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July 4th

It’s July 4th and starting off quietly. No emails, no phone calls, just the hum of the A/C working overtime to keep us relatively comfortable.

Last night ended with a bang: The first “monsoon” storm of summer, only this one actually had rain with it. Hard, “coming at you sideways” rain. And lightning—the “light up the room” kind. And the thunder had two dogs and a teen comforting each other. Hoping no damage occurred as it sounded like it hit in the next yard over.

So we have humidity today and storms forecast for the weekend. It’s 7:30 am and 88 degrees but 45% humidty. That’s wicked for us. Until July and August we skate by with under 20% (”it’s a dry heat”). So looking at a high of 109 and that kind of humidity is not only miserable to be out in, it’s dangerous. Guess we’ll need to see if the video place is open or we might have to pull out the West Wing and Everybody Loves Raymond DVDs.

I’d say we’ll be watching televised fireworks but we’ll see. We can park about a mile away and see 4 or 5 displays from various casinos and communities in the outlying areas.

It will be a lazy day…plans for treasure bracelets and Melonhead Joolz and meals that don’t heat up the kitchen. Hope you enjoy your day too!

 

July Heat

Not an inspired title to go with an uninspired post today.

I’m hot and tired and my neck is stiff and sore. And my freezer in the garage keeps shutting off from the switch upstairs in the bathroom that trips every 15 minutes…wonder what that means (other than many trips up and down and an accidentally defrosted freezer?) I guess I will mosey over to ACE hardware and see what they can tell me.

What does everyone have on the schedule for the long weekend? No idea here yet. Pool time, grill time, book time and joolz time probably.

Well…it’s been about 15 minutes…better make my trek upstairs to trip the switch (next move will be to go to the big breaker box outside and try to decipher 18 year old labels to see what might need tripping out there!)

 

B-I-N-G-O!

I escaped the Arizona heat yesterday in the Bingo Hall at Wild Horse Pass Casino!

Talk about going high tech…it is now possible to play bingo without lifting a finger, using portable, electronic Bingo Boxes. They play “You’re In the Money” when you win! My friend, Deb, had me play the “old-fashioned” way though, with ink daubers. (But in the “really” olden days, didn’t we play with little buttony things that covered the spaces?) I got a quick refresher course in the game, plus tips for making “cheat sheets” on the special pattern games (Pick a Pet, Stopsign, Diamond…). All to ease my anxiety a bit about keeping up.

Being the Type A person that I am, I played with intensity, never really coming close to a win until the last game…A Blackout game (12 really…who knew you could keep track of all those little sheets? And trust me, I was a rookie compared to some of these people!). Started off strong on a couple of cards. The game was a “second chance” meaning once someone got the first Bingo, there was still a smaller second chance prize for the next winner. The last three numbers I needed were called one after the other. BUT,  you can’t shout “Bingo” until the caller calls the “next” number (we were playing off the TV monitor as who can understand Bingo callers anyway?)…oh the pressure! “If the next number is mine, I can’t yell yet, right Deb? Tell me when to yell…” My number comes up! “BINGO” yells someone else who got it one number before me. RATS!

It was a pretty reasonable 4 hours of entertainment…$25 (two movies and popcorn would have been about the same). The hall was filled with some hardcore types sporting their own picnics, carousel bags loaded up with multicolored ink daubers. Oh well, it was fun, we got to chitchat a bit (note to self: sit at a table where there are not many hardcore players who insist on Bingo Silence!) and it was a cool 74 degrees inside compared to 110 outside!

Pssst…I hear there are bargain games on Friday afternoons and the place is almost empty.