Catalina pool tournament

Back to Catalina, our home park, where we've been members since 1992. It just feels like home to us. Got our same spot #227 on the main drag and before we could finish parking, Maureen and Ed, our old neighbours from Pacific Border walked by and Van and Edie are down the road.
Wonderful weather this week, 89 - 90's all week.
Ron and I played pool today, as we do twice a week and he came 2nd winning a sirloin hamburger and I came 3rd, winning the ice cream bar.

Spring storm

Well, we know you're having more and more rain, so you'll be happy to know that we had 3 days of blowing wind and even a few raindrops, not even enough to clean the dust off the car unfortunately. But it was cool to about 54 at night and 65 in the morning. We woke to 8 - 12" fresh snow on Big Bear Mtn, a skiing resort and San Jacinte where the Palm Springs Aerial tram goes to the top. This picture is from last winter so it wasn't nearly as heavy as this but it was very pretty and sure blew cool air down on us for a couple of days.
We met Terry at the VFW for tacos and then had a good reason to go get the shopping done. Now we're back to beautiful weather with 80 coming up this weekend.

A week at Desert Pools

After 2 weeks at Catalina Spa, it was time to move around the corner to Desert Pools, a Western Horizon member park which we access on AOR, Adventure Outdoor Resorts. When you leave this park, you have explicit reminders to make sure you're safe for travel.
Barb and Dave Dryer from our caravan are there and then we discovered Jim and Adele of Keromeos, also from the caravan, as well. The six of us had a great visit with many memories and laughs. As Barb says after 44 days together through thick or thin, we all feel like family.
We had the group over Sunday to say goodbye to Barbers and then had Ted and Elaine stayed for dinner and 3 rousing games of pegs and jokers which the girls won 2 out of 3.

Crashing their happy hour

Ted and Elaine were having happy hour today and didn't know we were back, so we packed our cooler with everything you need and drove down to Indian Waters in Indio. We parked at the edge of their lot and were going to 'dry camp' there until they recognized our green car and us and gave us permission to 'crash' the party. It was great to see everybody.
On our way, we passed this. It's so interesting to see how things are done differently in different places. This looks like 3 palm tress, but a closer look will show you that the tallest one is, in fact, a transformer disguised as a palm tree to keep the skyline esthetically pleasing. This is what CJ would like to put in front of his house to disguise the power pole that mars their ocean view.

Enjoying winter sunshine

Boy, it this ever the way to spend winter. Apparently it's going to rain/snow again at home, what a terrible winter B.C. has had. We're busy with friends, biking, walking around the patio sales, cards, swimming and everything else.
We had Joan and Don from Edmonton over for a visit and crib for the boys while Joan and I compared sewing notes. She's made aprons and I've done potholders and children's soft counting books for new babies. Then we met the Barbers and Ron's old school friend, Terry and wife Sandra at the Pak Inn for Chinese food and a good visit.
Here we are with the Barbers and Glen enjoying the sunshine.

Fun with the Barbers

It's in the 90's and while we don't want to complain, you spend a lot of time in the pool cooling off.
Ron's back to Bocci twice a week and we're playing pool every Wed and Sat. After 2 days in the very back row because the park was jammed full when we got here, we moved to a spot on the main street on the way to the pool. We really enjoy being here.
Had the Barbers over for happy hour. They're very busy working at the Pacific Life Tennis Tournament in Indian Wells, the 5th largest in the world. This gives them two guest passes, so Marg and Brad are watching some great tennis matches as well.

Visit with Glen

Having a great time. My sister, Marg and husband Brad are over at Caliente visiting his folks, our friends, Mel and Audrey. We had the usual good dinner together Sunday at the Elephant Bar. Marg and I have gone to Burkes, a discount fashion place and the quilt store, where Marg picked up the nicest fat quarter of red tulips.
Our friend, Glen, from home came up from Hemet today for crib with Ron. We went to the VFW for lunch, then played in the Pool tournament where Glen won an ice cream bar for 2nd place, which he gave to me and I enjoyed.