Pretty Cold

 We are in Sheridan, WY. One of our favorite towns. We are staying at Peter D's RV Park we have been here a couple of other times.

Our site at Peter D's. We were the first ones to check in this year. He opened on May 1st. It's been pretty cold and a lot of rain the past two days. The high was 46 on Tuesday. 

Before we left Spearfish we took a ride thru the Spearfish Canyon. We got some good pictures of the Mountain Goats in the canyon.

 They were right on the road next to a nice stream. You couldn't miss them.

Nice waterfall on the drive.

We took a tour of the High Plains Western Heritage Center. Saw a lot of old western stuff, like the hearse from the old west. It's pretty cool, but I don't need a ride in it yet.

  

They had this 17 foot tall paper mache statue of Tennessee Vaughn memorial on a horse.

Here we are in one of our favorite bars, The World Famous Mint Bar. It opened in 1907, a little before my time. Lots of cool stuff in it.

We are moving tomorrow on our way to Ennis, MT.

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Peggy and I way back in the day. Having some good boating fun with the 22' Donzi. That was a fun boat.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 
 

We Made It!

 We made it to Spearfish, SD! About 1400 miles. We're at one of our favorite RV Resorts, Elkhorn Ridge RV Resort. We've never been in cold weather with this RV, so we did have some things go wrong. First, our Starlink router quit working. That is a really bad thing. We use it for all our TV streaming. So I had to go to Best Buy and get a new one. Then our new hot water heater was getting a E8 fault code! I emailed Fogatti and they sent me a video on how to adjust a parameter in the computer and it fixed the problem. Then, the furnace that we never use was having a fault from the fan blower motor switch. I know how to fix that. I've adjusted it 3 or 4 times now and ordered a new one from Amazon. We will see if that fixes it for good.

The whole reason we're here is to get our Drivers license renewed! We got that done already. We had to jump thru a lot of hoops to get it done, but we got it! I don't think any illegals can get a Drivers license here in South Dakota because it's so hard to do. 

Having a Bloody Mary to celebrate this huge achievement! 

  

Our site in Elkhorn Ridge RV Resort. Last time we were here was 2019 with Patty and Joe. We like this area. Lots of fun things to do like, Deadwood is only 8 miles away then Lead is a cool little town to visit and Spearfish is cool all by itself. We are here for 10 days, so we have lots of time to hit all our favorite places.

On the way we stopped in Bullhead City where we ran into ZZ Top in River Rat Bar. We had to go here to get our favorite Philly Steak Sandwich, they have the best!

Our dear friend, Barney has parked the Submarine veterans club float in our RV port to get it out of the brutal Arizona sun until we get back. 

   

It's a little hard to tell but, here we are driving thru SNOW! That is a first for us in 10 years. But I still have my shorts on!

This is how cold it is. Frozen water in the fields in Idaho.

Lots of SNOW in the mountains on the way.

Oh, before we left Fortuna Foothills I went to Mission Hills Golf Club and played the Pete Dye course.

Here's Clarence and I, ready to tee off. This is the most beautiful course I've ever played. We had 12 guys, so we had a little scramble game. We shot a 69.

Check out the powerful form on our team mate Alex.

Believe it or not I only lost 2 balls. Just a beautiful course.

Big money. They have 3 courses. Pete Dye, Dinah Shore and the Arnold Palmer course.

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Katie looks at us like we're crazy, going North in this cold weather. She thinks we have lost our minds.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

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. 

Another Project Done

 The weather has been great! Today December, 6 it's going to be 81. This is fantastic. 

We got another big project done. We took the small couch out and installed a cabinet so we have more storage. Nobody ever sat on that couch, we just threw junk on it. One more big project to go.

Looks good and works great. It took about 3 hours to put together outside then move it inside. 

Katie was helping us put the cabinet together. 

We can buy more stuff now!

Another small project was changing the lights in the shed to these "As seen on TV" light fans. They work well. 

I fixed my Big Green Egg clock, the neon had stopped working. I found a repair kit on Amazon to fix it. I love Amazon, click click and it's here in a day or two.

We had a tasty Thanksgiving turkey on the Big Green Egg again! Got a 10 pounder at Fry's. Made a ton of stuffing and Peggy's famous gravy and a green bean casserole.

Not so fun was going to the Dermatologist in Phoenix. They beat me up a little, but everything is good. 

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Getting in a couple of rounds of golf with my buddy, Clarence and I do love the socks!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.