Saturday

Got up to a rainy morning and it was pretty much like that the entire day.  The one thing they do very accurately is predict weather here, so I expect cooler weather and rain tomorrow as well.
  I went to breakfast in the hall.  It was a great day for it as they had french toast and blueberry pancakes.  Fortunately the kitchen crew are all good friends, so a couple of slices of french toast and a couple of pancakes along with scrambled eggs and crispy bacon and I was good to go.  Well it was too much actually so I gave a fellow a slice of bacon, no way I'm giving up the pancakes or french toast.  It was really funny, he started talking about places he went when he was young and single and mentioned the Rathskeller Inn in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.  When I said I had been there for long weekend fun, he said I was the first person he has talked to that had been there.  Pretty funny as he is from Montana, but it was a popular bar.  Today they would probably call it a club because it had big name bands of the day play there.  But I digress, it seems lots of folks had the same idea on a rainy morning and the place was busy.
  No Marg did not go for breakfast, she went with the gamblin' gals to the Fort today.  They were missing one who was cooking breakfast, but the 3 of them went as scheduled.  It was wet on the freeway so the traffic was much slower, but they made it there and back safely.  They never had any winners today, although Marg did come away 50 cents ahead, so that is a good thing.
  I went out and got a lock for the patio door.  It would seem to be an easy thing to do, put a lock on the door that is tamper proof.  The patio door just has the regular catch on the handle and it wouldn't take much to break in.  This one fastens to the frame and puts a pin into the sliding door frame, so it is a back up to the key lock on the handle.  Not that we have any cause for concern here, but Marg must have been watching CSI or something where a patio door was forced open.  LOL  It was only 10 bucks, but lots of messing around until I got the right one for this door.
  When she got home we went to the chili cook off at the Rec Hall.  It was a first for the event and we had 6 people cook their version of chili.  There were judges who selected a winner and second place, then there was a popular choice by the people as well as a second place.  The winner was selected by using a blind taste, the cooks were not the ones at their crock pots, so we never knew who made which one.  There was one that was a chicken chili, a couple of hot ones, a couple of mild ones, some were thick, others were runny.  It was well attended for a first time event and a lot of fun.