Back to the Shop … again?

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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Don’t ask  me if I’m a little annoyed.  Just figure that I am.  My sewing machine went in the shop  on Monday the 7th because of a chipped bobbin plate.  While there I figured it was time to just have the machine serviced  … MISTAKE!   I picked it back up a week later on the 14th.  It went back in the shop on the 15th because now it had misaligned embroidery. I picked it back up another week later on the 23rd.   Machine could hardly sew.  Red lights flashed everywhere when turned on.   Obviously, they readjusted it but didn’t test it.  It went back in the shop on the 24th.  Hopefully, the third time will be the charm.  All this wasted time and no projects finished. One more time and I’m buying a new machine.  Just don’t tell Terry ‘ cuz then I’d have to say he was right since he told me to do that three weeks ago.

Even though the park we are at is a mecca for ATV riders in that it borders miles and miles of state land, we have discovered that it’s actually not quite right for us.  We’ve been able to do a lot of riding. We’ve met some really nice people.  That part has been good.  What we have discovered is that anything other than riding we want to do, any part we need to pick up or any place we want to see is a long ways off.  We figure the extra gas we've had to buy for our vehicle just to get back and forth to town has made our stay here pretty darn expensive. The park is nice and would work great for folks who like to stay put.  Obviously, that just doesn’t work too well for us. So, very soon it’s going to be ………….. on the road again.

<<  Check out the sign on the back of this car.

We had our Thanksgiving dinner in a very unique setting.  It’s not that we didn’t have other places to go or hadn’t received invitations to share a meal with friends or at the park.  We just decided to do something different.  This is what we wanted to do.  We’re eating our turkey dinner under a cactus.  Yes …. we had the trimmings but since we didn’t have a table with us, we could only handle one food item at a time.  Now who else can say they’ve done this?

This is one of the camera mounts we moved to the back of our ATVs. We have two mounts and can just change the camera back and forth to take turns depending on who is starring in the next video.

We are learning a lot of things about ATV riding.  However, we have had our share of little "mishaps".    I took out a mesquite tree heading back on Thursday.  The trail we were on had three fast dips.  I was going a little too fast to maneuver them and stay on the road.  Needless to say, I crashed into it. Ouch!

Terry learned he can't drink and drive.   He rode over a small bush while trying to down a Pepsi.

‘Tis life on the road.