Thursday, Mar 29

Another hot day, I think it got up to the mid 80's around noon. Went to coffee & donuts this AM. There was a much smaller group there and next week will be the last one. The announcements were few, with the only real news being the Easter ham dinner. Some of our friends were asking us to sign up for their table, however we are planning on leaving on the Saturday, so will not be here. That's right we have made a decision and will be pulling out on Saturday morning. Not much for plans beyond that, but we will figure it out as we go along. After the Bingers were going to Sam's Club & I had never been so we went along with them. It's a lot like Costco, but I didn't think the deals or the selection were as good. Marg picked up a couple of things & they got quite a few things. Stopped in at Trader Joes on the way back, one of Marg's favourite grocery stores. She got a lot more things there. It's a pretty cool store actually and they carry some unique stuff. We had lunch at Appleby's after and it was good. That is the place with the all you can eat soup/salad for $7 at lunch. In an earlier blog posting I had scanned the menu, but there are a half dozen salad selections and 3 soups. By the time we got back it was around 3, so never played pool & Marg never went to the pool. Too bad to as it was a perfect day for lounging in the pool. The neighbours have been giving us a hard time about happy hour, so went over to Larry & Nancy's for cocktails. They have cocktails every day at 4 and usually attract quite a crowd. Bud had brought a gps unit he found in the car he bought and brought it. The unit had been programmed to German & he couldn't reset it, so asked me to have a look at it. Get this; these people are so techy challenged that I am consulted. Now that's a laugh, normally I am the one seeking help. Anyway I got the thing changed over to English, in spite of all the instructions being in German. It's actually quite a neat little unit. Bud seems to buy a car every year. He bought the big Ford Crown Vic for $200 last yr and drove it home. This yr he has bought a Subaru for $100 that was included with the park model they purchased & among other things found this in it. He also bought a couple of twist & go scooters this yr. But I digress, so we had cocktails with the 10 or 12 people they had over. They are leaving next week sometime, one couple is leaving tomorrow morning & quite a few others will be going within the next week as well. After supper Marg went with a group of girls to the park just east of us, several of whom are the ladies she goes to Globe with. The park was having their last bingo of the winter tonight. There was no repeat of her Marg's win from Tuesday, so that's probably it for bingo this winter. It's a little like the Lewis Carroll poem - The time has come the walrus said, to think of many things... Well this end of the winter season is like that - with everything coming to an end & our looking forward to the return to GP & our family.