This morning I was up EARLY as I had an 8:30 haircut appointment with the Best Little Hairhouse in Quartzsite. I usually don't even get up till 9 am. Anyway the cut looks good, think I will make another appointment to have it cut again the end of January before we head off to Mexico.
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After my haircut, it was time to go to the laundermat, first time since last Feb. while we were in Fredericksburg TX. Now I have done laundry since Feb, but I do it in the coach. These washers were $1.75 each and the dryer took .75 to get things dry.
Another errand today was to locate a thrift store in Q to donate a bag of items we had purged from the coach. Actually we bought some new glasses, both wine and water, while we were having the Coach's oil changed at a Camping World in Fairfield CA. In the classified ads of a freeby newspaper, I found where you could donate items to a local Salvation Army store, so we were off the find it and we did, not easy though. But, you can't go to a thrift store without looking around and we found fifty cents worth of goodies to buy. A used Master Mind game and a small Christmas tree skirt for our small tree. We have been enjoying playing Master Mind, but were a little short of some of the markers, but now with this new to us set, we have plenty. I have combined the sets, our old box, the new game board as it has a place for the markers to be stored, old colored markers, old and new black and white pegs. We are hoping this game will sharpen our aging minds--sure hope so!!!
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Today we went grocery shopping and also stopped at the produce market. Our opinion is the only place to buy produce is at the produce stand, what they sell at the grocery store should already be in the compost pile.
Now my secret is out and only my hair colorist know for sure...yes, Bob just finished putting the color on my hair. I use a light blond color to cover up the gray. The only problem with doing this as it does take quite a bit of water to rinse the color out, so we heated the water heater using the propane option v the electric and I just leaned into the shower to rinse, worked well, and don't think this method used too much water as that is a concern while we are boondocking here at Quartzsite.
What a colorful ending to our day...this beautiful view of the sunset glow over the coach.
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.
One never grows tired of enjoying and marveling at our amazing sunsets.
