Tuesday, Feb 21st

The sun shone warmly down on the snowbirds and it was good. Definitely shorts weather today, so I started off with a bike ride and got the old pulse rate up to just below the heart attack level, LOL. Perfect day for a ride. The Cdn/US dollar exchange rate, a big item down here, has been very favourable these last few weeks. When I got back from the tour-d'Apache Junction, Marg was waiting to go to Blanke's park model. They bought a night stand table, you know the some assembly required type & they had a high stress level/low production time with it. I had offered to help assemble it last night & Kenny had left a key to the unit, saying if he wasn't there to start without him. It seems he found the directions less than satisfactory. Anyway they had some running around and by the time they got there, I had it assembled. In the PM, I played some pool with the guys & Marg swam in the pool. Just a pool day - LOL. She said the pool temp was around 90F, so very pleasant. After that she checked the mail and low and behold, the mail slot was over-stuffed. We had a pile of mail about 6 inches high. Earlier last week I had registered a complaint with Canada Post as we were not getting any mail. The last mail was almost a month ago & we had paid $100 for it to be re-directed to AJ. The Americans can't believe we have to pay for that service, as it's no charge here. It's not the paying that bothers me, it's the total lack of service. Anyway a month of bills & bank stuff today, some of which was time sensitive, a concept not well understood by the postal service. Now there is an oxy-moron. Went down to Bingers to swap lies and have a few cocktails. Believe me this is the pro-level of BS'ing. Tried some of that lo-cal beer, not too bad, but a bit low taste as well. Had a nice time with them. After, we threw some shrimps on the bbq and after a nice supper, before going off to bingo. The powerball prize was over $600, so it was all hands on deck to win it. Both Jerry & I went to bingo with the wives, thinking in a Zen moment, we were one with the powerball, the cash was ours. Winners, well there were lots, but not among us. Alas it was not to be, there was 2 hours of our lives we will never get back. ;>))