Our Minds are Busy, Pokeno - Win or Lose?

 Park Place RV Park

It's Tuesday, Mar. 24th and the days are zipping by. Yesterday was such a useless day, all I did was sit around in the afternoon and play online games or read online. I didn't even feel like reading my book. I did think about what I could pack up that wouldn't seem too early but just 'thought' about it.

Good morning!
This was last night's sunset.

Last night, it cooled off nicely, but not until around 11, Bill said. He opened windows downstairs and had turned the a/c on upstairs at 10 when I went to bed. We don't run both at the same time, there is no need and we are only plugged into 30 amp.

Why am I taking a picture of this
palm tree?

Because Gibbs and I were being
closely watched.

I watched the next CIA episode last night, I'm enjoying that, and then on Stack TV, I started with the first 2 episodes of Ponies. These girls have me interested already, Persons of NO Interest, a spy thriller. I was up around 7 this morning to, hopefully, a more productive day.

It was a hot sky already
as we made our way back home.

We heard yesterday that there was a 6' rattlesnake spotted down by the dog park and under an rv. That is the southwest corner of the park and we are on the east side but we'll still keep our eyes out when walking Gibbs. We still haven't seen one....and that's okay!

That's it, I am so tired
and hot.
I just can't do it, Mom.
(he eventually did it and we sat
outside in the shade for a while)

Bill went to the field for one last flight with his Somethin Xtra and so, here alone, I dry mopped the main floors and climbed up on a chair to rearrange the top cupboards at the back of the Suite. I put all of my homemade Travel books up there, and secured them tightly.

When Bill got home around 10:30, we drove to DG Market. I needed a card (a non-personal one), and cottage cheese 😀 and Bill wanted a tote to pack the new QDF hats in for the summer. They need to be in an airtight container that mice can't get in while stored.

Before the ladies arrived
I set up my funky tripod
and phone camera
to test out a shot.

He began bringing his 'stuff' in to fill that empty space at the back of the Suite. I stayed out of the way while his mind went to work. He has 2 large(r) pieces of equipment that need to get home safely along with plane kits and fuselages........you get the drift. LOL

Everyone was feeling pretty
happy! Cheese!

We had lunch and I took my wee collection of pennies to Pokeno. It started with just 4 of us and then Sue was able to join for the last set of 10 games. The good news? I was winning! I came home with a near full container so I guess I'm in for the fall games! 😀😂

Top pix = my few pennies on the right
and today's winnings on the left.
Bottom pix = I'll be carrying this weight
with us until the fall so I can play again.

Bill had the back of the Suite packed up right good and proper. Holy cow!It is strapped down well and won't budge during our travels. For supper, we had bbq'd pork chops, air fryer baked potatoes, broccoli. I usually call meals like this 'Sunday night' dinners. 

Sunday supper on a Tuesday night.
😂

The chops were..chops, I wish I enjoyed then more but the potatoes baked in the air fryer - um, crispy skins! I loved that. A bit more cooking for Bill's larger potato would have been perfect. I'll remember next time. 😃

He was Mama's boy today.
Just wanted to sit and cuddle,
how could I resist?

We cleaned up the few dishes and once that and my blog were done, relaxed for the evening. Once it cooled down outside enough, we put the a/c on upstairs and opened windows down here. 

This is the back of the Suite now.
Safe traveling for everything.
Good nght!

It has been a great day, more fun, more packed. The temperature on my phone app still showed it reached 102F/35C.

Thank you for the visit.

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. 😂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. 💕 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.
💕

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. 😃

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! 

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." 😂

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!

A Lazy Day

Park Place RV Park

On Saturday, Mar. 21st we had a very lazy day. Well, up at normal time and  before the heat hit too bad, Gibbs and I got out for our walk around the park perimeter. Not the block this time, it was already feeling oppressive at 8:30.

Good morning!

Bill went to the field for a chat with his friends and returned to work on getting his new plane ready to fly. That is the kind of planes they buy these days. ARF kits, 'almost ready to fly'. 😉 So, very little preparation work. He wants a test flight before it gets packed up to go home.

A couple more cards done

Well, I didn't do much worth talking about today, but most days are like that. I worked on my quilling this morning and made another greeting card. I'm loving this hobby so much! The cards are fun to do and earrings are getting easier with each one I create.

Bill and Gibbs were comfortable
and happy at home 

After our lunch, I went over to start a new puzzle. Sue and I debated making The Starry Night puzzle into a picture and frame it for the clubhouse but without the proper frame, we just moved it for now and started a new EASY puzzle. She helped me with the border and left me to it.

This one shouldn't take too long.
Especially if I have help.

After an hour and a half, I had to push myself away, it was almost coming together too quickly. 😂 I realized when I got home that I should have stayed for another hour. Bill had claimed our living space and had a movie on downstairs while he worked. 

As I've said before, these Hallmark movies - not my thing - so I sat at my laptop with Gibbs behind me and with ear buds in, watched my own movie on YouTube. If his movies had different story lines each time, I could get into a love story......but they don't. Oh well, to each his own.

Just a few pictures of how the
sky changed but the temperature
remained the same.
HOT

I watched a true story called 90 Minutes in Heaven and, although the actors were not famous, it was a touching story and makes one truly wonder what happens when we die, if you haven't already figured it out. Then we moved to my chair where the little bum continued to love on Mama. So hot! 💕

We'd agreed on another cold supper, so had fruit, chips and cheese rather than cook a meal. The Suite kept fairly comfortable all day until around 4 and it just couldn't compete with the 106F/37C outdoors. We will look for the few degrees relief that is coming over the next few days.

Not on the list of
recommended suppers but,
we are adults, right?

We watched an episode of Cross, then a couple of FBI that I missed before I went up to bed. Bill had switched the a/c to run upstairs until he came up to bed around 11. With windows open, we slept well in the 66F/16C. It was a good day, just not much exertion at all!

Living in someone else's house
for 4 1/2 months made us very
anxious to be back here.

A couple of memories from
our winter at home (Covid).
We moved back to our home on the Ridge
on March 19, 2021.

Thank you for your visit!

Who's Taking the HEAT for This? We Are!

Park Place RV Park

On Friday, Mar. 20th we welcome the first day of Spring. More so for the folks back home. Too bad it wasn't a 'turn on the switch' kind of thing but Mother Nature and the higher ups don't always abide by the calendar.

Good morning!

Well, I slept well last night, right through until 6:15 this morning. Gibbs slept in a bit which meant Bill did too. It is these wee morning hours when Gibbs feels best about going for his walks. In the heat, nah, he piddles just outside the mat and turns back in for the cooler Suite temperatures.

Tadah! Done!

Today, point blank - a scorcher. I was spoiled by being in the clubhouse all day so feel bad for those who do not have the same luxury. I finished the puzzle before noon and after lunch, a 'hlmm' sandwich (teehee, ham, lettuce, mayo and mustard), I worked on a new greeting card.

There is a lot of room in the clubhouse
for us to do things that we don't have room
for in our rv's. Any resident can take
advantage.
So, Bette does some quilting.
Bill works on his planes (after doing floors)
and as you know, I do my paper quilling.

Sue was in and out mid afternoon to do some 'park' stuff for Fred and then she baked some delicious smelling loaves of zucchini bread. She truly is Betty Crocker in disguise! It was a fairly quiet day, with just one new booking and a couple of inquiries.

Walking over at 6, yes,
that sun is a scorcher!

No new complaints today regarding any power problems, but the day isn't over yet, as I write this. It isn't just our park having challenges. With all of the a/c uits etc. running, another park in town, that we know of was shut completely down, and issues yesterday as far as Brenda, Az. 20 minutes away.

We're not celebrating her departure,
we're ensuring she returns this 
fall/winter. 😂
As always, we had a lot of fun.

At 4 ish, I closed up the office and Bill and I decided on a cool little meal of freshly cut fruit. The girls have agreed to get together again tonight at 6 for one last kick at the.......fun. One of our 'family' leaves tomorrow and we want a decent bon voyage.

When we walked out of the clubhouse,
the sliver of the moon was pretty.
Sadly, I'm not good at taking pictures
on my phone. 

We met at 6 ish, to send Stephanie off on a good note. Goodness, we don't want her to forget us! Sue, Renae, Anne Marie, Bette, Tammy and myself played Yahtzee until 8:30. Bill was also in the clubhouse, working on his new plane and didn't seem to be bothered by our 'noise'. 😂 He is quite good at staying focused, trust me, I know. 

This plane gets around!

The night was still warm, about 88F/28C, when we walked back home. Gibbs was inside and seemed to be very comfortable as he greeted us at the door with Piggy in his mouth. 💕 

This was a great day, no power outages today and more fun with the ladies. Did I mention the ice cream treat for everyone? Even Bill joined in. 

The highlight, however, of my day was getting a phone call from my son, Patrick. That's rare and that's what makes it extra special. 

No, this isn't today.
It is last year, Mar. 20, 2025.
We were at Yuma Lakes RV Park.
It's TOOOO hot to sit out today.

                                             Good night!

Thank you for stopping by!

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Park Place RV Park

On Thursday, Mar. 19th I woke up at 6:15 when I heard my boys come back inside. That was to be the coolest part of the day. It started out at 61F/16C ish. I didn't have as long a sleep as usual, I think my little 15 minute snooze in my gravity chair did me in.

Good morning!

I didn't mean to drop off, but because of it, I was awake from 10:30 to around 2. Hot, cool, tossing, turning and finally dropping off to wake up 3 hours later. I felt pretty good as I got up, got washed and dressed seemingly wide awake.

I had some cereal and just before 9 walked over to the office. Gibbs had no desire to do his job of riding around the park with Bill, 'too hot, Dad'. Smart pup, right? It was to be another quiet and hot day.

I finished 3 cards over the
last 3 days. 
I'm trying to keep ahead of my
stock pile. 

I worked on some quilling to finish a card and then the puzzle to put in time. There were a few calls and one request for a very short-term storage. I saw no reason to say no, she was here for a funeral. Bill parked her in uncovered and went back home to replace our kitchen taps.

Persistence does pay off.
I'm getting there!
Funny story: Yesterday, the couple that said
they LOVE this picture and LOVE doing puzzles,
came over when I was there. He proudly announced
that he put in 3 pieces. I wasn't sure whether he expected
a gold star or what.........I said, 'great! Do you want to
know how many I've put in?'
Couldn't resist. 😂

He picked up this brand new set at the 6 & 6 Auctions back home early in the summer. We've wanted to replace the set we have, for a couple of reasons. When he messaged me with a picture, I was blown away that he did it so quickly. The process of finding the right connections etc. was harder!

Our old set was 2 pieces
and the pull out sprayer was
worn and not staying in place
as it should.

They are very nice and we don't care that the brushed metal colour doesn't match the sink. Great job, Bill! The afternoon was quiet again UNTIL around 3 when the phones started ringing reporting a power outage. Oh no! The north row again.

Our 1-pc. new tap assembly
looks awesome and for a great price.
Kermit agrees!
We have a hole to cover up
but that is something we can work with.
Can you see it?
I love it!

Bill and Fred went out in the 100 degree heat to get to the root of the problem. People were pulling out their generators and one man found refuge in the air-conditioned clubhouse with a good book. What else can you do? They did find the problem but it takes a while to fix. 😔😓

I locked things up in the office around 4:30 but brought the phone home to field any other resident calls. Bill might want a cold shower when he gets home. I prepped a grilled cheese sandwich for his supper since my plan was to join the ladies for game night at 6. 

Soft butter? We don't mind.

We played Cards Against Humanity and 6 of us did a whole lot of laughing, coming out with the most outrageous responses. I didn't think I'd play it again, but heck, it was a lot of fun tonight! It was Stephanie's last game night 😔so we made the best of it.

Melted coconut oil?
We see this once or twice in the
summer, but never here.

It was 9 pm when I came home and found a very happy pilot in our kitchen, with a very green and white air plane. Yes, his replacement Somethin Xtra was delivered today by UPS while he was out in the heat with Fred. It was a nice reward for him after 3 1/2 hours.

Gibbs thinks.........enough already.
He stays inside most of the day
when it is this warm but occasionally
sits out with Daddy in the shade.

Today, we reached a high of 105F/36C this afternoon, will have an overnight temp around 68F/18C. This heat will stick around for a couple more days before it starts to drop back for next week. We are thankful for the a/c, that's for sure!

I wish I'd got a pix when I first walked
in. He was sitting with a wing on his
lap. 😂
And with that......
Good night!

Thank you for your visit!