Friday, March 13, 2026

A Calmer Day in the Neighbourhood, Visitors

Park Place RV Park

On Friday, Mar. 13th Bill and Gibbs were up at their usual 6 o'clock. I had already been awake at 4:50 (!) for some reason and pulled the duvet up over my lower body. Silly, true, but I felt a bit cool with my window open. I know I slept well, dreaming again.

Good morning!

Bill was in the shower, having his breakfast by the time I came downstairs around 7:15. Gibbs was into the usual performance too, delving under the covers and waiting until Mom laughed. Yes, he felt he needed to wake me up. Age means nothing to him either, he loves to play.

After Bill left, I had my tea and we went for our walk around the outer block. It was already quite warm so we had closed windows and turned the a/c to come on around 72F/20C. With no obligations to go anywhere or make anything, I made a coffee around 10 and walked to the obnoxious puzzle.

A little bit more finished down the right
hand side. 

This may be one of 3 that I will have started and not finished. Some people have more faith in me than I do when it comes to Van Gogh....well, I may be beaten. In an hour and a half I only put in about 5 pieces and left before noon frustrated. There is still tomorrow......we'll see.

We had lunch together and I helped Bill pour 1/2 of a 4.5 gal container of peanut oil (Bill got it at Sams Club) into individual containers. We were splitting it this summer with our friends so we can all enjoy deep frying at its best. Better than EVOO. 😉

Our company, Lori and Roland, arrived just before 1 on their Indian bikes and we enjoyed a nice catchup visit. It was hot sitting outside under the canopy but comfortable in the shade. Gibbs had to take turns sitting on our friends, he knows them.

Thank you Bill for taking the picture
for me.
Gibbs poses as well.

Bill then went to Jim's for a while and Gibbs and I relaxed again in the cool of the Suite. We reached a high of 92F/30C today so indoors was the place to be, if possible. Supper was ribs and spuds done in Madame IP with a vegetable of sorts. 

Gibbs likes to get as much
attention from his friends as
possible.
I wonder if he remembers them
as Schatzi's mom and dad?

On their way back to 
Holtville Hot Springs LTVA, CA

Last night, I had made a couple of greeting cards for Stephanie and Anne Marie because I won't see them on their birthdays in the summer months. They are the only ones in our group who didn't receive a homemade card for any reason. I remedied that. I think they were both pleased. 💕

The colour here is not great
but the cross is brown and the 
shroud is in purple.
Anne-Marie loved it.

Stephanie is picking up her baby,
Sally, a bichon frise, this spring,
so I did my best to imitate one for her card.
She loved it also. 

So, our supper of pork ribs, potatoes for Bill and salad for each of us, turned out very good. We didn't have any sauce for the ribs but gravy worked fine for tonight. We finished off with a small pie from Walmart for dessert. 

The little old man pose
after I had to lift him into my chair.

Supper was good.

That's it for our day and the evening will be quiet, in front of the tv. 

We say goodbye to the heat
source of the day.

But it sure makes a pretty exit.


Good night!
(the sky may get better before it's done)

Thank you for popping by!

Birthday Boy, Puzzling, Shenanigans on Game Night

Park Place RV Park

So, on Thursday, Mar. 12th, I wasn't sure if I heard my boys go out at 6. I was in and out of dreams so much that I'm not sure. Guess who I dreamt about this morning? Our first little bum, Clemson, was as vivid as if he was right beside me. 💘💕

Good morning!

I heard Bill call me and sat up for a quick kiss goodbye just before 7. He was heading out to Yuma for a few things, mainly to order ball caps for the QDF club from the Arizona Market. I opted to stay home with Gibbs, unsure of how long we'd be since Bette wasn't around to let him out.

Happy Birthday 5 year old!

I had my shower, we went for a walk before 9 and I decided to do some quilling. With a couple of birthdays, one tomorrow and one Saturday, I wanted to finish making a couple of things. The cards were all ready but I wanted to add something unique for each of the ladies.

Birthday cards and owls for 
Sue and Linda

They turned out great and I'll be adding them to my 'fun things to quill' list. 😍 Bill was home by lunch and we ate together. 

Meet Piggy

Today, our own little cutie-pie celebrates his 5th birthday. I gave him a piece of his 'cake' and his gift. Of course, he is already teaching him things. 🐕

This is how we sleep in Mom's big chair.
This is how we sleep under Mom's little chair.
Smart Piggy!

I left them for their snooze and walked over to meet Renae in the clubhouse. She'd been playing the Betty Crocker role and made a family cake recipe for the birthday gals. Tonight is game night and we wanted to do a wee bit of celebrating together before we run out of time.

It's a very slow process!
Looks like the couple only sorted pieces
last night. So I continued in the bottom half
to make some progress.

We worked on the puzzle a bit, well, sat and stared at it for a bit and laughed a lot through the cake making process. We all enjoy Renae very much and I look forward to more memories this fall and winter. We're all just getting to know her and visa versa.

My replacement crimping too arrived
WITH the necessary handle.
It's so small, it makes me wonder if the first
one got thrown out with the pkging?
It's very possible.

Back home at 4, Bill had taken our 5 year old for his walk and I prepared things for our quick(ish) supper. Tonight, omelettes and/or toasted Westerns. They are made the same with the addition of toast if we choose. Depends on how hungry we are. It was good!

A delicious fluffy stuffed omelette.
That's all I needed, I knew cake
was on the menu for dessert later.

We've been listening a few of our cd's lately, since the radio (even Sirius) can be repetitive. Daniel Lavoie, Joshua Kadison, Blue Rodeo, Three Dog Night, Celine Dion, Billy Ray Cyrus and Blue Rodeo. We are enjoying the change and it's nice to justify keeping them too!

Happy Birthday ladies!
That cake was deeeelisssshhhous!!

I went over to the clubhouse before 6 to meet the ladies for game night. What can I say about that? With 2 birthdays to celebrate, Linda's and Sue's, we talked about age and how each year is something to be proud of and we shouldn't be ashamed to announce it. 

Let the fun times roll!

The evening was accented with Yahtzee, wee shot glasses of Seagrams coolers, cake, ice cream, cookies and stories, so it was no surprise to any of us when we all piled into Linda's VW convertible bug and drove around the park blowing party horns. Yup, age means nothing! 😅😂

The evening skyline was beautiful
and calm.
The ladies in the bug? Not so much!!
What a riot! I actually fit in there
too for the ride around the park.

What a fun day we all had. We've started running our a/c again during the daytime to regulate the Suite's temperature for a comfortable existence inside. Our high today was 90F/29C. No complaints here!

See? I was there!
Good night!

Thank you for your visit.