Well, good grief!

I know everybody has been anxiously wondering what we've been up to since the new year. We've been in the Phoenix area getting a big city fix.

We started out staying in the Chandler Elks parking lot where we were fascinated by this team of guys building a wall. Yes, it doesn't take much to entertain us, but you never saw a wall go up this quickly.


We took walks through the surrounding neighborhoods,


And communed with nature.


But once we moved to the Elks in Mesa, we have been occupied with looking at houses. Every year, we think about getting a winter place where we can park the RV and I can play and Ron can have projects. We picked a Realtor who was a friend of our friends Pat and Harold. After what we put her through, I hope she's still their friend.

While I snap pictures and jot down impressions of the various houses, Ron has a complete checklist and checks every detail.


Now here's where Sally will empathize. We narrowed down our first set of seven to our favorite so while we were at the house, Kathy (our Realtor) called the listing agent. There was already a bid in on the place. The next day we started over in another area, found one we really liked and once again she made a call. A bid had just that day been accepted on that one. Today we decided to go with our second choice from yesterday, she called and, you guessed it, just today a bid had been accepted on that one. The moral of this story is - If you have a house you want to sell, just interest us in buying it and it'll be gone!