Well that was the warmest November we’ve had since we’ve
been coming south. It was 10C (50F) this
morning which is the coolest for some time.
We’ve had a few days of slightly cooler weather with highs only in the
high 70sF but next week is forecast to return to the low 80s. We had a fairly good run at one of the pools
as it was cool enough for Aileen to swim every night. However, that has ended. I guess someone whined that 85 or 86F was too
cool for a lap pool. Some of these
people think the pool should be within 5 degrees of the hot tub!
Jacquie and Jim arrived on their lot Monday. We’d just put a large ham in the roaster so
invited them for supper. We played
Mexican Train with them Thursday evening which Aileen won handily then we
introduced them to the newest game we’ve taken up called Sets. Friends from Vancouver Island who used to
live here but now have a house in Arizona City, Glen and Irela, dropped in to
visit Wednesday afternoon so we caught each other up on what’s happened since
last winter.
I was out for my two ATV rides this week. I led the Tuesday group and there were just
four of us. Great size group and they
were interested in my geocaching so I found three caches and looked for another
that I suspect washed away in the monsoons over the summer.
Aileen has gone to a workshop in Casa Grande for the day and
I hope to remember a happy hour get together this afternoon celebrating one of
the neighbours selling her business so she can spend the whole winter here from
now on. She’s had to keep returning to
Washington State periodically to ensure things were running smoothly.
Last Sunday, I went off geocaching again on the Florence
Kelvin Rd. I got a pretty late start and
had a good day except for the brutal climb back up the big hill. I would ride until my legs turned to jelly
then rest for a bit then walk to get the circulation going before riding some
more. I put on about 28 kms according to the GPS plus all the short walks from the road to the cache where I normally left the
GPS on the bike seat. I met a geocaching
couple from Florida and we chatted a couple times. They were pretty amazed at my using the
bike. They have everything pretty
automated, downloading to both GPS’ and uploading from the GPS to the computer
at the end of the day. I enjoy the peace
and serenity being all by myself on the bike in these more remote areas. I went for long periods without seeing anyone
today. It was 5:04 by the time I loaded
my bike and started the car. It took
about forty minutes to get. I found
seventy caches and three of them were more interesting than the F2K
series. Interestingly, the Florida
couple didn’t find two of the three. One
was too steep looking but there was an easy way up and the other they looked
for but didn’t find in the rocks. It was
well hidden but I found it after a bit.
Last Monday I went to Coolidge and renewed my licence and
off road decal on the ATV plus several other errands then Wednesday I took the
car for an oil change and tire rotation plus a few other things over in San Tan
Valley. One thing about where we spend
our winter is the large distances we drive to get to some of the services. However, we certainly don’t want to spend our
time living any closer to them either.
We are finding it much noisier living in the motor home this year as
three of the closest neighbours have very loud and raucous happy hours and the occasional
longer party. We were more isolated from
them when we were in the park model.
Here's the cycling geocacher
Moon through a saguaro
This desert wild flower was blooming all by itself on the road shoulder with no other plants anywhere close
I drove home from geocaching into this nice sunset, just had to stop for a few shots even though I was getting late
On the Thursday ride
There are lots of these corrals with windmills and water troughs scattered around where we ride
Petroglyphs in Cottonwood Wash
Linda making the climb out of Cottonwood Wash
I gave my camera to Sandi and she captured me coming up out of Cottonwood Wash
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