Friday, March 7th

The first week of March has flown by, kind of alarming how time flies.  Some folks here are already talking about plans to return home.  Mind you they are people whose snow has gone and their temps at home are above freezing & not just during the day. 
  Took Marg & Nancy to Costco this AM.  They needed to get some things, mostly food type stuff for the party this evening.  Nancy bought a Roomba robot vac after Marg's glowing description of how she loves hers and what a help it is.  It was her first time to Costco here and she was quite impressed.  Apparently the nearest one to them at home is 2180 miles, so they just don't bother with it.  When they got home and got the thing running, their dog [Cooper] wasn't too keen on it.  He's a mild mannered dog, but sat on the back of the sofa and glared at it & tried growling at it.  Pretty funny.
  After lunch we went out to pick up some wheels for the screen door, the old plastic ones were ruined.  A few people stopped by to ask how we knew how to make the repairs to the door.  Answer, well it's no good the way it is, so you just take it apart and then see what it needs.  There are so many patio doors down here that parts of all sorts are readily available. 

Got it cut down, fixed and installed on the track, not 100% but it should work, at least it will keep the flies out.  Managed a stop at Harbour Freight today as well and got a new cordless drill and my free gift was a set of screw drivers. 
  Have had some requests for before and after, so here is the sort of before, although it is now primed and the sub-floor in.  As you can see the floor has a gap, this is the hinge and my plan is to fill it with a floor leveler.
   Did some more work on the floor and Marg while working inside, found a bunch of cutlery left for us by the former owners.

  Happy hour tonight was a birthday celebration for 5 people and a chance to lighten up.  There has been lots of bad news among friends this last little while, lots of tears shed this week -- makes us count our blessings.  The ladies each brought so much food that we didn't need supper after.  Just as we were getting ready to eat, Dardie & Blackie drove by so and we had a nice chat with them.  I guess they were just driving through the park to see where we are, Blackie said they are just down on Signal Butte, so we will see them sometime next week.

  Sure got lots of birthday cards between the two of us.  After all that it was time for the animal races.  I won 5 of 6 and Marg won 2 tonight.  Lots of whooping an hollering involved there, all the fun you can imagine.