Saturday 7 April 2018

Saturday, April 7th

Another gorgeous day in the valley.  The temperature again got up into the 90's, 32 or so for my metric friends.
  This morning we went out to the Mesa marketplace where I traded pocket books.  As this is my last opportunity I wanted to at least start the week with ones I have not read.  The selection was still pretty good, although you can tell things have slowed down for them.  The parking lot was busy but that may have been a result of the car show they had going.  There were certainly a noticeable number of vacant vendor stalls.
  After that we returned to the rv park and Marg went on to Safeway.  She needed to pick up the ingredients for the contribution she agreed to take to supper tonight. While there she got a bunch more Safeway monopoly entry stickers.  The have a contest going on and with every purchase you get game pieces and if you complete a set, like in monopoly you win that prize.  There is a wide range of prizes and we are one entry away on many of them, but for the one we really want we need 3 pieces.  That is the million dollars, although the $25,000 would be OK.
  We did some preparation for leaving work around the place.  I took the bed and headboard apart so we could stand them up to make more space available in the AZ room.  Then we took apart the stools Marg bought and wrapped them, so they would pack better.  Then we moved some stuff into the AZ room, like my bike and other stuff.
  We checked the mail, yes we get Saturday delivery here.  It seems our mail has stopped coming from home.  Roger confirmed some of it is showing up in our mail box there now.  As there is a week or better in mail getting here, we always shut off the forwarding service a couple weeks before our planned return date.
  When we got back Marg made the coleslaw for supper.  Then she & I chopped a bunch of onions.  I got involved because the onions were bothering her too much.  Then I cooked about half of the onions so there would be a choice of cooked or raw.  Supper tonight is hamburgers and everyone is bringing something, so this was our commitment.  It was Arden's birthday so his brother and his wife were having people over to help celebrate.  As  luck would have it Arden brought a Dutch Oven dessert.  He is well known for his concoctions and they are to die for.  Tonight was a rhubarb one, very nice.  At the end I commented that it was very nice and the first time I recall him making rhubarb.  Well a long story short, I was given the leftover piece.  May have to eat that tonight when there is only Marg to share with.

1 comment:

  1. Yikes can’t believe your heading North soon... x

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