Saturday, March 12th

The day was much cooler and we had a bit of a wind.  Got up and at-em' and went to breakfast in the hall this morning.  It was a popular choice for lots of folks in the park and was good.  Pancakes were pretty good, but I prefer the way I make them, no really, that is not just bravado.  The eggs were good, but Marg does a better job on them as well as the sausages.  This prompted a discussion at our table and I think the association will be holding an information sharing session with the crews next year dealing with kitchen hygiene and food cooking, we'll see.
  After 3 of us went for a bike ride, we made just over 4 miles.  It was cool enough to wear a jacket on the ride, but I did stay with short pants.  When I got back to the park, Marg & I went to look for a few things, without success on the Orbeez body spa.  On our first stop at Target, we picked up some toiletries and things in the pharmacy area.  Allergies continue to plague us this year and the latest pills have not worked out well.  In fact Marg's allergy thing seems to becoming a good old fashioned head cold, hope not.  While we were at Walmart we picked up other stuff, starting with a new coffee maker and some groceries so Marg could make the dish[s] at the gathering tonight.
  When we got back it was lunch time and then Marg went on to make a really good casserole with hash browns, kind of a potato substitute, I guess.  She also make a kind of Greek salad that is becoming her signature dish this year.  Not being much help in the kitchen, I went to play pool.  There was no one there, so I started knocking on doors to get a player.  Fortunately Dale was idle, so came to play and shortly after Luther stopped in, so we had some great games, lots of laughs.  It is at the back of Dale's place where they have been finding most of the scorpions [7 so far I believe], so that was a lot of the conversation.  It seems there are more, but that was most of the conversation.  When I suggested they just spray poisons in their hiding places, Dale explained that they are trying to capture the scorpions.  No idea why but that is, but a couple of them have scorpions in jars.  Apparently they are brown, so may be tree bark scorpions, if so not good as they have the worst of the stinging power, although it is still very much like a bee sting.

  Got back in time to go for happy hour, it's always at 4 o'clock and there was already quite a collection of folks by the time I got there with my one beer.  Small wonder they call our street Happy Hour Lane!  The women had decided it was a food day, we usually have a day in March when we do this as there are so many birthdays among the regulars this month.  The eating was scheduled to commence at 5, so as not to interfere with happy hour.  I went back to the park model for a few things, like a bottle of Tullamore Dew with the shot glasses.  Most of the guys there had not tasted Irish whisky before and it was a hit, well 2 hits for most of us.  It also gave me an opportunity to explain the history of the numbered shot glasses and why whisky was invented.  You know so the Irish could never take over the world.  LOL  By then it was time to eat and the food was excellent.
  After eating, the group mostly went their own way, well except for a few who stopped over at our place for a coffee.  Well for some that included Bailey's, well actually it was the gals who had it.  We sat around and visited for a bit and that was the day.