Nove 25th to 29th - Mesa

Nov 25^th – Wed

Terry golfed this morning which gave me time to catch up the blog. There was a planned power outage from 9 to 3 today which of course didn't bother me much especially since I leave the laptop plugged in so it was charged up. I went shopping and finally found a belt and an electric mattress pad. I didn't even realize but there was a promotion at Kohl's with $15 Kohl's cash for each $50 spent so I got a $30 certificate and one for 25% off an entire shopping trip. I can use them both on the same purchase from Dec 2^nd to 6^th so will have to remember to do so.

When Terry got back we went to the courtyard for a Manager's Happy Hour from 3 to 5 with 25 cent beer & wine. There was a large crowd and The Brookharts provided great music for dancing. We sat at one of the couch/firepit areas for a while afterwards.

Nov 26^th – Thurs

Happy Thanksgiving! I didn't even have to cook as my contribution was a pumpkin pie from Costco which I forgot to mention that we stopped & got when we were with Dennis & Gloria on Tuesday. The dinner was organized by Phyllis & Dave and Margie & Bill and was held at the bocce court from 1 to 5. The weather was not supposed to warm up higher than 60 but we were pleasantly surprised to find the forecast wrong and enjoyed quite a bit higher temps. Most people played bocce before dinner which was at 3. As usual after a big turkey dinner, we were pretty lazy for the rest of the evening.

Nov 27^th – Fri

Terry had a couple of things that he wanted to get at Harbor Freight and we woke up early so we were in the truck shortly after 7 – almost unheard of unless golf is involved. After Harbor Freight we stopped at Target and got some blue, ? rope lights. Then we went to the Marketplace to get a couple of decals to put on our sliding glass doors into the garage so someone doesn't walk into a door sometime. We thought the vendor was on the first or second row. We entered about 1/3 of the way down the first row and started walking. After the first, second & third rows we figured it was on the part of the first row that we missed so we went down the end and all the way down the first row. Still no vendor so back to the 4^th row where we found it about halfway down. Terry had 6400 steps on his FitBit as we were walking back to the truck! Good trip though as we both got sunglasses as well.

We continued east to Mickey D's for breakfast. When we got back, we put out the new lights and decided we really needed to get 2 more strings. I saw that the shelf was empty behind the boxes that we got at Target so we took the motorcycle to another Target store and got more lights.

We went to MCY from 3 to 5 and line danced. The band (Triplicity) started with rock 'n roll and then put on some cowboy hats for country music which brought out more dancers. Right after MCY we went to Moe & Trish's for dinner along with Bob & Dar. One more time – good friends, good food, lots of laughs.

Nov 28^th – Sat

We had slightly later tee times this morning which was good as it was cool. Unfortunately there were a couple of groups ahead of us who were walking so play was a bit slow. Bruce & Ann were hosting lunch and for a change we were looking to sit in the sun rather than the shade. By the time everyone got back from golfing and we finished lunch, it was 3 o'clock.

We went to a dance with Road Runner from 7 to 10. They play a lot of rock 'n roll so we danced less than usual. Maybe we were tired?!

Nov 29^th – Sun

We had a quiet morning as the Grey Cup festivities didn't start until 2:30. Terry did a bit of running around on the motorcycle and I put together a potato casserole for dinner. I also had a nice long phone call from my sister Marg.

At 2:30 we went to Brian & Bev's park model where everything was set up in the carport to watch the football game. Across the street at Larry & Suz's there were chairs & propane heaters for the people (mostly women) who didn't want to watch the game as there is not enough room to seat everyone in front of the TV. Also, this prevents the chatting of non football fans from disturbing the hard core fans!

We had appies before the game started and ate dinner at half time. In the past we have had dinner after the game but it gets too late and too cold. We had turned on the mattress pad before leaving so we crawled into our nice warm bed to watch TV when we got back.