Strolling Old Town Temecula

We've been keeping busy since Thursday.  I took my friend Jeri for a "shopping fix" on Friday.  She's doing so well with her hip.  We walked around UTC, resting now and then and doing a bit of window shopping.  We had lunch and coffee and  she was ready to go home!  She did great and is feeling so much better.

Yesterday Ted and I did some shopping and found a dress for me to wear to the May 28th wedding of our nephew in San Francisco.  We had dinner with our friend Peggy at the Savanah Grill in Rancho San Diego.  It was the second time we ate there, it was packed but must have had problems in the kitchen because it took a long time for our dinner.   We each had barbeque rib special for $10.00 and they were delicious!

Today we met our friends David Prime and Sally Black in Old Town Temecula.  We had a good lunch and then strolled around the shops.  It was a very relaxing day and the weather couldn't have been nicer.  Around 4:00 it started getting cold so we headed for home!

It was great catching up with Sally and David today and enjoying the sunshine..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Loving the San Diego weather!

We've sure been enjoying San Diego weather but are still looking forward to doing some more traveling! 

Peggy came over to watch the Super Bowl with us.  It was a good game and some funny commercials!  Peggy made chili, I made corn bread, some appetizers and Peggy made a great banana cream pie!  As you can tell we didn't go hungry!  Of course we never do!

We visited Jeri and Stach AT HOME on Monday.  She's doing so well.  We are going to have an outing on Friday together to do some lite shopping and some lunch!

Our friends Steve and Kathie had never been to our RV so we invited them for lunch yesterday.  Steve used to parachute at the airport about three miles west of us so they knew right where we were.  Steve reminisced about some of his jumps, one in particular that didn't go so well but he managed to not hurt himself!  I took these pictures of them yesterday:

Sunny San Diego..."Ain't Life Grand!"

This week in San Diego

Girls Night Out was a big success!  It was fun getting together with the ladies and as always, lots of laughs!  We celebrated Peggy's February birthday, had good eats and good drinks!

On Wednesday we visited Jeri at rehab.  She's still fighting her infection but will get to go home on Friday.  She's excited to get home.

Thursday night was dinner with Larry and Carol and Steve and Kathe.  Ted, Larry and Steve have known each other since elementary school!  Larry, Steve, Ted and a couple of other guys started a petition to get a swim team at Sweetwater High and were successful in their senior year. They had been swiming on the city team together for many years.   It was nice to find out what they have been up to!

Last night we had dinner with our friends Bill and Jany.  I worked with Bill for 18 years at the C.P.A. firm.  He's in tax season and working hard!

Today will be a day to catch up at home..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Yummy San Diego barbeque!

We've been enjoying hanging out in San Diego.  Running errands and getting things done!  We've visited Jeri at the rehab center a couple of times.  Unfortunately she got an infection in her incision (hip surgery) and they are working on clearing that up as well as strength training and walking!  She's going up and down steps and getting stronger every day.  Luckily she's young and healing well!

We had lunch/dinner with our red lip friends Della and Jim Crownover on Sunday.  While they were on the road in Texas they watched the food channel.  The host was in San Diego and went to Phil's Barbeque near the Sports Arena!  Sunday was not a good day to go there, the line went around the building!  After waiting an hour, we were really hungry and boy did we get full and it was great!  I had the quarter baby back ribs (about 4 ribs).  It came with some sides, I had the beans (yummy) and slaw (also yummy)!  Ted had barbequed chicken riblets and he said they were delicious!  On the show they tried the tri-tip beef and said it was wonderful!  We tried it and they used some spice in the cooking of the beef or in the sauce and it was pretty "hot"!   We went back to their house and started a game of Mexican Train Dominoes!  It was fun and we are half way through so will pick it up next time we are together!

Ted is off taking in the hitch to have some welds put on to reinforce it and to visit his friend Pete so I'm doing laundry and blogging and catching up on email.  Tonight is girls night out.  I haven't been for awhile so it will be fun to see the ladies!  We always have a lot of laughs so it is very good for us!  The margaritas aren't bad either!!!!

Seeing our good friends..."Ain't Life Grand!"

We made it back to Pio Pico!

But not without a problem!  We were on the way to So. Coast RV in Chula Vista.  Just as Ted turned down a residential street, a car came down the street and prevented Ted from making as wide a turn as he needed to.  He was committed to make the turn and ended up hitting a parked car with the side of our RV.   It hit the tail light and bumper of the parked car.  The people were very nice and understood it was an accident.  We scraped up a two foot area on the side of our RV.  When we got to the RV place to have our furnace put back in after they repaired it (and thankfully it works great), they gave us an estimate of $1100 to fix our RV.  We've sent everything to the insurance company so will see what they say.

We made it to the campground and are settled in for three weeks.  We visited our friend Jeri at rehab yesterday.  She's doing pretty well.  She actually went up and down steps!  This afternoon we set up our chairs and awning, we are quite comfortable!

Taking life easy..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Last night at Cherry Valley

Tomorrow we leave for Pio Pico, via South Coast RV to have our furnace put back in!  We've enjoyed our stay here at Cherry Valley.  We had dinner at the clubhouse Saturday night and the food was good and the company enjoyable.  We've met some nice people here.  Today we play Pokeno for pennies!  Ted and I didn't do so well but it was a fun couple of hours and besides, we actually only lost about $2, can't beat that!

When we are back in Jamul we generally lose our internet service or it is very slow and the signal so weak it's hard to open pictures and some emails.

I took this picture of the snow on Big Bear the other day, it looks pretty from here but I don't have to be cold!

Enjoying Big Bear from afar..."Ain't Life Grand!"

Gambling again!

The week definitely got better!  On Thursday we decided to gamble our woes with a few bucks.  Ted lost $20 but I made $60!  It always more fun when you win!  Then we went to bingo at the RV park.  There were only a few people.  I won $17 on 3 bingos!  Poor Ted was the only person not to win a bingo!

Yesterday we took the rental car back and ended up sitting at the Ford dealership all afternoon.  They finally got us out of there at 4:30 and the charge was $2500 not $3000 so that was good news.  It's all in the way they make you feel.  If they had said $2500 and charged that amount, we would not have felt as good!  We are thinking about getting a new truck in the spring or summer.  Some time after we get the house rented!

Our friend Jeri is having physical therapy at rehab and doing well.  She said she's walking with a walker now!  That was good news.  We have some classmates from Ted's high school that are having some medical difficulties and are hoping they will improve each and every day.

Tonight we are having dinner at the clubhouse, a steak dinner!  Cherry Valley is a small but friendly campground.

Being thankful for small things..."Ain't Life Grand!"