"Project Hail Mary"

We had heard good reviews on the movie "Project Hail Mary". The book from which the movie's script was taken was written by Andy Weir, who also wrote "The Martian". One of Carl's favorite books and movies is "The Martian", and we figured that we would enjoy the movie.

Movie poster

In the theater -- the theater had reclining chairs... which were comfortable, almost too comfortable for a movie in mid-afternoon, prime napping time! But the movie was engaging enough that we did not nap!

This is a picture of the display on the closed-captioning device that I borrowed from the theater - it is displaying words during the ads before the movie began. Since we put closed captions onto the TV for almost everything we watch, I get a lot more from a movie if I can read as well as hear the dialog.

We enjoyed the movie... Carl even leaned over to read my closed captioning device to catch the dialog in some parts when the background sound was loud and dialog hard to hear.

A purricane

Miss Kitty was giving her impression of a purricane:

She doesn't usually have her hind legs pointed straight out like that; however, she does often have her nose covered up as this picture shows. I think her coloring does a good job of camouflaging where her head is to protect it from predators! 

Gracie in her spot

We wanted pictures of our RV lot to send to potential renters, so Carl took a couple of pictures of it with Gracie parked there:

We have renters signed up for both the RV lot and the casa next door to the RV lot for January-March next season. Anyone want to sign up for October-December or April-May?

An interesting clock

We met a friend who lives in a neighboring community (Sunland Village) at the restaurant (Rochester's) in her community. There was an "interesting" clock on the wall...

It might be hard to see due to the glare... it was 11:15am when we looked at it. I was trying to figure out how it would indicate "sixteen" and "seventeen", etc. but it didn't change again until it was twenty minutes past eleven.

In case you want one, I found a listing on Walmart.com: link to clock on walmart site

Trying out different culinary options

We've tried out a few different cuisines in the past few weeks...

YC's Mongolian grill -- a little pricey, but we can eat there and have enough to take home for another meal too! We also get to make our own mixture of proteins and veggies and sauces to go onto the grill.

On another day, we went out with friend, Lesa, for Indian buffet.

We had a taste for Chick-Fil-A, so went to the one that was closest. It turns out that it is take-out only, though they have a few tables for outdoor seating. The outdoor seating is under an awning and has fans and heaters mounted under the awning. At this time of year, it was comfortable, but in a few weeks, I think it might be uncomfortably warm.

We're enjoying having a little less to do in our community and having more time to do things outside of our community.

Different interpretations of signs

When we were at Banner Gateway a few days ago for Carl's biopsy, we had been asked to arrive early so they could get him all prepped, so we had a bit of time to wait until they were ready to do the procedure (don't want to keep the medical professionals waiting, but it is okay to keep the patients waiting). 

We noticed the labels on the small set of drawers in the room...

Just looking at the labels on the left side of the top drawer, it appears that they keep curious caps (though they seem to spell it differently) in there, along with butterflies (and their needles), and I don't know how they get Christmas trees in there, it seems too small, and I guess spare change goes in that drawer too! 

We shared our interpretations of the labels with the nurse, and she proceeded to show us the medical items identified by each of those labels... nowhere near as exciting as what we were supposing to be in there!

Sunday afternoon Music Jam

Throughout the season, we'd heard that the Sunday afternoon music jams (held each 2nd Tuesday during the season) were good country-western dance music, and that people were welcome to come and enjoy listening and / or dancing to the music. 

We finally made it to their last get-together for this season, in April,

...there was quite a group of performers ready to play and sing.

Similar to the Tuesday afternoon on the Terrace jam, each brought their own instruments and made a suggestion down the line of what to sing next. They went through the group twice allowing each to select his or her own song to sing, and the others joined in with the music.

A sampling of one of the songs: https://youtu.be/-GMihx1J40A 

The fellow singing that song on the recording seemed to be the organizer/leader of the event. I think that most, if not all, of the performers are fellow-residents of ours here in the park.

We enjoyed listening to the music and working on our Arizona two-step dancing.