Oct 28th to 30th - Mesa

Oct 28^th – Sun – Mesa

Yep, time to do laundry again.  We have been driving to the laundry room with the clothes, walk back while they wash, walk up to put them in the driers, come back one more time and then walk back to hang, fold & put everything back in the truck.  I used to stay and read while the clothes were in the washers & driers but at least we get a little bit of exercise this way.  After the laundry was all done, I made breakfast for lunch.

We took tables & chairs down the street a couple of sites to Moe & Trish’s as they are having people over for dinner.  We were sitting outside watching golf on TV when Dennis & Gloria stopped to visit.  Then it was time to join Dennis & Gloria, Bob & Darlene, Ron & Terri, Bev and Joe & Stella for dinner at Moe & Trish’s.  We had a wonderful evening.

Oct 29^th – Mon

We were just leaving for breakfast and a bit of shopping when Jerry & Becky came by with Becky’s cape for Halloween.  I had told her that I would try to modify it to add a hood so we decided to get it done and eat later.  It’s a good thing that I have a heavy jacket with a hood that I could use as a model!

We got back from a late breakfast and picking up a few items at WalMart when Terri came to the door with her dress for Halloween that needed a couple of seams fixed.  I knew she would be over so had left out the sewing machine.  Then I worked on altering a pair of shorts for Terry – next time I won’t let him buy shorts that don’t fit right, I don’t care how good the price might be! – and finished up by shortening a T-shirt for me.

While I was sewing, I made a batch of seasoned pretzels.  Ann stopped by for a while which gave me a break.  Then I finished up deviled eggs for this afternoon.

Just after 4 we loaded up our booze bag, a cooler of ice, pretzels, eggs & a wash cloth and went to the bocce courts for another get-together.   The wash cloth was to clean the tables and the large serving bar.  29 of us brought drinks and “heavy appies”, had dinner and played bocce ball.  The courts are lighted so it was nice to wait until the sun went down and it cooled off.  Some people had never played bocce ball before so Dennis & Gloria – and anyone else who thought they knew what they were doing - helped with instructions.

We left earlier than some others and went to Dennis & Gloria’s to watch DWTS which they were recording.  By speeding through the commercials we were able to finish watching it just after it finished “live” at 9.

Oct 30^th – Tues

I went golfing at Royal Palms this morning with Terri, Darlene & Susie.  It is a short, 9 hole course that we walk so I took everyone in the truck since others’ vehicles will hold 4 people & clubs but not pull carts as well.  When I got back, we went to the post office to check for the November calendar but somehow our mailbox was missed.  We checked with the activity center and they said all the calendars were at the post office so back to the post office where Sandy “borrowed” a calendar from another slot as she had returned unused calendars to the office!

We were then heading to Julie’s when we saw Ron & Ria who just got here on Saturday.  We came back to our place and had coffee while catching up.  They were actually coming to tell us about a dance lesson at 1:30.  We went to the courtyard and had lunch at the grill – chicken taco salads.

The dance lesson was for a line dance to the Red Solo Cup song that the band will play at the Halloween dance tomorrow.  The song has a fast beat so we did the dance to slower songs after the first disastrous try with Red Solo Cup.  Then we found out that the instructors couldn’t get tickets to our dance and will not be there to lead us!

After the dance lesson, we went right to the courtyard to listen to music.  I had kind of wound down so I left at 4:45 after having one drink.  I took aspirin for the beginning of a headache, worked on the blog & email and generally enjoyed some quiet time before Terry got back close to 6.  We finished up some Chinese pork and I made fried rice for the rest of our dinner.  Terri came over as we were finishing the rice and asked if Terry could think of someone to play golf with the guys on Thursday as Mike & Susie bought a new house in the Rancho’s area of the park and Mike is kind of busy.  After we finished watching DWTS, we went to ask Bruce to play golf and ended up visiting with him & Ann for well over an hour.