Can't believe that it's Saturday evening, and I haven't posted til now. Today was the day of the Desert Hot Springs parade, Lary woke up feeling dreadful, and didn't get out of bed. So off I headed to put the finishing touches on the float and ride in to DHS. We arrived about 10 or so, with only one oopsie when the driver of the truck and flatbed passed under a tree too closely for the flags that were flying from the truck. Drat, a flagpole got bent. Pretty easily remedied, thankfully.
We were only 5 on the float, a bit lame I felt, but oh well, we were enthusiastic at least. Queen and King made their appearance, Ronita the organizer, Liz who we had pressed into service at the last moment due to sickness etc., and me the jester. So 2 courtly ladies, the King and Queen and the jester. We were #53 in the parade so we waited in the warm sun, thankfully for our turn. The staging happened on roads at a right angle to the parade, so you just joined in when your space came available. There were tons of old cars, princesses and a queen, vaqueros the Mexican style cowboys on their spirited horses, marching bands of military and school children, in short a nice parade for DHS.
During the parade the wind picked up til I thought once again that my jester hat would blow off, and 2 of my jingle bells fell off, but we made it, Bob from Healing Waters was a great driver, smooth as anything, as we were seated in chairs on the flatbed, no railings. All well, and we finished without incident, and all of us got right into the Christmas spirit, waving and saying Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad. Some of the viewers on the street looked frozen solid due to the wind having picked up. At Ronita's home once again we deconstructed the float, didn't take nearly as long as decorating it.
Ronita, the organizer of our Renaissance play gave us a small tub of leftover stew, so I came home and heated it up for lunch for both of us. We seem to be developing colds again, very frustrating as we had them when we were cruising too, in late October. Bummer, I think we have kind of been rushing around quite a lot. The Renaissance play was a bit more of a time consumer than we originally realized.
Friends of ours Bernice and Gordon were over in Catalina Spa from Keremeos, so we visited with them quite a bit this past week, as they were just passing through on their way to Bashford's RV park out in Niland by the Fountain of Youth RV Park. They were having to replace their hot water tank in their RV as it was leaking, so that was snagging up their plans of freedom.
We had the most wonderful flute lesson with Annie on Tuesday, she showed us how to play our flutes with a guitarist who was playing 3 basic chords, and we blended our flutes with Annie's guitar playing, giving us an idea of how to join together with a guitar player. Super exciting for us, as there is a man here in our park who we are dying to play music with.
I got a short hair do, a bit too short, but I am spiking it for the moment, til it grows a bit. New hairdresser, so a break-in period. She is Lindsey at Desert Strands on Palm Drive in DHS, a really nice young woman, and I will enjoy going there instead of crossing town as I did the past years for a haircut.
Wednesday we roared down to Borrego Springs, south of here, a journey of just over an hour, to pick up some manzanita burls as mounts for Lary and Dave's bird carvings of the belted kingfisher that they are doing this year. We shopped a bit, and enjoyed the day together, the 4 of us. Then we had dinner out before returning home, we were both dragging a bit by then.
Thursday morning was coffee and the usual business meeting in the clubhouse, then right after that we decorated the clubhouse, it looks very nice, but was a large task with just a few volunteers, a bit of a disappointment. Lary carved both Thursday and Friday afternoon, but I Di helped to decorate the float for the Saturday parade in Desert Hot Springs. Minimalist décor, but still time consuming.
Tomorrow Sunday we are invited over to Dave and Wendy's for dinner which should be grand. They are coming to us for Christmas, and I am already selling tickets for the New Year's dinner and dance here at our park. Prime rib dinner I believe, and a band to dance to.
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