MAY 2004

We sold our Chevy this month! Scott Gardner from California drove over with his father on the 7th to buy it. Earl took him out for a test drive, he handed us the cashier's check, and off they went! Prior to Scott coming to get the truck, we took it over to the Chevy dealer in Blythe for an oil change, lube, and tire rotation. Also had an oil change done to the Allison transmission since we had just over 25,000 miles on the truck.

We drove over to Phoenix on Mother's Day to visit with Mom for a few days -- she was down from Idaho for doctor's visits and to take her car back to Idaho (my brother, Andy, flew down from Idaho to drive her back).

On Monday, Earl and I had breakfast at Ollie's Omelet House (Mom couldn't go because of her doctor's appointment). We picked up more Two Buck Chuck at Trader Joe's, went by PetsMart to buy a new collar and get a new tag for it (with another telephone number), and then drove downtown to Mr. Telescope to buy a good pair of binoculars for bird watching. Since Mr. Telescope was in the same strip mall as AJ's Fine Foods, we walked over there after buying the binoculars to buy sauces.

We had lunch at Takamatsu, and that evening, we took Mom to The Cheesecake Factory. They have really good food there, but for dinner, the sizes are so huge, the next time Earl and I go there, we'll order one dinner and split it (which we saw a couple doing). The cheesecakes are really yummy, too! The next day, we shopped at Sam's Club, and then left on Wednesday.

I completed loan papers online for the Lazy Daze, and got a call the next day that our loan had been approved.

Glenn & Margo Pollock from Maxwell Satellite arrived on Saturday, May 15, and parked next to the house. They set us up with the Direcway Internet satellite system. They stayed around until Monday morning to make sure everything was functioning correctly. I cooked dinner for them both Saturday and Sunday nights -- they provided the pork chops on Sunday.

Paul Schuh, who together with his wife had purchased our Arctic Fox, came by on the 17th to buy the Yamaha 3000-watt generator which we had purchased the year before. Since the Lazy Daze comes standard with a generator, we no longer needed the Yamaha.