Sunday, October 21st, 2012

We have come to the conclusion that October 2nd is too early to arrive in Arizona, at least for us anyway! The air-conditioning was turned on by 9:30 every morning for the first two weeks and sometimes ran through the night with the temperature at 39C. Theses temps. do nothing for my high blood pressure-I am truly suffering in this heat!! It has cooled down to 36C now and in the evenings, around 9:30 we even open all windows and doors, as it cools down to 19C. This week autumn is to be arriving with the highs of 29C, we'll believe it when that air-conditioner finally gets a rest! There are a lot of fruit trees here in the park and we feel it is our duty to "unburden" them. Across the street there is a lemon tree that I have been picking and making the most awesome lemonade with. Next door, an orange tree that Larry picks every so often, and while on our evening walks we found a  grapefruit tree that needs to be relieved of it's burden as well. These fruits sure taste better than the store bought ones!

At the camp ground in Williams AZ our satellite dish blew over and broke while we were exploring the Grand Canyon, so that was the first thing on Larry's to do list. Thank goodness I packed my "special" glue and was able to glue the white thingy (better known as the LNB) onto the arm. Unfortunately the dish itself was beyond repair, but after a few phone calls he found an installer that had a dish that Larry figured he could gerri-rig. So, off to Home Depot to buy an electric drill, apparently I rushed his packing and he forgot his in the garage, and a bigger pole to mount the dish on. A few hours later we have TV, just in time to watch the Saskatoon news for the first time since we left home, he's a happy boy now, and I must say pretty handy, too.

The next day we were off to Camping World, but not until Larry put on the space-saver tire (remember it's 41C right now!) so we could drive to Goodyear and have them take out the 2 screws we gathered from the parking lot at Home Depot. When we finally got to Camping World I got a cart to fill, I like shopping there, we don't have them back home and the prices are good. We purchased wheel covers, a vent cover, candles, and some RV books for Larry to read. Larry went up onto the roof the next day and installed the vent cover because it was only 32C that day!

On October 12th we joined everyone around the pool for the Oktoberfest celebration. There was sausages, brats, pretzels, sauerkraut, red cabbage, noodles with goulash, and strudel for desert. The German beer, water, and "normal" beer flowed as we ate and listed to the band, there was dancing, too. It was all free, too, except the beer steins Larry and I purchased, which we filled repeatedly, trying all the different German beers!

My friend Heather and her husband Lloyd stopped in for a visit on their way to their winter home in Weslaco Texas. We had a wonderful visit and went to the Olive Garden with them for lunch, then said good-bye, as they wanted to be in Rosswell New Mexico that night, and home in Texas by the weekend. We've been to the famous Mesa Market a few times, but as for site seeing, we're waiting for the cooler weather to come.