Friday, December 3rd

We drove for an hour to get to Chandler to experience the tree lighting ceremony (made of over 1,000 tumbleweeds) and found out it is scheduled for TOMORROW!!!

Just found out that Ethel has been released from hospital and is at home - can you believe that?????  She can hardly walk, is so weak, refused to go to Sunnyside for recuperation and refused night care.  Her useless grand-daughter who lives in Waterloo and only has contact with Ethel once or twice a year, decided to be a Great White Knight and 'rescue' her - took her clothes to the hospital this morning at 7:30 am so Ethel had something to wear to go home.

Tomorrow she (the Grand-daughter) is leaving for Florida for two weeks........................so Marg, a friend in the building and Audree, her daughter-in-law have to pick up the pieces.  It's really too bad that these decisions are made without thinking it through and then everyone else has to pick up the pieces.

Oh well, now that I've vented I can go to bed.

Getting Settled

We arrived yesterday (around 5:30 pm) in Gold Canyon and had dinner with Bonnie and Sheldon.  We played Solo last night with them.  They left this morning to fly to Detroit for two months.

We are unpacked and settled in.  After getting groceries and touring around to see the changes during the past three years, we came back and vegged out.

What beautiful weather - ate breakfast and lunch on the patio.  It's been unusually warm and it is expected to be this way for the rest of the week.

We are off to attend a tree lighting ceremony tomorrow night.  It consists of over 1,000 tumbleweeds so it should be quite a sight - different from what we normally visualize a Christmas tree to be.

Saturday we are attending the Tempe Festival of the Arts with over 400 vendors and Sunday we are going to see what has been happening at the Mesa Flea Market.  I just read that there are 1,600 vendors there.  Yippee - we will be busy........

D.

Tuesday November 30th

We went through some snow today between Texas and New Mexico.  It is very cold here - temperature is around zero!  We are in Albuquerque New Mexico, toured Albuquerque Olde Towne and staying at a fabulous Best Western.  We walked to Olde Towne and wandered around for a few hours then had a nice mexican dinner.

Got bad news today - my cousin's wife Pat Haffner died Monday am.  She and I were buddies during my single days and spent a lot of time and holidays together.  We toured New York City and area and she spent time with me when I was in Florida during my Fleamarket days. 

We are off to Arizona tomorrow and will get there in the afternoon and get settled finally.

Gas City, Indiana

Being here reminds me of when I had Xplornet as our server in Mount Forest!  It's taken me 4 hours just to get a few emails - get kicked out every few minutes. 

Talked with Ethel's daughter-in-law tonight and she said Ethel is doing okay, just okay.  We will see how things are in the next week. 

We played Skip-po tonight and I won - yippee!  We will be on the road early tomorrow.

Getting Packed

I'm still trying to get the hang of this, so please bear with me.  I am giving my mobile stick to our neighbour to use for 2-1/2 months.  I won't need it because most motels have WiFi and my cousin Bonnie has internet at her house that I can use.

Last minute packing is done so just have to get ready to go out for dinner, then sleep time.  We hope to be on the road by 7 am................that is according to the 'driver'.

November 19th, 2010

Still trying to figure this thing out.  Getting REALLY excited about leaving.  Got insurance coverage and go to last minute Doctors visits, then ready to pack!

November 1st

Just trying to figure out this "BLOG" thing. I still don't know how to invite friends to share with.