Condo Move In–Part 2

From Friday to Sunday night, we were pretty much moved in with everything put in its place.

Dodo and Bernie were staying in nearby Buckeye and wanted to see the condo and catch up since we last saw each other at Betty’s RV Park last Mardi Gras in March.

This was before we bought lamps, etc.

The President of the HOA here recommended a restaurant to us, Brenda’s Kitchen, only three blocks from here.  After touring Dodo and Bernie around Sun City, we went there for lunch.  What a find!!! This is the old-fashioned little town café…everything made from scratch a la soups, biscuits, sausage gravy, corn beef, potato and mac salads, stews, meatloaf, etc.

The walls are decorated with antique kitchen implements. The place is tiny and only holds 55 people.

 

 

This place is BUSY constantly from 6 am to 2 pm.  Everyone shouts out “hello” and “goodbye” to all customers. 

 

Plus the waitresses are very friendly even asking our names, but they are also a little “cheeky” with a playful sarcastic attitude which was fun to banter with.

I found out they made their own corn beef, so I had a sandwich while the rest of the gang had hand-battered chicken fried steaks with real mashed potatoes. The topper was hearing they had homemade grapefruit pie…never heard of that, but it was delicious! It was like a lemon pie, but with grapefruit.  There are sooo much citrus here this time of year, bags of lemons, oranges and grapefruits on sidewalks just for the taking, so this was good use of the abundant grapefruits.

We had such a great visit with Dodo and Bernie!!! Around Bernie you are laughing all the time….great for the soul.

Remember, you are loved.

Condo Move-In Part 1

This is going to take me at least three posts to cover the move into our condo…so sit back and read.

We picked up the keys from the previous owners on Friday, Feb. 13 (my lucky day). Here’s a selfie of us opening the door for the first time

       

When we walked in we found a welcome gift left by the previous owners, Dave and Debbie, with a card saying they hoped we would love the condo as much as they have….they are only moving a block away to a two-bedroom condo so we will see them often….they have become friends.

We took a lot out of the RV, but still had to buy pots and pans, dishes, glasses, flatware, sheets and towels.

Here are some before and after shots of the condo. We bought all our furniture from American Furniture Warehouse in Glendale.  They are headquartered in Colorado and we’ve bought all our furniture from them for the last 30 years.  They delivered, assembled and set up the rooms on Saturday.  Worth every bit of the $150 it cost. The white moisture spot in the first photo has been fixed and the swag light in the dining room will be moved.

I had to add a little “funk” to the place, so I put shelving paper not only on the shelves, but also up the back of the cabinets.  I love the “wow” affect when you open the doors.

Love the splash of color from the glasses on the shelf with Pat O’Brien’s glasses

More space than I’m use to so I just spread it out

Spice turntable…yes, all alphabetized

We went back to the RV yesterday and took down some of our pictures on the walls to add to the condo. We’ve been living the last two weeks with everything new around us from dishes to the bed and sheets we slept on. Having the pictures hung up made a big difference in our “feeling at home”.

We parked the RV at the Elks Club which was only 5 miles away.  We moved everything in grocery and shopping bags.  Jim would go to the RV and fill up 5-6 bags and bring them back for me to put away.  We were basically “IN” the condo with everything put away by Sunday…three days…I think that’s pretty good.  Come Monday we had our first visitors, Dodo and Bernie…more about that tomorrow.

Remember, you are loved.