So many activities, so little time

If you wanted to be busy all the time, it's here to be part of. It seems every type of club, activity, sport, or hobby is offered. Truly, if you can imagine it, it's here. And there are some clubs we've become involved with. We tried to be selective, but we're so tempted.

There are classes and meetings happening in the Stitchery Room. This past Saturday there were about 20 women who each spent more than 2 hours cleaning the room, organizing supplies and performing maintenance on the sewing machines, sergers and embroidery machines. The Stitchery club room looks fantastic! Today we held a monthly meeting and discussed the season-ending offerings and what's planned for next year. It seems like a very nice group and somehow I was convinced to work on their scrapbook. It'll be a fun task.

We went to the Wood Working BBQ on Saturday where they cooked up some tasty burgers and hotdogs, with all the fixins. They are also a great group of (mostly) guys who turn out some beautiful items. The wood carvers are housed in the same building, sort of next door. Rick also does wood carving, something I've never wanted to do, or watch. Sharp knives and chisels.

The stained glass club shares the room with the wood carvers. We stopped in to visit with the glass group and see what they were working on. Some beautiful projects there! We've made some stained glass items before and I can see us getting into that next year. They also work with fused glass jewelry, something I'd like to try.

I haven't had much time to go to Arts & Crafts or the NeedleArt group gatherings. Tomorrow is the craft fair, along with a small RV show put on by a local dealer. Friday is vendor's day and it always has a huge turnout.

Friday night I went to Bingo here in our community for the first time ever. No, I didn't win, but the cost was little and fun was big. My neighbor across the street goes every Friday and sits with 3 or 4 other lady friends and they chit chat while hoping to win one of the jackpots. There were about 10 games that paid out $110 and 2 special games that paid out over $400 each. I believe more than 300 people show up hoping to win. I'll probably go a few more times before we head out in the moho.

We want to get back on the pickleball courts, but with all the trips to California and other appointments, pickleball has taken a back court. Time to put it back on the top of the list and play with the morning group. I think I'll play with the ladies group on Thursday.

In between club activities we've started to load the motorhome. We had one day of 90 degrees and it reminded us of how hot it will soon be. The weather cooled off a little after that and has been absolutely gorgeous. Arizona winters are the best in the country.