Had a nice dinner at Wendy and Dave's Sunday evening. Wendy fed us a yummy chicken casserole, their house looks so pretty decorated for Christmas, although they didn't have their tree up yet.
Monday I helped cut up vegetables for Soup on Tuesday, I had to be there in the clubhouse at 8 AM, ouch. But it went smoothly and quickly, as everyone knew what they had to do. At 9:30 there was a Board Meeting for owners here in our park, Lary was introduced because he has decided to stand for the board, it will be a 2 year appointment for him. My term on the Entertainment Committee is up at the same time as he starts, so that's good. As I am fighting a cold, the rest of the day passed in a blur.
Tuesday I had to be back at the clubhouse at 10:30 AM to prepare for the soup luncheon that we were serving at noon, we set up the tables, cut up the fresh Costco bread, the soups were all on the boil, turkey, chicken and a seafood chowder. We also set out dishes of butter, but the crew knows what to do, so we were through by 11ish, and I returned to the house. I begged off serving the soups to our members starting at 11:45 so we could go to Chip's for a visit and lunch there.
Lary had a present he had made for Chip, a wood burning plaque of a road runner, as there is one that visits Chip fairly regularly. It even comes into his house at times, weird. Chip has picked it up in a towel to take it outside, which is amazing, they have razor sharp beaks and can kill rattlers, they are so strong. Chip has never been hurt by the big birds yet.
Our friend Chip had invited us over to his house for soup, so I had begged off serving soup at our clubhouse, and we raced off to Chip's place. Apparently we were waaaaaay too early, but I had forgotten that he'd changed his mind a couple times about the exact time, and we arrived there much to his horror- very early.
He was polite, we stayed and had a bit of a visit before Annie arrived. We had yummy Mexican albondigas (meatball) soup with chips and cheddar cheese on it, plus heated tortillas with avocado salsa. Then Chip announced that as it was my birthday soon, he'd made me something special, he arrived with a plate with a candle in a holder the middle of it, surrounded by Rocky Road and nut brittle candy. Nice surprise for me, Chip makes tons of candy for presents for his friends, and it's so good.
Today Wednesday a friend of ours here in the park is building us some hand railings on our porch, so he did that this morning, and this afternoon we went over to a neighboring park to the cast party after the Renaissance play that we had performed 10 days or so ago. We returned our costumes to the lady and said that we'd enjoyed ourselves, but didn't want to do a repeat performance next year, she seemed disappointed, but we have our own commitments, and the play rehearsals take up quite a bit of precious time. We each took a silly present, and had an exchange, and then we could steal each other's presents, which was kind of fun. We all took some kind of appie, and she gave us hot apple cider.
She wants to have a core of dedicated folks down here who want to do the play each year, and call themselves the Desert Edge players, but although we had fun, that's enough for us just this one year.
Tomorrow is coffee and donuts here in the morning, and in the evening we have asked Wendy and Dave to meet us and go out for dinner at a nice restaurant over on Hwy 111 by the Mary Pickford Theatre complex. The restaurant is called Trilusa. Looking forward to that; it was cloudy today and overcast a bit, with temps in the mid 70s, but we think it is cooling off, with cooler temps and wind in the immediate forecast, drat it. Oh well, it's winter even in the desert.
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