a rematch!