On Friday, (yay Friday! Our working
friends are saying) Mar. 16th I was up at 7 to greet the day. The
clouds were trying to keep the sun from making a grand appearance but I could
see the brightness peeping through regardless. I opened blinds and then slipped
on a jacket and went for a walk. This time I took along my camera with the ZOOM
lens. It was a beautiful morning at 55F.
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| Started with some cloudy skies |
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| The sun was fighting to take over |
Bill and Clemson met me up by the
pool as I was on my way home. It still surprises me when he does that and I
love surprises.
Back inside we made tea and coffee but then drove over to the
Laundry/Exercise/TV room with our dirty clothes. There are 3 washers and 3
dryers and with only 15 – 17 rv’s in the park right now, there is no rush. So,
we took all 3! Bill and I even worked out on the treadmill, bike and elliptical machines while waiting for clothes to dry.
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| Look at him go! |
The laundry was all done up and put
away by 10:15. We each had breakfast, oatmeal for me and cereal for Bill.
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| A pool picture for my sister, Donna |
With
an inventory taken of our dairy products and other things we were running low
on, we took a drive into Grove. First, we stopped at Harp’s, their grocery
store, and then to Walmart for the cheaper prices on dairy. Lastly, we pulled
into Walgreens where we purchased our Omega 3’s.
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| Crossing the Sailboat Bridge over Grand Lake going into Grove |
I registered for their Rewards card
so I got the second bottle half off the price. I don’t get deals like that back
home! Back at the Suite, it feels good to be stocked up again for a couple of
weeks. The temperature has risen to 78F yet the winds are quite strong today.
Our Camp Host came around again asking not to light a fire or grill today, the
winds are forecast to hit 40 mph at some point. No problem, we cook inside
tonight.
Bill did the banking on line and I
recorded our purchases in my registry. I’ve documented every penny we’ve spent
since we left home and kept all our receipts in a folder. At some point we’ll
figure out what we need to claim when crossing into Canada. With that bit of
business done, I swept the floors in the Suite, things were getting a little
out of hand!
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| Yup, if I owned this beauty, I'd park way back here too |
I sat outside with my book, not
sheltered from the wind but in the sun, snug up against the Suite, I was plenty
warm. I watched as rv’s continued to pull out and others continued to fill the
spots. Some fifth wheels, class C’s and class A motor homes. As I was sitting
there, reading, I heard someone say “excuse me”. A man walked over from the
Holiday Rambler I’d watched back in earlier.
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| Holiday Rambler backs in across from us |
He said his wife sent him over to ask
if my name was Patsy. Too funny and my response was “No way!” but soon
clarified “yes, it is”. It just never ceases to amaze me when someone who knows
me from my blog only, comes and introduces themselves to me. I love that!
Ron and Lori are from Arkona, Ontario
and know George and Suzie, Gerry and Melinda, Rob and Pat and George and Rose
for starters. Their home park is Rock Glen RV Resort, as is ours. Lori was busy
inside setting up but came to their door and waved at us. Ron took their
brown-eyed Freddy for a walk and suggested we get together tomorrow. I poured
myself a drink and continued to read and watch.
At one point I took the 6 books that
we have both read over the last two weeks up to the big clubhouse. They don’t
have a huge book library in the Bear’s Den but at least there is someplace to
leave and pick up books. I found a Stuart Woods as well as a John Sanford book,
the latter was one of Suzie’s recommendations, so brought those back for us to
read.
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| Not a field of green, but a field of purple another hint of Spring! |
I came back inside when I felt the
heat and my drink hitting me. “Where’s the couch?” Ha ha, I stretched out on
the sofa and had a little snooze. At one point, Clemson sat with me but when he
got too hot, he moved to my recliner to have his own nap. We knew we wouldn’t
be cooking outside so we had to discuss supper. The usual question is how
hungry are we?
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| This day kind of went to the birds |
Bill made it easy by saying he was
good with just a toasted sandwich and when I opened the fridge to see what I’d
like, my ‘doggie box’ from the other night’s dinner stared me in the face. Yup,
leftover baked potato and hot roast beef sounded good to me. And it was. We
cleaned up the few dishes and when Clemson wanted out, I took him for a walk
around the block.
Back inside by 7, I finished
preparing my blog and then sat to read more of my book. This one is the J.A.
Jance book, Rattlesnake Crossing that follows Skeleton Canyon. Her stories of
the Arizona desert are quite interesting now that we’ve been to so many of the
places she writes about. Tombstone, Benson, Huachuca and Sierra Vista, places I’d
never heard of before the winter of 2016/17.
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| and this was the sky today |
This has been a fun day. I hope you
can say the same!
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| goodnight my friends |
