Slice,Dice and Julienne Fries!

It must be El Nino; what else could it be?  Down into the 30s last night!  This is just not right.  The furnace ran all night, even though it was set on 55.  The first day of Spring came in like the first day of Winter.  40mph, gusting to 55mph.  At least the sun was out today.

It was a rainy crappy day yesterday.  To pass the time we headed to the local "Home Builder's Show" at the convention center.  There's a couple in the RV park that we met last week who happen to be parked right next to our friends Merv and Pat.  They operate a booth at RV/boat/home shows all over the country.  They sold their house in Virgina, bought a very big motorcoach, took six weeks of training in Yuma, AZ and are now on their way to making a six figure income selling "waterless cookware". 

Merv, Pat, Mark, and I had all agreed to sit in front of his booth so others would join in, just to make it look like a big crowd was watching his presentation.  We were very impressed with Chuck's presentation.  He made a salad, veggies, potatoes and chicken.  I personally was not impressed with the taste - because there was no butter or grease on anything.  Of course - he's pushing "healthy" cooking.  How can we keep on our Ard ounces if we were to eat healthy?

The highlight of sitting through Chuck's presentation was, every couple listening got a paring knife.  In addition, one lucky person got their seat number drawn to see who would win a Ginsu knife.  Yep - it was me!  Mark said Chuck rigged it so I would win - I prefer to think that I was just lucky.  We didn't buy anything - the cheapest set was over $1000.  If one were to buy everything he had on display, it came to almost $4500.  We can do a lot of camping in a lot of different places for that kind of money.  I'll just make do with my five year old, $35 set from Walmart.

There really wasn't a lot to see, but I believe we got our money's worth out of the $5/apiece entrance fee.  Every booth had out bowls of candy, ink pens, etc.  We were very happy to talk to the Census 2010 people.  We're curious whether our census will be forwarded to Dennis & Ann's while we're gone.  She didn't seen to think the post office would forward them, but we'll see.  I know they won't give up on us for a few months.  The Census lady gave us travel coffee mugs and a backpack since we were from Missouri.

Our goodies from the home show.

The only neat thing to look at at this show was right inside the front door.  There was this "Antique Nickelodeon" on display.  It had a price tag of a mere $28,500.

I guess that made the automatic accordion next to it a real bargan at $8,500.

Today we didn't do much.  The sun came out but it was still 30+mph winds.  Mark got the final roman shade hung in the bedroom and I got all the laundry done.  We're ready for new week and golf tomorrow.