Fall comes to Pahrump

Hello again.  Our last chapter concluded on Saturday, September 30^th, as we were recovering from the cold we caught on our Alaska Cruise, which was the highlight of the month.  Sunday was a day of rest for us.  I am about 90 percent better, but Jackie is still running at about 70 percent at best.  This is a tough cold or flu or whatever to shake.  I did a couple of little chores, but we mostly just relaxed.  We even skipped the Sunday Ice Cream social.  After dinner we watched TV and went to bed.

Monday, October 2^nd, we went to the clubhouse at 11:00 for a MASA presentation and free lunch.  The presentation was the same as always, the lunch was take-out from Panda Express here in Pahrump.  There were about 40 people at the presentation and we had a great lunch.  After lunch we went out and Jackie went for a manicure while I went and did some shopping.  After I picked her up we went back to the park and went to happy hour.  Most of the summer travelers are returning to the park, so the happy hour group is growing back to winter levels.  After happy hour we went home and relaxed with the TV the rest of the night.  Tuesday was a stay at home day.  I did some chores and worked on my project of cleaning out the shed.  When we moved from the motorhome to the trailer, which was almost a year ago now, we just unloaded stuff from the motorhome and stuffed it in the shed.  Now we need to go through and clean out stuff we no longer need or want.  We went to happy hour at 4:00, then had supper and watched TV until bedtime.

Wednesday, October 4^th, Jackie went and played Pokeno in the clubhouse at 1:00 and my friend Len came over and we did our weekly jam session on the patio.  After Jackie got finished we went to happy hour, then came home and relaxed for the rest of the night.  Thursday was also a stay at home day.  I spent a few hours working on the shed cleaning project.  We went to happy hour at 4:00 and then came home for dinner.  After dinner we watched TV until bedtime.

Friday, October 6^th, we had another stay at home day.  We did book another cruise, this one a 6 day cruise over New Years.  It leaves Long Beach New Years Eve (Sunday), and comes back the following Saturday.  It is on the Carnival Miracle the same ship we went to Alaska on last month and the one we cancelled a February Hawaii cruise on.  We cancelled Hawaii because we decided we didn’t have the stamina health wise to do longer cruises, like the last two 15 day tours we took.  We still want to do short cruises.  We are going again with Jim and Linda Sullivan.  Other than that we had a relaxing day.  We had some nice steaks on the BBQ for dinner, then spent the rest of the night with the TV.  Saturday we had a 1:00 meeting of the Silver Seekers social club in the clubhouse.  This was a planning meeting for the group, which is having their regular monthly meeting next week.  After that meeting we went out to grab a late lunch at Arby’s, then did some grocery shopping at Smiths.  After shopping we went home and relaxed until about 5:00 when we changed clothes to go to a show at the Saddle West Casino ballroom.  Our friend Debbie Forrest, the wife of Len who I play guitar with on Wednesdays, is a member of a local dance troupe called the Silver Tappers.  This is a group of all women over 50 who perform all around the Pahrump Valley putting on shows.  Tonight’s show was one of their annual USO show fundraisers for veterans groups.  It was a really good show and we went with Millie, Charlene and Julie from our park.  The show went almost two hours and after the show we drove back home and watched a little TV before going to bed,

Sunday, October 8^th, Jackie left about 10:00, picked up our friends Millie and Julie, and drove to Secret Sisters, a thrift boutique store that they like.  They were having a sidewalk sale.  I stayed home and did some chores, including making a batch of chili Colorado for dinner.  We were going to have our neighbors, Don and Sharon Olney over for dinner, but they had to cancel for a family emergency.  I did a few other chores, but mainly had a relaxing Sunday at home.  Monday was a busy day.  At 10:30 we went to the China Wok buffet for another MASA presentation and free lunch.  After we got home we had to go to the clubhouse at 3:00 for a meeting of the park’s RV club, the Lucky Rollers.  The meeting was to discuss the upcoming campout in Laughlin in two weeks.  We are going and will be staying in the hotel for the campout.  After the meeting we had the usual happy hour until 5:00.  About 5:30 we left again and drove to Mountain Falls Country Club to have dinner with two other couples, Dale and Sue Vice and Julie and Don Klein.  Dale and Sue have been gone from the park since late Spring, so we wanted to welcome them back.  After dinner we drove home and finally relaxed and watched a little TV before going to bed.

Tuesday, October 10^th, I went to an 11:00 dentist appointment.  It took a couple of hours because I had to have a cavity filled in addition to my cleaning.  I got home about 1:00 and spent the rest of the afternoon doing chores.  At 4:00 we went to happy hour at the clubhouse, then came home, had dinner and spent the rest of the night watching TV.  Wednesday I was out of the trailer early because I had been called to serve on a review board regarding a citizen’s complaint to the Sheriff’s Office.  Last year I applied for, and got training, to be appointed to the Citizen review Commission.  This is only the second time I have been called to be on a panel.  There are ten or twelve members of the Commission and each review panel is three members of the Commission selected by random draw.  The panel started about 8:30 and we were done by 10:00 as it was a pretty straightforward and simple complaint.  After the panel I went home and had lunch.  Jackie went and played Pokeno at 1:00 and Len came over for guitar practice.  We were done by 3:00, went to happy hour at 4:00.  After happy hour we went home, had dinner and then watched TV until bedtime.

Thursday, October 12^th, we went to the clubhouse at 1:00 for the monthly meeting of the Silver Seekers club.  The Silver Seekers are kind of the social arm of the Co-op, generally in charge of activities and events at the park.  After the meeting we went to the nail salon.  I got my nails trimmed and Jackie got a full pedi.  While she was doing that I ran some errands and went to Walmart.  After we got home we put stuff away, then went to the clubhouse for happy hour.  After happy hour we went home and did some burgers on the BBQ for dinner, then relaxed with the TV until bedtime.  Friday Jackie had a 10:00 meeting in clubhouse with some of the ladies planning a dinner for later in the month.  At 4:00 or so we drove up to the Wine Ridge RV Park, where, prior to getting our lot at the Escapees, we used to stay anytime we came to Pahrump.  We were going to visit a couple that we had mentored at a Monaco International Rally in 2022.  Monaco International always provided mentors for any MI members attending their first MI rally.  It turned out that they were here because one of their FMCA chapters, the Vegas Blackjacks, was having a rally at Wine Ridge.  In addition, Paul Cunningham and his wife Doris, who is a member of our Escapees Co-op, were also members of the chapter and would be there.  We had a very nice light dinner and visit with some old and current friends.  We were back home by about 6:30 and spent the rest of the night with the TV.

Saturday, October 14^th, we just relaxed and did some chores until about 2:30 when we left to go to the Elks Lodge for a dinner.  We picked up our friend Ginny on the way.  There were six of us from the park at the table.  The dinner was in honor of the visit to the Lodge of the Elks State President for Nevada.  It is traditional for the State President to visit each of the Elks Lodges in his or her state over the course of their term.  The dinner was salad, beef stew in a bread bowl and desert.  It was fun and we had some good conversation amongst the Pairadice members, but it did run on a little long.  We got home about 8:00 and just watched some TV until bedtime.  Sunday was a stay at home day.  We went to the clubhouse at 2:00 for the monthly birthday and anniversary social and had some cake and ice cream.  After that we went home and I did some chores around the house until supper.  After dinner we watched TV and went to bed.

Monday, October 16^th, we had a meeting in the clubhouse of the Board of Directors of the park.  This was jus a planning meeting and it went for about an hour.  After the meeting we did a Walmart run.  After we got back we went to happy hour, then came home for a while.  We decided to go out to dinner and we left about 5:30 and went to the Pour House so Jackie could have some Indian food, lamb tika, and I had a pizza.  After dinner we went home and watched TV until bedtime.  I did my first tour of security for the month.  Tuesday was a stay at home day.  I did some chores out in the shed and Jackie worked around the house.  At 4:00 we went to happy hour, then went back to the clubhouse at 6:00 for a “Meet the Candidates” night where the six people running for the Board of Directors of the park had a chance to make their case for election.  It is kind of a done deal since there will be five vacancies on the Board in November, all but one will be elected and the sixth one is an alternate for any other openings that come up.  After the meet the candidates I did my hour of security patrol, then we watched TV until bedtime.

Wednesday, October 18^th, Jackie went to play Pokeno at 1:00 and my friend Len came over about the same time and we jammed on guitars for a while.  We went to happy hour at 4:00, then left early and went to get haircuts for the both of us.  After we got home we had dinner and I did my last tour of security duty for the month.  When I was done with that we watched TV and went to bed.  Thursday I was up early and in the clubhouse a little after 8:00.  Today is the monthly meeting of the Board of Directors for the Co-op and I will be running the Zoom access for the meeting.  The meeting went well and afterwards I cleaned up and put away all the equipment and went back to the trailer.  A little after noon Jackie left to go to the Artesian Cellars restaurant for a ladies lunch.  I stayed home and did some chores around the place.  After Jackie got home we went to happy hour, then came home and spent the rest of the evening watching TV.

Friday, October 20^th, we left the coach about 12:30 or so and went out to Mom’s for lunch.  After lunch we ran a bunch of errands, Secret Sister so Jackie could put some clothes in on consignment, The UPS store for an Amazon return, Walmart, and a couple of other little errands.  After we were finished with all our errands we went home.  We went to happy hour at 5:00, then went home and watched TV until bedtime.  Saturday Jackie had a 3:00 mani appointment.  While she was doing that I ran a couple of errands.  After the mani we went back home and went to happy hour.  After happy hour we went home, had dinner and watched TV until bedtime.

Sunday, October 22^nd, happy birthday to my brother David, who lives in Virginia Beach.  Today was mostly a stay at home day.  We spent time packing for our trip to Laughlin with the park’s camping group.  We will be staying four nights in the hotel since we don’t have a traveling unit anymore.  My son Roy came into the park in the afternoon for a brief visit.  He is working in Death Valley at Stovepipe Wells, but is working on his Nevada residency and needed to bring his motor home in to town to get it registered in Nevada.  We visited for a while and went out for dinner at Irene’s Casino.  After dinner he went back to this rig and we watched TV.

Monday, October 23^rd, we had the car packed and ready to go about 11:00 and closed up the trailer and headed South towards Laughlin.  It is about 150 miles or so.  We stopped at In and Out in Vegas for lunch before continuing south.  We got to the Riverside Hotel and RV Park about 2:30 and got checked into our room.  We then went up to the campground and spent happy hour with the group.  There are 19 people at this outing, with us and one other person staying in the hotel.  After happy hour we went back to the Riverside and spent a few hours gaming in the casino.  We didn’t have much luck, but had a good time.  Tuesday we slept in and went over to the campground at 1:00 for Pokeno.  We had a fun time with the group and stayed for happy hour after the games were over.  After happy hour we went back to the casino and gamed for a while before going up to bed.

Wednesday we went to Sam’s Club across the river in Bullhead City, Arizona, and then had lunch at Taco Bell.  After that we explored Bullhead a little and went to the Goodwill just to have something to do.  We also explored Laughlin, the actual town, a little before going to the campground for happy hour.  After happy hour the entire group went back to the Riverside Resort and went to the Prime Rib Room, an upscale restaurant in the resort.  We had great prime rib dinner.  After dinner we gamed in the casino until we got tired and then went up to the room and to bed.  Thursday we were back over at the campground about 1:00 for the official meeting of the camping club and some drawings for prizes. The only thing we won is a gift certificate for Subway and a bottle of vodka. After the meeting we stayed for happy hour again and then the entire group drove to Vito’s Pizza in Bullhead City for dinner.  They have a pizza buffet which was OK.  We did have a good time with the group as we were all at one table.  After dinner we drove back and stopped at the Golden Nugget Casino for a bit, then back to the Riverside.  We gamed some and then went up to bed. 

Friday, October 27^th, we checked out of the hotel at 11:00 and started back towards Pahrump.  We stopped for lunch in Searchlight and got home by about 3:30.  We got the car unpacked and spent the rest of the evening relaxing with the TV.  Saturday was a stay at home day.  We did a few chores but mostly just relaxed.  Jackie did go to the clubhouse for a bit in the afternoon to watch and learn a new card game.  I went to happy hour at 4:00, Jackie was tired and wanted to stay home.  We did some steaks on the BBQ for dinner and then watched TV until bedtime.  Saturday was also pretty much a stay at home and do chores day.  We did go out for a little bit to do some errands.  After that it was 4:00 happy hour and then TV until bedtime.

Sunday, October 29^th, we also stayed at home and did a few chores.  We went to the ice cream social at 2:00, then came back home a stayed in for the rest of the day and evening.  Monday was the first day of the park’s “homecoming week.”  This is usually the first week in November and ends on Saturday with the Annual Meeting of the Co-op.  They always schedule a bunch of social activities during homecoming week.  Today started with Len and I having a guitar practice session at 11:30 in preparation for the jam session on Tuesday.  At 2:00 there was an in-park poker run.  This is to get people out and about in the park and hopefully get to meet someone you don’t know well.  We both did the poker run and Jackie ended up with two pair, but got beat out by a bigger two pair hand.  I didn’t get anything.  We went to happy hour at 4:00 then came home and had dinner, then relaxed for the rest  of the night with the TV.

Tuesday, October 31^st, Happy Halloween.  Jackie went to get a manicure at 12:00 with a new manicurist that she found.  While she was gone I spent time taking my sound equipment over the clubhouse and setting up for the Halloween party tonight.  At 4:00 we went to the Pour House restaurant for the monthly park Dine-out.  There were only 10 people there, but we had a good time and some good food.  As usual Jackie had her Lamb Tika and I had pizza.  After the dine-out we headed back home, changed clothes and went to the clubhouse for the Halloween Party.  It was a lot of fun and there were probably 25 people there and half of them were in costume.  Some of them were really neat costumes.  The party lasted until about 8:00 with me playing music and handing out trophies to the costumed people.  After the party we went home and relaxed with the TV until it was time for bed.

This marks the end of October and time to put this episode online.  Until next time, be good and do good.  See ya soon.