Getting ready to hit the road

 We're almost ready to hit the road for the summer. We've made all our reservations for the trip. The first thing we have to do is head to South Dakota to get our driver license renewed. Mine expires on April 28th. We're taking 2 weeks to get there. I hope we don't run into any SNOW. We had to get eye exams to get the license because we're over 65 years old. But I can see fine! One park we're going to is opening on the day we get there. That's how early we're going. We're looking forward to our trip. We're going to some new places and some good old favorites.

My golf partner, Clarence got a hole in one! It was a 180 yard shot that just went in the hole. We looked behind the green first, but it was in the hole. What a great shot!

We got the motorhome washed and waxed for $250. Arizona Detail Kings do a great job.

We went downtown to Military appreciation day. This photo is of our friend Barney, who was a navy diver and these are all the ships he was on. He has a lot of good stories.

 We have a Marine Corp air base here in Yuma. So we get such good air shows sometimes.

Peggy and I made our last trip over to Mexico to stock up on cheap drugs before we leave. Oh, and you have to get some lunch over there too.

We picked up some Tequila for Barney on the way back.

You're allowed one liquor purchase per month. 

We found a new place, High Tanks Brewing Company. It's about 3 miles out in the desert in Wellton, AZ. 15 miles from our place. The beer was good. Peggy started with Daphne's Date Ale. I had the Bomb Ranger Blonde Ale. Both were good. It's on a huge Date tree farm. They have food and a stage with live music playing. We're going back on Friday to have lunch and maybe a beer or two.  The only thing that's bad is you have to drive down a dirt road for a couple of miles. It's close to the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range so a lot of off road vehicles come there. It's a good place to stop and take a break. They also have a place in a plaza in Wellton. So we had to go and check it out too. We had the Double Date Ale there and it was good too. They have a great website https://hightanks.com/

Having fun at Loud Mouth Bingo. Peggy, Barney, Mike, Becky and me.

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I don't think Katie is ready to go on the trip. 

She loves this lot here in Yuma.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Just Having Fun

 Today the weather is great with a high of 82, sunny, with no wind. That's why we are here.

We added a new camera to keep an eye on the place when we're gone. Only cost $56.00. We previously installed two in our neighbor's yard and they work pretty well. They can keep an eye on their place while they are home in Canada.

It has a solar panel on it so you don't have to run any cables to it. It rotates 360 degrees, has sound and lights. Works great. It only took me 1 hour to set up and mount.

This is the view it has looking to the street.

This is the view of the other camera mounted on the shed.

We have tons of hummingbirds that just hang around all year. They fly right up to the table, even if you're sitting there.

Katie loves our mail lady! She gives her a treat every time she goes by.

Here she is hiding one of her treats in her toy box. It's so funny to see her do that.

Here she is getting the treat out of her toy box later.

We checked out a new place here in Yuma, "Pour Behavior". We are going on Friday to have lunch with the gang. It looks a little pricey but it's that way everywhere now. So let's just go for it! It's an old bar but they rebuilt the whole place. Now it's pretty classy. We'll see.

We went to the RV park party for the Super Bowl. I ran 7 boards, $750 total. I won $100, but I think I had invested $60. So I only won $40😏.

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Katie is just relaxing on the steps keeping an eye on the yard.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

 

2025!

 Wow, it's 2025! OMG time flies. We've been full time for over 10 years already. 

We got our last BIG project done. We recovered the driver seat in the RV. Active RV Upholstery did a great job. The RV industry had a problem with the upholstery in a lot of motorhomes and we got one.

But it looks good now. Peggy and I took it out and put it back in. It was a good "team work" job. She didn't kill me.😏

The weather has cooled down a little bit, but we still have our 2 o'clock happy hours on Sunday. We just move the table into the sun to warm up a bit.

Bolo comes to Happy hour but he doesn't play with Katie and Gracie.

We had a great holiday season. Sarge came riding by with his Santa suit on and looked like he was having fun riding around.

We saw some hop lights in Buck Bald Brewery in North Carolina.

 They were selling them for $200, but I found some on Amazon that look just as good for $36. You have to put them together, but that's the fun part of it. I think they look great and they work great in the shed. I installed them on a smart switch so they come on and off automatically.

It took about an hour to put them together and I installed a 9 watt Green LED light in them.

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Katie approves our new cabinet.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.