Countdown to leaving

I started April out with a new retail shop in Scottsdale and also went to Apple for another personal training class in i-photo.
We had a great community dinner of chicken breasts, real mashed potatoes and gravy, corn garlic bread and chocolate cake on April 5th.  Usually they have the breakfast the first week and dinner the third week but because of Easter, they had dinner the first weekend and breakfast the third weekend.  Todd had business in Scottsdale so he came to see us on April 10.  We had a nice visit.

 Todd visiting us


The community yard sale was April 12 and the weather was really nice.  Although we didn't have a lot of visitors we sold around $100 worth of 'stuff' that we don't have to take with us or store.  The folks I talked to in the community said they had a good sale too.

Dawn, Vince and Bethany joined us for  a Seder Dinner April 13 at the same local church we went to last year.  They had a new Rabbi and he was funny and very interesting.  I always learn something new each time we attend a Seder.  The food was good too.  We had lamb and chicken. (That's lamb on the plate.)

Dawn at the Seder

   Vince at the Seder

Bethany at the Seder with her new hair do

           Us at the Seder with the new Rabbi.  He ran over to get in the picture.


April 17 we had electrical problems with the electric going off, then coming on and going off again.  It did that most of the day and I called APS twice.  Just as we were going to bed around 1 AM the electric was out again so I went outside and the APS repair man was outside at the neighbors.  He came right over and spent nearly an hour checking everything out (transformer, electric box and Larry's junction box so we can run both the MH and the trailer from one 50 amp plug) and finally found the breaker was going bad, getting hot and then shorting out.  I reported it Friday morning to the office and it was fixed by noon.  Hallelujah!

I ended the month with a last shop at a Mexican Restaurant and we came away stuffed and happy.  I don't know if I will be able to do any more shops when we move or not as both Cottonwood and LaPine are small towns and shops are usually in big cities.  It is fun to do shops and get paid to eat or buy something I can use.

Larry has finished re-working the trailer and winch for our departure May 6 and is now busy making sure everything is ready on the coach.  We are looking forward to cooler weather and a return to Oregon.  We did not go to OR last year and missed seeing it.