Eve of New Years Eve

It's 37 degrees at Cactus Country RV Park and it's snowing.  Nothing serious and not sticking to anything yet.  Our high today was supposed to be 46 and that was at midnight.
Sure glad I took off early from Quilting Club early Tuesday so we could do our stock up early in the week.  Wouldn't want to be on the road today between the rain and the drivers who don't know what they're doing.  The highway department pre-treated the overpasses in case it got bad.  Humidity is about 90 % so it's not a "dry rain".
Going to start a pot of cream of broccoli soup for supper.  Our new neighbor in back of us gave us a head of broccoli when he left the other day.  Said he was going to be gone a few days and didn't want it to spoil.  As much as Ron loves cream of broccoli soup, it won't go to waste.

Christmas night

What a wonderful Christmas this has been.  I got to talk to my children Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and it was a great feeling.  My drug induced mood swings were on the up swing, unlike last year, so no tears.  We've spent time with friends and family.  Wayne and Norma's home was occupied with family and friends today.  Food was great, Christmas Breakfast is a nice new tradition.  Especially since it doesn't happen till 10:30 am.  Then desserts are available all afternoon.
When we came home there was another gift bag on our front step, the third this season, makes one want to leave and come back more often.  LOL.  Didn't even need to bake cookies, so many friends did that we have just the right amount to enjoy and not over eat, especially the mincemeat ones.  (Thanks Larry for sharing and Gerry for making them).  God Bless everyone.

Christmas Eve

Just spent a nice evening at Donna and Paul's with half the park, well not half but they tied the record from last year.  23 people inside their motor home at one time.  In all there was almost twice as many coming and going during the course of the evening.  The youngest being only a few weeks old, grand son of our manager, Dan.  He got held by all the grandmas present.  What a cutie.  Plenty of food to snack on and beautiful music, some sing alongs and just visiting and laughing.
Our daughter and son in law sent us a bouquet of edible fruit today,  so we decided to share with our friends.  We are so glad we did, everyone enjoyed the fresh fruit and it all got eaten with Ron and I enjoying our share.  Not going to share our present from our son and his family.  A gift card good at several of our favorite restaurants.  Love gift cards for our favorite restaurants.  In fact we bought ourself gift cards from Sweet Tomatoes, got two free meals for buying them and now we've got gift cards to enjoy eating there the rest of the year.
Merry Christmas and God bless.

Merry Christmas

Like our other blogging friends, it's to beautiful a day to be the eve of our dear Saviors birth.  It is a bit chilly, was 43 when I got up but has warmed up to 51 but still going up higher.
We had a great time last night with some park friends.  Two other couples and a widow and us went to the American Legion for a drink then to supper at Argenzianos, a fantastic Italian restaurant just down Houghton Road.  My chicken Parmesan was  just as good with pasta as it is on french bread.  There was two breasts so dinner today is looking familiar. It all looked good.  A glass of wine and a delicious salad went down easily.  The company was great, we laughed and laughed and got to know each other better.
Now I'm looking forward to "something" that's being delivered here today.  I can't imagine what it is but I'll not leave the house till it arrives.
This evening eagerly awaits friends getting together for snacks and talk.  We've become a small family.
Merry Christmas to All

Catching Up

Not much going on these days but if I put it in writing I'll probably realize I've been busy.  We did get haircuts yesterday.  I say that to warn anyone who will see me in the next couple months.  The color is gone, every tiny bit of red is gone forever.  AND it is short and white, very short and very white, tho the picture doesn't show the white.

Bingo last night went the way it always does in spite of the fact that my friend, Donna, gave me her lucky necklace to wear.  Not only did I not win, neither did she.  And of course we went to Sweet Tomatoes for a late lunch before bingo.
We have learned thru trial and error that Rolaids are no longer sold in stores.  That being important because I like them best and so does my friend, Margo.  She actually found some at a Walgreen's but they wouldn't sell them to her.  We're finding out in bits and pieces that there was a total recall from the factory over nine months ago but they still haven't been able to get it all straightened out.  A clerk at CVS Pharmacy told us they removed the Rolaids space tags off the shelves because it had been so long that they couldn't get any.
The big news is the weather.  It's raining and 61 very chilly degrees in Tucson.  It can officially be categorized as rain since the rain drops connect where the land.   They did forecast 80 % chance of rain for today.
I believe we're off to Montgomery's for supper.  Even though it feels like soup I'm pretty sure I'm having a Ruben sandwich and a bowl of potato salad.  I know, I don't eat potato salad but I like theirs.
Well, maybe not, the rain is getting heavier and the wind has picked up.  Later Dudes and Dudettes.

Saturday in the Park

Perfect day, 70s with beautiful sunshine.  Breakfast at the rec hall of sausage gravy over biscuits, OJ and coffee, yummo.  Ron passed and ate at home but I enjoyed a couple helpings of food and conversations with Carol and Ed and Sharon (who retired last spring but came back for the grub) and Donna and others stopping by our table on their way in and out.  Richards, the chef, donned a chef's had and shirt to fit the part.  Richard fries up the sausage days in advance making your taste buds pop when you walk into the rec hall.
Ate so well we forgot lunch, well maybe I ate so well and forgot to suggest lunch.  Ron finished up his work bench for the shed.  It looks great and it even fits.  As you can see below.  I positioned my chair in the shade of the shed and then the tree in the next space as warranted and did some knitting but mostly talked to people as they stopped by on their way in or out of the park.
Really glad to see Wayne and Fran and learn that they'll be moving into their own place in the park on Monday.  They'll be an asset to the south end.  (That's were all the snowbirds stay).

Sunday Sunshine

What a beautiful day our Lord hath made.  Church, as always, was joyous occasion.  What wasn't was we forgot Ron's brother, Wayne, birthday.  Luckily, his wife didn't and sent him to teach Sunday School with instructions to invite us back to their beautiful home for dinner.  A friend, Terry, was at Sunday morning service also.  All dressed up in his zoot suit and driving his pea green "Super Bee".  Terry lived in Lockport area for a long time and even went to the same church but we were always a few years ahead of him.  We keep finding more and more things we shared at different times.
So, all of us went back to Wayne and Norma's home and were joined by Norma's son, Jay, daughter, Bridget,and her boyfriend, Matthew, and her daughter Kelsey.  Wayne's son, Nicholas, and his wife joined us later for a delicious meal of lasagna, garlic bread and salad with apple pie a la mode and coffee for dessert.  Followed by breaking up in mini groups talking and shooting off fireworks, they're legal in AZ now.
Our day was so enjoyable Ron didn't mind missing all the football games on TV.

Saturday in the Park

With the temperature hovering in the mid seventies you'd think it was the 4th of July but it's the 4th of December instead.
A 9 am arrival of the guy to power wash and wax our RV plus caulk the roof and put a sealant on it started our day out with a lot of noise but we left them to their project and took off with a neighbor to the Rincon Farmer's Market.  I was disappointed in the produce venders, they were few and far between.  The Artisans were plentiful and the ones in the barn had some beautiful wares.  We did venture out the other side to the crafters and such.  Pat and I sampled some pretzels that looked interesting until we saw the price on the small plastic bag and decided they weren't that interesting.
When we arrived back to our sight we spotted a beautifully clean and shinny RV.  They did a great job and it will be a positive image for people coming in the park since we're on the front row.
The rest of the day was taken up with talking to friends and neighbors and getting the fixing ready for supper.  Starting out with shrimp cocktail and a martini and ending with Steak....Caesar Salad.....Baked Potato.  We would have had a baked apple for dessert but someone left them in IL and we haven't been to get any more.  So we'll have to settle for a couple pieces of good Christmas Candy from Farm and Fleet that we did remember to bring back with us.

First Friday of the Month.

The first Friday of every month the Quilter's Patch Quilt Shop has two specials.  First is 12 fat quarters for $10. and if you call ahead and bring more than four people you get an additional 10 % off your entire order.  That said, nine of us piled into two vans and headed for Sahaurita Road.  I drove one van with three friends riding along.  We arrived in time to be the first customers giving Pat the honor of picking the fabric bolt of the day with 20 % off as the prize.
After an abundance of fat quarters and a few yards of beautiful material off we went to the second stop on what is becoming our first Friday of the month routine.  We stopped at Argenzianos for lunch.  It's a small Italian Restaurant with the most delicious smells as soon as you walk in the room.    I'm presuming everyone had all that they wanted to eat since we all got to go boxes.
It is sure nice having the van here so I can take my turn driving and parking is so much easier.