Thursday 15 February 2018

Thursday, Feb 15th

Woke up with the rain still lightly falling on the roof.  The news media was full of talk about the weather and the rain storm.  The measured the rainfall in just about every area of the state it was such a big deal.  In this area around Phoenix, they pretty much tracked it by neighbourhood, so it took quite a while to report.  This is the 6th largest city in the U.S., so lots of neighborhood's.
  I was able to drive the cart right under the canopy beside the truck, so the seat was reasonably dry.  It was a first as I had just thrown a tarp on it before.  It also makes it easier to put the charger on.
  We got up early and made it for coffee and donuts in the hall.  We had a group promoting the use of their facility for full body medical assessments.  It seems they are covered by most medical plans here, but on a cash basis to Canadians [$1,000].  This happens once in a while, but we all sit there and eat our free donut.  LOL.  This was an important meeting in the election process for the tenants association.  The 3 incumbents whose seats were being contested withdrew, so the process consisted of nominations and then a declaration they were elected.  Marg was one of the nominators, so she stood to nominate Doreen for the Secretary position.  I also learned that she has been recruited to the entertainment committee.  I found out that Gary had caught one skunk last night, so I made a security announcement at the end of the meeting.  I started out saying I was surprised there was no mention of a security issue then that the park had their best man originally from Skunk Hollow on the job, having caught one already using marshmallows.  Then encouraged anyone seeing a skunk to let Gary know. The funny part was he really did grow up in a community known as Skunk Holler in Ohio.  It struck the funny bone with lots of people.
  After coffee we had visitors for a bit and made plans to go out with them after lunch.  I started on a project, I got a string of LED rope light from Costco the other day and installed them on the carport support beam.  The new porch lights are LED as well, but are more task lighting, so don't illuminate the breezeway as well.  It didn't take very long and I had them installed.  The electrical connection is thru the motion light on the Az room, but that is not working out, so I will need to re-wire to get a constant power source.  These lights have some neat features that are more for decorative lighting and are controlled by a remote.
  After lunch we went out with Kenny & Doris to the Mexican grocery store down on Stapely.  It is the largest one that we are aware of.  It was their first time to it so a bit of an experience and Marg picked up some stuff including Chicharoni that she took to happy hour.  It was kind of amusing to see the reaction to it as many of the people at happy had never heard of it, but most seemed OK with it.  By the time we got back it was happy hour.  We had it over in the storage lot where the skunk trap is because Rita's sister Lorraine and her husband bought a new 5th wheel and it was stored over there for a couple of weeks.  There are no available camp spaces in this park until then.  Supper in the house tonight.

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