BINGO DISASTER!!!

 Welcome back to sunny California that is NOT so sunny.  Temps are back down in the COLD area, with unwelcome breezes.  Winter has decided to give us one more kick in the pants ... and we are ALL feeling it.

You're not going to believe THIS  Bingo night ... it was a record setter.  But first, I had to get through the morning!

It was rather ugly out, but the roses don't seem to care.  They are starting to bloom like crazy, as is everything else in the general area.  That includes pistachios.  

Here's a little info for you.  Pistachios don't need bees to pollenate.  There are male trees and female trees.  Every fifth tree in an orchard is male, that puts out so much pollen it covers you if you walk too close.  With the slightest breeze, it also covers every rooftop within miles.  You can hear the neighbors sneezing every morning.  Me included.  Love the weather, hate the pollen!

Here's my faucet timer.  It's the most amazing thing ever.  I haven't used this thing in well over 15 years.  The batteries were still in it ..... NOT exploded.  How could that be?  I took them out, put in two new ones and it roared back to life.  That's just crazy!  Yesterday the drip line that will fit it arrived, so you know what I'll be doing with it today.

And THEN IT WAS BINGO TIME!  I picked up the $27 cake  at Costco (pretty cheap in my book) and headed to the lodge.  The party was scheduled for 3:00.  I guess I should have checked with the guest of Honor.  He didn't arrive until 4:30.  But wait ..... that's when we start selling bingo cards!!

Oh but the best is yet to come!  My Fairy Godmother showed up at 11:00 in the morning to set up, then left for her grandsons baseball game.  Everything was just hunky dory.  Too bad it didn't stay that way.  

Panic set in.  They could not get two of the four giant TV's to work.  Someone had gone around and changed all the wiring.  Two of the Knights tried to fix it while we all sang Happy Birthday!!  It's CAKE TIME.  So much for that diet I was on.  

By now, we are all running quite late as folks came in the door to find nothing working.  Try as they might, the Knights could not get it to work.  YIKES!  The pitchforks ... the swords ... the flaming torches were EPIC!!  Even a brilliant techy electronics guy could not figure it out.  

By 5:00 there was complete panic in the building.  The camera on the machine refused to work.  It's mandatory since it gives the players a chance to see the next number BEFORE that number is actually called.  

At 5:30, the King called an audible.  We were OUT OF BUSINESS for the first time in the history of Lodge Bingo.  There would be NO bingo tonight.  Oh the howls of pain coming from the audience.  A new camera will be ordered.  In fact, TWO new cameras, one for a backup.

I put all the money and cards away and headed upstairs to the bar for a final birthday wish.  I can only say I was shanghaied!  In a flash, there was a glass of wine in front of me, followed by two supreme combination pizzas.  How could I turn THAT down.  My diet died a horrible death.  Wine, pizza, cake .... OH NO!!

Three hours later the party ended.  Gee ... we should do this more often.  Now just how did that camera break?  No one could figure it out.

I got home late, way too full of pizza, to a very happy kid because really, I was two hours early.  This will be a night talked about around the bingo tables for years to come.  Remember when we had that birthday party and cancelled bingo??????

AND I have leftover cake in the fridge!!  SCORE!!