Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sunday evening catch up time
Sunday evening catch up time
A whole week has past since I last wrote and the week really flew by. We are enjoying our work and the time goes by fast. It seems we are settling in on a routine and then something changes that routine. Oh well.... nothing drastic happening anyway.
Bill works all day on Monday and Tuesday so I have my afternoon's to myself anyway. I went over to sew in the sewing room and the door was locked. So I went back to the office and got a key..now I can go sew and not wait for someone to let me in.
I came home and sewed for most of the afternoon....
Tuesday afternoon I went to a couple of quilt stores in Avondale area... Now I know where they are! It is amazing down here to me that they don't carry flannel.... guess there is not a need for it but the stores are full of leather coats and heavy coats and boots??? Go figure????? I would have thought they would be like Florida and have swimsuits all year round and summer clothing out most of the year. Tuesday for dinner we went to Taco Tuesday with Howard and Mary at the golf club/grill.....
Wednesday after lunch we decided to go swimming for a while.
Thursday after lunch, we went to Walmart and around to another quilt store looking for flannel. They had baby flannel but nothing for Christmas. I'm still searching....
Friday morning Bill cleaned and did some laundry while I worked.. When I got home we decided to go swimming again for the afternoon. The water is so warm and nice .....
Friday afternoon after we got home our neighbors Jack and Connie who are workkampers asked us to go to eat fish at the golf/club/grill.
Saturday morning we did some things around here and then decided to go try to find a grocery store that had just opened and had good produce...we went up to Bell Road which is a huge corridor that runs east to west through Phoenix.... we didn't find Trader Joe's but we will next time. Evidently we were just down the wrong road .....
We came home and had dinner. Gary/Angela and Howard/Mary came over for an evening of Joker.... the girls won! Yippeee!!!!
This morning after church our friends from Estes Park, Rod/Jane came over to spend the afternoon. They also met Gary/Angela at Hart Ranch in South Dakota so we all went out to eat a late lunch/early dinner...It was great visiting with them... They are working in Mesa at a large campground for the winter. After they left I finished a Christmas wreath I have been working on.... now to work on our quilt for our bed... I started it in Alaska.....
Well, that about does it for this week.... this next week will be a busy one with several things going on here in the park..... a movie Monday night, fashion show Wednesday afternoon..... and a quilting meeting also Wed. afternoon.Thursday evening for dinner they are having a "themed" dinner....it is Italian so we are having spaghetti. Bill starts his stained glass class on Friday also...
Until next time!
BJ
A whole week has past since I last wrote and the week really flew by. We are enjoying our work and the time goes by fast. It seems we are settling in on a routine and then something changes that routine. Oh well.... nothing drastic happening anyway.
Bill works all day on Monday and Tuesday so I have my afternoon's to myself anyway. I went over to sew in the sewing room and the door was locked. So I went back to the office and got a key..now I can go sew and not wait for someone to let me in.
I came home and sewed for most of the afternoon....
Tuesday afternoon I went to a couple of quilt stores in Avondale area... Now I know where they are! It is amazing down here to me that they don't carry flannel.... guess there is not a need for it but the stores are full of leather coats and heavy coats and boots??? Go figure????? I would have thought they would be like Florida and have swimsuits all year round and summer clothing out most of the year. Tuesday for dinner we went to Taco Tuesday with Howard and Mary at the golf club/grill.....
Wednesday after lunch we decided to go swimming for a while.
Thursday after lunch, we went to Walmart and around to another quilt store looking for flannel. They had baby flannel but nothing for Christmas. I'm still searching....
Friday morning Bill cleaned and did some laundry while I worked.. When I got home we decided to go swimming again for the afternoon. The water is so warm and nice .....
Friday afternoon after we got home our neighbors Jack and Connie who are workkampers asked us to go to eat fish at the golf/club/grill.
Saturday morning we did some things around here and then decided to go try to find a grocery store that had just opened and had good produce...we went up to Bell Road which is a huge corridor that runs east to west through Phoenix.... we didn't find Trader Joe's but we will next time. Evidently we were just down the wrong road .....
We came home and had dinner. Gary/Angela and Howard/Mary came over for an evening of Joker.... the girls won! Yippeee!!!!
This morning after church our friends from Estes Park, Rod/Jane came over to spend the afternoon. They also met Gary/Angela at Hart Ranch in South Dakota so we all went out to eat a late lunch/early dinner...It was great visiting with them... They are working in Mesa at a large campground for the winter. After they left I finished a Christmas wreath I have been working on.... now to work on our quilt for our bed... I started it in Alaska.....
Well, that about does it for this week.... this next week will be a busy one with several things going on here in the park..... a movie Monday night, fashion show Wednesday afternoon..... and a quilting meeting also Wed. afternoon.Thursday evening for dinner they are having a "themed" dinner....it is Italian so we are having spaghetti. Bill starts his stained glass class on Friday also...
Until next time!
BJ
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Sunday evening
Today has been a busy day..... the weekend is almost over and we begin our week again!
After church this am we drove to find the Walmart east of here (I think).... we found a Sam's and then realized the Walmart maybe didn't have groceries but looking for carefully it did. So we went to Fry's and got a few things. We had a workkamper potluck at 3 this afternoon..... Around 2:45 it began to RAIN!!!! It really clouded up and the wind began to blow... It even hailed small hail...... It is still windy and cool now.... needless to say.... we ate and then came home.... too bad because it was nice visiting with others....
So we are home for the evening..... Bill of course is flipping channels watching football.... what else is new??? :)
Erin called late this afternoon and I got to talk to the 2 grandsons.... Bryson.... who is 3..... we had this conversation..... Grandma...did you move the camper to Arizona? Yes, we did..... "Is that in the southwest?"... Yes it is.... "It's a long way, huh, Grandma?" So cute!!!! :) Brayden lost his front teeth so now he has 3 missing.....
Until next time!
BJ
After church this am we drove to find the Walmart east of here (I think).... we found a Sam's and then realized the Walmart maybe didn't have groceries but looking for carefully it did. So we went to Fry's and got a few things. We had a workkamper potluck at 3 this afternoon..... Around 2:45 it began to RAIN!!!! It really clouded up and the wind began to blow... It even hailed small hail...... It is still windy and cool now.... needless to say.... we ate and then came home.... too bad because it was nice visiting with others....
So we are home for the evening..... Bill of course is flipping channels watching football.... what else is new??? :)
Erin called late this afternoon and I got to talk to the 2 grandsons.... Bryson.... who is 3..... we had this conversation..... Grandma...did you move the camper to Arizona? Yes, we did..... "Is that in the southwest?"... Yes it is.... "It's a long way, huh, Grandma?" So cute!!!! :) Brayden lost his front teeth so now he has 3 missing.....
Until next time!
BJ
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Saturday evening
We made it through a fast week of gorgeous weather and nice temp's mixing working in between! :)
I began my job Tuesday morning with the gals who are Hispanic "training" me...... they don't speak much English so I was asking and reasking! if I understood them correctly.... my job isn't very hard at all .....I think I have "my system" down by now and have enjoyed visiting with the people who come into the laundry room. Across the laundry room is a building that holds 4 rooms--- billards, woodshop, ceramics, and lapidary/stained glass... I have to clean one of those rooms each day and then across that building to complete the "square" is the post office which is cleaned daily. It takes me almost 3 1/2 hrs. to clean them... that includes washing windows and mopping a room floor each day except for the billards and woodshop..... the billards room is carpeted and the woodshop takes care of its own room because of the sawdust. I only have 1 bathroom to clean and that isn't dirty at all.... so I feel pretty lucky to do what I am doing.
Bill has been painting this week and is beginning to paint the building's I just described.... he works 2 1/2 days and is off 4....not bad!
We have been swimming a few times this week and enjoying the hot tub... we have been riding our bikes for the most part.... until we talked to our nephew Darrin and he told us their company had a golf cart they don't use ....so we worked out a deal and Darrin "delivered" 'their/our' golf cart on Thursday!!!! I LOVE THAT GOLF CART! I am just not the most steady on that darn bike and I know we will love using the golf cart. ... esp. going to the pool when we have a bag with a noodle each and towels, etc. to take with us. Thanks Darrin! I told him he just doesn't know how his "OLD" aunt appreciates it!
I went to "Quilts of Valor" meeting on Thursday evening.... it is a group that puts quilts together to send to the Veterans and soldiers..... we got almost 2 quilt tops done the other night.... they are probably going to be lap top quilt sizes so they will go fast.
Friday afternoon we cleaned and finished our laundry and then since it was my birthday we went out to eat with Gary/Angela and another couple...Howard and Mary... we went to a Mexican restaurant called Arriba's. It was very good and we all got plenty of food! We came back here and played "joker"...the guys won 2 out of 3 games.... we will get them next time! It was a fun evening.
This am we got around and went with Gary/Angela to a craft show at Sun City West several miles from here.... It was amazing how big that place was..... and the things they made was so neat! The place reminded us of "The Villages" in Florida.
When we left there we went to the Flea Market in Goodyear... very disappointing....not much there and NOTHING like we saw in Ocala last year. So we got home around 2:30 today and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. Late afternoon our nephew called, Jon from Michigan, and came by ...he had flown down to go to the car races here this weekend..... we had a great visit with him... We were glad to see him...it had been about 3 years since we had seen him.
So Bill is flipping football channels... now watching football..... I think it's time to sew!!!!
Have a good evening!
Until next time!
BJ
I began my job Tuesday morning with the gals who are Hispanic "training" me...... they don't speak much English so I was asking and reasking! if I understood them correctly.... my job isn't very hard at all .....I think I have "my system" down by now and have enjoyed visiting with the people who come into the laundry room. Across the laundry room is a building that holds 4 rooms--- billards, woodshop, ceramics, and lapidary/stained glass... I have to clean one of those rooms each day and then across that building to complete the "square" is the post office which is cleaned daily. It takes me almost 3 1/2 hrs. to clean them... that includes washing windows and mopping a room floor each day except for the billards and woodshop..... the billards room is carpeted and the woodshop takes care of its own room because of the sawdust. I only have 1 bathroom to clean and that isn't dirty at all.... so I feel pretty lucky to do what I am doing.
Bill has been painting this week and is beginning to paint the building's I just described.... he works 2 1/2 days and is off 4....not bad!
We have been swimming a few times this week and enjoying the hot tub... we have been riding our bikes for the most part.... until we talked to our nephew Darrin and he told us their company had a golf cart they don't use ....so we worked out a deal and Darrin "delivered" 'their/our' golf cart on Thursday!!!! I LOVE THAT GOLF CART! I am just not the most steady on that darn bike and I know we will love using the golf cart. ... esp. going to the pool when we have a bag with a noodle each and towels, etc. to take with us. Thanks Darrin! I told him he just doesn't know how his "OLD" aunt appreciates it!
I went to "Quilts of Valor" meeting on Thursday evening.... it is a group that puts quilts together to send to the Veterans and soldiers..... we got almost 2 quilt tops done the other night.... they are probably going to be lap top quilt sizes so they will go fast.
Friday afternoon we cleaned and finished our laundry and then since it was my birthday we went out to eat with Gary/Angela and another couple...Howard and Mary... we went to a Mexican restaurant called Arriba's. It was very good and we all got plenty of food! We came back here and played "joker"...the guys won 2 out of 3 games.... we will get them next time! It was a fun evening.
This am we got around and went with Gary/Angela to a craft show at Sun City West several miles from here.... It was amazing how big that place was..... and the things they made was so neat! The place reminded us of "The Villages" in Florida.
When we left there we went to the Flea Market in Goodyear... very disappointing....not much there and NOTHING like we saw in Ocala last year. So we got home around 2:30 today and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. Late afternoon our nephew called, Jon from Michigan, and came by ...he had flown down to go to the car races here this weekend..... we had a great visit with him... We were glad to see him...it had been about 3 years since we had seen him.
So Bill is flipping football channels... now watching football..... I think it's time to sew!!!!
Have a good evening!
Until next time!
BJ
Monday, November 3, 2008
pictures
The bottom picture is the entrance to the Resort.
Some of the buildings in the main "quad" part
Some of the buildings in the main "quad" part
Monday
We have had a few busy but also relaxing days getting adjusted around here. Last Thursday we rode around the area with Gary and Angela with them showing us the grocery stores, shopping areas etc... then we went out for dinner at a restaurant called "Sweet Tomatoes"....its like a Soup and Salad place....it was very good!
Friday, Bill worked part of the day and then we went to the store and got some food! Found our way around and came home... we went swimming in the afternoon as it was pretty warm out ...95!
Saturday, we relaxed and just hung around here. We went over to the restaurant here for dinner with Gary and Angela. It was good and now we know what the menu is.
Sunday, I felt "under the weather" a little bit..not sure if it was something I ate or the ice cream from Sat. night.... anyway...slept most of the day after we got home from church.... Bill got to watch football all day!
Monday morning we were ready to go to work! We had a meeting and then a walking tour of the buildings in the "pod".... I was told I didn't need to work as the gals who were cleaning had probably already cleaned so I got to go home! Bill is working now 2 days a week from 8-4:30 and then 1/2 day on Wednesday and off Thursday and Friday. He will enjoy that as he can do some of the morning things he wanted to do.
This afternoon I found my way to a Jo-ann's store and came home in time to go to water aerobics with Angela at 3pm for an hour. The water is wonderful and it is so nice and warm!
So now it time for dinner and I'm fixing the ham I was going to fix yesterday but didn't.... Bill is thrilled! NOT!!! :) I fixed a casserole..... oh well...it supper!
I'm going to attach some pictures so you can see our "winter area ".... enjoy!
Until next time!
BJ
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