Just Another Beautiful Ho-Hum Day In Paradise

The headline says it all.  Another great day here in Desert Hot Springs.  Days like this when we mostly just take it easy are pretty nice but they sure don’t do much providing interesting blogging material.  It’s way too hot to go out into the desert on hikes and besides, we’re in a fantastic resort here at the Sands so we’re just taking full advantage of all the things to do right here!

This very old Earthenware Pottery Bowl was a score!  Paulette paid $5

We started the day off with one of our favourite events here at the Sands RV Resort – the bi-weekly pancake breakfast.  It features all you can eat pancakes as well as sausages, scrambled eggs and coffee for only $4 per person.  The breakfast is so popular now that they’ve moved the starting time from 8am to 7:30am to accommodate all the folks who attend.  Paulette and I were there bright and early Saturday morning.

The inside of the bowl – the Grapefruit in the above pic were free!

After breakfast, we decided to do our usual Saturday morning drive around in Palm Springs and perhaps hit a few garage sales if we  happened to run across any.  Good thing we did because it was a ‘bonanza’ day for Paulette.  She managed to pick up 3 or 4 items that she officially classified as ‘scores’!  A ‘score’ is about as good as it gets when it comes to garage sales and thrift stores.  If this keeps up I’m going to have to ‘score’ a utility trailer to haul all this stuff across the border.

This old bowl even had a few gouges and nicks in it to add some character!

Paulette was just thrilled with the Earthenware Bowl buy as she’s been looking for one like it for years.  The guy selling it was asking $10 and Paulette asked if he would “take $5” – he did.  If I did that, the guy would probably punch me in the mouth!  As a bonus, we got a whole bag of Grapefruit that we picked off a tree next door.  The owner was there, supplied the bags and said “help yourselves, we can’t eat all of this grapefruit ourselves”!  What a deal.

Another ‘score’ was this big white platter – also $5

Another item Paulette was thrilled with was the white platter shown above which she picked up for $5.  I’m just reporting these deals and trying to do my best to make them sound exciting but I’m just not “feelin’ it” if you know what I mean.  A bowl and a platter – ‘nuff said.  In other GS’ing news Paulette picked up a nice blazer and a peasant blouse to go with it for only 50 cents each.  Unbelievable!

We were back at the Sands by lunchtime and it wasn’t long before I was on my way to the golf course.  There was a slight breeze out there so it was pretty comfortable.  That was about it for our Saturday – not very exciting, but not too shabby either!

Have a great Sunday, and thanks again for visiting!