Feb 5th to 7th - Mesa

Feb 5^th – Tues

I downloaded pictures from the camera and then made a collage of everyone at the BBQ Fest yesterday.  It is the first time that I have used the collage feature of Picasa and it is quite fun – but time consuming.

We went grocery shopping and waited at the bank in Fry’s for a notary public.  After putting away the groceries and having lunch, I sorted the much overdue laundry.  We put the clothes in washers and went to a post office to mail a package.  Terry walked home while I read a book at the laundry room.  Terry came back in time to hang up clothes and drive home.

We went to the courtyard to listen to Curtis and danced a bit.  I left early to marinate a steak but we still had to gobble down dinner in order to get to line dancing early to take advantage of extra lessons.  We were ready to relax when we got back.

Feb 6^th – Wed

We took a short walk to drop off a cup at Dennis & Gloria’s.  They weren’t home so we carried on and ended up talking with Bruce & Ann before returning.  I vacuumed and washed floors before we got the bikes out to do more visiting.  This time we stopped at Larry & Suz’s and Dan & Carol’s.  Dan & Carol moved to a different park model this season and have been doing a lot of work.  The latest job is painting the outside which makes it look really nice and more modern.  Dan painted kitchen cabinets, countertop & stove front and tiled the backsplash which totally changed the unhappy kitchen.  Dan was out with friends picking up a new bed so we had a nice visit with Carol.

By this time it was after 2 and we had eaten only a banana with our coffee.  We went to the courtyard for lunch and then stayed to listen to music from 3 to 5.  We did some line dances and kept adding chairs to our table for more friends.

When we got back, I started pulling pictures out of last album that need to be scanned into the computer.  Terry came in for a drink and said Moe & Trish were back from Tucson and chatting with a group so I put on a light jacket and joined them.  We just stood in the street to talk and the group changed as people came & went to make dinner.  We were ready for a light dinner by the time we came in.  Then I got a bag of loose pictures which we sorted through to add to the stack to be scanned.

Feb 7^th – Thurs

I looked after emails and the blog before going to a cooking class here in the park.  Seven classes are offered in Jan, Feb & March but the first one was filled up before I tried to sign up.  This class was on chicken – mostly boneless chicken breasts which I love to use.  The instructor cooked 4 different recipes and we tasted a small bowl or plate of each one.  It was set up nicely and a fun thing to do for a couple of hours even though I will probably make only one of the recipes.  The rest of the classes are supposedly full but quite a few people didn’t show up today so I will go to other classes and hope there is room.

Terry was shopping when I got back – Home Depot & Camping World.  Our large patio mat has some cracks so he got awning tape which we used to repair it.  We don’t want to buy a new one right now as the weather will get HOT before we leave which is hard on mats.

We didn’t have anything else planned for the day so we picked up Dennis & Gloria and went to a couple of casinos.  We went first to the Wild Horse Casino because Terry missed an exit and we were planning to go there anyhow.  Dennis & Gloria signed up for cards and used their free play and not much more.  Then we went to Lone Butte Casino.  We were all hungry and planned to order the huge hamburger.  We thought the 10 points that we earned at Wild Horse (same casino card) would get the burger for $7.77 but we had to earn 10 points at Lone Butte.  It didn’t take Terry too long – and not much money! - to earn the points so we had a very late lunch.  Even 4 of us could not finish the burger & fries.

Dennis ended up winning at Lone Butte and covered Gloria’s losses.  They bought a decorative ceramic horse that Dennis collects and ended up waiting a bit for us to finish gambling.  We stopped at Safeway for ice cream, dropped Dennis & Gloria at home and they walked over a bit later for a drink & dessert.  Before we had dessert, Moe came by to ask us over for a drink with them & Duane & Sue.  Instead, they all came to our place for a while and Sue joined us for 321 cake with ice cream for dessert.