A little behind

 I'm way behind on the blog. We're just in our winter routine. So not a lot going on. The winter weather is gone. It's getting in the 80's already. So we love that, we had a lot of rain this year. We even saw the wash run one day. Heidi and Matt came out for a quick trip. They haven't had a good winter for snowmobiling in the UP this year.

So we had to go to the A&R for lunch before they left.

We did a quick trip up to Fox's floating bar in Parker. We stopped and picked Dennis up on the way. We'll see him this summer in Newport.

And we had to stop at Beer Bellies outdoor bar on the way back. Heidi was the youngest one in the place. It was good to see Matt and Heidi.

Peggy hit at loudmouth bingo again. I'm on a dry spell right now. We had 5 wins that day at our table. But NOT me.

But Steve hit the BIG one $585 bucks.

So we found a new way to use the koozie.

We went to the model plane air show here in Yuma. They had some really cool model planes. Even some jet powered planes. They look so real.

Made Chicken, Bacon, Ranch Pizza last night. It turned out so good. One of my favorite pizzas. I love the BGE!

Katie sitting by the fire pit keeping warm. She loves her little bed and blankie.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

This is one of the best pictures of all time. It was in Horton Bay on lake Charlevoix at the 4th of July parade.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Still in love

 We have a problem with our floor in the RV. Peggy called our dealer National Indoor RV Center in Las Vegas and talked to the parts guy, Bruce. She sent pictures of the problem and our VIN number. He called back two days later and took our credit card number and the next day we had a box of planks delivered! We still love our RV dealer. We've had great service every time we've dealt with them.  I wouldn't buy a motor home anywhere else. 

It's just a small thing but we need it fixed. So now we need to get our floor guy, Frank to come over to fix it.

Out to dinner at our favorite place, A&R Grill again. I think we're going there tomorrow too.

We had another good happy hour on Sunday. The weather has been a little cool, but it's getting warmer already. It's going to be 75 today! Maybe winter is over already.

The weather is perfect for a round of golf with my golf buddies.

We're still going to Loud Mouth Bingo on Tuesdays, but we are on a little dry spell. But friends at our table are still winning. Gloria hit a $200 win.

Katie is going to the vet again today. She's still having problems with the bug bite on her little face. 

The fire box in the BGE broke. I called my connection at the BGE store in Atlanta and talked to Golden. He sent a new fire box in the next shipment to our local ACE hardware. I love BGE.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Katie enjoying the hot Arizona sun.

Live Happy and Always Go Big. 

  

Doing better

 Katie is doing better. She had to have surgery on her bug bite and two rounds of antibiotics to stop the bad infection.

She never did tell us what got her. She hates the vet's office.

The weather has been the Best ever, it's still in the mid 70's in December, the average is 67.

Nice and sunny!

I won at Loudmouth Bingo again, $112 big ones! That day our table won 3 in a row, two $112 pots and one $224 game. It's just a ton of fun!

Mike won one of the $112 pots at our table. You get a lot of ones when you win.

Of course we had a good time at A&R Grill with a bunch of friends. I think we must go there once a week, The food is just too good. I love the mushroom burger, it's THE best I've ever had! Just had one yesterday.

Sitting out by the fire pit. That's Katie in her bed next to the fire.

I really don't like to put pictures of food in the blog, but, this is the best fish you can get! They don't stay on the plate too long. Our friends Bill and Marsha brought us some Lake Perch from Michigan.  You cannot get Perch out in the west.

Peggy found a good store for pest control, "The Bug Depot" here in town. This guy knows how to get rid of bugs! We were at the store the other day and I asked why he doesn't sell Owls, he said, "they don't work," as you can see. "If you put up an Owl, you don't know what you're doing," he said. A waste of money and time.

  BGE Picture of the Blog.

Heidi sent us this picture of their BGE and I asked what that was. It's a Brining and prep container for meats with a cutting board, all built in one. She sent me one for Christmas! I love it and can't wait to try it.  

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

Great Weather

 The weather has cooled down to a great temperature; around the mid to low 80's. The golf courses are back open after they "over seeded" the fairway and greens. The courses always close for a month to seed. 

Last week the Tunnel to Towers Foundation Rolling 911 Memorial  trucks were downtown for a couple of days.

They had a nice setup. I support this foundation for $11 a month. I think it does good work.

It was a nice exhibit on wheels. Lots of good information on 911. Well worth seeing if you get the chance.

My phone has a new camera update that lets you take some wide angle shots.

And some funny special effects photos.

We've been playing a new game at the Moose we kind of like. Loud Mouth Bingo!

Peggy won $118 big ones!

The next week I won $98 bucks. So we really like this game! A lot of ones, but they all spend.

Our good neighbors, Gord and Maureen were here for 3 weeks. We had a couple of big feasts and a bunch of happy hours. And some Little Beers did flow. 

Then we had to go to Barney's house for a nice happy hour before Gord and Maureen headed back to the great white north.

We had a bad thing happen to Katie. We think she was bitten by something next to her eye. It didn't look good. And of course it was on the weekend, so Peggy took her to the emergency vet and $250 later and within a few days she was back to normal.

Katie and Gracie had their first play date last Sunday at our 2 o'clock happy hour. They just love to run around and have fun.    

And another bad thing happened to my Big Green Egg. The fire box broke! It has a lifetime warranty, so I have been talking to Golden at BGE to get it replaced. We met Golden at the Eggtober Fest way back in 2017 at the main BGE store. 

Had to do a little RV maintenance. The power shade up in the front bed came out of the bottom track. It wasn't too hard to fix except I dropped it and it hit me right in the mouth and chipped my front two teeth and gave me a fat lip.

The thing is huge, but we got it fixed. There's always something to fix on an RV.

We liked the lights on the trees so much we added a second light. It looks great at night.

Peggy said that if I don't get off my computer and help with the dishes, she'll slam my head on the keyboard, but I think she's jokinigfuhaieuneiugrbaiubfpiaeuhgpiuehvipnvpiwufhpqiurhfpwiunvpwiurfh!

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Just having fun in the sun!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Home Improvements

 We've got a couple of Winter Home Improvements done this week. I wired in a couple more receptacles in the RV port. I'm not sure why we didn't do that when we got the lights installed, but we've got it done now.

That is about as high as I like to get! I bought 50 feet of wire and used almost all of it. That's good project planning. The best thing is, it all worked without blowing a breaker! I guess I didn't forget how to wire something up . . . Good thing it's only two wires. 

The other project was to have Specialty Sewing Senter install a shade on the front of the RV port.

They did a great job. It will keep the sun off the front of the RV. They've done work for us before and they always do a great job. It's all about keeping the sun out.

Night view. We love it so far. We just need to get Frank over to fix the bricks by the pole they installed in the corner.

 

I put a landscaping light on our neighbor's palm tree. Doesn't  it look cool!  They will be here next week. Maybe I talk him into putting more up-lighting on the other trees and maybe a cactus or two. That would look really cool.

Our other neighbor has this cactus that has some really pretty flowers on it in the fall.

It's kind of nice NOT to have things like that in our own yard. We had enough of that back in Michigan.

Some wildlife in the big tree next door. Katie was a little freaked out with that.

Peggy framed up some art work we got from an artist we met in Williams last spring. We hung it up in the RV. Classing the place up a bit.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Katie Keeping an eye on us.

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HOT, HOT, HOOOTTT!!!

 Wow it's HOT here in Yuma! We've been in really hot weather where the highest was 118! The RV, with both air conditioners running, got up to 82 inside. Good thing we have the RV port to keep us out of the smoking hot SUN. Our power bill was $337.00 for the month, that's the highest we've ever seen. 

We had a hurricane come thru, but it was only 69 mph winds, no rain. Then a week later we had Monsoon rain. We got 2 inches of rain with wind that day. 

This poor guy's carport blew right over the house and landed on the other side in the front yard. It kinda looks like art work. He's not here in town so it's been like that for a couple of weeks. I heard that the old RV park we used to be in lost about 6 carports and piled up a ton of sand in the park.

We sat outside during that huge rain storm.

Here is the wash on 14th street. It was only a foot or so deep, but moving fast and it was gone in about hour.

But the whole reason we are here was to get Peggy's eyes fixed. She got it done on August 21, a week earlier than it was scheduled. Check the video for the progress from day 1. She is happy with the good job the doctor did.

 I have golfed a couple of times, but it's so hot I haven't played as much as I would like. We start at 8:00 am to try to beat the heat. The best thing is, we got 1st place on Saturday and the next week we got 2nd place even after we got rained on really hard.

I think Katie is happy to be back. She just goes outside and lays in the hot Yuma sun sometimes, but not for long.

We got rid of Spectrum internet service. It had a lot of problems in the hot weather and would just stop working. So this year we're going to use Starlink. We love Starlink. It worked well in every place we traveled too. I changed the service status to standard so that will save $30 a month. I didn't think you could do that, but it works fine and only costs $120 a month. 

I whipped up a little Brisket on the good old Green Egg. It was really good. We ate off that for a couple of days. It was 3.5 pounds, just the right size for us.

 BGE Picture of the Blog.

Matt with his egg family at their cabin and they have a large back at home.

 Live Happy and Always Go Big.