Interesting Tid Bit

I got an e-mail yesterday and it said that October 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in it. According to the e-mail this only happens once in 823 years!! Being retired, every day is a "weekend" for us, but oh how I would have liked that when going to school or working!!! Enjoy the 5th weekend, which is Hallowe'en weekend!

Whistler

Every fall our church has a "Whistler Retreat". We've never gone to it because by the time you drive up there, pay for the hotel and conference fees then eat out both days (especially at Whistler prices) it gets rather expensive. I don't consider myself "cheap" but we could spend 3 or 4 WEEKS in the trailer for what we'd pay for 2 nights/3 days!!!! (I know, our trailer and campground memberships have us totally spoiled!!) Well, this year our friends who have a time share booked a 3 bedroom townhouse for the week and asked if we'd like to stay with them on the weekend. How could we say "no"! It was absolutely lovely, we had a full kitchen so we took turns cooking...it's fun cooking with friends, we played canasta and chatted up a storm. The speaker was really interesting and we couldn't have asked for better weather!

Passing Grades

Last week B took the car in for air care inspection and it passed!!! Today we went to the skin specialist and got the results from the biopsy on B's mole...passed that one too!!! What a relief!!

Home Again

We managed to get away in the trailer for a few nights. Went to Beachwood this time because we've only been there 7 nights this year. Haven't been there for Thanksgiving weekend for several years. When we used to go down there on Thanksgiving there weren't that many people there...what a surprise this year...it was almost full!!! The good thing about it being so full is that we met several friends whom we haven't seen this year. It was so great to sit around campfires chatting and catching up. Also my cousin J and her husband came and visited us at the trailer one night. On the whole the weather was pretty good. One night was really windy and rainy but we were inside and nice and cozy.

Fred Meyer's had a special sale on for their Canadian customers. The ad was printed in some of the Canadian local papers...unfortunately we didn't get one but as we were going through the checkout I asked and the teller gave me one of the pages of coupons. That was so nice of her because one of the coupons was for turkey @ 39 cents per pound...so now I've got a turkey for Christmas!

Canasta

I haven't had my computer hooked up for a couple of days. Hubby built me a new computer stand for my lap top...now things don't go dancing all over the place when I want to print something!! Sure a lot better than the wobbly card table!!!

We also had a couple of fun days gadding about. Thursday we went down to Northwood casino to cash in our "free" money coupons and have the $3 pizza, pasta, baked potato (and other stuff) buffet. The machines were good to us that day and we actually came out a few dollars ahead and paid for our dinner to boot!

Friday we went to the Dr. so B could get his stitches out, came home, had lunch then went out to #2 daughter's with some stuff for her. Extra bonus...the grandkids had a professional day today so we got to see them. Came home ate dinner (quickly) then went to our friends' place and learned how to play canasta...it'll probably take a few more times to remember everything and learn how to keep score but it was a lot of fun.