Monday, Nov 12

  The weather took a turn for the cooler today, I think the daytime high only got to about 68F, mainly a result of the cool wind.  I got out early in the day, so wore long pants and a jacket. I saw on the TV weather that they are opening the ski hill up at Show Low this weekend.
  Well it must have been a long weekend here as it seemed there were a lot of people with the day off.  For some reason they were having Veterans day parades in the Phoenix area today.  I guess that is fine, but I can't help but think if they did that at home I'm not sure what the reaction would be.  I think Kenny said it best when he asked what is next - having Christmas on the 24th?
    The battery doctor showed up at our door right around 8:30 this morning.  He did a great job of removing the old batteries and cleaning up all the battery acid residue.  To keep the mess to a minimum he put down a tarp and collected everything that fell off.  He installed 6 new batteries including new cables, even the nut & washer on the terminals.  In the end the cost was $800 USD, but it was nice he came right to our place and took away the old ones.  After he went down to Kenny's and did the same thing for him.  We both got the US 2200 6 volt that have more amp hours than any others on the market, the supplier said they should last 5 or more years.  After the guy left I had to mess with the connections a bit to get the horn and lights working again.
  Marg went with the gamblin gals up to the Fort, but they left a bit later this morning.  There were only 3 of them this morning.  I guess the place was packed, so they have decided that Monday is not a good choice and will be changing in the future.  The Casino part of the day was not too kind to the gals, but Marg did win at bingo.  It would have been a nice win, except for the 5 others that also shared in the prize.  Oh well, a win is a win!
  For the balance of the morning I wiped out the under floor heating duct.  There has been quite a bit of dust from the supper dust storms this year.  I tied rags on a garden hose to use and it seemed to work pretty good.  I had quite a mess when all was said and done.  Then I put filters on the floor grates, so hope this helps with dust levels in our place.
  Lunch was not up to the usual good standard, but I did manage to feed myself with a pastrami & chees on whole wheat and a bowl of fruit salad.  I thought I did pretty good for as I didn't have to resort to peanut butter and jam.  LOL
  After lunch I spent almost 2 hours with Tracfone getting our new phone set up and renewing Marg's phone.  Fortunately I was able to do that on the land line as the quality of the speaker is that much better.  When you are dealing with English is a second language people you cannot over-estimate the value of voice clarity.  It was a good thing I got Marg's set up as the new flip phone is still not operating.
  The balance of the afternoon I spent on the golf cart going over the brakes.  Jim had made me a bar to get the remaining wheel drum off, but it never did the trick.  I had enough, so went to O'Reilly auto parts and bought a puller.  They offered to rent it to me for $26, but I opted to buy it for $27.  Didn't make sense to me, but the young clerk seemed to think it did.   Back a the park, the wheel drum popped right off with the new puller.  Could have saved myself a lot of frustration if I had bought it last year.  The brakes are about 98% better since I beveled the leading/trailing edge and lightly sanded the glaze form the surface of the shoe. 
  By the time I got everything put away it was time to meet Marg at the front gate.  Picked the ladies up and this was her first time driving with the new batteries.  She seemed impressed with the zip in the old buggy, so it might be worth the first born we had to pay for the new batteries.
  We did a quick turnaround and caught the last bit of happy hour.  The new owners of Nancy's park model were our hosts tonight, so it was a bit like old times even though Marg's friend was not there.  It was nice that she had a lot of things that were surplus to them that she just put out for anyone who could use them.  Marg took and ice maker and some bbq tools, both of which will be handy.
  For supper we went out to Denny's.  Kenny & Doris were kind of at loose ends, so when Marg said well I'm not cooking, they asked our plans.  As Doris had put her beans on late, they opted to join us.  It was nice that Kenny treated us, said he wanted to repay us for the times Marg had fed them. 
  From the weather when we got back, it is going to be a cool one tonight, something like 48 F, so about 8C.  This is close to what would be considered brutally cold here.