Well, the days have been flying by since I joined the entertainment committee here in the park. Today was donuts and coffee and the usual business meeting. For the next two weeks I will also be doing the newsletter for the park, which should be interesting.
Sunday morning we had breakfast at our clubhouse, it was from 10 AM to noon, put on by Mel and Monty, and a good crowd, we were asked to not all show up en masse, and it appears that the message was taken to heart. Fun to visit a bit with the neighbours when eating breakfast.
Monday we attended a Board meeting here in the park which was interesting, they run the infrastructure things about our park. Then in the afternoon we went over to the park across the street, Caliente Springs, and hopped on a special bus called the MooseMobile or something like that, where we attended a talk all about cruising to Alaska with Holland America. It was interesting. We already have an Alaska cruise booked but it won't happen til next year, as we booked to go with some American friends that we met on our Hawaii cruise last year. Interesting to learn more about Alaska.
Tuesday Valentines Day I went off to the podiatrist again, to get casts made of my feet for orthotics. You squish your foot down into a box of dense pink foam to make the mold impression, and those molds get sent away to Tennessee to make custom orthotics. I decided to do all this down here as the podiatrist in Nanaimo doesn't seem able to help my foot problems. After the podiatrist appt. we went over to Jackalope Ranch for late lunch, Lary had ribs, I had a chicken quesadilla, we were well before dinner, so it was quiet. There was to be a special dinner later on for Valentines Day but we didn't stay for that, too expensive and likely too busy also.
Weds. Lary went over to carve on his blue jay at Catalina Spa, and I went too, to visit Wendy. Our husbands were carving together, so we ladies visited, then the men came home to Wendy and Dave's trailer, and we had Happy Hour together. When we came home it was blowing and rainy.
Each day of the week I have gotten up at 7:30 or so, and gone up to the clubhouse here for a power walking program, it seems to be doing some good, as I don't huff and puff as much as I did before, and my tummy seems to be decreasing in size too. Hooray.
But today Thursday I got up and went up for coffee and donuts. After the business meeting I went over to Mel's place to watch him do the newsletter for the park, he is going away for a while, and I'll be taking over for him while he's gone. It was interesting to see his setup, with his computer in his shed, and a printer there too.
After that we went over to Annie's for our flute lesson, this time there were 5 of us, and we had a nice time planning a performance up at the San Jacinto and Sta Rosa mountain monument that we will give in early April, at an art show up there.
Last night it poured quite heavily with rain, reminded me of Vancouver Island, and this morning Mt San Jacinto just behind Palm Springs had snow down to about halfway on the mountain, and the temps had of course dropped quite a bit, too. It is pretty seeing the mountain covered in snow, and we need the rain down here for the water supply. But I love the warmth and bright blue skies better than grey ones.
Tonight as I write this it is blowing quite hard once more, but no rain so far today. We are going up to Calico, CA, north of Barstow tomorrow for the weekend. There will be a historic reenactment of one of the battles of the Civil War, so that should be very interesting. Calico was a silver mining town, and was quite prosperous in its heyday. But now it's a sleepy little cowboy type ghost town with a few buildings reconstructed there. We are looking forward to the trip a lot, last time there we really enjoyed ourselves with Georgette and Harold. It's a long weekend, Presidents Day weekend.
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