FINALLY!!! HEAT!!!

Sunday (I think) , January ??, 2013

Hi Everyone!

I'm as senile as the rest of the old codgers  down here.....can't even remember the date! And pictures? I gave up trying to post pictures.

The weather has finally warmed up. We went from coats and socks to shorts and sandals. It's been in the mid 70's and oh, so welcome! I realized 2 days ago the  AC in Hilda the Honda wasn't working. I was lucky to find a repair shop on Saturday to get it "recharged". Whew! We would roast without AC! It is 75 during the day now.

Friday a neighbor and I went to the Desert Hills Quilt Show  here in Yuma. There was over 270 quilts on display and 30 vendors. We found many new ideas for fun projects and, of course, lots of fabric to choose from. We both behaved! :-). Our RV's are not large enough to accumulate a large stash!

A highlight at the show was the display was a quilt which recreated "The Last Supper". It measures 183x67, has 51,816 squares of one-half inch cotton fabric pieced together. It was pieced by a gentleman, Don Locke, DDS, of Waxahachie, TX and took him over 2 1/2 years to piece. It is absolutely AWESOME to see. Go to www.thesupper.net to read about this quilt. This quilt had a room all to itself at the show and the artist was there to visit with. If any of you ever get a chance to see this, you will love it, whether you're a quilter or not.

Our friends, Dan and Barbara Mann, from Great Falls, MT arrived in town a few nights ago. They own the Great Falls Speedway. We went to the local stock car races on Friday night with them. It was a roaring evening. Dan and Barb will be heading to Phoenix on Wednesday for races, on to Georgia for races and to spend time with their daughter there and back to Florida for the Daytona 500. They are traveling in their motorhome with their "family" of Doc, their big lab dog,  and 2 cats! This is the first trip for the cats....MEOW, MEOW.

I've gone to a couple craft shows this past week.....one highlight was earrings made from a page from National Geographic Magazines. Most shows also have a Farmer's Market with fresh veggies and fruits. Yesterday bought a nice head of cauliflower for $1 and 2 Anaheim chilies for 20 cents each.

The Anaheim chilies are what our favorite shrimp taco stand uses to make a chipalonas (sp). It is a flour or corn tortilla with a grilled slice of the Anaheim chile plus hamburger, cheese and our choice of various toppings. They go perfect with the deep fried shrimp tacos!!

Yesterday Buster and 2 neighbors went to Wellton to a tractor pull, using tractors out of the 40's and 50's and saw stationary displays of old hit-n-miss engines. They looked at classic cars, combine --  old and new  -- cotton picking combines, asparagus picking combines, and other harvesting equipment from this area. Wellton is a small community about 25 east of here, another home to many snowbirds.

More RV's are arriving daily here in our park. Quartzite, the desert mecca of thousands of  boondocking snowbirds, is hosting a huge RV/craft show now. I would assume many are traveling back and forth from here so they have the amenities of an RV park. It is not our idea of fun to go boondocking....sitting out in the desert with no luxuries!! Quartzite is about 50-60 miles north of Yuma. We plan to drive there this next week for a day to nose around. Maybe we'll come back with a new Prevost half-a-million-dollar motorhome!! ha! ha!

I will report more after we're back from Quartzite and from our trip to Mexicali, MX for our Brazillian dinner. Til then, enjoy each day! Life is too short to sit around and say, "Someday......".

 The D's, with smiles on our faces!