March 16th

A gorgeous day in AJ,  think it got up to about 90F and a bit of a gentle breeze, so very nice.
  Early start to the day.  It was our breakfast teams turn to cook.  Coffee, eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, biscuits & gravy, coffee, OJ; we have it all.  By now we have a routine & I cook pancakes while Marg does the scrambled eggs.  We use the Costco pancake mix, but I add sugar and vanilla to it.  This morning I made the entire bag of mix.  My pancakes are legendary, well maybe not quite that, but they are pretty good.  Had some difficulty with the grill heat, but eventually got it sorted after a couple made it to the waste bin, LOL.  Most people on other teams have problems with their eggs turning green from sitting too long, but Marg paces her cooking to meet the need with nice fluffy scrambled ones.  In fact she has people grilling her on how she does it.  Get the pun, LOL, I crack myself up.  Oh geez, another pun.  It was a small crowd for breakfast, somewhere between 60-70 people, but everything went well.  Clean up is the worst, especially the grill.  As I am the only one using it, I get that job and it's a bit of a handful.  All the cooks really paced themselves, so our left overs were pretty small today.  There are always people who are willing to take them home.
  After we went to the big Mesa market place.  Marg got a new jacket and we also picked up a few other things, like the back scratcher she really needed.  We ate such a large breakfast that we never even had lunch.  We forgot about it really.  After we got back I played pool for a while.  It seems Marg never heard me say I was going & ran around the park looking for me.  A group of her friends, including some of the gamblin' gals, were preparing the stuff for the St Paddy's day dinner tomorrow, so she agreed to help them.  They peeled 50 lbs of potatoes, 30 lbs of carrots, 20 lbs of onions, 40 lbs of cabbage and 80 lbs of corned beef.  Oh yeh, then they found the recipe and needed another 20 lb of carrots, 30 lb of cabbage to deal with tomorrow morning; because they were short today.  It was pretty funny -- 5 of them running around on the golf cart to hunt down Wayne to get this stuff to fill the recipe.  That made 5 hours in the kitchen for Marg today.
  A stop at happy hour for wobbly pops, where we swapped important information.  A bunch left early to go to the stock car races.  The idea appealed to me, but never got it in gear to go.  Ahhh; man another pun, the kid is hot tonight.  BBQ for supper and then sat around in the nice weather as the heat of the day dissipated into a very pleasant evening.  A few people were walking around & we went for a short walk with 4 of them until we got back to our RV.  Stopped to finish our coffee and ended up with company, so we sat and exchanged very valuable information with them.  Actually, we mostly sat and bragged about our grandchildren.  It's like the grandma Olympics in the land of the snowbirds.