Veg day in Indio at Indian Waters

Today Lary went over to the clubhouse and got us breakfast, cinnamon bun and a burrito each.
Then I went back to bed as I'm feeling a bit poorly with a cough and sinus thing.

Later we went out and hit a bead sale at a hotel in Palm Desert, the man was from Kennewick, WA and had some lovely beads though I didn't buy much. We both bought silver rings so we could leave our good jewelry here while we go to Costa Rica.

Lary made a delicious pepper stir fry for dinner, mix of yellow, green, and red peppers, then he stirred in some thawed cooked shrimp, in a sauce, and served it over rice. We were trying to watch the Olympic coverage, but KMIR TV station here has very choppy reception, you can hardly hear what is being said, and it keeps cutting out completely, not sure why it's so bad down here at the eastern end of the valley. We don't have cable TV here, either. Very frustrating.

Then we watched a Harry Potter movie, think it was the 5th one, pretty violent. Neither of us have read any of the books, so we are enjoying the movies on TV.

Can't get onto Tengo Internet here in Indian Waters at all during the day, even with the antenna, so I hit it after midnight. And it works just fine, perhaps no competition for the air waves or whatever.

Stayed in the new park model at Almar Acres for 2 nights, the locals are very friendly and helpful to us newbies. The WiFi there seems to work wonderfully, thank heavens.

Attended the fiddle player/clog dancer on Weds night at Cat Spa, she was good but her music overpowered her singing, it was a bit frustrating for everybody, and she kind of lost folks a bit that way. Just goes to show you that people enjoy hearing the words of songs a lot.

Thursday I had a private lesson on the flutes at Annie's house, it was lots of fun, hard work, and I hope I managed to retain some of the info to be able to practice my new skills. My new flute from Marty of Zion Flute Festival fame is wonderful, it sounds great, but can be touchy. We are kind of getting to know each other, it and me. It's pretty intense playing one on one with Annie, and she turned on the microphone and let me doodle, that's always so nice as the sounds are just lovely that way. It's a boom mic, and it kind of hangs down into the bridge area near the top of the flute, where the noise comes out. At the bottom of the flute that's not where the noise comes out.

We also noodled about with the new F drone flute that I just got from Nash Tavewa, it is key of F, and is so very interesting. It has 2 chambers, and one chamber plays the melody, the other is a kind of background accompaniment. Annie and I played the A flutes from Stephen DeRuby, they seemed perfectly matched with each other.

BTW, the WiFi here at Indian Waters sucks, it is nearly impossible to hook up during the daytime, ergo, it's 1:20 AM, we just finished watching the Olympics and the news on TV, and the WiFi is working fine now. Likely there is hardly anyone using it.

Thursday evening we had meat loaf up at the Indian Waters clubhouse, it was good.

Friday was lovely and warm, even in the evening, but there is yet another storm blowing in, with perhaps a 1/4 inch of rain for tomorrow. Perhaps it will clear by Sunday.

Monday is flute class at Eisenhower, and Thursday is private lesson with Annie. Friday is potluck with Coachella Valley Flute Circle, the musicians jam. Wow and more wow.

I have a bad cough and am thinking of going to see a Doctor tomorrow. I may also have a sinus infection. Oh yippee.

We've Moved to Indio

Our time at Catalina Spa ran out and we have relocated to the eastern end of the Coachella Valley to Indian Waters park in Indio. It is a Western Horizons Park and is quite nice. The only problem is that we are back into the wonderful (not) world of Tengo Internet WiFi. It seems that people were using the WiFi too much, according to Tengo, so they slowed it down and limited the amount that you can use it by keeping track of the megs you use every day and if you exceed their limit they arbitrarily cut you off. Is that great service or what?

We arrived here yesterday and got set up around noon. Di went to her flute group at the Eisenhower Cancer Clinic. They had a guest flautist there to demonstrate his works and Di got a new, ceramic flute with a drone pipe attached to the main flute. It has a lovely sound but Di has to be vry careful because it is ceramic and would not survive a trip to the floor. We saw a chap who had created a carrying case for his flutes by form-cutting heavy foam rubber to fit inside a hard bodied suitcase. I'll have to look for something like that for Di's growing family of flutes.

We are going back to Cat Spa tomorrow for Lary's carving class. He will be painting his kildeer and is almost finished. We will stay for the evening entertainment, a fiddler who also clog dances at the same time. We'll spend the night in our new park model in Almar Acres before returnig to Indio Thursday afternoon.

Sunday Jam Session and Ice Cream Social

Today we went up to the Ice Cream Social at 2 PM, and I signed up to play my flute in the jam.
It was very popular today, tons of people signed up, and lots of different instruments, and singers, too. Jam session is 3 PM til 5 PM, and is just before the hamburger dinner.

I played my flute but it/I seemed off today, I hadn't practiced much this week, and you could tell. Or perhaps my flute was disturbed a bit by being held all afternoon in warm sweaty hands.

Hard to tell.

Oh well, we always enjoy the varied music and singing by some many different folks here at Cat Spa. I believe that people come from other neighbouring parks too.

Mata Ortiz pottery at Cabot's Pueblo Museum

Well we went over to the museum that was built by Cabot Yerxa, an early settler in this Desert Hot Springs area. When he came here at first, he had no water on his property, and had to go 14 miles in a return trip to get water. As he only had his mule Merry Christmas as transportation, it must have been quite a trip.

Then the natives told him there was water on his land, so he dug, and first he got scalding hot somewhat smelly water, then he dug again nearby and got pure artesian clean cool water, or so went the story the guide told us.

We toured the weird house that he built with largely reclaimed materials, he was very innovative, but it is still a bit of an unattractive heap. He used adobe bricks, with the refinement of added cement to the mix to make his bricks more waterproof. He was trained at Julienne School of Arts in Paris in the early 1900s. Some of his art was wonderful indeed. He appears to have been a bit of a Renaissance man, very self sufficient. His parents were traders, running trading posts throughout the United States. Most of the doors were very narrow, he must have been about 5 foot 7, but his wife was under 5 feet, so not necessary to have huge doorways.

There were a group of potters there from Mata Ortiz, and one man was painting his pot, and then he fired it by putting it under a big clay pot, and building up the fire around the edges of the bigger pot. Gradually he piled pieces of wood all around the big clay pot, and let it burn for about an hour. Once he took away the burning material, he removed the big pot, and there was his beautifully fired, carved and painted pot. It was just wonderful, luckily some man in the audience bought it. There were hundreds of pots, all different.

There was a lady from Tucson who did a lot of translating for the potters, apparently the village had been potters for hundreds of years, but the tradition was nearly lost, and then it was kind of rediscovered, until now it is again a thriving village full of very skilled artisans, there are about 450 people who now make their living from pottery.

It is very fine work, some of the colors are blacks, reds and off whites, many of the pots are very unusual looking, and very detailed, not crude at all. We really enjoyed seeing their work, and a lot of it was for sale in the museum store. What a wonderful opportunity to see what they were doing.

Apparently a whole new jewellry industry has also been developed as an offshoot of the rejected pots that break. The pottery shards are trimmed down, and enclosed by silver, to make very attractive jewellry. Another ingenious use of the by products of the pottery production.

Friday was stormy here-yuck

Friday was stormy here, with lots of wind and finally a few drops of rain during the evening while we were watching the Olympics. We are finding the Olympic coverage this year much better balanced, that is, they seem to feature other countries, at least Canada, much more often than we remember from previous years. We went out and grocery shopped in DHS. Lots of dust and sand kicked up, more in the Palm Springs area than out here, but temps have gone considerably once more.

The Americans seem to be making a wonderful success of these winter Olympics, too. It is so interesting to watch Brian Williams reporting the 5:30 PM news with the beautiful backdrop of Vancouver harbour and the Olympic rings behind him. And there are some beautiful shots of Vancouver at night, a birds eye view. His comments on the fact that Vancouver seems to him to be what the US used to be, very polite!!!!!!!, are very interesting to us here.

Today has dawned sunny and bright, and warmer again, though the forecast is for more yucky weather, this storm and another following it perhaps will bring us more rain. Who knows.

Today over at Cabot Yerxa Museum there is a show of Mexican Mata Ortiz pottery, with some mexican potters there, and we plan to attend that today. They are there for the weekend. It is a centuries long tradition of pottery making, I think that perhaps it is black pottery, but I'll report back once we have seen the show.

Thursday afternoon at the Riverside County Fair & Date Festival

Wednesday Lary carved his kildeer bird, and started to paint it, very exciting. Also our new neighbor Stan from Almar Acres came over to the carving class, he is a hand carver with knives, but he wants to join the class, as using the knives is causing him pain, and he wants to learn to use a dremel tool, so that was interesting for him and Lary too. He may join the class with his current projects, and then switch over to the dremel tool in the fall when the next project starts.

I went on a hunt for blankets for the new house, we changed the bed to a queen size, and need new bedding, and I couldn't find blankets anywhere. I went over to Ross Dress for Less and found 3 blankets that were suitable, and a few other things. Also some plastic glasses for our patio outside. And I got some nice towels from J.C. Penney, they were on sale. Yes!!! And we hit the pool again, and had fun soaking in the warm water, and chatting with other folks here in the park.

Weds evening we went to a fun show here in the park, a couple of entertainers, Jerome and Jeanne, named Call of the West. They played great guitars, she also played a mandolin and a squeeze box, both played the harmonica. And they sang, both together and separately, she writes great songs, too. And he does Cowboy type poetry, and tells hilarious jokes. Good fun.

Thursday morning we had coffee and donuts over at Almar Acres, then dropped off the new linens at the trailer. They seem to have kind of a business meeting at that time, so it was interesting to listen and be introduced as new owners. The rec center is bright and squeaky clean, and the pool sparkling. The park has soup lunches on Tuesday, and alternate Tuesdays they serve hamburgers.

After that we went to Big K and I found some poly/cotton blouses, and a couple of pairs of capris, the capris were on sale.

Later in the afternoon we went over to the Riverside County Fair and Date Festival, and it was fun in the warm afternoon. Things to eat, arts and crafts shows, fancy rides, camels and ponies to ride, small trade fair, an alligator show, young men break dancing, a hypnotist, people having lots and lots of fun outdoors at the annual fair in Indio. We enjoyed ourselves.

Beautiful symphony concert Tuesday night

Forgot to say that Tuesday night we went to the Coachella Valley Symphony, the performance was called Viva Espana, and was a classical guitar player Lawrence Spector playing with the symphony, Carmen Suites No. 1 & 2, then Concierto de Aranjuez, which we both love, the Capriccio Espagnol and Danza Ritual Del Fuego.

Rodrigo is the composer of Concierto de Aranjuez, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote Capriccio Espagnol, and de Falla wrote the Danza. Bizet wrote Carmen. Superb music, and a night to savour it all.

The music was so lovely, nearly every note of it was so achingly familiar, we nearly could hum along with the notes of the guitar.

It was held at the Del Webb Sun City Palm Desert, kind of a wonderful housing development, pity that it was dark and we couldn't enjoy it all. Their clubhouse has a full size stage, and it's huge, and beautifully decorated.

We got the CD of Lawrence Spector, called Romantic Evening.

We had burgers at the new place Almar Acres Tues

Monday started off pretty warm, and we went over to the new house to await delivery of our new queen size bed. The plan was to have it between 11- 2, but it arrived about 4 PM, the 2 fellows were very helpful. While we waited we went into the Almar Acres pool, it was lovely and crystal clear, they have a pool company maintain it. We chatted with some very nice new neighbours.

Lary cooked cornish game hens for dinner on the bar b q, delicious, and we went up to the Chinese Auction, it was hilarious. For $1 you got 10 tickets, and you could "shop" with the tickets, putting your name on the ticket, and putting it in a brown paper bag near each item.
Many of the items were free, they drew names and you got the item if your name was drawn.
We were also saying that many of the items will likely appear again next year for the auction again. The stuff goes round in circles through all our RVs.

Also there were some silent auction items, and I got a pretty photo of cactus blooms, bright yellow, taken right here in the park, for $3. A big hit was my blue Teapot, and Lary got a nice AARP crossword book.

Tuesday was sunny, Lary called our RV fixer in Duncan on the island, and we booked the trailer in for repairs on April 9th. We may well go off to the Okanagan in the car after that, just for visits.

Bought some sheets and a quilt for the new house. We are going back into our pool here at Cat Spa in the afternoons, it is wonderful and warm once more, though we are due for rain and lower temps on the weekend. boo.

Di did a big wash late at night, her prime time for the laundry room.

More later.

Presidents Day weekend in Desert Hot Springs

Saturday we got up and went in to see the Dr. George's Classic Car show. There were some incredible cars there at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, out in the sunshine on a grassy field.

The colors and ages of the cars were unbelievable, it was magic. We had a bite to eat there, and although we had planned to go on to the Greek Festival, we didn't, opting instead to come back to the RV park, and have a dip in the lovely warm pool.

In fact we were all saying now that the weather has finally changed to quite warm, the pool is so soupy warm that it is almost not refreshing. Everyone is afraid to complain, though, in case it gets cooled down too much.

Before the car show we had dropped in to visit the new park model that we have bought, and we met with the vendors again, and the roofers who are reroofing it for them. Looked good, they are adding some insulation under the new roofing, so that is grand. They finished the roof later on, Joanne and John let us know later that day. Whew, that was a bit close for comfort, as the vendors left early this morning to return to Vancouver WA where they come from.

Now it's ours.

Later in the afternoon we headed back into the El Paseo area of Rancho Mirage to the Gardens, a lovely ritzy shopping area where there are beautiful lawns and gardens surrounding the stores, and there was a Jazz evening there, at 5:15 PM they serve wine with cheese and fruit. You only pay $12, which goes to charity, and a local Jazz DJ called Fitz puts it on, bringing in young musicians to play for an hour, sitting right out on the lawn with pretty bronze sculptures of children playing, all through the lovely gardens.

It's a magic hour or two, they play for an hour, and then sell their CDs after their show. The young musician was a keyboard player called Lao Tizer, and he had a super guitarist with him, Jeff Coleman, and a great drummer, whose name I can't remember. Lao and his group were heading off to Dubai on Monday.

Then we went to a pizza place and had pizza, yum yum.

It's Presidents Day weekend down here, Monday is a holiday.

Today Sunday we didn't do much in the morning, but we went to the pool and had a nice swim around lunchtime, the water was off in the top part of the park, as they'd had a water leak.

Then we went to the Ice Cream Social here in the upper clubhouse, and in the jam session afterwards, I entered to play my flute, and I got 3 chances to play, it was quite interesting, as I don't think that many of those people had ever heard a Native American Flute, so I kind of introduced it to them, and played OK. They asked me if I had more music after the second piece, and of course I said Yes. And played a third time.

Quite a lot of people talked to me after the jam session, so I am happy about that. I played my new F sharp flute, and next time I might even take more than one flute, so that folks get a chance to hear more than one key flute.

Later we went back into town, and went to the Greek festival, at the church called St. George Greek Orthodox Church of the Desert, near El Paseo again. It was night time when we arrived, and we ate Greek food dinner and visited with some nice folks from Salt Lake City Utah sitting at the table, before wandering around the pretty stalls, and munching on some Greek sweet pastries. Apparently the event is a big fundraiser for the Greek church, and this year they have to replace the dome on their church, some $130,000. so the proceeds go to the church itself this year. In other years the proceeds have gone to local charities. so we bought t-shirts that are colorful and fun, and were very inexpensive.

Tomorrow we'll go over to our new park model trailer in Almar Acres on Dillon Road, as our new bed should be arriving, and likely we will hang out there for a while at least, as we'd like to get their monthly activity schedule, and get to know that park a bit. There is a lovely pool, and 2 hot tubs, and their rec centre is very attractive, they have a soup lunch on Tuesdays that the public can attend. Apparently they did some fundraising, and as a result bought a new refrigerated area that is very good for their kitchen facilities. so that should be fun to get to know our new home.

House concert at Annie's house tonight

OMG, we attended a pot luck and house concert at Annie's house, my flute teacher. She lives in Palm Desert. It was just incredible, I took Lary and the guest of honour was Mark Holland, perhaps one of the best Native American flute players in the U.S.

We had pot luck dinner outside first of all, it was magic, and then Mark did a whole set of his songs, his playing is just phenomenal. We all paid a small admission fee, well worth it.

Mark seems to feel that the Native American Flutes can be combined with endless other musical instruments, which is very interesting, as many other people emphasize how individual it is, and how it normally is played alone, or with a backup instrumental from an IPod or something like that. Mark's music was the most wonderful I have ever heard for a N.A. flute, and very tuneful. He seemed to use all kinds of embellishments, mostly with his style of blowing.

Mark's wife Tina was with him, and she sold his CDs and a book of flute music at the break, then we each got a chance or two to jam with him, we led and he backed us up, in fact he really embellished our work, and made us sound far more wonderful than what we really are.
We finished off with a big hug from him, how great is that?

And yes, I bought 4 of his CDs. His group is called Autumn's Child, and 3 CDs are by them, classically trained musicians I believe. And the last CD I bought is by him is called Wind and Fire, the NA flutes of Mark together with N.Scott Robinson an interesting world type percussionist. Can't wait to listen to them all.

Sadly on the way home we passed the scene of a recent fatal traffic accident, a pedestrian killed by a truck. Creepy, it seemed as if it had just happened.

Also to watch the Opening of the Winter Olympics, and hear the sad news that a Georgian luge athlete had been killed after he lost control of his luge on a practice run that morning.

An afternoon at Motor Vehicles in Palm Springs

Well yesterday we took the registration of our new park model over to Motor Vehicles in Palm Springs, you get in a big long lineup, a person looks at what you have to get done, and gives you a number. Then you take a chair (at least) and start waiting for your number to be called.

For us it was about 2 hours, but we got it transferred over into our names, and paid for it, so now the certificate will arrive in Canada, with the park model in our names.

We put our address down here, but our mailing address in Canada, also.

Then in May it is due to have its license renewed, oddly it has a license plate, and we buy the decal for it every year, and stick the decal on. The plate is just inside the park model, not on the outside.

Sure is different from what we are used to, but that's how they do it down here.

We plan to buy a bigger bed as it only has a double at the moment. Other than that it is furnished, with a ton of built in cupboards, so we can just move right in. It should be very nice for us not to have to pull the trailer back and forth each season. We are looking forward to that.

But for the rest of this season we will mostly be in the trailer, or off on our trip to Costa Rica in March.

Heard from the Nelson friends that they will be here just before C.R., and will come on the trip, and then spend a couple more weeks here in the park, in one of the rental park model trailers here.

And my sisters are coming down for a couple of weeks, one alone in our trailer while we go to C.R., and the second in a rental trailer here in our park, so we can visit and do some things together.

Should be fun and I am really looking forward to that. Lary is coming to that, too.

That's it for today's news. There is a pot luck dinner at the Coachella Valley Flute Circle on Friday night, and a big name flute player will perform for us, how exciting to be so close to him when he is playing. He is the main performer at one of the huge flute festivals later this spring or fall.

Monday fluting at Eisenhower Medical Center

I went over and attended the flute class at the hospital today. It was wonderful as always. Tons of new ideas, some new flutes, and some more wonderful inspiration from Annie.

Lary had his blood checked also at Eisenhower, they have given him a standing order card, and it's kind of fuss free, and they will send the results to his doctor in Nanaimo, and send Lary a letter with the results, too.

After that we sought out a Greek restaurant down here, just a wee hole in the wall, and ate yummy food.

There is a Greek festival here this weekend, both Sat and Sun, at a Greek Orthodox church, so we will be sure and attend that.

Our flute circle that meets monthly on Friday nights at Annie's will have a talented flute player as guest, so we are all welcome to that, and a potluck dinner and jam after the guest plays 2 sets.
Should be very inspirational.

She made a point of saying that Lary is more than welcome. And during Friday afternoon there is a Canadian Snowbird Association meeting at a local casino that we will attend, they are an active lobby group down here.

This coming Monday is Presidents Day so we won't have flute class, but on Feb 22nd another super interesting man called Nash will be at Eisenhower in our class, for a couple of hours, he makes all types of flutes, and is such a wonderful man from Mexico. I am flying with interest and enthusiasm.

Lazy Sunday at Catalina Spa & RV Resort

Didn't do that much today, read the paper, then Lary went off to watch the Super Bowl game down at the lower clubhouse, and Di went up to the Ice Cream Social, then stayed for the music jam.

After that Di ate a hamburger with 2 couples from Canada, they both play accordians in the jam session. One couple is from Vancouver I believe, and they have a place here in Mission Hills, the other couple is here in the park, and they are Slovakian I believe. Very nice couples.

After that I went down and joined Lary in the lower clubhouse to watch the finish of the Super bowl, New Orleans won by a landslide, and we went up to the upper clubhouse and watched a movie called Carolina Moon, based on a scary novel by Nora Roberts. It was scary but good.

Had a short walk and then came home to the trailer.

The new (old) park model wasn't re roofed this weekend, though the contractors did deliver a lot of the materials, and they say they may do it in the late afternoons this week.

Here's hoping!!!

Rainy Saturday down here in Desert Hot Springs

Well we got up and had breakfast at the clubhouse, their craft sale was held indoors due to the rain.

Rainy day today, with very low clouds, and pretty heavy rains, though not the buckets that we had earlier this year. There are about 5 major highway intersections that will be involved in major changes this year, perhaps 2 years of work on all of them, widening them to try and get rid of traffic constrictions that occur daily with rush hour and the like.

The newspaper today reports that with all the rain the desert has been getting it should be a pretty spring out in the desert, with flowers in many places. Something very nice to look forward to during the month of March, they estimate, particularly at Joshua Tree and Anza Borrego parks.

The flight to Costa Rica may be as long as 6.5 hours, not looking forward to being crammed in small plane seats for that long flight. Will have to look for those special socks for flying, that compress your legs and avoid swollen ankles and feet.

The wee park model that we just bought was supposed to have been re roofed by the sellers today, their roofing contractors just work on weekends, but as it was raining, we guess it didn't happen. Oh well, there is still next weekend to get the job done, because the sellers plan to leave this area Feb 17th and return to their home in Vancouver, WA. Hmmmm.

Went to a nice mellow movie last night, It's Complicated, with Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Steve Martin played a straight guy, not a humourous part as he normally does, and it was a very well done film, we thought. Not overacted as Hollywood often tends to do, or sugar up the ending. Not this time. We really enjoyed it.

Meryl Streep is a divorcee, and a very successful restaurateur, who gets back together with her ex hubbie, played by Baldwin, for a fling when their son graduates from college. As all kids do when their parents are divorced, her kids hope that it works out once more for their parents, and they get back together, but she decides against staying with him.

Steve Martin is very good as the architect who is designing a big addition to Meryl Streep's wonderful house, and he himself is recently divorced. I think he should take more serious roles, he did it very well. The film was shot in Santa Barbara, CA and New York. Definitely worth a watch for a touching chick flick. Great support from Meryl's long term female friends.

Tomorrow we pay for the new(old) park model

Well our trusty banker came through, and we got a cashier's check from the Bank for the cost of the new park model. So we're off tomorrow to pay for it, and then we have to take the registration for it and go to Motor Vehicles and do the transfer, and pay a license fee or something like that.
Weird, but that's the way they do things down here apparently.

Should be interesting, and Lary is also taking the Dodge truck for its first lube and oil change, early tomorrow.

So a few things to take care of tomorrow.

This morning late we went over to the rural part of Indio to Augustine Casino, a small one. We had a very late breakfast after joining the players club, and then played the slots for a while.

I Di made $5 turn into $23, but Lary didn't have the same luck.

Later we got the cashier's check at the Bank, and then made the appt. with the current trailer owners to go and pay them.

We decided to go up to the clubhouse and eat the taco salads and burritos on offer, so we did that, and then stayed for Card Bingo which is a fun game you play, using dimes as bets.

We lost our $2 each, but had a nice time anyway.

The wind has kicked up tonight late, and is whistling around, there is another small storm on the way, with perhaps rain too. It was very hazy today as it has been most of the week. We had shorts and tee shirts on today, but tonight changed into long pants and sweaters.

Would still like the "seasonal norms" to happen, and it to warm up. We didn't go in the pool today as we had yesterday. I miss the get togethers with other people when we don't go.

It's kind of like Happy Hour without the drinks, everyone goes into the pool and just chats and chats. Really mellow.

OMG - we bought a small elderly park model

Well, we went back to Almar Acres and found a small park model that we like, so we offered on it, and we will own it on Feb 17th or so, this year. We are in shock, and have put the wheels in motion to pass over the money to the current owners, who are from Vancouver, WA.

It's not big, it's very small, and built in the mid 80s, but well loved, and is in pretty good shape.
It has a living room/dining area, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. It is heated by a heat pump, also cooled if necessary. This Saturday it is getting a new roof. It is completely furnished, and all the things except the people's clothes stay.

We will own the tiny wee lot, and will be members of the homeowners group. They have a board, and a management company, as well as an onsite manager. There are 184 lots on 3 paved roads, there is a nice pool and 2 hot tubs, and a lovely busy rec center.

The monthly costs aren't very big, just over $100, and they bill you quarterly.

We need to go and pay for the license for the unit, you pay it every year. We don't pay
taxes other than that.

That's the latest, we'll keep you posted.