Day 12 Feb 27 Monday

We woke up to showers which turned to rain by afternoon. I took our new car over to the car wash which caused it to start to rain again. Sheila went down to do the pool exercises, which even in the sprinkles, when you are in a nice warm pool the rain showers don’t bother you. However it slowed to a periodic sprinkle by early afternoon & then stopped altogether. I went down to the internet room to get on my computer & pay my MC bill for Feb.  Even plugged in I could not get on my M-Banks or, oddly, Sheila’s email.  The computer kept saying that it was taking too long and it severed the connection.  I then went to one of the hard wired computers and got on instantly like I do at home.   We are going out for Les’ Birthday dinner with a half doz. of more people from Fountain of Youth that we all know.  We went in 3 cars, us with Sandy & Heather, then in the truck Les & Dorothy, Kitty, Jay & Phyllis, then Leslie & Kevin in their car.  We all headed out and got to the “Chicken Coop” a Les calls it driving through off & on light sporadic showers.  There was no name or signs outside to say what was inside just a rectangle building with sheet metal outsides.  The real name is “Cowboy Bar & Grill” but nowhere is that in evidence.  We then found out that they had cancelled the dinner event on account of rain, what rain, we said! Anyway this is Southern California in the dry belt where anything worse than a heavy due is catastrophic. So off we went down to El Centro and a Golden Corral Buffet restaurant.  We have been to them before and really like it.  We had a nice supper in their separate room and then drove home getting back about 7 PM.  It was down to 65 F, about 18 or so C, so we started the generator & the heater and settled in for a quiet evening after a busy, (by our standards), day.