Apricity West 5

January 17, 2025 - Friday

Another cold day so danced and then walked later in the day. A do nothing day - couldn’t sit out as it was too windy and cold so I worked on assembling my granny square afghan. 

 

January 18, 2025 - Saturday

We decided to weigh in today as Cindy is making us dinner tonight for my birthday and our soon to be departure. Well the scale wouldn’t lie - I even had Rich change the battery! It was my 2nd BAD weigh in since I started this venture, the first being after Thanksgiving. 😔  I spent 3 hours this morning gathering, printing, organizing, and entering information on my tax report. Thank goodness for the digital world. I really needed a walk after all of that paperwork. 

 

We spent the rest of the day killing time waiting to go to Cindy’s - she is an excellent cook and baker. She missed her calling, although her career as a special education teacher was rewarding for her and her students. She worked magic in her tiny home on wheels (24 feet) - spinach, strawberry and pecan salad, chicken fried streak, her grandmother’s white gravy, mashed potatoes, green beens with real bacon bits...

Then a platter of cookies with delicious choices - lemon glaze and ginger snaps...

January 19, 2025 - Sunday

Walked after church when things warmed up a bit. Pat came over for a visit in the sun. She is doing an interesting exercise routine - walking 10 minutes every hour. She walks the last ten minutes of one hour and continues another ten into the next hour. She has done it religiously since she got back here. When you do the math and check your FitBit, she is walking at least twice as many steps a day as I am. Hmmmm. 

 

January 20, 2025 - Monday Happy Martin Luther King Day

Another cold night, so I stayed in my warm fleece jammies until an early afternoon walk. Cindy came for cocktail hour later.

 

January 21, 2025 - Tuesday

Last night temps went down to 31, so we left the faucet slightly open to drip. Got up early and went shopping before my ukulele group. When we got home, there was a sign on the door that management was aware of the power outage in our block of 16 rigs. I imagine a lot of electric heaters were in use during the night. It was very cold inside our rig so we turned the generator on and ran the propane furnace enough to take the chill off.

 

I went for my walk as it was a gorgeous, windless day and warmer out in the sun than inside. After a block or so I heard my name being called. It was Pat trying to catch up to join me. What a pleasure! We talked and caught up on lots of things. As a former WW leader, she was able to share tips and recipes that can help the cause. 

 

A residential electrician came and could not fix the power problem; he said to call a commercial electrician which won’t happen instantaneously, sooooo all 16 rigs were told the news and offered other sites with power. We were the first of 4 to move and went into the manager’s site as he is away managing Deming, NM SKP Park until after we leave. Rich was in this site for the years that he managed this park. I assume the other rigs have solar, generators or lots of propane. It is not an easy task to pick up and move about 50 yards across the road, but we were greeted by our new neighbors, Eddi and Pat. There are new views for us now...

January 22, 2025 - Wednesday

A cold 37 degrees here this morning, but better than -4 back home. Lenox is a neighboring town - they only had a 2-hour delay for school!

Danced at 9 and walked at noon with Pat. We (I) connected the dots about where our paths had crossed before - she was the manager in Deming when we were there in 2022. She led exercise classes and chair yoga in the clubhouse which I participated in. Pretty sure we put a few jigsaw puzzles together as well.

 

Rich and I invited Cindy to the Wild West Saloon for dinner and we were joined by a local cowboy roper - it’s an interesting story, but not mine to tell (yet)... 

 

January 23, 2025 - Thursday

The wind was whipping hard this morning - so hard that we pulled in the slide to save our slide awning from ripping off. Waited for them to subside before walking.

We had a really good jam with a new instrument - a flute played by Lynn was a wonderful addition. And Rich brought his case of harmonicas and played a solo to boot! He did very well. Next week is our last week 😔. We will miss it…