Friday

A gorgeous day, now this is the Arizona we all signed on for.  It is still cool in the nights, like around 50F, but warms up pretty quickly to where it peaks mid-afternoon, I think today was about 87F.
  Started my morning with a bike ride with Larry.  The wind was blowing a pretty good breeze from out of the mountains & there were only the two of us this morning.  We made just a bit over 2 miles today as my co-rider was having problems, but still good to get some exercise.  When I got back I discovered the plumbing drip had returned.  I ran down to Home Depot to get a few things to help me repair the door I took off yesterday and the incessant drip, but never got to either as it was time to go to the hall.
  Marg had the morning to get organized and then went down to the hall with me, to prepare for the job she created.  Marg and Karen did some decorating and got the place set up.

I made coffee and tea water and got the stuff out to make that happen.  Richard and Brenda Cain were celebrating their 50th anniversary today and they have both been a big part of life in our rv park here at Carefree.  After hearing nothing was planned to help them celebrate this day, Marg took it on herself to make a party for them.  There were some challenges with getting it together, the greatest of which was to get Brenda to agree that it was a good idea.  In the end it was agreed to keep it simple, so it was a coffee/tea with cake and ice cream and an open invitation to park residents to join us. 

Betty & Ma being related to Richard, wanted to get the cake and Nancy & Lynette the ice cream.  That left us the napkins, forks, plates, decorating and actual work for a 1 o'clock get together.  It came together nicely with a little over 70 people showing up to wish the couple well.  Marg chopped up the cake and Linda came forward to help her serve cake, while I slapped a blob of ice cream on everyone's plate.  Oh yeh, then there was clean up, you know wiping tables, dishes, garbage, but it was a big success and we were done by 3.
  A nice couple stopped by when we got back and invited us to an omelet in a bag type breakfast next week.  Barb is the lady who organizes splash & thrash, so we had a cold beer with them and chatted.  Nice folks, Barb is also the organizer of the ladies tea that I have been conned into helping with this year - again, arghhh.  They left almost right at 4 o'clock, so you know by now that is happy hour.  A quick dash around and packed another brewski to go off to that group event.  We had agreed to eat out tonight, so kept our time at happy to one hour.
  Then it was off to, well find out how big the lines were at the place we planned on.  They were lined up outside [Friday problem everywhere], so we went tot he 5 & Diner.  It was our first time there this winter & it is generally one of our fav's.  We got in quickly and Marg had the fish plate, while I had a scrambled egg/hash kind of dish. It was timely and we were hungry, so a good fit for our needs and the food is pretty good there.  No milkshake though, even if it is a specialty there and they have more flavours than I can even recall.
  On the way back home we stopped at Walmart and got prints of the pictures I took today.   Ma wasn't able to attend as she is not well, so we made a copy for her & Betty and a copy for Richard & Brenda.  It went pretty well, except the machine ran out of paper, so it took the ladies a long time to get it going again.  Both groups were glad to get the pics, so another good deed done by Margie.  Then we stopped to fill the 5 gallon water bottle for the water cooler.  Well by then it was dark and we just came home.
  Well that's about it, lots to do tomorrow again, we are starting to think we might need a rest, LOL.