Thursday, Jan 5th

What a nice day, about 75F in the sun, another day in short pants. It was coffee & donuts this AM, so we were up at the crack of dawn, well 8AM anyway. Went & sat with some friends. They have a practice of new arrivals announcing their names and place of origin at the start of the meeting. By meeting, I mean they give you info on the park activities. As usual Marg makes sure I get the microphone to tell them where we are from. Then after coffee Kenny had a meeting of the ice cream crew. Pretty funny when he announced the ice cream social for Sunday he said they were waiting for the professionl scoopers from Canada and could start holding these now. Spent much of the morning messing around with the electrical in the motorhome. We had some issue with the lights going dim last night. Cleaned all the battery terminals, tightened the wire connections on the fuse panel. Then turned the power cutoff on, which seemed to solve the matter. Fingers crossed that was the problem. ( Oh well the connections are all good & tight now. Put out all the lights in the area aound the PALM tree out front & the rope lighting along the patio. Did you get that PALM tree reference. LOL! Went out for fresh vegetables to the superstition farmers market. Got a nice bag of fresh navel oranges, 5 pounds for $2 I think. Also got some beer, a case of 30 cans of MGD for $20. Az land of cheap beer. When we got back to the park, Kenny & Doris had made some bloody mary's so we went over to make certain they didn't have to drink alone. It turns out they had some news to share, they bought a park model, so this will be their last year in their motorhome. Pretty good deal, I think they paid $7,500 for it. It's an older one, but looks to be in nice condition. BBQ for dinner and that was our day.