Let It Begin

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

Let what begin?  Well, it’s the time of year that snowbird reunions are set up all over the south as more and more retirees return to the desert to get reunited with friends they’ve met in the past and to meet new ones.  It was no different for us.

As mentioned before, it took a while but Sandie and I finally picked out what we thought was the perfect spot to set up.  And, that we did.  Along came Denise and joined us.   Next we knew Barbara and Katy from Me and My Dog stopped by for a nice chat.   In the meantime we’ve also discovered one of our friends broke her wrist so we don’t know if we’ll be able to see her but certainly hoping we do.  Another friend has decided to go back to work and yet another, decided to hang around Phoenix a little longer.  Changes sure do happen as we also have another friend of a friend joining us.  Whee!  That’s a lot of changes.  Thank goodness none of their travels are written in ink as there would be real problems.

Jim and Terry decided to undertake a great task.  The task was putting together a wind shelter.  This is definitely a work in progress thing.  The local K & B Tools in Quartzsite put together the pieces for us including the perfect size of everything.  Well, it wasn’t the perfect size of everything.  Jim had to get out his trusty little Dewalt Reciprocating Saw and make some adjustments.  Hmmmmm… we saw one just like that at our son’s Lee’s house.  I wonder how long it will be now before Terry decides he has to have one since others have one.  I bet not long.  (Update:  Even before I posted this Terry has already commented that he was going to get himself one!!)

Then, to top it off we also discovered that the 10’ tarps that were sold to us weren’t really 10’.  Yes, that did make a huge difference because it meant they were too short to fit the sides.  Once that was discovered …. they figured it was enough work for one day.   They would finish it another day.  And, so the day went.  Before we knew it nap time rolled around, dinner time and bedtime. 

When the sun goes down around here it gets downright chilly but during the daytime, it’s also downright gorgeous.  Isn’t that what this is all about?

Happy New Year to everyone. 

‘Tis life on the road.