Friday, January 18, 2019 - Eat, Eat, Eat - We Do A Lot of That Here in the Valley!

Friday, January 18, 2019 - Eat, Eat, Eat - We Do A Lot of That Here in the Valley!

I was happy my fitness band worked just fine when it woke me up at 5:00 a.m.  It was a much nicer little bzzz "alarm" than hearing my phone play an annoying song as I'm trying to get up and rush to the living room to turn it off!  Picture that will you!

Dave was picking Dean up at 8:00 for their golf game, so he didn't walk with me this morning.  I left to make my laps around the park to get in my two miles.  It was nice out but pretty foggy.  

Dean left not long after I returned.  I had my breakfast before I took care of my morning "chores".  I had a text on my phone from Nancy letting me know they were going to have movie night at their place (at the park next door) if we wanted to come over.  She was making pulled pork and beans, and Flora was bringing cole slaw.  I told her I could make some deviled eggs, so I got out my Instapot and boiled the eggs while I was getting some things done.  I was completely done in less than 30 minutes and had them in the refrigerator to cool.

At 11:00 I headed to the clubhouse to join 26 other women for a lunch outing at Mom's Place.  I rode with Rosie, Dorothy and Rosie!  We had such a nice lunch.  The owner told us they had just opened their cafe in November.  They were so appreciative of us coming.  Besides sandwiches, soups and salads they had some lovely looking cupcake desserts.  I ate way too much lunch - a chicken salad sandwich, broccoli cheese soup, cookies and iced tea.  I brought my chips and 2 of the 3 small cookies home for Dean.  The food was delicious and we'll definitely go back again.  

Our table at Mom's (Carolyn in front on the left is our next door neighbor here in the park).

After lunch I rode to Hobby Lobby with Rosie and Dorothy.  I mentioned getting magnet pictures for the rest of our grandkids in yesterday's post.  My friend Drena told me I could buy adhesive magnet sheets, then I can put a picture on the magnet sheet, cut it out and wah-lah my picture magnet is done.  I found the sheets at Hobby Lobby.  There were only 2 sheets so I bought them both.  Now to get the pictures printed off.  

When I returned to the park it was close to 2:30.  Dean was already back.  He has been wanting to start our generator and let it run a bit, and that is what I found him doing.  

We decided to walk up to the office to see if our mail came in today.  I called to have it sent on Friday, January 11th.  I finally had to leave a message since no one answered the phone after trying a couple of times - and I left my name and address where it needed to be mailed to.  When we still didn't have any mail on Wednesday I called to see when they had mailed it.  When she told me the "owner/manager" was on vacation and she's the one that listens to the answering machine I couldn't believe it!  I was pretty irritated.  What's the purpose of an answering machine in a business if you don't use it.  Fortunately, our mail came today.  However, our insurance company wanted us to take some pictures of our new property and the garage on it and have it submitted by January 22.  Of course we can't do that.  I called my sister who is also our insurance agent to see if she would mind taking them for us and sending them in.  She was on the phone so I left a message with one of the other ladies in the office.  It was almost 5 when I called and they are off on Monday for Martin Luther King's Birthday - so it means she has to do it on Tuesday - the day it is due.  I felt bad about the short time frame.  

We are seriously considering finding another way to get our mail next year.  Between getting the wrong mail in our box several times and this, it's getting frustrating.  While we are here in the Valley, sending it later isn't near as bad as if we were moving.  When we are traveling and moving every few days, I call when I know we will be somewhere long enough to get it.  I have to be able to depend on them getting my calls and then following up before we move to another location.  It could have been a real mess if mail showed up after we left as we typically move 150-250 miles from one spot to the next.  

It really warmed up today - about 81 or so and it was quite warm in the RV.  I hate to turn on the air conditioner until we have to, but I did find a week or so ago that I sleep better with the air conditioner on - less humidity in the air, so we turned it on before we left.

We left a little before 6 to head over to Dave & Nancy's.  Flora and Corbin soon joined us.  Our meal was delicious.  Misti called just before we started filling our plates.  It was good to visit with her.  She and Haleigh had just been to Chetopa and they had some family history questions for me.  I love they care enough to ask!  

Corbin had recently purchased some DVD's.  They picked A Star is Born to watch this evening.  It was quite a bit different than the original movie.  It was pretty windy out this evening, so it is great that Dave and Nancy have a nice canopy pop-up that we can set under to watch our movie outside.  They had side panels (3 sides) made for it.  The panels keep most of the wind out, keeping it comfortable inside.  

Pulled pork Nancy made  - it was delicious!

Dave, Dean, Me, (Nancy's chair), Corbin and Flora.   We are sitting in the enclosed canopy.  It's such a great wind break!

The spread - besides the pulled pork, we had deviled eggs, guacamole dip with chips/celery, baked beans, cole slaw with pie and cookies for dessert.  It was all wonderful!

A big thank you to Nancy for letting me use her pictures from "movie night".
Jarred tried to call us during the movie because Emerson wanted to talk to us.  I sent a text when we were back at Bentley, that maybe we can connect sometime tomorrow.  He told Emerson and she said "I can do that".  She's a doll!

What a great day we both had.