Welcome Visitors!

We always tell everyone that we love to have visitors. Well, we were pleasantly surprised to hear from friends Steve and Jackie Zapp from Portland. They had been scheduled to go to Palm Springs but we apparently talked them into coming to Hemet instead. They came over to view the park and we got together on Tuesday for 18 holes of golf on a beautiful day. It is always fun to catch up with old friends.

We related earlier about the problem with what were our less than automatic stairs. As you can see from the photo, we were less than attractive from a cosmetic standpoint.

While we were out enjoying ourselves on the golf course with Steve and Jackie, our incredible neighbor, Mike Dougherty, came and completely fixed our stairs, including lubing the motor and tightening all the bolts, while his equally incredible wife, Judy, babysat Samson for the afternoon. Mike is one of those people that can probably repair anything and has already planned to fix the display on our microwave which hasn't worked properly for about two years. Mike and Judy live in Federal Way, WA, but have been coming to this park for about eight years. We met them here last year and we have become good friends. Judy is an accomplished seamstress and creates some awesome quilts.

This is Mike and Judy with their constant companion, Sophie. Even though Sophie looks grumpy in this photo, she is a real sweetheart and she and Samson have become good friends.

Tim and Jim went on Wednesday with the men's golf group. It was highly touted to them as being "a great group of guys that just like to get together to play golf". HA! T & J both felt like fish out of water. The fellows that Tim was playing with were pretty much par golfers and expressed great frustration if they got a bogey on a hole. Tim felt like an anchor on the cart as they were always waiting for him to make his next three shots so they could make their second shot. Although Jim is a better golfer than Tim, he also had the worst round of his life. We think we are just going to play golf on our own from now on.

Today we were visited by some of our Clackamas neighbors, Don and Bev Munro. They live down the street from us at home. When we were preparing to leave town to come to Hemet, Don walked by and asked where we were going. When we told him, he said he and Bev were going to Palm Springs, so we invited them to make the drive to Hemet. They have never been in this part of the country before. We showed them around the park and went to lunch. It seemed funny to think that we never seem to see much of each other at home, but get together to visit all the way down here.

Daytime temps are still in the 80's while nighttime brings incredibly clear skies for viewing the stars with temps going down to the 40's. Great for cool weather sleeping.