Tuesday

A gorgeous day in the valley of the sun.  I think the temp got up to about 79 or 80F.
  Got up and was having coffee in the pj's when Larry & Pat came to the door to get me to ride, so it was throw on the clothes and dig out the bike.  Did about 5 miles and they were still going further, so I returned to the park on my own.  I discovered that I still have to ride more to get in shape for this stuff.
  Marg had a meeting with the ladies organizing the Christmas party for Friday.  They have lots to do and Thursday will be a busy one for them. On the way she ran in to Linda and apparently asked how Elmer was doing and whether he was still playing pool.  The upshot of it was Elmer came to the door a few minutes later, so I went to play pool with him.  Marg's meeting was at Karen & Bob's, so Bob came to join us playing pool.  Lots of laughs with these two characters.
  After we went out for some errands.  We stopped at a place that sells bits and pieces for park models and trailers to see what they had in the way of cupboard doors and drawer fronts.  There are two doors and 4 door fronts in the kitchen that are a bit the worse for the wear and we want to replace.  We found a few among the hundreds in the place, but need to measure again as they don't do any exchanges or refunds.  Although it is a salvage place, they do have new stuff as well.  Stopped at the hardware store for a few bolts for the step handrail.
  Then we went west into Mesa and stopped at Long John Silver's for lunch.  It's kind of a fast food seafood place, but the food is actually pretty good.  We had the Alaska Cod and it was very good.
  After we went down to the Superstition mall area for: Target, KMart, Ross's, Burlington Coat, Walmart.  I knew it was a bit of a search for a few things, so at the Ross's store I went in to the book store next door and bought a western.  Only read around 100 pages, so it was not a long shopping day and Marg was happy with the results: coffee creamer, butter dish, hassock, side table, etc.
  By then it was getting to later afternoon, so we returned to the RV Park.  Fixed the hand rail and then it was time for happy hour.  Pat & Diane got to the park yesterday, so he was there and we got to fill him in on happenings in the park.  He is one of the golfers & is going tomorrow, so I will be picking him up.
  Back to the trailer for supper and had a bit of time before it was time to go to bingo.  That started this week, so we went and donated.  It's really Marg's group, the gamblin' gals, but Kenny & Jerry go as well, so I generally tag along.  Kenny & Doris won, so our table did get something, although that was small consolation to us. 
  When we got back home, we had some desert that was left on the counter.  It was kind of like a pineapple upside down cake with a brandied sauce on it.  There is only one source of that in the park, sure enough it was Smitty who does these in a Dutch oven.  Put a little ice cream on it with coffee & it was great.  When I had brought him the diamond willow he offered to make me something, but I said the dutch oven deserts were reward enough, so I guess he took that literally and that is what showed up. All the same it sure was good.