Thanksgiving week & more!

 

Busy, busy, busy!!  For what I do not know.  I make all this stuff and have no one to give it to.  Oh, the lonely life of a traveler.  NOT so lonely.  Strangers appreciate the stuff, and I can keep my hands busy while relaxing with my feet up!

This is this year's Christmas Tree!!  A couple years back we picked rocks in Michigan with Glenn and Cathy Gogin.  WELL Glen is a rock polisher and he sent me a box of rocks a while back and I finally found a use for them.  They were all pretty on their own but now they are uniquely pretty.  I love this tree.  It may not be a practical tree for an RVer since it weighs a ton, but I would rather give up my bourbon than get rid of this.  JUST kidding!!  I will keep both!!

There are some really cool stones incorporated in this tree so I took all kinds of angles of it so you can see them all. Petoskey Stones are awesome!  You can google that for fun! Then go find some for some real fun!!

I guess I have been going a bit overboard with embroidery, but I have all the stuff, so I am not spending any money on a new hobby.  I am trying to dwindle down my stash of stuff before ever entering another craft store.  It is killing me, but I will not die from this.  I will let you know in a couple of years when I run out of things to make with what I have.   It will take that long!!  You would not believe where I can hide all this stuff from Dick!!  

These are gift bags I made.  I have nothing to put in them because I gave up buying things, but I will give them away eventually to strangers walking by.

Anyone having a baby??  Made a cute little quilt.  I guess it could be for a baby doll for some little girl's doll.  Again, I am sure it will find a home.

We headed to Mexico for some more drugs and to get our teeth cleaned.  $60 for the both of us.  What a deal.  We stopped after and ate at a little food truck and had shrimp tacos and shrimp empanadas.  YUM.  Can't wait to go back!!

Thanksgiving was upon us and as usual we did not plan any thing, so we purchased tickets to eat at the Rec Center where we are staying.  As long as I wasn't cooking....I was happy.  It was amazing and there were all the fixings and fun stuff you just don't want to do in our tiny home kitchen.  I mean I could have but who want that smell to infiltrate your entire living space for days and days.

On Wednesday before Thanksgiving we were invited to friends' house for dinner and cocktails.  We had and amazing meal and were treated to some fabulous wine and a great after dinner German coffee made with brandy called Rudesheim or sheimer (I can't remember).  Anyhow it was delicious. This is Bill and Lisa our hosts who we met in Michigan making the coffee.  What a fun time we had and hope we can find the time to visit again with them while we are down here.

Here are a couple of pictures of the fabulous decoration in the camper.  Yea they kind of look the same as last year except for a new tree.  I will try to be more inventive next year.!!

We finally made it to a walk about by the Colorado river.  Definitely got our step in this day!  We ended up walking all the way downtown and ran into ET flying around a little bar.  We love all the weird things people hang around their establishments.  Makes the drinking more interesting.

This was our goodnite moon one night. Not the greatest picture but pretty nonetheless!

Hallmark movies have been getting to me lately, so we had a Hallmark date!! Communities really do come together for Christmas tree lightings!! Who would have thunk! There was so much going on in downtown Yuma that I enjoyed it more than taking pictures.  I did get a few though.  We ate freshly made tortillas that were so fun to watch being made and toasted on open fire barrels.Who pays a $1 for a single tortilla????  ME and I would have paid $5 they were so GOOD!!  Super yum and then Santa was stuck on top of a building and had to be rescued by the fire department before being able to do the countdown to light the tree.  SO FUN!  The streets were packed with what seemed like every child in Yuma screaming for Santa to be saved.  Life is good and people are awesome!!  You do not need to have kids to get out and enjoy the festivities of the Christmas season.  It is a season for believing and in believing you will find the good in all!!

YEA TOAST!!

Stock Piling Give Aways

What a productive week!! I have made so many things these past few weeks.  I won't post Christmas things until next week so you can enjoy Thanksgiving.  I made a butterfly patch.  For what I do not know.  Perhaps I will get a hole in my britches or put it on a shirt or jacket.  It turned out pretty good.

I also finished all the embroidery farm animals for my down on the farm baby blanket.  I know someone will have a baby that I can give this to.  A couple of nephews and a niece are getting married this next year so you never know if they are going to choose to bring children into this world, but I will be ready.

 

Dick and I took a drive to the BLM land this past week to check out all the free camping.  It was an awesome trip past lots of date palms and lots of farm land.  So many trees all in a row and so pretty!!

The land was a great big wide open flat space, and it was beginning to fill up with campers.  There are

 

thousands of people who travel to the desert to live for free in the winter. Of course, you have to be pretty resourceful, but they live and learn each year and come back yearly.

We have discovered with the help of friends and fellow campers that Arizona has way too much to offer to see it all in one season.  I am sure we will try to visit as much as we can with in the distance we can travel in a day.  Most of the restaurants and bars have outdoor spaces and sunsets are beautiful every night.  There is very little rain here, so it is perfect for all these businesses to leave all their stuff outside.

Yikes, who on earth is this ugly creature?  Along with all this dry beautiful weather comes the awful dry skin.  I really don't do this often, but it was scarry fun.  Dick was out playing poker, or he may have been staring at me making me laugh and my face would have cracked off!!

Checked out Mexico this week.  What a weird place.  We were attacked by every vendor in the town.

We did not go to shop, and we did not go to eat or drink.  We went to check out the dentist that was recommended and made apts. to get our teeth cleaned next week.  I also booked a night at the hotel for February a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to check that place out.  I figure if we stay overnight, I can drink as many margaritas as I want!!!  We had fun and will have fun when we return for dentist.  Hopefully we will cross early and go get some breakfast tacos so the dentist can clean out some lettuce from our teeth.  Make um work for our American dollars. We bought a couple of bottles of Tequilla, so I guess we did shop a bit. Great prices on alcohol and drugs.  Did I tell you that you don't need a prescription for anything in Mexico.  You just go up to the counter and ask for what you want and BAM....they give it to you at half the cost of more of the drugs in the USA.  Of course, there are no narcotics, but I have enough of those already!! Never took many of those after all my surgeries, and I am sure as I age and have more pains they will come in handy.   Everyone speaks English in this town, and it is said to be the safest border town.  The town of Los Algodones is our friend, and they have more dentists and eye doctors than anywhere I have ever seen.  Kind of like the bars in Wisconsin!!! 

It was on to the Date farm this week for more fun.  We learned all about how dates are grown and had an awesome date and bacon grilled sandwich.  Bonus....the place was also a brewery.  They are just in the beginning stages of this brewery so there were not many beers, but the place was awesome.  Middle of nowhere and on another dirt road full of more desert dust.  My nose is so dry that I have to pick ax out the boogers!! Man, it is dusty here. 

Balloon fest was awesome.  Chilly cold before the sun comes up but totally worth the experience.  We watched them all launch then went and chased them down to the landing zone.  Had a blast!!

That's all folks!!