Saturday, Feb 4th.

Happy birthday Anna, this is a big one dear.  Looks like you had lots of fun with the family today.
  It was a nice day here in the valley.  The mornings seem cool with the desert air, but it was a gorgeous warm day, definitely shorts and t-shirt day.  As it was a travel day for the gamblin' gals I had to either get up early or be prepared to make the bed.  LOL  Anyway I got up to go for breakfast in the hall.  It was the crew that named themselves the Canadians this morning and they did a fine job of it.  They offer corned beef hash as their unique dish.  Each crew do this to kind of set themselves apart.  I like it but not for breakfast, so for me it was the usual bacon, eggs, pancakes.
  By the time Marg got to the car, they were all patiently waiting for her so they could depart.  There were 5 of them today and the dish of the day was a large red pottery bowl, so another successful addition to the Arizona kitchen.    Apparently the bingo didn't pay off today, but the casino was friendlier and she broke even there.  None of the ladies won at the bingo today and there were no reports of any other success. 
  After breakfast I went to a couple of park sales just down the road from us, but never found anything worth taking home.  Well I never even got out of the vehicle, it was that kind of day.  With a bit of time on my hands I went to Harbour Freight, but again could not convince myself I needed anything there either.  Back to the park where I spent about an hour messing with old pictures.  I have a 32gb memory stick they gave me so I could share some of my pictures from around here, but I never finished it, all the while watching some of the Phoenix Open.  Apparently the had almost 250,000 spectators today, a number greater than the city of Scottsdale where it is held.  The last I saw we still had a couple of Canadians in the money, Graham DeLaet is having a pretty good tournament.  A bunch of green clad Saskatchewan fans have been following him around the course.
  After lunch I went to play pool.  The place was empty, but I had agreed to meet Gene there and we played for about 90 minutes.  I must have been at the top of my game today as he generally beats me more than half the time, but the shoe was on the other foot today.  A nice change.  Then I went home to vacuum for a bit.  We have so much dust here and no Roomba, so I used my shop vac to do under the bed and get the dust bunnies.  Then I did the front step as it is covered with an indoor/outdoor carpet that everything sticks to.  It will look good for a couple of days and then stuff will start getting caught up in it again.
  Then it was off to happy hour by myself and met Marg half way there.  She stopped to talk with one of the ladies who is ill with Valley Fever and just getting over it.  It has all the symptoms pneumonia and is treated with prescription medication.  She had it for a while before becoming too weak to ignore it and ended up in the hospital for 3 or 4 days.  Left untended it can get pretty serious, in fact it is fatal to dogs that contract it.
  After happy we had supper at home tonight.  A little after supper we went for a walk to check the mail [we hadn't picked it up for the last 3 days] and then did a lap around the park.  It was a short walk as Marg's hip has been bothering her.  The good news is the foot seems much better so we changed the bandage without any problems showing up.