riding and clowning

We did our morning thing and ate a small breakfast because we had planned an early lunch. We rode our bicycles to Tierra Santa golf course with the bike club and split a hamburger and French fries. It was a beautiful cool but windy day. Some of the route was hard riding. We began with warm clothes but had to pull many of them off on the way back at 12:30. We were home by 1:15. I began my project of cleaning the contacts and battery cables on the golf cart but broke 2 of the cables. They were very corroded and snapped right off. I went to Napa thinking I would just walk in and out with them, but theirs were much longer than I could use. I bought some more oil for the Saturn that was on sale and went to the Advance Auto Parts store and got what I needed. By the time I returned, the kitchen band had left me. I drove to the nursing home nearby and joined them in singing Christmas Carols. The residents are always given some shakers so they can join us in making noise as we play our washboards and kazoos. Some of them sing along so they remember some things from the past. We went to the grocery afterward to get some ingredients for chili that we will make tomorrow morning. We returned home and I continued cleaning the golf cart. One of the cables was not what I wanted but the neighbor showed me how I could swap one of the cables already on the batteries for one that I had bought. I think I got things cleaner and filled the batteries with water. I began working on the cart I am trying to sell. I only got as far as filling the cells because they were so dry that it took several minutes. It was nearly dark, so I came in and we ate more of the leftover pot roast. It was still very good. I watched the Bears play the Saints while I cancelled some credit card receipts. Both quarterbacks, Kyle Orton and Drew Brees, were quarterbacks at Purdue. Their college coach, Joe Tiller who has retired, was at the game and posed with them after the game.