Day 41... craft show at WW

Hello everyone,
It was another beautiful day. High 70's.

It was our parks Craft show this morning. Always fun looking. They sold cheese burgers at lunch time. I bought one ticket for the prize table but didn't win anything.

This afternoon we went to a music jam at Desert Gold. It was good but not the best.
I got a couple of DVD's of past jams so I can show what they were when we get home.
It isn't professionally done so the sound isn't the best but still fun to see.

Mel made supper. I washed dishes and then sat on the deck until it got to cool out.

I got a cold now. My nose runs faster than I do.

Sorry no pictures today. Hope to take some tomorrow.

Good night and God Bless

Day 40... 80 degrees

I bet you thought there wasn't grass in the desert... Well, Molly thought so. And some of my flowers....
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Hello.
This morning there was a MESA insurance meeting. I only go to get the free Hamburger. Besides we have AirMed. It is mostly for emergency travel, ambulance, helicopter, fixed wing. What ever it takes to get you to a hospital and/or home.

It was so nice and warm today. At least 80. I sat in the sun and read for a while. Our deck and front of the house is all shade so I sit in the back in my chase.

For supper we went to Dos Amigos for their all you can eat cod. Oh so good.
Roger and Betty joined us. We stopped in for a short visit at Kermit and Alice's then home.

Tomorrow the craft sales will be in our park. Maybe I will find something I really really need. :)

Good night hugs...God Bless

Day 40...Rock & Roll

The Rock jam group. A bass, drums, 4 guitars - one being a pro, a tub bass (not shown).
(pictures of pictures) of one of the oldest places in Quartzsite, whats left of it.
and an old jail that had no elec, water, bed, and had a dirt floor. Felons were held there until they could be taken to the Yuma prison.

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Hello,
Another beautiful day at Wagon West. I think it was in the high 70's.
We had 3 different friends drop in this morning. Nice to visit with neighbors.

Late afternoon we went with some friends to Quartzsite. We had dinner and a good visit. Drove around the back areas of town and then to Split Rail RV Park and enjoyed the Rock and Roll jam.

One of the guitar players, Sandy, was soooo good. I am sure she was pro at one time. She also plays steel guitar and keyboard. The singers were awesome too.
One sang a lot of Buddy Holly. It sounded like they will be playing at our Valentines dance next week. They will add some country and maybe some Elvis. :-)

I just heard from more possible company in March. My cousin Jack and Jan.
Just a maybe so far but I hope so. And still another couple will be coming but haven't heard when from him yet.

So good night hugs and Gods Blessings

Day 39...Did you miss me?

We spent Monday at the shooting range in Bouse using our Black powder guns. It was fun. And yes, I can hit the targets too. :-)

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I didn't write the last couple of nights as I was sick. I got a tummy ache on Monday night and spent the night in the bathroom. Elwood and Sue left on Tuesday morning. I felt so bad that I had to be sick the last night they were here. I felt better on Tuesday but was so tired. I almost fell asleep at my computer at 7:30 so just went to bed. And I slept until almost 9 this morning. All better today.

It has been a fun week having our friends here. Cliff joined us going to the shooting range on Monday. Sue doesn't like guns but seemed to enjoy being there anyway. She wouldn't shoot though. She posed with the rifle just for the picture.

So much sadness at the park the last few days. One got the flu and sick for over a week. Her daughter came and got her. Another fell in her home and broke her leg. And the worst was a couple was notified of the death of their daughter. Please pray for them all.

Verona, Cliff, & Ginny got surprise company this afternoon. Jim and Bev Stucky.
I knew Jim in school and haven't seen him since. So we had to go over and intrude on their time. It was soup supper night at the club house and after the 5 of them came over for a visit on the deck. I forgot to get a picture.

I hope this finds everyone at home all happy and healthy.

Good night hugs and Gods Blessings to all.

Day 37...Oh oh!!

I won't be writing tonight. Sorry. Please come back tomorrow.
Hugs to all

Day 36... Shopping and music

I can't upload pictures tonight.. Don't know why though. It just won't work


Hello, I hope you all had a nice of day as we did. I never did check the temp but it was warm.

Sue, Elwood, & us had breakfast at the club house this morning. Pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, & juice. Good stuff.

We did some shopping in Quartzsite. Didn't get anything but had fun looking.
Got back late but enjoyed the last half of the music jam.

We watched the Super Bowl.. I should say Elwood watched it and we watched the commercials. Supper couldn't wait so Sue, Mel, & I went to Dos Amigo's. I can't say I liked what I had though. We got back home in time to watch the end of the game.

Sue and I watched a movie on the Hallmark channel and now I am watching Elvis.

Bed time soon...

Good night and God Bless

Day 35...Another potluck

We had a potluck to celebrate birthdays and Anniversaries from Feb, June, & August.
Verona & Cliff was included in this with their 50th being yesterday. Notice how long the table was with food dishes down the middle. There was a second table just like it. We went down both tables filling our plates. To much good stuff.

This morning Mel and Woody went back to the Black Powder gun show. Sue and I stayed home & did laundry and of course talked and talked.

Not much else for the day.

OH!!!! I almost forgot to tell you. We are going to the Phoenix Nascar race. March 4th. Nice eh?

Hugs and God Bless

Day 34...Crafts, yard sales, gun powder, & bonfires

Sue & Elwood Witter from Rochester is visiting this week. We went to a craft show in Black Rock RV Park.

Coins of all sizes are beautifully carved out into necklaces and earrings. The silver dollars were especially pretty



We then went to Bouse & found a few yard sales and seen some interesting things. A miniature army Sherman tank and the working Bouse Assay office.



On to the Rondaveu(?). A Black Powder gun contest. They also had hatchet and knife throwing. We listened to some interesting and knowledgeable vendors talk to us about that era.

Back to Wagon West and a Bonfire with hot dogs and other goodies.




Finally back home to see poor Molly who had to stay home alone all day.
We (Witters and us) had a good evening of visiting and Sue and I watched a movie.


Happy 50th Anniversary to our good friends Cliff and Verona Priggie.

Good night and God Bless

Maybe I will learn how to do this blog right someday. None of the pictures are in the order I wrote about them. I hope you can figure it out.

Day 33... Windy again

Our goliath combination pizza at Silly Al's. About 24" wide. and ohhhhh so good!


We woke up to high winds again. The flower baskets & bamboo wind chimes had to be taken down. The chimes can be so noisy.

This morning we went grocery shopping in Quartzsite instead of Blythe. Thought we would save some miles but the groceries were a bit higher and not the choices we like so I think next time we will be going back to the 45 miles to Blythe.

Our friends, Sue and Elwood Witter from Rochester, arrived this afternoon. They will be staying with us for a few days. We went for a short ride and then to Silly Als for pizza. We got back in time to go to bingo at the club house. We thought...
But was 10 min late and couldn't get cards anymore. So we just had a good visit at the house.

Craft show tomorrow........

Good night hugs & Gods Blessings

Day 32....Already!!

Hello there,

I can't believe we have been here over a month already. But even though I am enjoying it here I am glad time is going quickly. After all, I could be home and getting my plants from the basement to the sunlight. :-)

After the wind we had last week and the bunny rabbits eating I don't have very good looking plants here. Maybe they will perk up yet. At least the ones the rabbits didn't get.

Stayed home again today. I think we will have to go someplace soon so I can get some pictures to post.

I did finish my book today. That is a miracle as I don't usually read much. I got this book free at the book store in Quartzsite. It is a Harlequin. "Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch" by B.J. Daniels. It was really pretty good and maybe I will check out another book soon. I can't give a great report like Terri does. :-)
Just that is was a good murder mystery with a bit of a love story included.

We had supper at the club house. Every Wednesday we have a soup supper there. Tonight it was Beef Barley soup. It was pretty good.

I think tomorrow we will go grocery shopping. Company coming on Friday.

Mel got a nice little box full of goodies from Landstar for being a safe driver. No big deal but was nice they recognize him anyway. A belt buckle, gloves, a nice card, some stickers for his truck (that he won't put on anyway) and a hat pin.

So will say good night and God Bless.

Day 31...Another beautiful day

I wish I had my camera along tonight. The picture is of a jam a few weeks ago. But the same place. We went to the Desert Gold Gospel Jam. It was the "awesomest" awesome Jam I have ever went to. I repeat.... Who needs Branson when we can have this. There was 28 musicians including guitars of all kinds, accordions, keyboard, piano, bass fiddle, violins, trumpet, clarinet, cello, harps, harmonicas, drums. The singers were exceptionally good. I wish every one of you could hear them.

Most of the day we just sat and enjoyed the weather. I made a chicken supper with home made french fries.

Molly got another bath. She sure don't like baths... poor little girl.

Good night and God Bless.

Day 30...Lazy day

It was a beautiful day today. Sunny 76 degrees.

Mel met Shannon this morning and went with him to get tires for his camper. I slept in and just sat around.

This afternoon was about the same. We mostly sat out on the deck and read.
A couple of neighbors stopped in. Verona and Ginny came over too.

Mel started the grill and we had T-Bones for supper. I washed the dishes and now more sitting. Nice eh?

Molly is on the deck right now watching for lizards... I haven't heard her get hyper so must not see any ...yet.

Good night hugs and Gods Blessings

Day 29...Another busy day

Hello my friends,

I didn't get any pictures today.

This morning we enjoyed a ham and egg breakfast at the clubhouse. On to church and then home for a while. After lunch we went to our parks music jam. Tonight we met Shannon(Mel's nephew) and Chris at Silly Al's Pizza in Quartzsite.

Thats about it. I hope all is well with you. Thanks for stopping over.

Nite nite hugs and Gods Blessings.

Day 28....Family here

We enjoyed a concert with Robin Arnold with Shannon & Chris. Gin and Verona was there too.




I went with Priggies to the craft show in Brenda Park. It was fun to look but we didn't buy anything. Later Mel and I went back to Brenda Park for burgers and root beer floats.

We had to get gas again. On the way back we stopped at the auction in a tent. Didn't stay long and didn't buy anything there either.

At home I finally got the rest of the flowers planted. Kind of disappointed that I can't have them in the garden. The rabbits ate every single part of the ones I did have there. I do have a hanging basket and a couple of cactus. Not sure what I will do with the extra space. The new plantings went in front on the table thing.

Shannon & Chris came later in the afternoon. We had a nice visit and then went our to Dos Amigo's for supper. Got back just in time to go to the Robin Arnold concert at our clubhouse. Back home and sat out on the deck a while and then they headed back to their camper in Quartzsite.

Good night hugs & God Bless

Day 27...We passed !

Don't dance here......ha!! This sign was on the wall at the Senior Center where we took our Food service test. I had to chuckle !!





We took our Food Service test this morning and passed with flying colors. In fact I got 100%. Now we can at least help wipe off tables or something simple after a meal at the clubhouse. I don't think we want to do any cooking. After the test we had lunch there. They served spaghetti today.

We looked around one little corner of Quartzsite. Didn't find anything we wanted.
These vendors offered mostly "junk". We hope to find another area we haven't been before another day. Stopped at a jewelry store. Oh yes, I got a few things. I really needed some new earrings and rings. :-)

Dos Amigo's got us for supper. All the fish you can eat. We were there a couple weeks ago and didn't care for the fish then but decided to try again. I guess they had some complaints so they went back to the same kind of fish they used last year. It is sooooo good.

Big day tomorrow... craft show, company coming, & a concert with Robin Arnold at night.

Good night hugs & Gods Blessings

Day 26..Ride in the desert

It was a beautiful day today. It was in the 70's. We didn't do much this morning. We heard about a rummage sale down the road and decided about noon to go.

Stopped to see if Verona, Cliff, & Gin wanted to go. They were ready to eat lunch so we got to enjoy a BLT with them. Then on our way.

The sale wasn't anything we wanted. Well lots of things but way to much money. We decided to go for a ride instead. We headed for Salome and then Mel took us on a gravel road threw the desert. It was so pretty. 15 miles of gravel road. Only had one problem. No camera!! I took these with my cell phone.

We got home and had some supper then off the Gospel Jam in Brenda RV Park.

Before I could post the pictures on here I had to figure out how to get the pictures from my cell. Oh ya...... Mackenzie showed me how a while ago.

So good night and God Bless

Day 25...Shopping

Molly is looking for lizard's...


Our new chairs..










I had this all wrote out but when I published it my wireless was disconnected and
it all went away. So I will try to write it over again. grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!




We went to Quartzsite and Blythe CA today. We want to get certified to help out in the club house when needed. We have to take a food service test. We went to the Senior Center in Quartzsite to see when they do it. Friday at 10:30. So we will go back then. They offered lunch of swiss steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed veggies, & cake for only $3. It was really good. We went on to the grocery tent but the traffic was so bad we couldn't get close to it. Quartzsite is as busy as the state fair this time of year. On to Blythe.

I got some soil at the garden center and a new bougainvillea..a purple one. Now I can finish planting what I got last week. Oh, and the 3 pots I had in my garden got ate by our 'pet' rabbit. The stinker. I guess I won't have flowers on the ground anymore.

Looked and found a recliner for Mel to sleep - I mean sit in. It was fun to make it fit in the car. The bottom went in the trunk (kinda) and the back went in the back seat. We got the glider from a neighbor.

Groceries next. I only had a few things on the list, BUT...we ended up with a cart full. The car is already full of chair. Mel said the groceries won't fit but they did.

We got home just in time to get the groceries in and the meat put away and get to the soup supper at the clubhouse with 2 min. to spare.

Home again and got the old chairs out and the new ones in. A neighbor wanted one of the old chairs and the other one is on the deck for now. Then other neighbor friends had to come over to check out what we got.

We get little lizards that run around in the garden on the side of our house at night. Molly spotted one and now she wants out on the deck all the time to see them. I don't know how she sees them as I never can. She tries to get under the deck rail but her chubby little body only lets her go so far. (picture above) So funny!!!

Our nephew Shannon and his wife Chris will be here sometime this weekend. Can't wait to see them.

We got our weekly pack of mail so went threw all that. Thanks Jen for sending.

That's it for today. Good night hugs & God Bless

Day 24.. Computer techs & Elvis

Finally.... I am able to get our sock hop pictures on here. Our "special" guest was awesome...but funny. He didn't really sing but moved with Jailhouse Rock !
The other picture is the dance floor.... It was fun.








Today held a couple strange happenings. Mel's computer wasn't working right on his company program so I called the computer tech about 10 am. First a guy worked with me but couldn't fix it. Then a gal helped... She asked for a lunch break at noon.
She called me back about 1:30. Still nothing worked. 3:00 she said her manager will call me and see what he could do. 4:00 he calls.... Nothing. He felt bad and said he could do no more. We were ready to send him the computer. Their office is in Rockford IL. We said our good buys. I did a couple of things on the computer and finally shut it down. Later Mel used it again and guess what. It worked. I can't believe it yet.

This morning Mel went to help out a neighbor. Then wiped the due off the car. When he came in he realized one of his hearing aids was gone. So off we go to hunt for it in the gravel. Back and forth we went saying prayers as I went. To the neighbors up the street...around the car, in the house. Nothing. Then I looked at the towel he used on the car. He hung it on the deck rail to dry. I looked on the ground below it an there it was. How lucky are we. Prayers answered again.

After supper we went to the Gospel Jam in Desert Gold Park. Like my friend Jackie said... Who needs Branson when we have this.

We got a lot of needed rain last night and the wind was back today. Not as bad as Sat night but still to windy to be outside. Tomorrow will be better.

Good night hugs, God Bless.

Day 23...rain & cool

It is midnight and my computer just now decided to work. But I am to tired to write. It has been a cold and rainy day. I didn't go anyplace other than in front of the computer that just didn't want to work. I had things to do so I kept trying. I could do one thing and it wouldn't move again. reboot and do one more thing.....

I hope tomorrow is warmer. No plans anyway.

Nite nite..... God Bless

Day 22...Fun weekend.

My computer still isn't working. The pictures won't upload. I will try again
tomorrow. I so wanted to show you the guest star at our sock hop. Sorry


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Wow...what a busy weekend. We enjoyed the company of friends and classmate, Jackie and Don. They arrived on Friday afternoon. Verona and Ginny made supper for all of us.

Sat morning Verona and Gin had us over again for breakfast. Peach French toast. It was sooo good. After breakfast Mel and I, Jackie and Don went for a short ride. Showing them Quartzsite and the area RV parks. I had pork, beef and potatoes in the crock pot and we all met at our place for lunch. All 7 of us.

The afternoon took us to a music jam at Desert Gold. It was really good and we all enjoyed it. For supper we went out to eat at the Kofa restaurant. Jackie and Don's treat.

We had fun at the sock hop in our clubhouse for the evening. We all danced and had a really good time. The special guest was so funny.

Sunday morning we had breakfast of french toast and sausage at the club house and then on to church. Pastor Rick introduced the 4 of us girls as Pine Island class mates.

Home again and Jackie & Don packed up to go home. (Green Valley..south of Tuscon) But first we were invited again to Verona and Ginnys ham dinner. We all said our good byes and then on to the music jam at our park.

Uffda.. I am so tired. But still lots to do... The wind storm we had yesterday left a big layer of sand and dust on the deck and everything on it. Mel and I vacuumed and washed everything out there. My flower baskets don't look so good either. I hope they perk up again. We had left overs for supper and after I washed the dishes I haven't done anything.

No plans for tomorrow. I hope we can just stay home.

So good night hugs and Gods Blessings.