Yoga Poses, Sun sitting, Up, Up and Away, Last Day

La Posa South LTVA

On Wednesday, Nov. 30^th the day started off the same as our last 7 days have. We got up together a bit later though. It was almost 8 when we were making the bed. 

What felt cool when I started out,
warmed up and  I returned with my jacket undone

I got dressed and took little Lazy Leroy (oh yah, we have all kinds of names for him ♥) for his walk. It lasted less than 10 minutes and when we returned, Bill was just hopping in the shower.

Here you are witnessing the
4-legged "I've gone far enough" stance
The stick straight shadow tells it all

You've seen our front yard
this messy brush is our back yard
with a young Saguaro fighting for space and sun

I’d debated waiting to go further but since he was occupied, I decided to get my morning steps in. One of my commenters asked “Magic Circle?” after others had commented about me getting lost back in that ‘neck of the woods. So, here is an explanation, of sorts. Beyond us, further to the southwest, is a 3 ½ mile area for campers willing and wanting to live in a clothing optional campground. 😉

I hope you can read this
There are a few signs spread to the various
entrances

I prefer clothes, well, unless I’m on the Ridge – alone – or with Bill, so even though in the morning I wouldn’t come across any nudists, I have no need to enter. I found a Labyrinth of the circle but wasn’t at a good enough angle to get a picture. They have also set up a 9-hole disc golf course as well, which is pretty cool. They used to have a much smaller area but, when it was discovered how clean they kept the area, they were offered more land.

Speaking of which, La Posa South and probably most LTVA and blm land campers practice the ‘take out what you bring in’ motto. I never see garbage around here. That says a lot! 

It was a pretty morning
The mountains, some in sun and some in black shadow

This morning, some of my pictures feature yoga poses but not any that I’ve done. See if you agree when you look at my few saguaro cacti pictures that are filtered through the writing.

This has to be 
'Downward Dog'

I returned home with about 4,500 steps in and planned to get out later to at least reach my 6,000 daily step goals. This was a wonderfully hot day for our last one so I planned to spend a lot of it outdoors with my book and some of it with my sweeties. ♥ We had our drinks and breakfast together and then we went outside. Bill was in no hurry to pack things up outside as we would have a couple of hours in the morning to do that before pulling out.

Here we have a few more poses
Sky reaching pose in the back
Maybe Child's pose in the middle
Mountain pose in the front left

This pose? This is me after an hour of Yoga
The "I can't do anymore stretches!" pose 😉

He got his drone out and after charging the battery, took it up to get some pictures over our area. I like it when he does that. His pictures are at the bottom of my post.

A lazy afternoon, just what we all wanted

Gibbs was outside with me a lot of the day and around 3, we went for our afternoon stroll. That turned into a longer walk than he has made in a while. I was duly impressed! I let him walk and sniff as much as he wanted and it was Gibbs who made the decision to go indoors.

A quiet afternoon doing our own thing together

What is that, Daddy?
It's been a while since Gibbs has seen it

Since it's our last day, I'm glad Bill got his drone out

It's up there but hard to see until he brought
it down a few feet

Instead of a cup of tea, I poured myself a Diet Mountain Dew and started my post. For supper, we’re having fish and chips so Bill can put the barbecue away. It goes into the basement first so I try to plan a meal the night before travel that doesn’t require grilling. 😊 

Fries and pollock filets

For dessert, of course we had to have pumpkin cheesecake. This has been a wonderful day, reaching 68F/20C and I’ve enjoyed every bit of it.

Gibbs checking out the drone
really close

Bill had the drone take a few pictures

I finished my Kill Alex Cross book this afternoon so will move on to the next one. We’ve had a great time here in the desert, even without power, but we’re both ready for the ‘royal treatment’ of hookups. The evening was quiet, spent together, which is the best way.

This rv is across the wash (in the middle)
behind us

This is us in the front
The dark lines you see in the pictures are rocks

Us again in the front

A wider angle of the desert around us
I hope you enjoy the view as we do
Good night!

Thank you for your visit on our last day in La Posa South!

Making the Most of our Days, Yoga, Painting, New Restaurant

On Wednesday, July 26^th I woke up first in the household. Not surprising. After going to bed after midnight I was a little surprised when I woke up at 5:45. I actually thought it was closer to 7 but I was obviously awake. I needed to finish my post from yesterday and while my siblings were still sleeping it was a good time.

Good morning from Cedar Haven

Gayle was next to get up and while she was trying to sync her Fitbit (without success, I might add) I took a walk down Periwinkle Lane. They have a pretty driveway and made even prettier with the sun rising at the end of it. Unfortunately, the sun didn’t stick around. Clouds moved in soon after. We had our morning drinks together and decided that we needed to be in the cars by 8:20 to make it to Hanover by 9.

Yoga with Espe

I drove my car with Donna and Aj while Wendy drove Cathy and Gayle to the Yoga Barn. Joanne, Donna’s daughter, was there already to be our #6 in the group. Cathy chose to sit the class out. We stretched and did all the yoga steps as our teacher directed. This was my second time and it went quite well, no complaints here!

Espe, our teacher, was a very cute pleasant lady and made the class fun. I did the girls a favour and didn’t get pictures of us doing the ‘downward dog’ or the ‘happy baby. We enjoyed ourselves and headed back to Chatsworth for lunch. Her yoga word is Namaste which means "I am open to you and you are open to me"

this is not our class but it shows you the room and space we worked in

Gayle had the plan to put out Charcuterie with my quiche. I’d never heard of this but we soon learned what it was. Namaste, be well.My new name for it is going to be Deli Mix as it consists of olives, artichokes, tomatoes, cheeses, meats, crackers and almonds. I’m sure I’ve missed something but the picture says it all. We managed to fill our faces enough so that we could bring out the good drinks for our Painting party.

Our lunch treat

We cleaned up after eating and sat around doing our own thing basically, in the same room as everyone else. The scrabble game continued and when it came close to the time of our next event we changed out of our yoga duds. We had made arrangements to have a Wine and Painting Party with Gayle hosting.

Debbie is getting our paint palettes ready

Debbie arrived at 1:00 and had us all set up shortly after 1:30. She provides everything you need and all we had to do was provide the appropriate table space for easels and drinks (if we chose……and we chose). I tried one of my all-natural vodka coolers and it was pretty good. I’m not sure if the second drink improved my skills or worsened them but we had so much fun.

You get part way through and look at your canvas and think “oh my goodness, this is really bad!” But when we finished, we stepped back and were all very impressed with what we did with our own hands. For the excellent price of $25 each, we learned how to create masterpieces! Debbie was cleaned up and on her way shortly after 4.

From this distance and this stage, it appears as though I've just painted some
beautiful lips

We sat around again working on crosswords, blogs, internet, scrabble and deciding what to do for supper. We decided to try Rockford Restaurant in where else but Rockford. Wendy and Cathy drove us all over there for 5:30 and we got in and seated right away. They had no debit or credit machines working so we all agreed that cash was fine.

Tonight, I ordered liver and onions, sorry, no picture, with mandarin beets and cream of broccoli soup. Yum, yum, yummy. It was quite filling so I’m very glad I only ordered one piece of liver. The day turned chilly and wet which was disappointing but we hadn’t planned anything outside so it was okay.

Quel chefs-d'ouevre!

Audrey won the first game of Scrabble so we started a second one when we got back home. More chit chat and I had to write this or I was afraid I’d fall asleep. My early morning wake up is catching up with me and sitting and talking is not in the cards for me. I need to do something entertaining.

I miss my sweetie, of course, and I’m sure Clemson misses me too. Ha ha. Bill and I texted each other this morning and then both went about our day. This is a nice time for both of us. Bill does what he wants and gets some quiet time without a nagging wife at his side. (If you believe that, you don’t know me).

Wendy goes home to get Morgan

I hope you have all had an enjoyable day regardless of this wet day, or maybe not where you are. Us girls are sharing lots and having fun while doing it.

Thank you for reading.