Chillin' with Patsy: Sunday relaxing

Yuma Lakes RV Resort

On Sunday, Apr. 10^th we seem to have found a new morning routine. Our routine seems to change in every new place and in every circumstance. I suppose everyone’s does. So, we were up before 7 and Gibbs and I went for our walk. It was a different direction today. We walked up over the hill to the main entrance road, then down the other side to the lake. 😉

I don't know who the artist is, but these
natural horses have been here for as long as we've been coming
Original or what?

It’s very pretty and I wanted to see Gibbs’ reaction. He was so busy sniffing around that it took him awhile to notice the water and even then, didn’t show too much interest. He stuck his nose in but that was enough. There was a family of black and white ducks but different than what I found on Coots, so I don’t know what they are. They weren’t too timid with us around but did move on down as we walked their way.

I like how the top picture turned out
kind of two dimensional because of the sun
What are these ducks?

Gibbs was very good with them which is great since we will have ducks and geese back home walking and swimming around our pond. From there we walked down the long stretch of the park to the big dog park. He was alone but did his sniffing and a few times, ran the gamut from one end to the other and around the obstacles. Sadly, there was no available water at this dog park, and I don’t usually carry any on my walk. We didn’t stay long.

There's also a large bird in that dead tree ??
Mama takes her family away from the intruders (us)

Back home, I boiled the kettle and we had tea together. The Suite was closed up again right from 8 o’clock and after sorting the laundry, I drove up to get 2 loads on the go. No one seems to do their laundry on the Lord’s Day but I do! 😊 When I returned after loading the washers and stepped inside, I could tell that we were doing a wise thing by keeping blinds and windows closed on these hot days.

Still pictures from our walk

Bill went up on the roof when I left and washed the solar panels with the hose. He said they weren’t as bad as he thought they’d be. The rain at Park Place RV must have helped with that. I returned with the laundry finished just before 10 and we put our clean clothes away. We’re good now until we get home. Another ‘new’ ritual for us is picking up bags of ice, daily, so Bill drove up and bought 2 for starters.

Testing the waters, literally
It's bigger than my pool Mom

We still had a fair bit of ice in the bags in the freezer but the fridge ones were mostly melted. 2 bags filled 5 large ziplock bags and they lay nicely in the crispers and also stand beside the milk and pop easily. We sat together and read our books, Bill is reading the James Patterson NYPD Red that I just finished. It’s a good one and he likes to get hooked right from the get-go like I do. J.P.’s books are great also because the chapters are short and it makes it easy to deal with other distractions. 😊

He just stood and watched the ducks
That is a positive thing, no barking to disturb them either

We had apples and cheese for lunch again, it seems to fill us and tastes good. These Gala apples are yummy! Another ritual here in this park is my visits to the pool and Dad and Puppy time here at home. ♥ They are happy with this arrangement and so am I. I stay for a couple of hours and although there were 5 small individuals at the pool again today, I was able to float in the areas where they weren’t.

Laundry day for me

Hey, we all love kids (I think) and I’m happy to see them enjoy themselves with Mom and Grandma as long as I can have a private corner to my own thoughts. They were loud, as children are, but well-controlled when necessary. Kudos to their care-givers. As I was leaving, Jan, from across the road arrived and we laughed about how yesterday we didn’t know we were neighbours.

Bill and Gibbs were doing just fine without me and the Suite temperature had just recently caught up to the outside temps. It’s 4:30 so we figure that will change once the sun goes down and we can open windows. It was only 91F/33C today and dropping down to 86F by 7 pm. That will be a nice relief right there and with a low of 59F tonight, we’ll sleep well again. 😊

This is how we relax on a hot day
in our home

For supper, we had barbecued chicken thighs rather than using Rosy. They were 75% thawed in the freezer so time to eat them up. We had divided the 18 burgers that we bought at Sam’s Club into meal lots, 2 per package. That turned out to not be a great idea. They would have stayed frozen longer altogether, however, there wasn’t room in the freezer to do that.

It was an okay supper tonight
It's weird cooking veggies on the bbq though

This morning, Bill bbq’d 8 of them because they were mostly thawed too. ☹ They can be refrozen (although we can’t do that) in cooked state but they can also be warmed up for a couple of meals on the road. We’re going to get through this, come hook or crook and we’ve made a few ‘tentative’ plans for our arrival in Ontario, Canada.

Dog park and remembering what grass is? 💓
He was very young when he got to play in it last

So, we had chicken thighs, I had boiled cabbage and Bill had mixed vegetables all cooked on the Weber. The Suite didn’t need to be heated up anymore when it was just starting to cool down. I took Gibbs for a walk around the block to do his business while Bill started the dishes. The breeze, once more, is wonderful and we opened all windows around 7. This was a good day. We are doing our best to save what freezer food we can and keeping fridge food cold.