Sunday
;
Mostly
sunny, very warm.
After an early lunch we headed
out, to attend the musical play “Beehive” at Desert Theatreworks,
the third of our four play mini-season tickets. It was without a
story line, just eight women performing the hits of powerful women
musicians of the sixties ; Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Aretha
Franklin, etc. Well done ! We enjoyed it.
After
the play was finished at 4 PM we headed to Augustine Casino. We have
heard great things about the food at Augustine Casino. We wanted to
check out their restaurants and have supper there. We
checked out their restaurants and menus and … left ! We weren’t
impressed. For supper we returned to Souplantation, a restaurant we
had been to a week or so ago. Good decision !
As
soon as we arrived back home I went to the East Clubhouse Library and
worked on Wi-Fi for an hour or so before returning home to watch 90
Day Fiance and Sister Wives, our Palm Springs Sunday night ritual.
Monday
;
Sunny
and very warm.
Before lunch we went to the
swimming pool for a long exercise session and hot tub soak. After
lunch we went out to run a few errands. We stopped at Blair Station
RV and I bought some repair items ( HMPH … hundred bucks ! ) for
some refurbishment work I want to do on the camper. We drove into
Desert Hot Springs and went to Stater Bros to get a few grocery
items. After a few days of bickering last week we both feel raw. I
became so irritated by the inept moron deli clerk at Stater Bros I
left Joanne at the deli counter and I went outside to wait in the
car.
When we got back home to the
camper at Sky Valley Resort I phoned Dell and started the process of
returning my laptop computer to Dell for repair … < sigh > …
of the “battery not charging / charger not recognized” problem
that started on Christmas Day. In the evening I worked on monthly
computer file backup procedures.
Tuesday
; HAPPY 66th BIRTHDAY TO JOANNE
Sunny and very warm.
This afternoon I removed and
replaced the camper bathroom ceiling exhaust fan’s motor and
blades. That was a job I had planned to do tomorrow, but I got to it
a day earlier than planned.
Around
4 PM we left Sky Valley, heading across the freeway into Palm
Springs. First
stop was a panaderia Joanne wanted to try. “Bake’d … Cakes &
Pan Dulce”. EXCELLENT panaderia. Very expensive ! I pointed out
to the baker / owner as we paid the $20+ bill that the amount of pan
dulce we were buying would cost about five bucks in Mexico. He just
laughed. Understandable … give the upscale décor in his little
bakery,
in a very high rent mall.
Next
was … a birthday gift stop. I treated Joanne to a visit to
Brandini’s factory and retail store. Brandini’s is a producer
of upscale
toffee products here in Palm
Springs. Joanne has sampled
their products at
Village Fest and CoD Street
Fair. She
requested to be taken to their factory as a birthday gift. We
arrived at Brandini’s shortly after 5 PM. They closed at 5 PM ! !
! < sigh > Fortunately, a manager
inside saw me tugging on their locked door and decided to allow us to
enter. Thank you ! Joanne ( again ) sampled their almond toffee
product and their toffee coated popcorn product. And bought a
package of the almond toffee product. That cost … <
blink blink > … how
much ? ! ? Happy Birthday, my dear !
Final
stop was birthday dinner. At a Peruvian restaurant called Pollo
Doky’s. Their
specialty is a Peruvian style of rotisserie barbecued chicken.
Joanne had a dish called tallerin saltado de pollo, a dish of sauteed spicy
chicken
breast strips, onions,
and tomatoes on a bed of spicy, whole wheat spaghetti.
I had pollo a la brasa, a
rotisserie barbecued spicy ( tarragon ? ) half chicken with a
Peruvian salad and cilantro seasoned rice. Excellent food, funky
ambience, reasonable prices.
On
the way home we stopped at a Stater Bros supermarket to buy a jug of
milk. We were home around 8 PM. I went to the East Clubhouse Library to work on
Wi-Fi for about an hour before returning home to
share a large
piece
of Tres Leches cake that we bought at the panaderia to serve as
Joanne’s birthday cake. Washed down with a glass of Trader
Joe’s Cocoa Cream Liqueur.
Wednesday
;
Sunny
and very warm.
This
morning just as we were about to have our showers the park’s water
supply was turned off, so that some maintenance
could be done. I was pretty miffed that we had
not been notified. Since
the camper has been connected to the park’s water supply I had
allowed the camper’s freshwater tank to become almost empty. Darn
! I should have known better !
Before
lunch we
went to the swimming pool for a long exercise session and hot tub
soak session. After lunch I removed and replaced the range hood fan
motor. Then
had a long nap. Before supper I got some online work done, then we
had the last of our inventory
of perogies ( from Canada ) for supper. We
spent the evening watching “My 600 Pound Life” and “Married At
First Sight”.
Thursday
;
Sunny
and very warm.
< sigh > This morning I
discovered a flat tire on the truck. A flat tire on the rear of a
dually is “invisible”, until tire pressures are checked. I used
a 12 volt air compressor that I keep in the truck to add some air to
the tire. I managed to get forty pounds of air pressure into the
tire before the little air compressor “imploded”. That should be
enough to get me about fifteen miles tomorrow to Love’s where I can
add air to the tire.
After lunch we drove into Palm
Springs to do some shopping. Joanne looked
( again ! ) for a bathing
suit at Glossy’s. I bought an item for the camper at the Habitat
For Humanity Re-Store. We went to Trader Joe’s and spent way too
much money on impulse shopping for exotic grocery items. HA HA HA !
Well, you know, we can’t take it with us ! ! ! HA HA HA ! The
money, I mean ! Then we went to Cardenas, the Mexican supermarket,
for one item. HA HA HA ! When did
I ever go into a Mexican
supermarket and buy only one item ? ? ? HA HA HA
< SNORT > HA
HA !
Friday
; Palm Springs, California to Yuma, Arizona
Sunny and very warm.
This morning we prepared for
departure and pulled out of our site at 11:45 AM. We were finished
checking out at Sky Valley’s office by noon. We parked the truck
and camper outside the gates, then … went back in with the minivan
to use the mineral pools and hot tubs once last time. We did a long
exercise session, then soaked in a hot tub, chatting with a woman
from Grand Prairie, Alberta. We left the park for the final time at
2 PM.
We drove about 20 miles / 30
km. east and south on Dillon Road to Love’s where I increased the
truck’s problem tire’s pressure from 40 PSI to 80 PSI. Then a
very short distance to Spotlight 29 Casino where we parked in the RV
overnight parking lot and had lunch in the camper.
We left Spotlight 29 Casino at
3 PM and headed south on Hwy. 86. We stopped at Red Earth Casino
near Salton Sea Beach to check if the tire pressure was holding at 80
PSI. It was, so … the problem must have been … once again … a
dually tire valve extender. < sigh > Story of my life !
We
stopped again at Holtville Taco
Shop at
5:30 PM just as it got dark and we bought two huge burritos to have
for supper when we got home an hour later at 7:30 PM having crossed
from California / Pacific time zone to Arizona / Mountain time zone.
Emma
seems quite glad to be back “home” in the fifth wheel trailer
after
46
days in the camper.
Saturday
;
Sunny
and warm.
Joanne
was busy today with “return home” chores, mostly a lot of moving
stuff from the camper to the trailer, and cleaning. I also did
“return home” chores this morning. This afternoon I took one of
the fifth wheel trailer’s propane tanks to be refilled, then headed
to Beamspeed to pick up my desperately needed Wi-Fi modem / router.
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH
… Beamspeed is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. There is no park
wide communal Wi-Fi available, only in the clubhouse. I had to go to
the clubhouse three times this afternoon and early evening to get
essential online work done.
In
addition to my Beamspeed / Wi-Fi drama, I had Shaw Direct satellite
TV service drama. I had suspended our satellite TV service while we
were in Palm Springs for a month and a half. The TV service was to
resume today. AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH
… Shaw Direct had “technical difficulties” that prevented that
from taking place today ! Of course, it was only after multiple
attempts (
and trips to the clubhouse ) to “refresh” our satellite signal
receiver online that I eventually phoned Shaw in utter frustration,
only to be told of their “technical difficulties” today.
I spent much of the evening
getting my old laptop restored to functionality, and getting my new
laptop ready to ship back to Dell for repairs.
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH ! ! ! ! !
DSK
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