Saturday, Nov 10th

It was another nice day in the Valley.  It is noticeably cooler at night, but the daytime highs are still in the high 70's, low 80's.
  I went out for breakfast to the hall, first time this year.  Earlier I thought they wanted me to take cash for the crew, but the assoc. treasurer stepped in.  The crew that were to do breakfast fell apart when the leader had a stroke and his partner was at the hospital with him.  The people that stepped in and did a commendable job.  I sat at a table of guys, there seem to be quite a few couples where only one goes for breakfast, much like us.  Kind of like animals in the wild who form bachelor herds.
  When I got back Mediacom had called and the tech showed up shortly after.  He was quite good at his job and got us connected much quicker than in previous years.  The wifi was the easy part for him, then the television.  For the land line he had to contact the office as there was a problem with the way they had set up our service order.  He was impressed that we still had our documents from last year as it made things go much smoother.  He used the same identity and password so all we had to do was turn on the laptop and ipad and they were operating.    Our phone number on the landline is 480-935-1493.
  After the guy left we went out to a few park wide sales.  It was getting close to noon, so it was getting too late for that as many vendors had packed up and the rest were getting pretty picked over.  Marg never bought anything, I found a craftsman 1/2 inch combination wrench.  I only had a box end one in my tool shed, so I spent the dollar.  LOL  We gave up on this pretty quickly and went to Big 5 sporting goods.  I am looking for a bike rack that fits on the hitch at the back.  They had a couple different ones, but not what I was looking for.  That was about it this morning.
  Back at our place we had lunch and then I went to play pool.  There were no players, so I went and got Bob from Ohio.  He started out with a couple of quick wins, but then I got lucky on him.  They were all close games and we had a few laughs in the process.
  Marg made a swiss steak in the slow cooker and let it do it's magic all afternoon.  She had a few visitors this afternoon, one was the fellow who was in the hospital last night [after having an artery opened] and his wife.  I guess he is doing just fine and came to thank us for our concern.  Later she went to check the mail box and we had some, even though we have not forwarded our mail from home.  Mainly it was junk, but Mediacom was already sending stuff.
  Happy hour was at Kenny & Doris' place.  As usual they had a large gathering.  There was a couple who just pulled in to the park that came.  They are from Ontario and this is their 2nd or 3rd year travelling to AZ for the winter.  They have the right idea, if you put yourself out a bit, you get to meet people and get more out of a place.  Supper tonight was the delicious swiss steak.