A Couple of Jobs

Quartzsite, Az

On Thursday, Nov. 12th I had an inkling in my half-asleep-lazy brain that I would skip a walk. Tsk tsk, not good. Once I start that nonsense, it's hard to get back on track so I got up, washed, dressed and was out the door at 6:45 before I changed my mind.

Good morning!

I did, however, change my route. I started out the same way, turning towards the highway and then returning the same way. It isn't quite the same distance but pretty close so I was happy. It totally threw Gibbs off as he was looking out the back window for my return. 🤭

Kind of hard to hug this tree!

Bill was almost ready to leave, just making his coffee. I made my tea and sat at my laptop to send a family/friend's email regarding our mailing address here. We paid enough for it that if it can be used, I wanted our family to know it. Some do like to send Christmas cards.

After a frustrating 30 minutes of my laptop cursor disappearing, I got it back and Gibbs and I went outside for a while. It was only 8:30 but already it was warm enough for shorts. That's crazy at only 63F/15Cish. My book, W is for Wasted, by Sue Grafton is very good and hard to put down so that's what I did outside.

I went a different route but
I bet you can't tell, can you?
Everything looks the same.

I came in to make a coffee at 10 and Gibbs decided he wanted to stay in for awhile. By 11, he was back out with me, sitting in the shade of our canopy and then scratching a bed in the gravel and underlying sand. Funny characters, they are. When Bill came home, he unloaded plane stuff and drove to La Posa South for a bladder of water.

But there is still such beauty
in the desert if you just look.

For lunch, when he returned, I made omelettes and they were very good. I need to keep stocked up on eggs, bacon and ingredients because they are so good and so good for us. Not to mention easy to make. I had another lazy afternoon in the shade of our canopy with my book. Can't say the same for Bill.

Sometimes, you just need to make
your own bed.

He had the water transferred from the bladder over lunch and when our tank was full there was still some left. We removed it from the back of the truck and will transfer it over the next day or two. He wasted no time and emptied our black tank into the blue boy via our macerator. Since it wasn't too busy at La Posa south yet, he went right over to dump.

Supper was easy and tasty.

That's two big jobs taken care of. We've done well, we've gone 14 days before filling our fresh water tank and dumping our black. Getting into the groove of real desert boondocking again. Even though we live basically 'off the grid' at home, we are a bit more conservative with our usage. 🤭😉

Bill had a wee mishap with landing gear this morning so worked on that this afternoon. These styrofoam planes can be fixed soooo many times, it simply amazes me. Plus the pilots all know how to take care of them. I read more until I needed to come in for a snooze. I guess the heat (or maybe idleness) is making me tired.

First time since we've had some
light clouds.

For supper, we had hot dogs and beans, which was just enough. Gibbs got a weiner too, something he learned to love from Bill's flying mates back home. He's not spoiled at all! We took care of dishes and watched some tv. No generator yet, we'll see how the evening goes. We've had so much sun, the panels should be smiling.

Good night!

We're expecting to drop in temps starting tomorrow until Tuesday when it drops even more. No worries, we'll still be under mostly sunny skies and in the mid-60's/teens.

Thank you for your visit on this wonderful day.