We had a great Canadian Thanksgiving meal in Penticton with
friends just before we crossed the border in October and yesterday we got to partake
in another here in Arizona with our American friends for their Thanksgiving. Talk
about the best of both worlds! As part of our share, we supplied and cooked
the turkey and Aileen made a gluten free Nanaimo Bar.
Guess what? Nobody in the group
had ever heard of Nanaimo Bar! Well, they
sure have now and all agreed it was yummy.
We celebrated with Ken and Marie who had their grandson and fiancé over
and friends Jim and Judy. We also had
Ken and Marie’s neighbours, Dale and Martha aged 82 and 83, from across the
street. A great time was had and we
ended with two games of 2500.
I rode three days this week in the mountains and saw some
new country one day. That doesn’t happen
much anymore as I have covered most of the roads out there. I’m sure there are more roads to discover
though and maybe one day I will. We took
a road trip today over to Maricopa as we just don’t make it that far when we go
to Casa Grande shopping. We usually run
out of time to go any further. It was
nice to take a drive without having to go anywhere specific.
We are giving a bit of thought to our annual journey to the
Quartzsite area. I don’t think we will
spend as much time there this year and will probably forego the big RV show
this time. We plan to meet Jacquie and
Jim over there somewhere for Christmas and New Year’s. Some of the ATV club here have expressed a
bit of interest in having two or three days of riding in the Quartzsite area if
I would lead. I am mulling whether to
send out a blanket invitation or just invite those who might be
interested. The biggest problem is the
lack of motel rooms close to hand as most of the club riders don’t have RVs
here. For those who have an RV, there is
free camping where I plan to ride from.
We’ll see.
We've been having problems with our mail down here this year. We have had at least three important pieces of mail returned as undeliverable even though Aileen went into the PO on October 31 and got our delivery restarted. All the pieces were mailed after that date. Aileen went down and had a pretty straight discussion with them this morning and it seems the guy she spoke with in October didn't do his job properly. After first denying it, he finally admitted to his mistake. Hopefully that is fixed now. We are wondering about just keeping the mail flowing year round and trying to find one of the year round residents to clean out the box once in a while. We don't remember ever getting anything important forwarded from here to home.
Lots of cotton stacked alongside the fields south of Coolidge, AZ today
We ran into a roadblock on the Little Spine on Tuesday
Not sure if I interrupted something for this boy or he had a run in with a cactus
A couple miles down the road I found this Red Tail Hawk in some pomegranate trees
Our lunch stop at the end of the road on our couple's ride on Wednesday
I had gone up the road to take the previous photo and sometime later they were trying to spot me but, hee, hee, I was down below. That fooled them!
This wee Hedgehog Cactus had a couple of pretty fruits still attached
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