Thursday, March 28th

Another gorgeous day in the valley. if you like sunny and hot - this is the place.  The weather reports are forecasting our first 90 degree [32 C] day on Monday. 
  We started the morning at the koffee klatch.  There were lots of donuts this morning and our table was drawn third.  Well we changed tables, not for that reason, but some folks were sitting there by themselves so we went over there.  It was surprising to see how many people were there this morning with all the folks leaving for home.  The park manager said April is one of his busiest months with rv's coming and going.
  Back home we did some packing up of stuff.  Marg packed 3 bags with clothes.  I packed up some stuff and bubble wrapped others.  The golf clubs are in the truck, with the number of things we have to do and the rising temperatures, they won't be needed.  I have played when it was in the 90's before and it is difficult for a northerner.  The locals are just starting to get into their element at those temps.  A friend told me in the summer his daughter [who lives here] and her friends walk their dogs at 3 AM when it cools down to 80 or 90.  I also repaired the bracket on the steamer.  I put a few very small bolts through it with some plastic splints on the side, then wrapped it up with a large hose clamp that I bent to fit.  Seems to be OK, but time will tell as it get used.
  Lunch was at home.  Then we had a few visitors.  There are always people walking around the park and some stop in to chat.  I'm not certain, but that it's the local grape vine in action.  Marg did a lot of the food preparation for supper.  I did some clean up outside as we decided to eat in the breezeway a the patio table where it was a bit cooler.  We put the roast on the bbq and it was doing fine until we ran out of propane.  Fortunately I had a mostly full tank that I use for the gas fire pit, that saved our day.  As is her way Marg brought it all together just as our guests arrived.  She had chopped asparagus with mushrooms, green beans, mini potatoes in cream with onions and dill, home baked buns, and of course the pork roast.  The roast was done to a turn even with the temporary propane outage.  For dessert she made pastry dough into kind of a flower and covered it with stewed apples adding a scoop of ice cream.  Our guests were blow away, every thing was delicious.  A nice evening with some good folks.
  After supper and our guests were gone we tackled the mountain of dishes.  Her washing, me drying so it got done in pretty good time.  Then for a break we went on a golf cart ride through the park.  It gets pitch black here by about 6 or so and it was when we went.  What was really nice was that the day started cooling down, so the ride was very pleasant.