Wonderful AZ weather at last!

I woke up  Oct 7 to find red spots that I thought were bug bites and tried to figure out what kind of bug would bite me on just one leg above the knee and no where else. 

my 'bug' bites

After four days of confusion, a friend suggested it looked like a rash to her and that set me on a different course.  The following Monday I went to the doctor and she confirmed my then suspicion that I had shingles. 

Full blown shingles

Fortunately God has been very good to me and I had a mild case with very little pain and there are just a few flat spots left.  Another friend said shingles are caused by a vitamin B deficiency so I immediately started taking Vitamin B so hopefully I won’t have a re-occurance as another friend said she got shingles four different times!

We finally closed on the Prescott house and now we have to make a final accounting and mail it to all the beneficiaries for their approval and then everything can be divided up and closing checks sent.  It will be nice when everything is said and done so we can get on with life.

Larry has been enjoying his bike since the weather has turned so nice finally.  Larry has been helping put in a central vacuum in the new house and he hurt his thumb working on it and ended up spending seven hours at the VA to get it looked at.  He has return visits scheduled for Dec.

Working as a team to get the pipes for the central vac cut

Outlet in the hall for the central vacuum

Since the phone plan we are on is changing Nov 1 we can be grandfathered in by upgrading our phones now so we both have new i-phones, 6s and 6s+.  This means we still get unlimited data which is a BIG deal for us since our MiFi uses around 50 GB a month.

Oct 24 we went to the community dinner and learned there are some serious problems and there will be no more community dinners from now on.  In years past the park paid for free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners but that is no more.  It is a shame that people cannot communicate with one another so feelings are hurt and then everyone suffers.

The house is coming along quite nicely and they should be able to start the stucco spray on Monday. 

Nice front door with Larry checking out the doorbell wire, ready for the stucco

                             

House from the road ready for stucco

                                 

The ride from our place to the new house is really nice on the bike now.  Larry has been doing some 'horse trading' and we were sorry we didn’t go on the bike one night last week as it would have been a really nice ride.