Friday, March 11th

Started my day with a bike ride with 5 other guys here at Carefree.  It was such a nice day without wind that we went up to Idaho and back.  Three of us turned back early, so made about 5 1/2 miles while the others went all the way to the school and back.  When I got back home, Marg had made cinnamon buns lightly covered with icing, they were very nice and welcome as I had only had a banana before leaving.
  After we went down to Mediacom to pay the bill for TV, internet and our landline.  It is for service until the month end, so we will only have to pay for a short period after that date.  This is our 3rd year with them and for some reason the service has not been nearly as good this year.  For next year we will be looking at our options to this service.  On the way back we stopped in a Ace hardware where I bought a flashlight that is a black light.  They are mainly used to see scorpions and some of the guys in the park have been out with them the last 2 nights and have quite a collection of scorpions, so it has got me thinking. I don't really want to catch any, but I do want to know if we have them around our place.  Gave the place a good going over and we don't, likely because of eh pest spraying we did all through the year.
  When we got back Marg went to a bridal shower for one of her friends.  Sue is getting married later this month, so a group of ladies here [looking for an excuse to party - no doubt] got together to put this on.  It must have been a lot of fun as it was the talk all around the park and Marg said it was another day filled with laughter.  They took a pile of pictures [66 by my count] and could only find eight that we could use on facebook.  Yes it got a little racey as evidenced by the pics so we had them printed [one copy only] for Sue.
  I played pool this afternoon and it was fairly busy there.  I played with a couple of the same guys as yesterday and we had lots of laughs.  There were two guys who haven't played aas much, so Gene and I stayed on opposing teams the whole time.  It worked pretty well with the teams being more evenly so I played on a winner sometimes and lost others, so good balance.
  Later it was happy hour and then supper was chicken from the slow cooker with a nice salad Marg made.  It was good idea as we had animal races shortly after and had to attend as it was the season wind up.  This meant the payouts were a little more generous than normal as they gave away all the accumulated surplus from the season.  We didn't do as well as last year, but the elephant won twice, so we didn't do too badly.  Go Bimbo!