DANCING IN TEXAS

 Saturday night we went to Trophy Gardens to dance to the music of "The Agency".  

 This was our first dance of this Winter Season.  We met up with Sharon and Casey and a group of their friends from Siesta Village.  

 

We had a really great time and are looking forward to a lot more of this.  

AND THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT TEXAS

OUR MARINA HAS BEEN SOLD

Here we are down in Texas and we have heard from boating friends back home that the Marina, where we live on our boat all summer, and store our boat all winter, has been sold. 

We kinda knew that the owner was looking forward to retiring, but that rumour had been out there for quite a while, with nothing ever really happening.  So, we knew it was coming, but it is still a bit of a jolt, with everyone wondering, "What's going to change".  

One thing I have learnt in all the years of working and watching the firm that I worked for evolve, change and grow is, "Nothing of real value is ever lost during change".   

So, we the clients (boaters)  are the real value in the Marina, so I'm sure the new owners will want to keep us all happy.  I don't think that will be too hard, as we are usually a pretty happy lot.  

HAPPY BOATING, SEE ALL YOU BOATERS IN THE SPRING

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ARE UP

 One by one we are checking off the to-do list of things we need to do since we got down here to Texas.

   Our leaking roof kinda took priority over everything we had on our list, then I've ordered, returned and re-ordered my freezer.

 Once Thanksgiving  was over the next thing on the list was Christmas Decorations.

Now I am cleaning windows.  One each day, I should be done in 11 days.  It's not just windows though, each windows needs to be cleaned inside and out and each one has a disgustingly dirty Venetian Blind and everyone knows how hard those are to take down, clean and put back up as all the blades stick together when you are trying to wash them grrr.  I just went through all that on my boat this summer.  

OH WELL, AT LEAST IT LOOKS CHRISTMASY NOW 

SHOPPING ON LINE

I have just wasted a whole lot of time.  On November 25^th I placed an order for a small upright freezer to put in my shed, as the freezer in my fridge is not really large enough.  So, yesterday I heard from Walmart that my new freezer was at the Jackson Ave. Store, ready for pick up. 

 

We arrived, at the store pick up counter, around 11:30, and they finally brought my freezer out of the shipping area at 12:30.  As we were walking out of the store we notice that the box the freezer was in was very damaged, so rather than take it home and find out it was damaged, we decided to strip the box off of it, before we loaded it onto the truck.  I’m certainly glad we did.  There were 3 large dents in the door and the rear corner, was crushed as if it may have been dropped.  We immediately piled the remains of the box and the freezer back into the cart and returned to customer service.  We spent another hour there before we could convince them to refund my money.  They did not have a replacement freezer in stock and wanted to give me a Walmart gift card.  Since Walmart is no longer accepting Canadian Debit Cards, I told them that I have no intention of shopping at Walmart this year until they solve that problem.  

 

They finally agreed to a cash refund.  So then I had to come home and ordered one from Amazon.  It’s the exact same freezer, but it cost a little more with the shipping and all, but it will be delivered right to our door.  

OH WELL, THE ONLY REAL LOSS WAS TIME