Awake: 7:30am Temp 43 sleep 7+43 partly cloudy overnight @ Pahrump, NV.
Diane F. calls from Mesa, AZ. She & Kathy discuss Medigap insurance policies, dental plans, and a little about their respective families and Christmas travel plans.
Later, while Kathy bakes a batch of healthy muffins, I download more pictures from another memory stick & then erase that memory stick.
Mid afternoon, we take a walk around some of the town for fresh air, exercise & curiosity; a visit to the nearby “Red Barn” was like a visit to an outdoor yard sale; most of their “items” had been exposed to the weather & thus, soaking wet or very damp.
Dinner: stuffed peppers, four bean salad & whole grain bread, toasted.
Early evening, we take Gary up on his offer to visit them & have some of his special “homemade apple pie a la-mode.” Of course, we have a big gab session before the ceremonial pie serving & I was glad for that, mainly because I ate too much of Kathy’s scrumptious stuffed pepper @ dinner time. Gary makes a fantastic pie; we’ve had his pies before, but each time those pies seem to taste better…& I’m not kidding. We return to our bus around 9:30.
Late evening DVR movie: “Heroes for Sale” with Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon Robert Barrat, etc. Potent melodrama with Barthelmess as an American Everyman who manages to survive one calamity after another---from morphine addiction (as a result of a WWI injury) to job-hunting during the Depression & continues to endure, like the country itself. A fascinating social document of the early 1930’s. 1933. Experiencing this story & movie are well worth you’re time.
High temp=58 Lights out: 11:45pm
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