Craft Class

I attended a craft class on Sat morning to make a collage picture that I had liked on the wall of my favourite store  "In a Pear Tree". There were 7 of us taking the class from the artist that has lots of her quirky pieces for sale in the store. It was very well done with all pieces we needed to use, cut a ahead and assembled in plastic bags for us. The class was about 2.5 hours long and I had a great time learning a new craft idea.

Of course when I got home, my create juices were running fast, so I made a couple more hangings for the living room.... These I made in about 20 mins and I am quite happy how they look from a distance ...ha ha















Saturday evening was the Mystery Dinner where you had to decide what you were getting for supper from a list of words that  had a hidden meaning related to the item on the menu. The meal was three course and the following where how I had my meal.

First course:      Baked Potato with sour cream
                          Bun
                         Apple sauce
                         Cup of Iced Tea

Second Course: Napkin
                          Peas, Beans and Corn
                          Caesar Salad
                          Egg roll
                          Fork

Third Course:   Spoon
                          Roast Pork
                          Knife
                          Pineapple Upside down Cake

Harvey was just ready for anything in any order. But lucked out getting a knife and fork with his first course

Back at it.

It seems I have not posted for a few days but I will just blame it on having company..... But really it is just getting stressed trying to do it when my Internet connection goes out half way through each time. Today I am over in the Club house and the connection is great.
As far as the dental plate, I cancelled out of my appointment knowing that the cost would be so big even for the consultation and I don't think it can be fixed. I also slept in!!
We have been on one bus trip to another casino where I had a great machine and played on it all day. I won and lost and came home up $50 but others in our house did not do as well. lol
Vel and I spent one day just doing the stores in the Promenade Mall. Well actually after about half the stores, we were pooped out and came home. There were lots of great deals and I got 2 nice pairs of dress pants for $9 each and many tops (some even jewelled) for around $5 each .

Yesterday we did a day trip up to Goldfield Ghost Town in Apache Junction where we walked the streets of the old west, went into the saloons, bordellos and other shops and watched a gun fight in the street in front of us.

 I was taking pictures out on the street and Vel and Harvey were  sitting on the bench infront of a store and one of the bad guys came up to me and asked who are those two you are taking pictures of....I said "my husband and sister in law ."

.He asked if I wanted them taken out and I said.."What would it cost?" and he said "What would you pay?"...I said...".Well, a girl in a bordello costs $2.00 , so a fiver should do the job"... He agreed and said he would take the bodies to Boot Hill for the price as well.
Later in the day we saw him and I said..I thought you were going to take out my hubby... He said "We did ..last night... and he is a heavy drinker but a great dancer lol"

We also went to Apacheland Movie Studios or what is left of it. This was a place that a lot of famous old movie stars made movies...like Elvis in "Charro" ,also TV shows like "Death Valley Days", "Have Gun Will Travel". "Rawhide". "Wagon Train", "Bonanza" and many many more.
The church where Elvis lay dying in "Charro" has now been made into a memorial chapel to Elvis.
There have been two suspicious fires at this place that have destroyed many buildings.

On the way home we stopped for gas and Harvey realized that he had never got back his credit card after paying for our lunch at the Mammoth Saloon. We were too far away to go back so we phoned Mastercard to cancel our cards.....Sheesh how do I shop now.....
I also tried to call my friend at the credit union to ask her about new cards and somehow when I thought I did not get her, I did not cancel the call,  so her and another friend  listened in, while we drove home arguing about being lost near the prisons in Florence and how fast Harvey was driving. I am glad we were able to give them something to laugh about before they left for the day....lol

Alive and well

All is well here at Sunscape, but Internet connection is awful. Every time I try to write something "poof" it disappears as I lose connection.
Tues at 8:00 am I am going to a different dentist office that assures me someone will look at my denture and tell me what can be done and will not x-ray my head....
Saturday the phone rang and Harvey answered it and it was the Aspen Dental Office (the Mafia guy) and it was a recording  saying " We are sorry we were not able to help you yesterday and value your business so please phone back and make another appointment" Oh I will phone back and tell them to please take all the personal information I was forced to give them and to tear it up in little bits and shove it up their ...x-ray machine...
Yesterday was the Street Fair and Car show and it was fabulous. I would think  there were at least  150 booths in the downtown streets and lots of antique cars.  We did buy a few things but found lots we liked and hoped to go back to get later but the feet just wore out. 
Next was a half hour drive to Maricopa to Harrah's Ak Chin Casino and had their Seafood buffet. Now it was free for signing up for their player card but we saw some paying $24 for it. It was ok but I would never have paid that amount , and I certainly have had better buffets.

Today we shopped a bit and then went out to Eloy again to watch the skydivers. We figured it was a place to sit in the sun and enjoy the jumps....As soon as we got there the sky clouded over the sun went away and it was cold so we came home soon.
Tonight was we had a choice paying $8 to listen to a semi famous Yodeler or go play Trivia. We chose Trivia and only 8 showed up. Some of the hardest questions I have ever heard.....like "What is the name of the worlds deepest trench?  For those of you wanting the answer it was Mariana Trench......I never even knew that they named trenches ........

Tomorrow we leave at 8:30 am on a bus trip to Wild Horse Casino for the day....It costs $5.00 and we get in on lots of money draws and other free stuff.  As I said before  "I will never be one of those seniors who goes south for the winter, plays bingo and goes on free bus trips"  Oh dear what has happened to me......

Well it is now 9:35 pm and 5 mins past my bed time...... so Goodnight

Thought of the day

My friend Donna gave me a motivational thought calandar that I have on my kitchen counter. This is the one for two days ago...

WELL I DID      MANY TIMES

Complete Frustration

A few days ago, I developed a sore spot under my bottom partial dental plate and had to take it out to let it heal. Some how two days later I found that it was bent and a crack was in the metal part that attached to my four remaining teeth. I had it in my pocket and so I sat on it or some other ridiculous accident happened to cause this crack.  I ate like a rabbit for a day and smiled carefully before I decided I needed to find a denturist to see if it could be fixed and how much? Now at home a denturist is very easy to find....Phone Pratt or Plaza Denture Clinic ..... I went to the yellow pages and not a denturist listed in Casa Grande. Oh yes 7 pages of dentists but it said they did denture repairs. I closed my eyes and picked one, made a phone call and had an appointment at 3:15. They said to fill out the paper work on line and that would speed things up. I did and printed it off to take with me.
I found the big building in the Walmart lot that yelled "RICH" entered and was told that there were 3 more pages to fill in.....ok??? I had to answer every medical history question you could imagine from was I nursing? to every surgery I might have had, every drug I had taken in the last year to height, weight and how many pimples on my butt....well not really the last one, but they might as well have asked.....
I was soon called in and taken to a small room where I was told to hang my purse on a hook way up high.....I said "WHY" ? She said "so you can go stand in front of the x-ray machine for your x-rays".....I replied  "You have to be kidding?" She said "No ..you are a new patient and must have x-rays but they are free the first time."  I said "I am here to have my dental plate looked at to see if it can be fixed and I do not believe in x-rays unless they are for a medical problem I am dealing with....."
She said "I will go talk to the office manager" She came back and told me to go have a chair and he would be out to talk to me. After 10 mins he came out and said in a stern Mafia type voice "So I hear you do not want an x-ray?" I said "you are right. I phoned and asked if I could have my dental plate looked at to see if it could be fixed." He said the only way to do that is to be made a patient first with x-rays and dental check up , cleaning etc and then they would assess my plate. I said "That is pure Bull shit and absolutely ridiculous. I came to have a piece of plastic in my purse looked at and not to have a medical procedure on my body." He said "well you will not find a place in town that is just a dental lab and so Good bye"... I said $#^%$#@@,  No,  I didn't but if I was a swearing woman..I am sure I would have.......     I left very frustrated and did what any fat woman would do....I went and bought an ice cream cone...
We are so lucky to live in Canada where universal health care is free and never have to be asked if we have insurance etc and where medical people do not rule the government..... Go Obama...fix America...I know you can......
I can not even imagine having to pay the high premiums Americans do for medical insurance, and having to think about cost when it comes to medical procedures like doctor visits, x-rays, surgery, birth of babies, MIR's,  fixing broken bones etc.  We are so advanced over the US when it comes to health....

So after that rant. back to my dental plate and what I did..after the ice cream....I went to Walmart and bought crazy glue and put it on the crack. I washed it good this morning and put into my mouth not sure if it would poison me or what.    Now the next thing is to drive 2 hours and go to Mexico and get a new plate in a few hours for cheap..... Just to find a free day to do that.........

Boring

Monday was a very laid back day where we did zippo.  I had some allergy symptoms pop up at 2 am and by 4am I took a nighttime Benydril and thus slept until 9 and felt like crap all day long. I washed some clothes, went to the club house to do some computer work (much stronger signal over there).Harvey went for a long walk and marvelled at the amount of water sitting on sand after our 12 hour rain. The evening was spent watching the Betty White Birthday Special on TV ....
See I told you it was a boring day and not worth me writing it....

Today we are off to town to get an oil change, a hair cut for Harvey, groceries and the Farmers Market for great artisan breads and buns.......

Well they must have noticed how boring this post was as a huge hot air balloon just came down in the garbage area. We think it must be a problem as why would a hot air balloon sit down there,,,,must be an easier way to get rid of your trash lol

Monday Monday

It looks like I took the weekend off and did not post at all.... I actually don't know the difference between weekday and weekend..they all look the same when you are retired.

Saturday morning was the craft sale and it started at 8 am. Now who goes to garage sales at 8 am...that is a ridiculous time but, many seniors had been up for hours and ready for the excitement.....lol 
I sold about $70 of cards but purchased about $140 of things that vendors around me were selling. Good thing I do not do that for a living.
One of the vendors that I was chatting with asked if I was setting up a table next month and I said "No". He said " Well the talk is, that none of the vendors are coming either if you are not going to be here to buy our stuff lol "  Funny guy.....

The vendor across from me was selling neat T shirts and sweat shirts that I really liked and so I bought, the man next to me on one side sold polished wood things and I bought a frig magnet that is the strongest magnet I have ever found. He said one magnet will hold a whole newspaper on the frig door and it does. BUT...who wants a newspaer stuck to their frig door....

I also bought a sweater jacket, a necklace and a padded bag to hold my GPS and cords. Harvey bought a Sunscape RV Park polo shirt and I begged him to go find other things to buy to ease my guilt but he did not....

After the craft sale was over at noon, we headed over to the Fair grounds which is just down the road where the Home, Health and Garden show was going on along with a car and motorcycle show.
We spent about an hour there ( not good at all) and home for supper and off to the Texas Holdum tourney at 7 pm. Harvey was able to hold out till the last table and won 4th prize of $25.....I was about the 4th of the 25 players that ran out of chips and so I was home about an hour before Harvey.

Sunday morning saw us off to Florence to pick up the Bergs and off to Queen Creek Olive Mill for their "Festival of the New Oil"  We looked forward to lunch and sitting out under the olive trees and listen to all the live music and goings on while we sampled wine and cheese . We had our lunch, looked around the wonderful store and then outside. As we were sampling our wine, the rain started and got quite heavy so we headed inside to sample all the different kinds of olive oils, balsamic vinegars, and tapenades.....Oh they were fabulous and nothing you can buy in the local store can hold a candle to any of them. We bought Roasted Garlic Olive Oil, Meyer Lemon Olive Oil, Caramelized Red Onion and Fig Tapenade and 3 bottles of  Balsamic vinegar --aged, fig, and chili.  The chocolate olive oil was very interesting but did not buy....

Karen got a new app for her iPhone called "Aging Booth" You take your picture and then it ages you....Karen's was so funny so I tried it ...How do you think I look with white hair...I just may go that route ....

and here is Karen's for those of you that are not her friend on Facebook.