Monthly Archives: April 2015
Last Day in Apache Junction . . .
Today is our last day here in Apache Junction. We’ve been here for a little over two weeks and we’ve had a great time as usual, especially since we spent it with our best friend’s, Nick and Terry Russell.
After some preliminary packing stuff away, Jan and I headed out about 1pm to the Wal-Mart over on Signal Butte for a few items. Getting there we realized we were at a Wal-Mart on the Saturday afternoon before Easter. Certainly not the best idea, but it turned out not to be too bad. The only thing was that they were out of stock on a couple of things we needed, but since we were passing the WM on Apache Trail on the way home we stopped off there too and found our missing items. So, all is good.
Since Nick and Terry were doing family things today, about 4pm Jan and I drove over to SanTan Village to have one last meal at the Famous Dave’s BBQthere.
Our waiter, Ethan, remembered us from our last visit just from what we ordered. (Not sure that’s a good thing.) By getting there about 4:30 we avoided the crowds that showed up by 5.
As usual I got the Ribs N Meats platter which gives me enough to take home. And by taking half of it home, it leaves room for Jan and I to split one of their Bread Puddings, really, really good.
Getting back home about 6, I started packing stuff away in the truck and getting us ready to roll tomorrow morning. One of the things I did was to fasten the front license plate back on where I’d painted the bumper a few days ago.
It really looks good, so I may just put another coat of the Rustoleum Protective Enamel on, and not try to change the color to a lighter one. It certainly looks better than it did when our son Chris started on it.
Great Job, Chris!
Nick and Terrycame over about7pm to say Goodbye for what’s probably the last time this year. We might meet up at the Verde Valley TT in May, but it’s a slim chance. So it will most likely be next spring in Florida.
As seems to be our habit, once we’re ready to roll tomorrow morning, we’ll run out and have breakfast, probably at the IHOPdown on Southern.
We are looking forward to the cooler weather up in Verde Valley compared to here. For the next week or so, it’s supposed to be sunny, with low 70’s in the daytime, and low 40’s at night. Really nice.
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Thought for the Day:
“History never repeats itself but it does rhyme†– Mark Twain
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It’s A Keeper . . .
Last night was our first night on our new Dream Serenity 2” Memory Foam Gel-Filled Mattress Topper that we got from Wal-Mart a couple of days ago. And it looks like it’s a keeper. At least I hope so, since we threw the old one away this afternoon.
Jan said the first thing she noticed that when she slept on her side for a while last night, she didn’t wake up with hip pain like she did on the old one. So she’s happy.
And I noticed that, although I couldn’t say the new topper was any ‘cooler’, at least it didn’t get ‘sweaty’ like the old one. So I’m happy, too.
I spent the afternoon working on some client website issues, as well as working with Nick on a couple of small problems resulting from his blog move. Then one of my clients called about some missing email address, but I finally squashed that bug too.
About 4:15 Jan and I headed over to Los Gringos Locos to meet Nick and Terry Russell for our last dinner together until probably next spring. It is possible though, that we’ll have some overlap at the Verde Valley Thousand Trails this coming May.
Nick gave me a couple of bundles of Gypsy Journals to spread around during our travels after we finished dinner, in case we don’t get together tomorrow evening for our last goodbyes.
Tomorrow I’ll start putting away some stuff outside, check the tire pressures and fluids, and load some things in the truck to get ready to leave Sunday morning and make the 135 mile trip up to the Verde Valley Thousand Trails where we’ll stay for two weeks before moving on to Las Vegas.
Then later tomorrow afternoon Jan and I plan to have linner/lupper at the Famous Dave’s BBQ over in SanTan Village and then pick up a few things at the Wal-Mart there.
Finishing up then, hopefully we’ll be able to have one last get-together with Nick and Terry.
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Thought for the Day:
Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.” – Ayn Rand
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