Thursday 20 March 2014

First day of spring

Didn't feel like the first day of spring here, rather it felt like the first day of summer.  Sitting here at 8:30 PM with the doors and windows open.
  I went to coffee and donuts this morning, the gathering was quite a bit smaller.  Gene told me he has Tee times for Tuesday, so that will make twice next week.  Pat & Diane are leaving and that is always a reason for one last round.  It's also the reason we are doing breakfast Saturday, so our crew won't be left short handed.  They found a new treasurer for the tenants association, the current one and his wife sold their place and are not planning to return.  They had asked me if I would consider it, being an annual renter, we are now eligible to hold office in the assoc.  I got away with agreeing to review the books and accounts before they are turned over to the new treasurer.
  Then I stopped over to look at a new park model being moved on site.  It drew quite a crowd, the guys all over the place and the gals all set up on the driveway across the street with coffee & donuts.  It is the kind of thing that passes for entertainment around here.  The couple who bought it have a Murphy bed in their Az room, it's very cool and something we need to think about.
  Went out to get a few trip pieces and some plumbing pieces to connect the drain line.  While we were at Lowe's stopped in at the flooring dep't and sure enough our flooring had arrived yesterday, so we took it home as well.  Then it was back to the park and back on the tools.  Got the sink drain connected, there is a new [to me] process and the ABS pipe has to be primed before the sealant is applied.  It's a nice purple liquid that stains everything it touches.  I wonder what rocket scientist thought that up.  Let's make something that everyone needs that will ruin anything it comes into contact with.  Fortunately the only purple thing we have is one of my hands.  After that I got some of the trim pieces on the bathroom floor and then moved on to the bedroom floor.  Got the pieces in place on the door side, but ran in to a bit of a challenge on the closet side.  Had to put a bit more floor leveler down, so that ended the job.  About midway through the afternoon Bud came by for an inspection, we kind of joke around about him being the building inspector and stopped to have a beer with him.
  Went over to Bud & Lynette's for happy hour as the Johnsons left at 6:30 this AM.  A funny thing, many of these retired people still think they need an early start, need to make miles.  Me on the other hand when I travel, I'm a little more casual.  Most of the usual people were there and we got updates on Linda' surgery and Karen's heart attack.  Part of the problem with the age of people in retirement areas, there frequently seems to be something medical going on with someone.  Enjoy yourself while you have your health is the message I take from this.
  Then it was time to go for dinner.  Tonight we went out with Kenny & Doris, his daughter Heidi was here for a week and is leaving in the morning.  Bingers joined us as well, so we were 7.  It was Los Gringos Locos again, so we both had the tostados and a burrito, the food is pretty good there, but the quantities are huge.  After we got back Marg did laundry, it seems we were almost out of the bare necessities.  LOL

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