To Gold Canyon, Dec 11, 2008

Moving day after three weeks. It was cold this morning in Q, 39 degrees, burr, but it was sunny. Bob got me up at 7:30 as I had asked him so we could be on our way by 10 am. We each set about doing our own stuff getting things ready to travel. I generally do most of the inside and Bob deals with the outside. We have one rear tire on the Explorer that keeps going down, so he had to get out the air compressor and blow it up. Also he has to go up on the coach and untilt the solar panels. I am so glad he does the roof stuff and I don't go up there!

We actually left at 10:20, not too far off of our estimated time; had an uneventful drive on I-10 through Phoenix to an RV park in Gold Canyon. We have a list of stores we want to stop at while in a metro area, Home Depot for a round piece of wood to put on the steering wheel when we are parked, Bob needs jeans and the Explorer needs tires.
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I-10 was not too busy when we came through, love this 5 level interchange.Evening view outside of our RV.

In this special moment in life...Smile often, savor special moments.

More Pecans and Baking, Dec 9, 2008

Any time any place, you can always pick out pecans, I have now over a pound picked out. I am going to be making some persimmon cookies soon, and I want to put these pecans in them.

The generator automatically started on this morning at 8:30, (we have it set to come on when the batteries reach a certain level and run for two hours.) Usually when it comes on, we try to put a load on the generator-make it work as suggested by using something in the coach that takes electrical power, like the hot water heater or convection/microwave or heat pump. This is when I usually bake something if I am planning on doing so. Well when the generator came on I had no idea I was going to be baking this loaf of zucchini bread, that thought occurred later in the day, so when I started to get out the ingredients to bake, Bob wondered why as the generator had already ran. Well, I just said I can start it again and you can see it is baked. It is for a gift when we head over to the Phoenix and Tucson areas.

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We are leaving tomorrow (Thurs) and will be visiting friends and family. When we leave Tucson, we are heading to another LTVA (Long Term Visitor Area-BLM lands) near Yuma called Imperial Dam. The same camping sticker works there as well as here in Quartzsite.

Sometimes this Master Mind game gets the best of me, well almost. Bob was a little slow at first figuring it out, now the tide has turned. Bummer...but I still like to play it, hopefully some my dormant brain cells will rejuvenate!

This is a shot of the sunset reflected glow last night, beautiful pinks along with the blues--see the moon.

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In this special moment in life...Think freely, Practice Patience.

Craft Show, Pecans, and Peanut Butter, Dec 6-7, 2008

Saturday brought on the sunshine again, a good day to walk over to the monthly craft show at the QIA (Quartzsite Improvement Assn). There were lots of vendors, both inside and out. Quite a lot of items for sale, but with living in an RV, we do have screening questions, Do I want it? Do I need it? Where is it going to go? and sometimes What am I going to get rid of so I have a place of this new item? So...you can see not many new purchases get made. We did purchase one item for a gift for Bob's coworker we are going to see this next week, a plaque that says "I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the recipe." In the above photo the cactus made from barbed wire caught my eye. For those in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio---We even have snowmen here in Q.

Remember when we were in Fredericksburg, Tx last winter, we picked up lots and lots of pecans, well I am still picking them out. Sat. afternoon was a perfect day to sit outside and do this mindless task, but at $7.00/12 oz of shelled pecans, it is priceless.

Sunday brought phone calls from Rich and to my sister, Bob snapped this photo while I was talking to the latter, see my new couch cuddle up blanket. While we were in Sacramento, found this fleece fabric, and yes, I did donate the other blanket-which was blue wrong color- to charity.

Today, I fixed a pot of chili as it was cloudy and overcast most of the day, so to go along with the chili, peanut butter and jelly crackers. We got out a new jar of peanut butter that John and Judy had brought for us, it is made in Grand Rapids, MI, it tastes just like the kind you grind yourself at the store, delicious! It is made by Koeze Company, Cream Nut Natural Peanut Butter. Thanks again.

It was almost dark tonight when we walked the mile to take the garbage to the dumpster. You can see the sun peeking out from the cloud cover over the mountains.