Monday, March 23, 2026

Still Hot but Cooling by a Few Degrees

Park Place RV Park

On Monday, Mar. 23rd (geesh, I have to give my head a shake each time I write the date) I woke from another great sleep. I'm not sure if I woke once through the night. I was up and mobile by 7 ish, and downstairs to find Bill finishing his cereal.

Good morning!

I made a tea and he left soon after. He had plans to go to the field and then to Jim's Hangar to help the guys bring planes etc. down from storage in the mezzanine. They help Jim, who is 93, each fall and spring with this task. He has so much airplane stuff available to the guys and a work table that they like to give him a hand.

That flag is not moving at all.
Not many clouds to help cool things
down either. 

Gibbs and I went for our walk, shortened again by the early onset of heat. We were both happy to get back inside where the a/c was already running in an attempt to keep the Suite cool. Yah, right. πŸ˜‚At 9:20, I walked over to play one of my last (sob, sob) games of Poker Pool with the ladies.

There were only 5 of us today, we missed Stephanie, but I came really, really close to being the winner. I'll have to settle with last week's 1st place ribbon, I guess, the win I shared with Linda. πŸ’• I have one more game next Monday. 

I made an effort for lunch
and we had a yummy omelette.

Back home, I made omelettes for our lunch and they were delicious and filling. We both find our appetites in this heat are not up to par so our meals have been lacking in creativity AND not falling under the 'recommended' factor. Oh well, lunch was a good one!

Bill and Gibbs had snoozes, too hot to be outside and that's where things need to be done. I did see him, from the clubhouse window, putting our string of lights from under the rv away. My job will continue to be inside stuff which won't take long. I'll get at that one day this week.

What do you see?
I see 3 lug nuts in our home.
(teehee)

The remainder of the afternoon was probably laziest than we've ever been here! It was even hot inside. The a/c was not cooling us more than about 8 degrees below the outside temperature but we didn't want to leave Gibbs here to go to the cooler clubhouse.

I was very hot but when this little guy curls
up beside/on me, it's hard to say no.
He was sound asleep.
πŸ’•

We both played a lot of games online - Bill played Solitaire and I played Rumnikub until my free coins ran out. That whole game things gets old and makes us sleepy. Something I don't want to do, is nap again in the late afternoon so I got out of my recliner and prepared coleslaw for supper.

When I moved, so did he.
The floor is much cooler than
my lap - for all of us.

Fish and chips  is on the menu tonight. Bill will have fries but I'll just have the fish with salad tonight. Again, not much of an appetite these days. I'm not exerting myself enough to make myself hungry, I guess! This fit the bill for our meal.

After supper, we found some tv to watch together. Not one of us wants to be up in the bedroom in that oven. Last night, Bill found one of my very favourite movies - if not my fav. PS I Love You with Gerard Butler and Hillary Swank. I laugh every time and haven't seen it for a long time. It was fun again.

Supper was very good.
I even got one fry from Bill.
Fried in peanut oil - oh my!
I may have to start eating them again!

Although the only excitement was poker pool, I had a good day. Hopefully, this heat lets up a bit more tomorrow. Today was only down by 1 or 2 degrees from yesterday, LOL. At least our nights are cooler and make sleeping possible. πŸ˜ƒ

Just throwing in some memory
photos - because I can!
This was a vacation we took before we retired.

I hope your day was a good one and your week on the right track. If you are one or two of the many who are en route, traveling to a destination called 'home', be safe and make wise choices. 


This memory speaks for itself - almost.
March 21st, 2017
Our first visit to this wonder of the world.
Good night!

Thank you for popping by to see what we're up to! 

Sunday, March 22, 2026

That was Too Easy!

 Park Place Rv Park

On Sunday, Mar. 22nd we all slept in. I, along with Bill and Gibbs, didn't open our peepers until 6:30. As soon as Bill moved, so did Gibbs. I guess I did too, I rolled over and faced the fresh air coming in my window. Boy, 66F/17/C felt good. We slept well with windows open.

Good morning!

First things first, was laundry. We walked over before 7 with the basket and filled two machines. Filled is just the word I use, they were far from full, we don't wear many clothes in this heat! Bill drove to the field with his new toy and turns out they had a maiden flight. He's happy - that means I'm happy.

This was to be a partly
cloudy day.

I finished the laundry, folded, worked on the puzzle a bit and returned home to put it away. Then, I hopped in the shower. It was already heating up fast so I didn't even attempt a walk with you know who. With all the windows and blinds closed, he was quite happy inside.

This is how Gibbs keeps cool.
Laying on the floor, in this case,
under my chair.
Pix on right: Gibbs and Piggy watch
Daddy leave.

I knew I'd agreed to put my quilling stuff away to open up the back area of the Suite for 'travel packing'. Bill is successfully (heh heh) going to fill the area and my stuff will go in the bedroom. Yes, I did hear the murmurings of a promise - "I won't bring anything back next winter, Dear." πŸ˜‚

My work space is now dismantled
so now we can pack 'stuff' there.
Wait until you see it in a week.

I was done rather quickly, sorting and packing a couple of 'go' bags so this week I could still do some paper quilling if the mood strikes. Everything else of mine (except one very heavy bag of paper, thanks Kim and Nancy) fit perfectly under the bed. There is no real weight to it, so a good travel spot.

Lunch was a fried egg
and bacon on toasted crusts

I made my coffee and when Bill returned home, we relaxed until 11:30. That was when he got a call from the Arizona Market vendor who is supplying the club with embroidered ball caps. They are ready, she said. By 12:10, he was out the door to drive the 90 minutes to Yuma to get them. 

Top picture: before noon but there
was help last night.
Bottom picture: Sue and I finished it
after lunch

He also had the crimping tool that had to be returned to Amazon via the UPS store there. Gibbs and I hung around here, I addressed a card for the mail and around 1:30 walked over to work on the puzzle. Sue said it was very quiet in the office so helped me finish it. This was an easy but fun one!

Burgers for supper.

I returned home around 3, just a few minutes before Bill got back. Good timing! For supper, we've decided on Bill's burgers so because of the temperature, I pulled them out of the freezer early so they were partially thawed. Grateful that our bbq is shaded in the afternoon.

The sky turned quite lovely
just after sunset.

We finished them off with the strawberries, grapes and raspberries for dessert. This was another hot day, 103F/35C but we're still here. It was still a good day.

Where we were last year
on this day.
Great memories at
Yuma Lakes RV Park.
Good night!

Thank you for stopping by!