Its the end of another Arizonia summer! OOPS Winter!

When more than one fan tells you to write, I write. I would like to say I have been too busy and maybe I have but the real reason is because I could not figure out how to sync my photos from my phone to my Google account.  My last blog had all the crazy pictures that this program would not let me edit and it drove me insane.  So crazy that I have not attempted until today when my good friend Ann was jonesing for word from the not so wise and beautiful pictures, so this blog goes back a bit. Enjoy!!

This will show you just how long its been since writing!  Yikes!!  We went to the fabulous Voyager RV Resort Irish band concert and they were great.  The activity people here do an awesome job keeping us all entertained.

We had a surprise visit from Dick O'Gogin at our private party.  This guy can really jam on a blow up guitar 🎸 

Another grandson serving in the Army!!  We cannot wait to see what great things this young man can accomplish!  Our oldest is serving in Hawaii and Stephen here will be in New York for a little bit.  Looking pretty handsome at his basic graduation if I do say so myself!

Family, family, family!!  All are welcome to visit but I gotta say I love family!!  All Dicks brothers (all 2 of them) and his sister visited. A good time was had by all.  We didn't do to much touring around but did get up to Mt. Lemmon for some beauty and silliness.

When you get old you obviously need a boost up!!  I was not going to almost die doing this!!  The truth is Dicks sister is not strong enough to push my fat ass up this rock!😂

If you cannot ground yourself with a dead tree, you just don't belong in this family!!

Being all together does not happen to often and we had a request to have a good picture taken of us all.  We did a pretty good job.

Climb every mountain Ann!!  If you fall I will catch you!! 

Another attempt at a good picture of a bunch of semi old people!

Hanging out at the Circus party in the ball room with a couple clowns!

We took a short trip over to Yuma to howl at the moon. This was the smallest crowd we ever encountered at this gathering.  It was the end of the snowbird season so that was a big factor.  People just love to gather, dance, drink, listen to the band and wait for the moon to crest the mountain.  Then howl and go home.

Dick and I went to a play and sat in the front row.  I thought many a time that one of those actors was going to fall in our laps!

A friend of ours bought a place here and this fabulous bike came with the joint.  It was not so fabulous to begin with but with the fix it expertise of this guy......the tires are all lined up and inflated and the peddle assist motor is up and running.  Who want to look super sexy riding around on this baby!!??  Come on down for a visit next winter and check it out.  We got a new pull-out couch for you super comfortable sleeping!!

Dick doing one of the Luke 5 walks!  Check out this awesome piece of equipment to carry around the disabled hikers.  Such a great program!!

Got some new pills to take for all my problems!!

Well as you may know by now, we sold our camper and our truck!  I will miss all the beer stickers we have collected over the years.  This art stayed with the camper.  I could have used a blow dryer to get them all off but that would have required effort and I feel that there is less effort in getting new stickers at new breweries!

Scored tickets to Charlie.  Took a ride downtown without tickets and thought we could find a few from some scalpers.  No scalping required.  Dick got them for FREE!  I am sure you will hear the story from him some day!!  I cannot tell it like he does! Great show and lots of laughs.

The Gang has all taken off from Voyager and are heading back to their summer homes.  They are sending pictures of their adventures and letting us know when they have arrived safely.

Joyce is a lovely lady who will be taking care of our house while we are away on our adventures & she brought us a bunch of yummy things a couple weeks ago.  The yellow things in the middle are like tiny honey dew melons.  I made some delicious green salsa from the green things and who doesn't like a good tomato sandwich!  Love the free produce here.  Of course, you can donate $$ so it keeps showing up but not necessary.  The veggie ladies do a great job here picking up pound and pounds of produce and setting it out for the taking!

So we are narrowing down our stops along our summer journey!  Not really.  I keep adding more! Add...subtract...add....subtract!!  That's a lot of mathing!!  We are taking off on the 25th of May and not returning until around October 1st ish.  We plan on staying with family and friends most of the way but we are prepared for a lot of sleeping in the car!  We left our tent somewhere and hope to find it at some family members house along the way.  If not...the seats are pretty comfortable in our baby truck and when our backs get out of wack, there is always a cheesy hotel along the way to crash.

We will miss these southwest sunsets but look forward to all the beautiful sunrises and sunsets in other parts of the country!!  Hopefully the next blog will be filled with I almost died adventures and lovely pictures.

It's been a While

It certainly has been a while since I have written anything.  Retirement is busy!! I loaded all these pictures, and they are backwards in time. OOPs.  You get to hear the most recent adventures and look at them perhaps upside down because there is no rotate on this stupid site and although they are right side up in my gallery for some reason as I write they are wrong.  Perhaps when I publish this all will be good and they will appear right side up and you can ignore the above rant!!

Well this is me a couple friends after our hike celebrating by eating Rice Krispy treats that another friend who couldn't make it because she got sick made for the trip. We just had to send the picture to her to let her know how much we enjoyed!!

The route for our hike was not long, but it was up and down and climbing over rocks and beautiful!!

Horses along the way scared the shit out of one of us as we rounded the corner not paying attention to the obvious sounds of their hooves on the rocks.  Who talks that much on hike that they cannot hear that noise.   After that 1st encounter there were 4 other groups of riders.  What amazed me was that on this skinny, rough trail that people were riding these majestic animals quite expertly I might add.  If I were atop of one of these it would have been certain death.  To me this didn't seem like a trail ride.

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The rock formations at Chiricahua National Monument were impressive.  I didn't stop at the visitor to get a better understanding of these formations but will next time we go there and we will go there!!

Dick and I got to be honorary Canadians at the Canada party.  At this resort they have a party sometime during the season for each state or place where people come from. Sometimes they have to combine states because there are not enough residence to justify a party.  Anyhow it was great fun and fun to make fun of the accent.

While in Colorado I cracked and collected many shiny rocks.  I finally did something with them.  There was this old ugly tray that came with the house, and I painted it and arranged the rocks then poured resin over the whole thing and let it harden.  I have no use for this thing, but it is pretty cool looking.  It weighs a ton and would most definitely break your foot if you dropped it on it.

Glenn and Cathy (our yearly visiting friends)  Came out for 2 weeks and we had so many adventures 4 wheeling, collecting more rocks, eating good food together, hiking and enjoying the warm Arizonia weather.  They are from Wisconsin so they especially enjoyed.

Another beautiful sunset view from our porch.

Who doesn't love a good-looking dead tree!!

The diner close by has so many fun things outside for photo ops!  The food is pretty dang good too!

The Crested Saguaro Hike will never disappoint our visitors.  We have seen so many of these now that we know what we are looking for.  So very different they all are and so super cool. 

We drove up to the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere thinking that this rough road must go to something super cool.  The view was the super cool. I do believe there had to have been something else that brought people up this road but there was nothing there, but a wide-open views which were amazing.

Glenn and Cathy stayed in our previous home next to our new home. It was kind of crazy to see what we lived in for years next to where we will live for the winters 

Don't really know what this next picture is but looked cool when I took it I bet.

Our little princess Harriet visited with her parents and fun was had.  Never enough time with this little cutie!   We plan on visited Pennsylvania for a more extended visit this summer to spend more time.

We may have a drinking problem!!

Margaritas in Mexico!

This is funky fairy garden along a little hike.  A tree with all kinds of funky things hanging on it that people put there.

Just another walk about in the desert 🏜