Catch'en Up

Today is a 'little of this and a little of that'...

Kathy plays trumpet in the community band here and in Idaho. The other night was the Spring concert. Nothing like hearing a live band...makes your heart pump and your toe to tap...ummm, kettle drums and French horns. It was a short concert, so afterwards we had big ol' sundaes at the Dairy Queen...Did I happen to mention everyone is complaining about gaining weight this year?

Picked up a couple more geocaches in rocks yesterday. WE HATE CACHES IN ROCKS! So sometimes after finding one, we mark it for the next person. OR we'll notice a pile of rocks nearby, which is the marker to the cache for the person, who placed it...then we'll add another marker or move his. AND sometimes we just make a pile of rocks for no good reason...lol.

The other day we did our last big quad ride. It was supposed to be 3 maybe 4 couples. But it expanded to seven couples! Snowbirds come from all over...I was reading the license plates on the vehicles, when we got to the unloading place...Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Arizona.

We did a ride in the KOFA wilderness area (King of Arizona). The plan was to ride to the KOFA mine, but we didn't find it. We stopped for lunch at a Y in the road, and I spyed a fence off in the distance. It turned out to be the old cemetery used by the miners and little towns closeby.

The only remaining headstone that could be read was for 'mi amigo' Roger Garcia,

who died at 21.

On the way back we stopped at this pile of white weather-hardened stuff. We didn't know what it was, but the consensus was maybe gypsum. And it was possibly used by the mines.

But we were incorrect, as we found out, when visiting with a volunteer host in the area. It's a pile of ashes left from all the ironwood trees used to make steam power for a little nearby town back in the very early 1900's. As you can see by this picture...sort of...there are no ironwood trees left in the desert near here.

Kathy and I went into Mexico for the last of our gifts, meds and booze yesterday. We treated ourselves to a yummy post-breakfast roll at the bakery. We were also almost cheated out of $10. The little gal working there tried to short-change us. And we're pretty darn sure she short-changed the woman in front of us. Before we left the counter, everyone in the bakery knew to watch out for her...hee-hee. We had fun...laughed and joked with the vendors...and didn't have to wait long in the line to get back over the border. What a relief that was. I've had to wait almost four hours in that darn line.

Wrapping our minds around going home in a couple days. We're beginning to re-arrange things in the RV and put a few things away. I always get excited for the Marine Corp air show, which is Saturday. So we'll do that, then head out on Sunday.

Looking forward to: clean sheets whenever I want them...long showers...soft towels (I hang dry everything)...not buying water (the tap water is salty)...clean shiny hair (the salt water clings to everything)...new tennies (hate paying the sales tax)

But we'll miss: our many friends here...standing in the middle of the street visiting...walks in the morning sunshine...the quiet nights...the conversations and laughter with friends and strangers from all across the States wherever we might be

Next year's list so far: climbing to the flag on top of the mountain...hamburgers at Martinez Lake...the Q for lunch and a little slot machine play...quad riding in Quartzsite...