Thursday

Well this should be the last of the real chilly mornings and the start of warmer weather, fingers crossed.  We are all saying this has not been the Arizona we signed up for, ours is much warmer.  Pretty funny because although we were almost at the freezing point, it is still a lot warmer than home.
  It was coffee and donuts this morning and the place was pretty darn full.  Made the mistake of sitting with some friend we normally don't and got a job helping out at the ladies tea again this year.  Note to self must learn to say NO.  Well it wasn't all bad, I got an apple fritter with my coffee.  This meeting was the start of the election process for the officers of the association and that is generating interest.  I have had a dozen or more people suggest I should run, but my reply is that if we take jobs away from Americans and we don't have a green card, they will turn us back at the border.  And I'm sticking with that.  The really big news this morning that shocked and amazed people was that Marg went, it was her first one this winter.  We almost had to get the AJ paramedics in to restart a couple of hearts that skipped a few beats.
  After breakfast, Marg stayed with her buddies to make the sloppie joe mixture.  She has been doing this for about a half dozen years, so it's old hat to her now.  This was also the REAL reason she got up early and came with me.  They sell a lot of these during the park wide patio sale, which is tomorrow and always a busy day in the park.  When she finished and got back we went around to check out what is for sale.  They have a preview day for the residents the day prior.  I managed to get a set of wrenches [Craftsman], a corded drill [Craftsman], a do-dad, a set of nut drivers, a hammer and looked at lots of other stuff, all for under $20.  Marg got some glasses, but broke one washing them.  She also got a wall decoration, playing cards.
  After we went back because Marg had to bake brownies for the bake sale.  People donate stuff that is sold for the benefit of the association.  Her stuff always goes very quickly.  These are the same ones she made a couple of weeks back and have an added kick of dark chocolate that she chops up and adds to the mix.  When we took them down to the bake sale, they already had 3 large tables full of yummy stuff.  While she was baking the brownies, Kenny & Doris stopped by. 

He had a couple of pistols he wanted to sell.  I never realized it but he sold one at his place before I knew he had made the decision.  It was a real nice 380 automatic at a very fair price that was bought by Gary here in the park.  Good thing too as I would have struggled with the decision.  The reason he stopped by was not to torment me with that news, rather he had a second one that I offered to look up on the internet to look at values.  It is a 45 cal. Colt Army issue from WW1, I think the date is 1913 and it is still in fine firing order.  I both got some info on it from other sales and from the Cabella's store in Glendale.  We will be taking a trip over to Cabella's next week with it.  They have a gun library and buy old guns to sell in it and are real interested in this one.  This was the first one I have actually held & it is a cool piece of shootin' iron.
  After it was out for groceries.  A stop at the ranch market, where Marg got some fresh oranges, they are to die for here.  Then over to Safeway for another bunch of stuff.  Say did you hear of the little mouse that got pregnant in Basha's; he never knew there was a Safeway!  LOL  Anyway Marg got some ice cream, because it is going to be hot, hot, hot next week.
  Supper tonight was out to Ihop.  I don't seem to ever tire of that place and Marg thinks its OK too.  In fact she had a chicken dinner and said it was the best fried chicken she has ever had.  I asked ever & she said without a doubt it is.  The quantities are good too, in fact she brought a big chunk back, it looked to me to be about half a chicken and that was after she had eaten her fill.  It was kind of funny when we got back Mark was walking past our place and when I drove up behind him, he stopped to chat.  He's a nice guy, kind of looks like he could be a member of the band ZZTop, but we know he lives alone.  Anyway Marg up and gave him the chicken & he looked to be pretty pleased with the whole thing.  Me, well you can all guess what I had, the usual!  ;>))