Great Weather

The weather has finally changed for the good. Winter is over!

We had the Canada vs USA golf tournament and the USA team won again 6-3-1. Good picture of the US team. My team shot 1 under 35 to win our match. We had one eagle and one bogie.

 We had our golf league Pizza party and prize give away. Dennis cooked up a monster pile of Catfish that was killer good. We had 50+ people for the party. I got 13 Pizzas and had just enough to feed all.

On Saturday Peggy and I went to the Red Wings game in Phoenix.

  We had great seats right on the blue line 12 rows up. I think there were more Red Wing fans than Coyote fans. 

Before the game we had lunch with Bob and Rose. Bob was one of my old customers from Ford. It was good to see him and Rose. The game was not so great as the Red Wings lost 3-1.

Got a picture from Bill. He went home WAY too soon. He had a good trip all the way out here and back. I think they are going to stay longer next year in our park.

I got a hot spot upgrade. It should work better than the old hot spot. It works on the Verizon 4G LTE. It has 4 ports to plug devices into it and 2.4GHz wifi.

The old hot spot. 

I took the sim card out of it, installed it in the new one and had it all working in 10 minutes. 

Katie is growing fast. She went to the Vet for more shots. She gained 2.5 pounds in 3 weeks. She keeps us pretty busy. She sleeps all night long now. So I don't have to get up in the middle of the night to take her out.

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Bacon wrapped Shrimp and Pineapple with Barbecue Sauce on them. Pretty darn good.

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Cool Weather

The weather has been a little cool down here this month. It's been down to 34 degrees a couple of nights. But it's going to be in the high 70's and sunny by the end of the week. We're looking forward to that.

Katie had her first trip to the Vet. She passed all checks. She weighed 5.5 pounds. She goes back to the Vet on march 1st for some more shots.

She likes to take all her toys and put them in her bed. If you throw a toy in the back of the RV she runs and gets it and then runs with the toy to her bed.

She's growing fast.

 Bill and Marsha left yesterday to go back home in Michigan. They were able to reserve a site here in Carefree Village next year. This park is hard to get into now.

This is what the park map looked like last week and the sites are going FAST. Bill and Marsha got site 213 and Lois is moving to 214. Not far from us.

Heidi sent me this picture from the U.P. 

That's a crazy amount of snow.

This is their back porch. The snow is almost to the roof. 

Good thing they like SNOW!

Peggy has been working on some really cool art work.

Brad is getting ready for the Canada vs U.S. golf games this week. Who can get the ball in the basket 3 times first. 

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Bill cooking on his Mini-Max Egg. 

The Mini-Max is the perfect size Egg to travel with. 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

More New Stuff

Ok we got some more stuff done. We got our new cabinet installed. It took some time to get it built.

It looks great and works good. I designed it and our guy did a good job on it. It added more storage and got the refrigerator off the ground and a nice place for our water bottle.

  

And we got a new puppy. Katie a 9 week Boston Terrier. We went to San Diego on Saturday morning to get her.

She's pretty little, maybe 4 pounds. She sleeps a lot of the time. She will play for an hour and sleep for 2 hours. She has sharp little teeth. It's been 3 years without a dog. So it's kind a nice to have one again, but we've forgotten how much work a puppy is.

She likes her crate. She whined a little bit the first night but now she sleeps all night.

We got new rear tires on the big truck.

You would think they have a machine to get the tires on and off the rims, but they don't. Just a guy and some tire irons.

And we had our wheel bearings repacked. It's some maintenance that should be done every 3 years. I had a bearing go out on our last RV and it wasn't fun. So, I like to make sure we don't have that problem again.

 We had our first "Rattlesnake Horse Shoe tournament". It was a beautiful day to throw some shoes.

Charlie was a little wild with the shoes but it was fun. Some people had to run when Charlie was up. We love this park!

Dan's party chair delivery service! After the Horseshoe party.

I made up some tickets for our golf league pizza party and they're selling fast. 

 Out tp lunch with Bill and Marsha. 

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 Pizza and Beer on the Big Green Egg! I could almost live on that.

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Getting Back To Normal

We're getting back to normal. We finely got the new bed frame from our wood guy! It only took 3 months! 

The new hinges do a great job of holding the bed up.

  He did a nice job. The only bad thing is, he's still making a cabinet for the garage. One can only guess how long that will take. 

Brad, Doug, Roger and I got it in the bedroom. 

It just fit through the door way.

Finished product!

And we got our table back.

I made a batch of Jerky for a house warming party.

 Looks good.

My Mom sent me a puzzle for Christmas. Now that we have the table set up, I started to work on it. It took me 5 days to get it done. It had over 1000 really small pieces.

Done! It was a ton of fun putting it together. Thanks Mom!

We went to the Big Tent Show in Quartzsite with Bill and Marsha. Marsha liked the little Sugar gliders.

But it did bite her, though not very hard.

We stopped at one of our favorite places in Quartzsite, Beer Belly's. Then we had lunch at Grubstake. 

Got this cool picture.

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 Joey cooking some Shrimp on Bill's Mini-Max.

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Water Works

Some friends from Saginaw made their way down here. Bill and Marsha. I worked with Bill at B&K. They couldn't get in our park so they're at a different park not far away.

We took them out to breakfast and Bloody Mary's the first day. Break them in right.

Bill drove over 600 miles a day to get here! Saginaw to Yuma, about 2300 miles. That would kill us. I like 150 or less a day. ;-)

Then the next day we went to West Winds RV Park for fish dinner. We sat outside by the heaters. The food was good but we miss Lake Perch. I've never found Lake Perch anywhere in our travels.

The weather has been the coldest we've had in 4 years. One night it got to a record low for us of 31. The highs have only been in the 50's. But it won't be long and it will start warming up.

Peggy and Lois had Irish Coffee on Christmas day.

We got a new water filtering system. $65. Filters in a black box! 

You can't drink the water here. To make water safe here you have to have a Reverse Osmosis system. We've always used the Camco Blue water filter and you have to replace them every three months at a cost of $30 for the two pack. And you still can't drink it! 

If you're at a place that has half way descent water this new system can last a year before changing the filters and they only cost $11 for the two pack. I tested the water before the filters it was 800 PPM and after filters was 500 PPM.

We use this water tester. It can tell you the "Parts per million of dissolved solids". If it's over 500 you shouldn't drink the water. I like to keep it down to 300 before we drink the water. 

So, in the south west, we buy bottled water to drink at a cost of 50 cents for 5 gallons and it's tested at zero PPM. That's a little thing you have to watch in your travels. In Saginaw, the water was considered some of the best in the country.

Got a nice Christmas picture of my Mom, Connie Terry and Patty. 

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Some dead Chicken and some Brussels Sprouts.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.