A Quiet, Warm, Cloudy Day, Gibbs

Park Place RV Park

On Tuesday, Dec. 27^th I woke up finding it hard to believe that Christmas is over. All the hubbub leading up to the Lord’s birthday and then we are discussing when to take the decorations down. I’ll wait until New Year’s Day, I think. The Christmas music stations on Sirius were switched off on Boxing Day. Enough already. 😊

Good morning!

So, today, it was about 7:45 when Gibbs and I went out for our walk. That was short and sweet. Since I took Dino away from him yesterday, this morning he became interested in his other new toy, Doggie. We are so darned creative with the names, huh? Ha ha. So, when he was told that Doggie couldn’t go for the walk with us, he was in a hurry to get back home to hm. LOL

From the highway/Main St. the town
looks hidden in the mountains

I left him with Dad and off I went with Mitch Albom talking in my ear. I know many will probably critique the ear buds but for the short time I wear them, no one can take away the joy I’m getting from them. I walked south to the highway, down Main St. sidewalk to Discount Solar and back home around the big block. I felt great this morning and could have walked further had I been more familiar with other routes to home. I’ll check them out another day. 😊

Walking past these entrances, I had to pause
for a picture
simple but perfect

Back home, I made my tea and had an orange and some yogourt while sitting with Gibbs. I’d played my games inside and I noticed Gibbs was shivering as if he was c-c-cold. The dampness inside makes it feel colder than it is outside sometimes. The outside temp this morning was 52F/10C. That gave me the opportunity to put his new sweatshirt on him and he seemed to love it!

Doggie has a very soft squeak at a very
sensitive touch

So far, no holes have been poked in the hard plastic
of his coat

We went outside, where I found it quite a bit warmer, and had a coffee while reading my book. It was noon when Bill returned, having had some luck with his Piper cub this morning, and we came in for some lunch. I was curious how long before Patty wanted to clear the Christmas décor from the clubhouse. She said to go ahead and start a puzzle, if we have another potluck, just because, it won’t be until the second week of January when more rv’ers arrive. 😊

So, I did. It should be a fun one and it piqued the interest of Patty and Suz with many of the 70’s record album covers featured. Four regular ladies played Pokeno and I worked away at the border. It wasn’t as easy as I first though but at least it is done now and I can begin the fun part. I am still waiting for a package that I ordered before Christmas but it won’t likely arrive until Thursday.

Gibbs models his new sweatshirt
Isn't he handsome? 💖💗

The postal system here is strange. If you received a Christmas card from us and tried to send one back to the address on the back, it won’t find us. It is wrong. ☹ Sorry. Hopefully, you will get it back and maybe save it for next year! Email me personally for the correct address if you want to resend it. We are here until March 31^st.

A fun record album cover

What is different from large cities or towns is that the park doesn’t get delivery, no one in Quartzsite does. Any postal mail goes to the Main St. post office and then is sorted for individual service depots to pick it up from there and take it to their own sorting organization. This park’s ‘depot’ is called Ironwood. Rick goes and picks up from there, as we assume many others do as well. This all takes a few days usually, especially at this time of year.

Border is done

I returned home for a tea at 3:30 but I’m not enjoying my tea these days. I usually buy 18% cream back home and it just isn’t sold down here. ☹  That’s unfortunate, as I’ve resorted to using whipping cream/35%, which is ridiculously expensive here, or 10%/half and half, which just doesn’t taste the same.

A pretty bush along my walk

I boiled up some hummer food and it is cooling so I can fill my new feeder and see if we can coax the little one back. 🐦 I was close to reaching my steps this morning so at 4:15, I took Gibbs out for an afternoon walk and bypassed my goal. It’s a funny weather day, reaching 75F/24C at its peak but with the clouds making it feeling cooler than that. It is still quite a nice day and we are enjoying it.

I love this pretty little house setting
and look at those clouds!

We were going to have grilled sausages tonight but we were quite late getting started so instead we had toasted tomato and cheese sandwiches. Bill loaded the dishwasher and I worked on my blog while Bill watched a movie. When it was finished, we watched another one together. Not a Christmas one, yay! 😊 This was a good day.

Not tonight's sunset but one from Dec. 27th, 2018
Good night!

Thank you for coming around to see how things are going. ♥

Restless Night, Sunny Skies, No Wind, Happy Hour with New Friends

We were up Monday, Nov. 20^th at a few minutes before 7. Clemson needed out at 6:45 and I was ready anyway to get up. It was cooler last night so at 4:30 Bill got up and turned the fireplace on to take the chill out. I don’t know why I was restless, I stayed up later last night with Bill. Anyway, I obviously had enough sleep, just not my normal 8.

Love the colours on this motor home

 We had our tea and coffee and I wasn’t keen on walking out into the cloudy cool morning. We’ve managed our data pretty good over the last couple of days by not going on through the day. There is no need to be so ‘in touch’ anyway. So, I sat at my laptop here in the Suite and published yesterday’s post and read comments and other blogs. I peeled an orange since I didn’t have any bananas left. Which reminds me, I need to find room in our freezer to put the muffins for now.

There are many permanent residences here and the owners
take pride in their homes

It at least appears that the wind has died right off again. Good! We’ve been so spoiled that the last couple of windy days were too much! We haven’t felt like going to the pool since what, Thursday? Have to check my blog to confirm that. Bill called our AOR membership office to book a reservation into a park in February. You can only book 90 days out for this one but now it is done and we have secured a firm plan.

After he hung up, Bill said “you know, making a February booking like that makes me think that soon after that we’ll be heading home”. Wow! Ain’t that the truth! We will put it out of our minds for now and live day to day. So, putting the far future out of my mind, I went for a walk and ended up at the WEST clubhouse. The puzzle was calling my name and there was no one else in the building. I texted Bill and told him where I was.

My delicious brunch

When I walked back it was almost noon and since Bill had eaten breakfast, I fried up some leftover potato and chicken cubes with tomatoes. When they were mostly browned, I added an egg. I was hungry and wow, was that every good! Bill had one of my oatmeal banana muffins and the rest were put into the freezer. Bill was working on finishing another book, James Patterson’s Don’t Blink and he succeeded.

Paul and Lynn have a Montana High Country

I sat outside until he closed the last cover and got cleaned up. We walked down to visit Paul and Lynn (and beautiful Jazz) at their site just down the way a bit. We had a lovely visit and it makes us regret not getting over there sooner in our stay. We are leaving Wednesday and they are going out Wednesday until Sunday for Thanksgiving. We won’t see them again unless our paths happen to cross elsewhere. We hope so!

Meet Jaz

Such a calm lady

Paul is coming over early tomorrow to see Bill’s drone, another subject they could both get lost in. RC planes are a common interest. I had to beeline it home, nature was calling but the visit was a couple of hours anyway. We don’t like to overstay our welcome on the first visit. Maybe the second! We did hit it off really well.

The sun begins to say goodnight

Back home we sat inside for a bit longer before Bill lit the Weber at 5. He grilled a pork chop and a chicken breast. Our compromise for dinner meals, since we both prefer one or the other. I prepared my last quarter of squash for the bbq, some corn for Bill and a packet of Stove Top Stuffing. It was a great meal and we cleaned dishes up quickly so we could relax some more.

supper on the Weber

Yum!

I took a walk to the garbage and when I discovered how warm it was out there, I kept on walking to the road. The sky was absolutely gorgeous and even though there were objects in the way, I snapped pictures of the glory that was blanketing the area. When I came back, I noticed a group of 5 campers were sitting around the community fire pit and stopped to chat briefly.

I even managed to capture the moon up there tonight

Bill had The Voice on when I returned so we sat and enjoyed the program together in between me reading a new book. This has been a good day, enjoying the weather, the peace and quiet and building a new friendship. I hope your day has been a good one too.

Campground group without flash

and with flash

Thank you for reading today. Your comments are always welcome and appreciated.