The Month To Give Thanks

Another very busy month. Weather has been great sunny and warm every day.


Barb and Diselle (her sister) did the Cancer Relay For Life Walk.

This picture is the ribbon that is luminated with paper bags that is donations given by individuals in memory of or cancer survivors or just donaations to the cancer fund. As you can see there is a break in the ribbon what happen some of the bags started on fire and had to be taken out and set to the side. The bags are made of paper and then sand is put in the bottom and a candle in the sand. It is very pretty when they do the lighting.

This is Nancy and Rich our neighbors next door and they are from Oregon. We golfed with them this month and had a good time. We do a lot of laughing when we go golfing and that is good for us all.

This month there was a Good Guys car show in Scottsdale. These are three of the cars in our neighborhood. This was a guys day out well it ended up being all day Friday and three quarters of the day on Saturday. It is a very huge car show so impossible to see all in one day.
The wives enjoyed a day of shopping or going to lunch or just doing what ever they wanted to do.

We put up a humming bird feeder as we have a lot of humming birds around. So when we don't have any thing else to do we sit and watch the humming birds. Retired life is tough.

Thanksgiving day was a quiet day at home ate a little turkey and watched football. The temperatures was 80 degrees hard to believe it was Thanksgiving Day.

We did venture out on Black Friday but the crowds were not bad but then we did not go out tell 10 am and only to a couple stores and most of the shoppers had went out at 4 am.

That pretty much wraps up another month of fun in the sun. Sorry to keep mentioning that when I know we have family and friends in weather that is not so nice.

Good By October

The month of October we have five birthdays in the family.



We first celebrated our granddaughter's Gabby on October 5th. Kaven our great grandchild has a birthday on October 4 we did not get to celebrate his birhday with him but I am sure he had a great one he was Two. Then Jerry's birthday is on October 17th and Ron's is on October 18th. We went to Bainbridge Island to Kim and Rons to celebrated the guys birthday and we stayed over the night. Jerry got a WII game for his birthday so we played a couple games of bowling and golf in the evening. On Saturday Ron and Kim fixed breakfast and we went back to Auburn. Then that evening we celebrated Jerry's birthday again with Scott and Teresa and Gabby. A Lot of partying for one birthday wouldn't you think. Then on October 30 Steve had a birthday but we were already in AZ so didn't get to celebrate with him on his special day.

Teresa, Scott & Gabby bought a StoneCold Ice Cream cake for Jerry and that is why he has a big smile on his face we are about to cut in to that baby.

Here we are celebrating Gabby's birthday at the Spaghetti Factory in Tukwilla.

Here we are celebrating Jerry's & Ron's birthdays in Bainbridge Island at Kim & Ron's. I am not sure why we don't have the birthday guys in the same picture but they aren't

After all the birthday celebrations on Sunday afternoon October 18th we headed for sunny AZ. We drove as far as Baker City, OR. On Monday we drove to Jack Pot NV and spent the night and invested a little money well I guess Barb invested Jerry boke even. Tuesday we drove to Laughlin, NV and Barb invested a little more money so she is going to be rich some day. Jerry come away with a little cash not much though. On Wednesday we arrived in AZ. Very warm in the 80's and 90's. We have been cleaning up the yard and house.

Barb started bowling and golfing with the niners. Jerry and Barb been out golfing a couple times and found out they weren't as rusty as they had expected after not golfing for 6 months.

That pretty much wraps up the month of October.