Tuesday, March 22nd

Went for a bike ride this AM, there were 5 of us today.  We stopped to watch Gary feed his carrots to the donkey.  He hadn't done this for a few days and when he saw Gary approaching, the donkey came running and was braying loudly.  I couldn't believe how noisy that guy was.  As we were passing the park, Larry pulled off as he had enough, so I went with him.  It was still a pretty good ride at 4 1/2 miles.
  When I got back Marg had gone to water aerobics.  It was a bit cooler day but windy.  It seems a good day for the splash & thrash gals as they had a good turn out again.  While she was gone, I got a visitor asking for my assistance.  It was one of the guys in the park who had taken on hanging a ladies blinds.  She had some fairly expensive blinds that were custom ordered he was having trouble with. We got the first one installed and by then Marg came back.  I left with her and Harry pretty much got all the others hung.  They looked great too.
  I messed with the free door for an hour or so and put it aside.  Not sure whether it is usable as is or whether it will be a source of parts for the existing door.  It would be nice to use it as it looks a lot better than our old one, we'll see.   After that Marg just relaxed on the patio, while I went and got Kenny to play pool.  He likes to play, but wants to get more familiar with the game before he ventures out to play with some of the other guys.  We had lots of laughs and he won one game.  I think Marg and her pals have a bunch of us going to Golden Corral instead of the pot luck soup dinner tomorrow night and Kenny has a couple dozen people going out for fish & chips on Friday for supper. 
  Happy hour was at Blanke's today because of the wind and it is sheltered there.  There were lots of folks and we talked about scorpions and such, well the guys did anyway.  After we had supper at home and then went over to Smitty's for his dutch oven dessert.  It was very nice and he had about a dozen there tonight.  From there we went on to the bingo hall.  There was a good sized crowd and the payouts were good.  As luck would have it I won the first game, so we came out a bit ahead even after buying ice cream for the table.