Everything Is Now The Last Time This Year

After ice cream on Sunday night, we hooked up with Maurice and Linda and Pam and Mike for a round of canasta.  The men beat us by at least 6000.  It's hard when you can't get the right cards.  They were happy since they have been on a short losing streak.

Monday our friend John drove down from Houston to golf with Mark, Wray, Mike, Maurice, and me.  John and Wray rode in a cart while the rest of us walked.  The ground is so hard now, the ball gets lots of roll, but just can't get through the trees any longer.  Mark golfed his best round yet on this course - 80.  I also did quite well, in fact, it was my lowest score ever, on any course - 94.    

Today while I was at the final ladies lunch for the season at Red Lobster, Mark biked around the park and chatted with all the other guys. 

The rocking chairs where we all spent a lot of time talking today since the weather was perfect and we're all getting ready to head our separate ways in the next week.

We managed to put some stuff away to start the process of getting ready to head up the road on Thursday.  Of course, nothing ever goes as planned.  The mechanism that latches the door to the trailer when you want to let in the sunshine, broke off.  This mean another trip up to Camper City - the same place that finally admitted that they would not be getting in the part we special ordered for the hitch.  We went to visit Will yesterday after golf.  He was at lunch (always) so we returned 20 minutes later.  He apologized profusely, and scratched through our credit card number on his order form.  This meant we had to go to plan B - a trip to Harbor Freight to get a very large crescent wrench to operate the slide mechanism on the hitch if necessary.  I personally can't stand going into this place, but Mark likes it, and they had the cheapest wrench.  Instead of spending $100 with Will, we spent $14 at Harbor Frieght. (Hopefully Jerry can fabricate a replacement part for us when we get home.)  At least today Will did had the replacement part we needed for the door.  It was cheap, and easy for Mark to install.

Tomorrow I'm off to get a hair cut while Mark golfs his final round this season with Maurice and Mike.  Luckily they will both be here next season when we return. 

Our next post will be from Fredericksburg later in the week.  Here's hoping for a safe, and uneventful journey.