Wednesday, Mar 14th

  Another gorgeous day in the Valley of the Sun.  No coats today, it was too warm for anything but shorts and tee shirts.
  Gerry came early in the morning and we went to golf with the group from the park here. We have 6 foursomes now so lots of activity on the course.  My game went OK today except for a few lapses where I tried to see the entire course.  It was a 4 turtle day and yours truly and one other in our foursome made the water, damn turtles anyway, they just come out to watch splash.  It was about as good weather for golf as you could hope for.
  Marg went with the gals from the park for lunch today.  They carpooled and all went to the Olive Garden just before noon.  Marg drove and a couple of ladies rode with her and I believe on of the ladies may have navigated, or maybe she has been in that area enough that she just drove straight there.  They had 17 ladies attend and as always there were some who would have gone, but that is just the way it goes with large groups.  Rumour has it the restaurant sold lots of margaritas today.
  When got home it was lunch time and fortunately there was left over past salad in the fridge, so that was my lunch.  I never realized how much chopped up asparagus was in it, but fortunately it was easy to sort out the green bits.  After lunch I went to check on Wink to see how the ads are working.  Apparently he has been receiving a good number of phone calls on his golf cart, so we seem to have it working and he was pleased.  Then I went to get Dale to take him to the pool room.  Marg had left a note for me that he was looking to play.  He is a bit reluctant to just go and play with anyone, but if I ask him, he is usually up for a game.  We ended up joining a couple of guys at a table already in play and we had some very good games today.  Lots of laughs with this group, so a good afternoon.
  When I got back to our place, Marg had company.  It was a couple who needed access to wifi and had been going to various places to use it. Anyway they were doing stuff for the tenants association so she volunteered the use of our connection.  I'm not sure what all they were doing but he was still in the breezeway using it when we left.
  Where did we leave for?  Well tonight was the commitment we made to meet Gerry & Deb at Casino Arizona to play bingo.  It the process, Marg had offered a couple of the gamblin' gals an opportunity to join us and two accepted.  Being only 4 of us Jerry asked if he could come along, so we had a full load of 5 in the truck.  We had a nice dinner in the casino at one of the restaurants and then the gals played a bit of slots.  We played bingo using the electronic machines and that is pretty slow going, in fact I dozed off while we were playing and that became the joke of the night.  Marg shook me and I decided I'd better have a coffee to see if that helped me stay alert.  Jerry played blackjack for quite a while and then joined us at the bingo when it was about half over.  There were no winners at bingo tonight, but one of the gals made about $200 in the casino.