Sunday ; Whew ... hot day ! Washed the truck ! I guess everybody is unfortunate ( read that "stupid" ) enough to buy one black vehicle in their lifetime !
As we were enjoying our ice cream at tonight's ice cream social, our Escapee Okanagan Chapter 33 friends Jackie and Barry arrived at Kofa Ko-op. After the ice cream social they came over and visited with us in our Arizona room for a couple of hours.
Also at tonight's ice cream social, there was a surprise presentation. One of the residents was surprised by his son showing up to present him ( the father ) with a military Bronze Star which he had recently been awarded ... for an act of bravery which took place during the Second World War on this date 67 years ago ! WOW ! ! !
Monday ; Today was sunny and warm, but became windy late in the day. More friends of ours from the BC Okanagan Chapter 33 arrived here at Kofa Ko-op today ; Robert and Sharon. Our next door neighbours for the last couple of months left this morning. Goodbye, RD the dog. Within a couple of hours of their departure we had new next door neighbours.
Today I worked on a variety of minor maintenance projects. Except the one that turned out to be not so minor. One of my planned projects was to scrape, sand, and / or otherwise prepare for painting the trim on the shed's rear window. While doing that I realized that the wood was rotten, either from 27 years of intense desert sun and / or termites. I removed the old window trim. Easier said than done ! I will need to buy new wood, cut it, install it, and paint it.
This afternoon Bo and I went on a pack walk with Carol Mae and Dulce. AND ... we invited Pat and her beagle Patches. So ... now Dulce has experienced a pack walk ... off leash ... in a pack of three. Way to go, Dulce. That's a lot of progress for her !
Our Chapter 33 friends Jackie and Barry visited briefly this afternoon. They would like to join us on Saturday night when we go to the Midnight At The Oasis classic rock concert featuring two old groups ; Grass Roots and Paul Revere & The Raiders.
I spent an inordinate amount of time transferring my "contacts" phone list from our old Virgin Mobile cell phone to our new TracFone cell phone, then setting up "International Calling" services on our account on the TracFone website < sigh >.
Tonight on PBS we watched the blues concert performed last weekend at the White House, then a documentary on the great old jazz and blues artist and band leader Cab Calloway. Didn't know the President and First Lady were blues fans.
AND ... the highlight of my day was ... ordering tickets for the upcoming George Thorogood and The Destroyers concert at the Quechan Casino. WOO-HOO !
Tuesday ; This morning Joanne went to her first meeting as a new member of the laundromat committee. Once per week the laundromat committee meets to count the money emptied out of the washers and dryers. Last week's meeting was cancelled so this week there were two weeks worth of laundromat revenue to count. All quarters !
A thousand bucks ! ! !
We spent much of the day shopping and running errands. Lowe's, Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Food City, Rally's, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Fry's, Albertsons. Back home in time for the pack walk. Then while Joanne painted a salvaged end table I sanded our sofa table. Joanne varnished the sofa table while I went for a bicycle ride. I barbecued supper and we watched TV until it was time to cover the pool and hot tub. We volunteered for that job again this week.
Wednesday ; Went to my Tai Chi class first thing this morning. Attendance has dwindled from about thirty the first week to nine today, the ninth week. Cooked a chicken in the Sun Oven for a picnic supper tomorrow evening. Finished removing the shed rear window trim. < sigh > Last piece of wood trim was not cooperative ! Spent a long time adjusting bicycle front gear derailleur. Now have gears 3, 8, and 13 of 15. Actually I would be quite satisfied with just those three gears. Nevertheless I will work on the rear derailleur in a couple of days. Made a Sun Oven bread dough recipe. Looks strange ! Has to rise for nineteen hours.
As we walked Bo in the dog park around noon today we saw ... a roadrunner ... scurry across the desert and ... HEY ... hop the fence into our back yard. Where do you think you're going, little roadrunner ? ! ? Stay away from the Sun Oven with the good smelling roast chicken in it ! By the time we got back to our rear fence it had hopped over the side fence into the neighbour's yard, and from there it headed out to East County 17th Street. Bye, little roadrunner. They're so funny !
Went on the daily pack walk. Bill, Liz, and their dog Riley came over for a visit after the pack walk. Went for a bicycle ride while Joanne did some painting and varnishing. While I was gone Okanagan Chapter 33 friends Robert and Sharon came over to visit. They're on their way slowly back to BC after a winter in Mexico. After their visit we had a late supper, Joanne made the first phone call on our new TracFone, and we closed the pool and hot tub.
Thursday ; Today I baked a loaf of bread in the Sun Oven. It was goooood ! ! ! The preparation process wasn't without challenges, but we liked the bread so much I want to do it again and again until I ascend the learning curve enough that it becomes not so difficult.
This morning we headed over to the Yuma Visitors Bureau to buy three tickets for the upcoming Lettuce Days and three tickets for the agricultural tours that are part of it. Joanne's friend Eilene will be coning with us. From the Visitors Bureau we headed to Wally's World to buy some hardware I needed for the shed rear window trim replacement project.
This afternoon I worked on that project, cutting the wood and installing it. Joanne prepared a picnic supper and off we went to the Midnight At The Oasis Drive-In Movie at the Cocopah Casino. WOO-HOO ... Bo's never been to a drive-in movie. We didn't bring him last year. We got to the drive-in movie site, got parked, and began to eat our picnic supper as the first of two movies began. It was a bit windy and the inflatable movie screen kept being bent over by the wind. Within half an hour of the first movie starting ... the organizers cancelled the evening. A bit prematurely in our opinion. The wind always dies down as the evening progresses. We assumed when they shut down the movie and announced the cancellation that refunds would be given on our way out. Such was not the case ! I think there's going to be a lot of complaining about that, and the organizers, a local service organization / charity, really shot themselves in the foot tonight.
Friday ; A few days ago a resident of Kofa Ko-op was walking his dog in the desert nearby when he was apprehended by Customs & Border Patrol Agents. HA HA HA ! They were conducting an investigation. During the night an ultralight aircraft had made a drug drop. And the only thing the Customs & Border Patrol agents found was the empty bucket. Apparently it's become quite common for drug smugglers to fly drugs across the border from Mexico using ultralight aircraft flying very low and under cover of darkness, with buckets of drugs suspended beneath the aircraft. The park resident is a retired law enforcement officer, so after convincing the agents that he was just walking his dog in the desert, he schmoozed with them for awhile, and as a result we had a seminar this morning in the clubhouse conducted by Customs & Border Patrol. Joanne attended. It was too early for me, I stayed in bed with the animals. Now the old folks in this park are all cranked up about hearing 2 cycle "lawnmower" type engine sounds and imagining that it's drug smugglers in ultralight aircraft. The only fly in that ointment is ... everybody and his dog in the neighbourhood surrounding the RV park has either an ATV or a dirt bike or ... whatever ... and the sounds of "lawnmower" type engines are a pretty regular occurrence. Except for when they're drowned out by the sound of military fighter jets screaming by overhead which is an even more frequent occurrence.
Today was very windy. That forced postponement of any outdoor work projects. So ...
I worked on the computer, and paid bills, and snoozed with the animals. Joanne went shopping. On today's pack walk, as the group came around the dog park heading towards our lot, Bo and the rest of the dogs ran far ahead to have a drink of water at "the oasis", the water bowl I put out behind our back fence before each day's pack walk. Unbeknownst to me until a few minutes later, our neighbours across the street Ramon and Sheila were just returning home at that moment. In their Dodge truck. With the Cummins diesel engine. That Bo recognizes as the sound of our truck. OH, BOY ... MOMMY'S HOME ! He jumped over our fence from the dog park into our yard, ran through our yard ... ran across the street ! ! ! ... and as Sheila opened her truck door, Bo jumped in wagging his tail. HEY ... IS MY MOMMY IN HERE ? ? ? WILL YOU TAKE ME DRIVEY ? ? ? < wag wag > Bad dog, Bo !
Saturday ; The wind has gone and the beautiful weather has returned. This morning Bo and I went on a pack walk with Dulce and Carol Mae. I baked some eggs in the Sun Oven.
This afternoon we had visitor after visitor after visitor. Eventually we ended up hosting "Happy Hour" with three other couples from Escapees Okanagan Chapter 33. And all eight of us went to the Midnight At The Oasis rock concert at Desert Sun Stadium featuring two old rock and roll groups. First was The Grass Roots, a rock and roll group from the late sixties / early seventies, and then Paul Revere & The Raiders, a group from the sixties.
DSK
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