Friday, April 6th

Well we are into our routine of checking the weather daily.  No not here, but on the route we travel to go home.  The temperatures here are pretty much the same, it gets up to the low 90's by early afternoon and the wind blew again most of the day.

  We went around the park this morning to get pictures of the cactus in peoples yards as it is the time of spring when it starts blooming.  The picture is the jumping Cholla cactus.  We got some nice pics and there are many more buds that will be blooming very soon.  After Marg went to water aerobics and there were four ladies today.  She took her new floating noodle and apparently it worked well.
  After lunch we were invited to friends for pie.  Well it was lemon meringue, so how can you pass on that.  The we went out looking for some boxes and garment bags.  We had no luck with boxes, so went to the Uhaul dealer down the road and bought four of them.  They were pretty reasonable at $1.25, not really worth running around to find used ones.  Earlier we had looked, without success, for garment bags.  Today we hit on a store that had lots, so bought four of them and now have what we need to start packing.
  We had a visitor in the afternoon who was looking for pictures of his deceased wife.  I had a memory stick of pictures made up for him.  She had not been as active recently, so I had to go back through all my photos for the last few years, but had some very nice ones.
  It was too hot to do too much, so we spent the rest of the afternoon in the breezeway.  Supper tonight was bbq and we finished the meal off with a dish of ice cream.
  This evening we had a bit of excitement with a fire truck and ambulance on the street behind us.  Apparently the old gal there needed some help and was taken away in the ambulance.  This kind of thing really gets folks out of their units and congregating on the street, so we got to visit with quite a few.