Slow Days

There are two main events when you snowbird in RV parks for the winter.  Arrival & Departure.  It is always nice at arrival time when you see old friends from the season before and make plans on how you are going to spend the season.  Departure time is sad since you never know who you will see the next season.  We are at the end of departure time with less than two weeks to go.  

The park is looking deserted with many people having left already.  It seems like tax time and Easter are the main reasons that people leave a nice warm spot for the cold, snow and miserable weather still going on up north.  We got home early a couple years and regretted it so we will take our time getting back to the East Coast.

The weather has turned cooler and cloudy but it is a welcome relief from the record setting days last week.  

It seems we live in a small world out there in the Southwest.  My cousin Sharon and her husband Al are on their way back to Illinois and stopped in Gallup, NM at a campground.  Steve & Judy are on their way back to MN and stopped in Gallup, NM at the same campground and were a few spaces from them.  I was chatting with Judy and called Al to tell him they were almost neighbors.  He walked down and talked to them for a while and went back to his 5th wheel just before the rain stopped.  Small world, isn't it?

We still have a number of things to do on our bucket list before we leave here.  We have crossed off a number of things from the list in the last week and hope to cross off a few more in the next week.  Two Dr. visits remain and after that we are free to leave.  Now if we could decide on which way to drive back east.  Decisions, decisions.

Wall Art

The other day Gerry and I were out geocaching and following a convoluted path to one cache.  The route was taking us through neighborhoods into an area we hadn't been in before when we came upon a decorated fence around a small house.  

I don't know why the person decorated like this but we both found it interesting and marveled at the work and detail the person put into his art.  There are a number of homes here in Tucson where they put their art in their yard or on their fences.  This particular one was very well done with great detail.

 

On a Roll out here

The beat just goes on out here in Tucson with another record setting day for a high temperature.  It topped out at 94 today exceeding the old record by one degree.  We turned on the a/c early and it did real well until around 3pm when we turned the back unit on also.  That cooled it down 4 degrees real fast and my feet got cold.

This is the time of the year when all the snowbirds are fleeing back home.  Two friends stopped by to tell us goodbye and hope to see us next year.  One is leaving on Sunday and they are calling for high winds from noon on and we warned them about it.  They had checked the weather forecast and knew about the wind and were hedging their bet a little.  I hope they stay another day and avoid the bad weather.

The NCAA men's basketball final teams are all set with University of Connecticut playing Butler University for the national title.  I will be in the corner of Butler all the way.  I love to see the smaller schools do real well and win it all.  They don't get all the high school All Americans like the top 10 teams do and most of their players stay for 4 years and complete their degrees.  That is what it should be about.  Those one and done players are in it only for the path to a Pro Career.  Go Butler Bulldogs.  What a handsome mascot!

My brother is taking a load to Shady Grove, PA and will arrive on Sunday.  He will have to wait until Monday to unload and our daughter Cassie and family live about 12 miles from there.  She plans on meeting him and taking Dick & Sue back to her house for a nice Sunday dinner.  Wish we could be there with them.

April Fools day

Well, it looks like nature played an April Fools joke on us out here in Tucson.  Check the temp on the thermometer  inside the motor home.  The  number on the lower left is outside in direct sunlight while the 81.6 is inside the motor home.  We had one a/c running and were very comfortable.  Saturday's forecast is for hotter weather here.

The official temp here in Tucson was 95 degrees which was a record by 4 degrees, but out here in Vail with direct sunlight it was warmer.  I think it was more like 100 degrees in the area.  In any case, it was hot.

Gerry decided it was too hot to cook and she didn't have any fish, so it was off to the Guadalajara Grill for a fish dinner.  We made it in time for happy hour and stayed for the Mariachi band to play a few songs and then left.  We had our usual great time there and will miss the place when we leave here.


We stopped to check for a cache on the way home and a Jeep drove up to our car and I asked them if they were geocachers.  They said they were looking for a bobcat that was in the area. It ran into the area where we were looking and decided it would be more interesting to see the bobcat.  No such luck.  

The 10pm TV news just ran a story about a 16 yr old girl being shot and killed and a 17 yr old girl being shot after some problems at a local high school.  When we were coming home from dinner a police car was on Broadway and we were making a left turn onto Broadway.  The cruiser pulled into the intersection and blocked all traffic and we were the last car through.  The shooting occurred a few blocks up Broadway and it was just luck that we weren't coming down the road then.  Close call.

La Mesa RV

We took the MH in for the 2nd recall on the Norcold Regrigerator to have it fixed.  They added a small heat sensor to area around where the propane gas heated the unit.  There have been cases where the frig would heat up and catch fire.  Fire in a motor home is not a good thing.  It took about an hour for the repair and we were ready to leave after taking advantage of the free lunches they provide the customers.

When we first arrived at the dealer Gerry checked out a few motor homes and asked a salesman a simple question.  She got a flip response and walked away.  Later another salesman asked if he could help since he heard the previous exchange.  After talking to him for a while he said he would look for a MH that fit our specs.  Sure enough, a couple hours later he called with one that was within the specs.  We will look at it on Friday but I am concerned about diesel prices going through the roof and the cost of driving a diesel unit.  We will see.

Later we got tired of sitting around and went out to pick up a few geocaches in the area.  We got three of them pretty quickly and called it a day.  

It was in the low 90s today and the forecast is for warmer weather the next few days.  Time to get out of here before the heat really gets turned up.