Saturday Nov 26th

A much cooler day today, in fact I don't think we even saw the sun.  The winter weather that is impacting most of the country is now influencing Arizona weather.  I think our daytime highs were in the mid 60's [16-18C] although the winds had died down.  While it's still very pleasant, this trend seems to be what we can expect for the next two weeks.  In fact they are even forecasting snow in elevations above 5,000 ft, so we'll be spared from that.
  Some new people pulled in with a 5th wheel and are parked across from us.  They are from Grande Prairie, although neither of us had ever met.  They worked in home construction and their builder has been hurt by the slow down, so they were out of a job and decided to go full time RV'ing. 
  Saturday and that means a big breakfast in the hall:  bacon, eggs & pancakes.  The numbers when I was there looked to be down, so it could be the weather or the fact that there are still lots of empty sites.  I would like to think that it's because I am no longer cooking pancakes, this is the place where you laugh!
  After breakfast we went out to the Mesa marketplace where I traded pocket books.  The old gal bought all I brought in and I in turn bought 8 new ones.  That should get me through the next week and possibly even the one after.  There really wasn't much else we were looking for so we made an early departure.  Not sure what Marg looked at while I was picking out books, but she did try on a top.
  On the way back we spotted an estate sale.  These can sometimes be good, so we followed the signs down south and it was in a very nice newer area.  It turned out that it was the guys mother who had lived in the house and might have been a bit of a shopper because they had lots of new/in the box stuff that looked like they were from the home shopping network on TV.  Marg bought a vacuum, still in the box for $25.  It's a smaller canister pull type.  She also got a steam blaster thing.  It kind of looks like a kettle with a nozzle and a hose attachment for $5.  It was the last day of their sale, so seemed very open to offers.
  When almost home we ran into another estate sale in a very good area.  It was a gated community on a golf course.  It appears to have been another woman living alone whose son and wife were disposing of stuff.  They must have been doing it for a while, but still had lots of good stuff like white leather furniture, crystal, china, etc.  The one thing I really liked was a grandfather clock that Marg said was top of the line, probably in the $6 - 8K price range new.  She did find a leather covered storage table, sort of.  I think it's a hassock cube that opens up and the top turns over to use as a serving top.  Anyway she paid $20 for it.
  After we returned to the park and Marg went out to Walgreens for some things at the drug store.  Supper was in the slow cooker tonight and that was our day.