We started the month of November off with my first mystery shop and then ended the month with another mystery shop. One could never ‘live’ off the income from those mystery shops but they are a nice way to get a meal paid for.
I had my mammo and bone scan with a good report from the mammogram and a not so good report from the dexa scan so I am starting on a regiment of vitamins and minerals to try to reverse my numbers without using big pharma meds.
On Nov 10 the park had a Veteran’s Brunch with veterans getting a free meal so we paid just $3 for my meal. After church on Nov 11 we went to Olive Garden with Vince, Dawn and Bethany for Veteran’s Day and the fellows each had a free meal. We had leftovers which is always good. On Monday Nov 12 we again got together with Vince, Dawn and Bethany and visited Golden Corral for their Veteran’s Day free meal for vets. Golden Corral always seems to have good food and we came away stuffed. On Tues Nov 13 we went to a free Bar-B-Q at a sister park just a few miles from us. It was supposed to be at our park but not enough folks signed up so we joined the other park. It was really good Bar-B-Q! Sat Nov 17 the park had their free Thanksgiving Dinner for residents and we enjoyed that meal too. On Sunday Nov 18 after church we joined the Pot Blessing for the Silver Saints. I took green bean casserole and again, we ate too much!
Larry had a chiro appt. at the VA on Nov 19 and afterwards we stopped at the DAV to have Larry’s rating re-evaluated. It will take two years since there is such a backlog of returning vets ahead of him. That’s OK because by then he will really need it.
Thanksgiving we spent the day at our granddaughter’s home and had a wonderful time. Her new in-laws were there also and it gave us a chance to get to know them since we just met them at the wedding two months ago and didn’t really get a chance to talk with them then. It was great seeing the family again and having everyone there. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any “everyone together” pictures. Reading back over this it sounds like all we did all month was eat!
Colby, LaTia, Shane, Ellen, Bethany and Dawn after we had our main course on Thanksgiving
Bethany looking great
Shane, Colby and Katrina (Shane's girlfriend) enjoying a nice fire after we ate on Thanksgiving
Larry kept busy when he wasn’t eating, fixing a generator for Vince that a friend had given him. It is 35 years old and needed some ‘loving attention’ so now it runs like a champ! They don’t make them like that any more. It just won’t quit. He also found the overflow tank on our Aqua-Hot was cracked all the way down the side and a new one was $189. He ‘sleep on it’ and figured out how to replace it for $15 which made me very happy.
Larry's "fix" for the Aqua-Hot overflow tank
Our front door prop also broke and a new one of those was $139 plus shipping but again, he ‘slept on it’ and figured out how to repair the old one for less than $5. I think I will keep him around!
Larry fixing the door 'prop' on the front door. He is so talented! .........................
We moved the coach for the day to Countryside RV in Apache Junction on Nov 26. We ended up in a different site that we usually get that was quieter but very hard to get into so we have decided we are just too big for Countryside and in the future will take just day trips to rotate the wheel bearings and “exercise” the engine and transmission. We stopped at Camping World in Mesa on the way to AJ and bought new A/C shrouds since our old ones are cracked and brittle. Only trouble was we didn’t open the boxes until we returned to Sunrise Heights and found they are the wrong ones! I ended up calling Camping World and talked to the manager and Nov 30 they sent their parts runner out with the correct ones and picked up the wrong ones. That was a real PTL since it is a 70 mile round time run and the shrouds are too big for the car so we would have had to take the motorhome. God is good all the time!
The November full moon over a neighbor's place all decorated for the holidays in Phoenix
Have a Happy Hanukkah and a very Merry Christmas!
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