Friday, Feb 5th

Today was the big park wide patio sale that the tenants association holds at Carefree Manor.  The tenants put out tables at their sites and sell all sorts of things.  The association has activities in the hall where they bring in craft vendors, offer coffee, slices of pie and sloppy joes and have a big raffle for all sorts of things.  These things are items donated, this year there were 80 or so prizes drawn for.  They draw a name first, then the prize from separate buckets with ticket stubs.  Marg worked in the kitchen where they served the sloppy joes they made yesterday as well as slices of pie.  They were very busy this year and pretty much sold every piece of pie they had.  There was quite a bit of the sloppy joe mixture, but it will be frozen and used in the baked potato night as one of the garnishes.  It all meant for an early morning and a busy day until the 1:00 closing for Marg.
  I pretty much wandered about and took some pictures, visited with some of the residents.  I stopped at Mark's place and he said the chicken Marg gave him last night was the best he had eaten and that he went to the hall and bought some of her brownies.  I told him to beware or he would soon be a large as I am.  LOL  I did by a warming tray that heats 3 dishes over hot water that Marg was interested in.  She thought it would be good for either happy hours here or for meals out at the lake.  The price was right and we know the vendors who said they only used it once at a family function.  I did win in the raffle draw, well Marg did really.  It is a set of 2 very large screw drivers, that were donated by Marg's friend Lynette.  They were her late husbands and were still in the new package.  Bud was a good friend, so it was nice.
  After we helped clean up the hall and put all the tables and chairs back in their right order.   Then our kitchen crew got together and did our prep work for the morning breakfast.  It will be another early morning tomorrow, something we generally don't favour. Anyway we got it done and will be ready for them when they start arriving, knife & fork in hand.
  When we got back to our place it was time to go look for a happy hour.  It seems something changed and our regular group did not have one today, so we went on a bit of a walk-about looking to see if some of our other friends were having cocktails.  Before we got too far, we were stopped and had a beer with Gary & Patti.  Nice folks and it was nice to have a chance to chat with just them.  It turns out Gary is getting notices of friend requests from Patti's FB account on his cell phone and wants them stopped.  That was good for a laugh, but will have to look into it.  Gary was the guy who bought Kenny's other pistol yesterday, so he brought it out to show me.  It was very nice and I can see why he picked it up.  Yes Char, it was loaded, but we unloaded it before looking at it.  LOL
  Supper tonight was Taco Bell.  We like their Mexican food better than some of the other places around here.  It was funny, because I set my drink down and it disappeared.  It kind of puzzled me for a moment, until I saw Jerry L in the line up to order with a big drink in his hand.  He's a real character, but it was good for a laugh.  Food was good and it being in the Fry's parking lot, I went over to pumps to fuel up.  The pump price was $1.57/gal., but Marg had earned a fuel discount of 10 cents from purchases, so paid $1.47, that would be 39 cents/litre.
  Glad to hear that Vanessa was well enough to go home and wishes for a full recovery.