We had our last flute lesson with Annie today this morning, and we practiced for an event that we will be playing at soon. It was fun, and nice to have Annie all to ourselves. We gave her a new microphone stand, as the ones she has are a bit worn out.
After that we raced home so I could help with the weekly poker gathering here at the park, it's mostly but not exclusively men, and today even though many folks are leaving or thinking of leaving soon and packing up, there were 38 players.
We helped as usual though none of us plays poker, it was still enjoyable to be of help, and at half time we served free birthday cake left over from one of our park's owners birthday party, and ice cream, for which everybody pays $1. The afternoon flew by until they finished, they play from about 1 - 4 Thursday afternoons. It was kind of the end of their year, a few will still play the next week or so, but most will now head off to their other home, likely more north than here.
Poker players come from other parks, and then go to other parks in turn to play, it seems sad that they prefer to play cards inside than be outside on a lovely afternoon in the sunshine, but oh well.
After that we went over to our vendor's home to sign papers and arrange to do the transfer of the title etc. We'll have to arrange to get insurance on the new place, too, and do a bit of running about in the next wee while, as we don't have much time left after that. We have to visit the management company and arrange to pay the quarterly home owner association fees, too. We'll be busy for sure.
Lary made stew for dinner, but he complained that it was tough, even after cooking for 3 hours or more. It was flavourful though, which was nice, and he had added a sweet potato or yam, that was delicious.
I think I forgot to say that his blue jay carved bird is starting to look a lot more realistic, they put in the eyes yesterday, and they are woodburning in the details on the feathers, both on top of the body and underneath on the body and tail feathers. Very intricate, and I can tell that it is an interesting if very labour intensive process. As the jay is more or less lifesize that is a lot of work. When the woodburning is done the work seems to just pop out into a much more realistic animal. Lary wants to try doing a Kokopelli figure next, to carve it into a kind of low relief plaque of his own design, which should be very interesting and challenging.
Lary's previous carving instructor Vern had a dreadful and very serious accident recently, his car was smashed into on the I-10 freeway, and it was rolled several times. His wife is hospitalized, her spleen was damaged in the accident, what a pity for them, it sounded very scary indeed.
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