Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Not much to report, just warm weather here & sunshine

Today there was a yard sale at the sites, so we walked around, and Di bought some stationery, and a pretty cut glass starfish necklace.

We swam yesterday after dark, and met more nice folks from Maple Ridge, we chatted in the pool and hot tub.

When we checked in on Monday there was a warning about a swarm of angry bees, and one man got over 60 stings. Apparently they were honey bees living under somebody's trailer, and they were being removed, but didn't want to cooperate. Erg. The location was over against one fence of the park, so we were all warned to stay away, which we did.

Things look pretty good here, we shopped for groceries, and heard about free tickets to a Marine Corps Christmas concert, we went over today to City Hall in Palm Springs, but they are shut Weds Thurs and Friday for American Thanksgiving. We were surprised about that. It's a big deal down here, and Staters was selling turkeys for 33 cents a pound when you bought $25 of groceries. Another notable deal was Baileys, 750 ml for $10.95. We had to get in on the Baileys special, at least!!!!!

The temps are forecast to go down into the low 70s, I'm not sure how we'll like that, but it continues sunny and bright in the daytime. Last night we got up about 6 AM and pulled on another blanket, and went back to sleep again.

After all it is winter.

There is a Macy's Thanksgiving parade in New York that will be on tv tomorrow, starting at 9 AM here I believe. From here on I guess it will be full on Christmas shopping for Americans, apparently Friday after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, if retailers haven't been "in the black" before this, they will be after Friday. Some stores open at 4 AM on Friday, yes, that's 4 AM.

So far we haven't contributed to the bettering of the US economy that much.

Lary leaves Saturday to return to Nanaimo and renew his drivers license, I will renew mine at a later date.

We spilled a large quantity of diesel additive inside the truck in a bin, it was dreadfully stinky, so we added a bunch of clay cat litter to absorb it, and try to absorb the rank smell too. Haven't scooped it out as yet, but the smell has subsided a whole lot already. Guess that the scoop out will be my job. (Di).

That's about it for now.

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