Oct 13th to 15th - Mesa

Oct 13^th – Sun

We goofed off this morning with computer games, email & the blog.  Neil & Robin stopped in to say hi and then Gloria made an appearance to fill us in on the bocce “tournament” later today.  I finally made lunch for breakfast (bacon & tomato sandwiches!)

Of course I didn’t plan to make devilled eggs when we were at Costco yesterday so we went back today to buy their hard-boiled, peeled eggs.  Very lazy but it sure is easy to make devilled eggs with them.

Gloria set up the above mentioned bocce tournament and we were all bringing appies.  It started at 4 and there were about 30 people there – some watched rather than played.  Jerry & Becky ended up winning.  Food was great as usual and the company & fun even better.  The weather was perfect – no too hot when the sun was still up and not at all cool when it went down.

TV filled the rest of the evening.

Oct 14^th – Mon

I did some cleaning this morning – for a change – but otherwise it was pretty lazy.  Before we went to the courtyard, I put together a vegetable casserole for later.  I left the courtyard early to get it into the oven and shortly after Dennis & Gloria came by to sit in our shade and visit.

The occasion this evening was a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner organized by Joe & Stella.  They had the party wagon for tables & chairs.  We were surprised to see Vic & Jackie at the dinner.  Lots of rigs & people are arriving every day now.

After cleaning up from dinner, Dennis & Gloria, Joe & Stella and Harry & Cathy joined us outside to watch DWTS.

Oct 15^th – Tues

The truck would not start this morning so Terry hooked up the battery charger.  As I was leaving for exercise class, the truck did start and Terry drove to a nearby battery store for a test.  Sure enough, one battery needed to be replaced so they ordered it.  It arrived in a few hours so we are all fixed up for now.  In the meantime, we went to Dennis & Gloria’s and helped Dennis install a new light above their dining table.  On the way back to our site, Allen & Diane invited us to sit down & chat.

Curtis was singing in the courtyard today and there was the largest crowd that we have seen this season.  It has cooled down to the mid 80’s so it wasn’t too hot if you couldn’t get a shady table.  We sat at 2 tables pushed together with 5 other couples.  The names of the guys at our table were Larry, Larry, Larry, Harry, Terry & Jerry!

At the last minute, we invited Joe & Jean over for dinner.  I had to boil baby backs so dinner ended up being late but as usual we didn’t run out of things to talk about.