NOVEMBER 2003

One of the first things we did once we arrived home, was to take a trip over to Blythe (California), and order a washer and dryer (front loader with a gas dryer). About a week later, the washer and dryer were delivered, and two young men assembled the pedestals on which both sit, and installed them (the pedestals bring the washer and dryer up higher, so that we don't have to stoop down so far to get into the machines.

We bought a tripod so that we could put up the dish that we'd received when we bought the new satellite receivers earlier in the year. Then we found out that one of the receivers was bad, so Dish Network sent us a new one. As it turned out, the second one we'd purchased earlier in the year also went bad, so in the space of a month, we had two brand new receivers! The other portable satellite dish that we had with us in the RV, was set up so that I could watch TV from my office in the fifth wheel.

We took a couple of trips over to Phoenix where we ordered a shed from Lowes which was delivered and built in one day by a single person! Once it was assembled, Earl painted the outside to match the house, and we put up insulation and wall board inside. On one of our trips to Phoenix, we also stopped by our storage room at Cotton Lane RV Park to pick up boxes of things we wanted to take back. We also had lunch with Mom on both of our trips: at On The Border the first trip, and at P.F. Chang's on the second (this second lunch as an early birthday lunch for my Mom).

On Thanksgiving, Patti Hellman came over for dinner. Don was still in Montana, so he was not able to join us.

During the month, we ate a few times at our favorite Mexican food restaurant, Taco Mio, and at Best Chinese. One night, we were feeling lazy, and ordered pizza to be delivered from the local Pizza Hut -- never again! Usually, we like Pizza Hut pizza, but the place here in Quartzsite makes terrible pizzas...mainly because they don't actually make them, they're "premade!" On a couple of Wednesdays, we also had breakfast at the Stagecoach Restaurant with other Escapees.