Sunday, November 18, 2012

Nov 15th to 17th - Mesa

Nov 15th – Thurs – Mesa
Trish, Clare & Ann joined me in our truck for a golf game at Dreamland this morning.  The 9 hole executive course is in good shape, I only wish I had played better.  After our game, we had breakfast at the Itsy Bitsy diner at the golf course.  Four other friends – Darlene, Terri, Susie & Sandy - played right behind us and also stopped to eat.
Terry was also playing golf so I took advantage of his absence to vacuum and do other miscellaneous cleaning.  I finally remembered to do a backup of the computer but it would not finish correctly.  So then I spent time searching for solutions in google, doing “check disks” and more backups with errors.  I was not a happy camper!
Terry didn’t get back until after 2 and I was still messing with the computer.  He went to listen to music in the courtyard and I said I would join him when I was done.  But I still was not done when he got back after 5.  I was waitng for a longer version of chkdsk to finish, the backup still had errors and I quit.  Dinner & TV filled the rest of the evening.

Nov 16th – Fri
We played bocce ball this morning and then went to a Hobo Carnival.  Everyone got an envelope with play money and raffle tickets.  There was an area set up with games to win more money that you could then use at an auction.  We didn’t have breakfast so we started out getting a hot dog, beans, chips & pop for lunch.  The games were sponsored by different businesses so you were supposed to get information at the same time you were winning money.  At 2:30 the auction started.  Even though everyone was told not to pool money, not many people listened and you couldn’t get anything at the auction with a paltry $20,000!  Some items were raffled and there actually weren’t a lot of items that we wanted.  Terry finally ended up with a socket set – not really needed! – but it was a fun few hours.
We went grocery shopping, relaxed a while and had dinner.  We chatted with Brian & Bev for a short time and then we all went next door to Bob & Darlene’s to join a gathering to say farewell to Mike & Susie as they are going home to Minnesota for a month.  The group ended up quite large with 4 buddy burners providing light and some heat.

Nov 17th – Sat
We took Mike & Susie to the airport at 8 this morning and then got on our bikes to check out patio sales in the park.  It took us a long time to ride all the streets as we chatted with friends as much as we looked at items for sale.  We bought a buddy burner tin for Lou & Margaret, a collapsible wash bucket, a book and a handheld GPS – maybe we will do some geo-caching.
We were starving when we finished just after 11 so we went for breakfast at a new restaurant that was advertising at the Hobo Carnival yesterday.  We will not go back and were happy that we had a 2-for-1 coupon to help pay for a mediocre lunch – they stopped serving breakfast at 11!
We went over to see what Dennis & Gloria were up to and ended up coming back to get our bikes so we could all ride over to view Mike & Susie’s old park model which the RV park has for sale.  Then of course we had to sit outside and have a drink with Dennis & Gloria.
Trish emailed some documents relating to her appendix operation that she needed me to print so I did that and then we worked on a “business” card for them.  Their picture on the card did not print correctly so I had to dig around to find out how to clean the print heads and then it was still marginal so we decided to leave it until they found a more recent picture of themselves.
After dinner we went to a dance where the Needham Twins were playing.  They are very good musicians and the dance was a lot of fun.  It ended at 10 so we didn’t go to anyone’s place afterwards.

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