March 23rd

Where do the days go, we are only 2 weeks away from our scheduled departure date.  We are probably leaving here on the 5th or 6th of April.  That is the common theme of most conversations around here now, with some having left already and quite a few going next week.
  We got off to an early start, went out looking for a bed and some furniture.  Went to several places:  Ashley, Room Store, American Furniture Warehouse & some others I don't recall.  The American Furniture Warehouse is probably the largest furniture store I have ever been in and the selection pretty incredible.  We never settled on any one item, but certainly got lots of ideas.  We really need to get a bed so we have some place to sleep when we get here next year, but we are not about to be stampeded into a decision we may regret as we have the bed that was in the place sitting in our Az room.
  Marg spotted a place we have never been, called Easy Over, so we went there for breakfast/lunch.  The place was packed and the food was very good, we opted for breakfast type dishes.  She had the eggs benedict, while I had blueberry pancakes.  We will have to go back there again.
  Stopped in at Lowes on the way back and on an off chance, Marg asked the salesman if they had any of our flooring in stock and they did.  Lucky break for us, so we picked it and some other stuff up.  Then it was back on the tools, where Marg refinished the kitchen cabinets.  There was a problem with adhesion on the first paint job, so she re-did it.  Lots of extra work, but if she gets a better result it will be worth it.  I finished the flooring, except for a few trim pieces.  The major parts of the job are winding down, but we still have lots left to do before we leave for home, so will be busy.  Really busy because I have 2 golf days next week.
  We stopped in time for happy hour at the Blanke's, life is not all work and no play after all.  Had a couple and then rushed back to the m'home where Marg had a steak out that I put on the bbq.  She also had some baked potatoes, veg and stuff like that.  Good thing too as we never had very much time for supper.  It was ice cream social tonight at 6:30 so we went, I had a banana split, while she had a sundae with a piece of cake.  There was music [recorded] tonight, a nice change.
  Was it warm today, I should say so.  The high number I saw on the car temp read-out was 87F/31C, so we had to run the A/C,, especially when we first got in the car.  Surprisingly it gets warm in the carport, but is quite pleasant.  Our unit is also quite cool, in fact most people comment on how pleasant it is even without the A/C unit operating.