Groundhog Day 2013

Well the groundhog never saw his shadow, so an early spring is expected.  That will be good for all our friends & family in GP.  Down here in AJ, no biggie, it was 72F/22C today, a nice warm day in short pants.  Don't want it any hotter than that on golf days anyway.
  Early morning, Marg was up at 6 & me 6:30 as our breakfast crew was on this AM.  As usual Marg was on scrambled eggs & I was on pancakes.  We had a new couple out with us this AM and it really made a difference on the work load.  We had lots of fun.  Marg said she scrambled over 12 dozen eggs & I made over 150 pancakes.  We had a new system for the biscuits & gravy that worked really well, we kept the biscuits in the a slow cooker so they were nice and warm.  For those of you who have not experienced this uniquely American breakfast item, all I can say is it's an acquired taste and none of the Canucks I know have acquired the taste.  It is a lot of small pieces of sausage in a creamy gravy poured over top what looks like something close to baking soda biscuits.  What really makes it different is the seasoning, not anything that appeals to me a breakfast.  It's not as bad as haggis, but I would rate it close.  But the folks down here love it.  Clean up went really well with the larger crew.  The highlight of my day is cleaning the grill - not!  At the end we had quite a bit of pancake batter and I made a huge pancake, bigger than an extra large pizza.  Usually there are a bunch that want to see if it can be flipped & it is.  Then I kid a bunch of the customers about making it especially for them.
  We had lots of visitors after at the motorhome, so it was almost too late for lunch. So it was into the old coupon book where we decided to go to Sonic.  We have never been there before, but we had coupons.  We had the 2 for one hot dogs & 2 for one strawberry sundaes and with drinks all in lunch for 2 was $4.37.  Went over to the big Mesa market looking for golf cart tires.  They had lots and even used ones, but none that appealed.  The used ones were a good deal, 4 tires on rims for $60.  We did manage to get a new ice cream scoop, the other thing we went there for.

 
    On the way back we stopped at the farmers market and Marg got a bunch of veggies that we were needing.  Check out the price of a flat of strawberries.  Marg got a big container [more than double that you get in GP] of blueberries for $1.50.  You probably can't see it, but baking potatoes were $1 for 10 pounds.  The best part is all the produce is very fresh, just like we get at the farmers market at home.

   When we got back to the rv park, there was a helicopter buzzing around for quite a while, like the better part of half an hour.  One of the guys jumped in his car to see what it was all about & saw a bunch of police cars around an area.  You have to know Jerry, but he went and spoke with the police & it turns out they raided a house not far from here and a guy got away and turns out it was the Sheriff's dept helicopter.  Apparently they caught him as it stopped.

   That was a good thing because all the noise was detracting during happy hour, where important stuff is discussed.  Oh yeh, went to cocktails at Larry & Nancy's again.  I wasn't going, but then a couple of guys stopped to harass me.  They put out the bait that they wanted to discuss going to the desert on Tuesday; in case I was interested.  Well as you readers know by now our last trip was cut short due to mechanical problems & they are going the same place; where they will likely cross the pass and get into some new territory.  So as much as I don't like to party, I went to meet with the guys.  Not sure why Marg went, the girls were probably talking about the price of rice and she had something to say about that - - could be!