Several days' of blogs

I am sitting at the front of the MH looking out across a field at a totally clear sky with one pointy peak rising up in the distance. I have even found a way to put a positive spin on the freeway traffic out in the distance…..at night the trucks look like lighted cars on a toy train – an ever-changing, Christmas-like view – along with lots of real trains in the background.

I got out and walked yesterday, finally, and found it to be pretty easy compared to the hills of Steilacoom. It is flat, flat, flat, here. Just about everyone I passed greeted me. Now if this place would get internet, I would be happy as a clam. We spent almost an hour at the library yesterday trying to use the modem, but gave up when we couldn’t get anything beyond 14.4, and our first email hung up while trying to download.

Last night after dark, we were treated to a parade of lighted golf carts with some of them looking pretty creative. One had icicle lights hanging from the canopy, and another with lighted wheels going ‘round and ‘round..

Ken and I have spent time working on a Christmas gift project, and that will be our task for the next day or two. We are running out of days before we will be leaving for Brian and Sheila’s.

December 16

The Christmas gift project continues, but we should be in good shape by tomorrow.

The weather finally calmed down today after two days of wicked winds, hence tons of blowing sand and dust Today we have had sunshine and temps in the high 60s.

Our friends, the Ouseys, have continued to receive very bad news about Gary’s brother – there is no treatment for his cancer, and he has just days to live. We are taking Carolyn to the Phoenix airport tomorrow, and their three children who live in Victoria all flew to Winnipeg today. So come Monday, our two motor homes will be sitting here unoccupied. But there is good security here at the park so I have no concerns.

After we drop Carolyn at the airport, we will spend some time with Colleen before coming back to Cocopah. Ken has a Fry’s ad in his hands, and he is headed in that direction. I think we are in the market for a new network card that is stronger than what we now have. I doubt I will be wanting to try to do much shopping on the Saturday before Christmas week end.

I talked to Craig last night for a few minutes. He and Cooper were at Cassie’s. Since Cooper spends the days by himself in the run while Craig works, Craig tries to take him with him when he goes out in the evenings.
I will try to post this blog later this evening, and if I don’t there will be another installment in a day or two.

December 17

Nope, the new network card did us no good, so we are still without internet access. I’ll go to the Ousey’s to post this tomorrow.

Sadly, Gary’s brother passed away last evening. It was such a rapid turn of events that it is hard to grasp. We took Carolyn to the airport today, but according to a phone message, there was a delay and she is stuck in Denver until tomorrow morning. It is unknown when she and Gary will return to Cocopah.

We had an early dinner with Colleen and met her roommate/landlady and her mother this afternoon in Phoenix. This is a great arrangement for Colleen, but Suzie is getting married and is going to sell the house, so Colleen will be looking for another place to stay. She would like to buy, but she has no idea how long (or short) she will be in Arizona, so that is risky too.

We stopped and shopped in a book store and a Stein Mart before coming home. I remember being very taken with the Stein Mart in Las Vegas, but I didn’t find anything exciting in this one in Phoenix.

Cinda called today to say that their house in Bellevue was broken into this past week and every piece of jewelry plus computers were stolen. Their property is very private so it would be easy for someone to gain entry and go unnoticed. And to file any kind of an insurance claim is a nightmare and it is hardly worth the effort, or the risk of being dropped if you have another claim. What has happened to the insurance industry in this country? We pay and pay and pay, and then are afraid to use it.

Tomorrow we will finish projects and errands and get ready to be on the road to Idaho on Monday. We plan to arrive Boise Wednesday afternoon, pick up Colleen and go on to McCall.

December 19, 2005

We are in the Air Force Inn at Nellis AFB. We didn’t get out of Cocopah until about eleven today, so this was a good stopping place . We will be on the road bright and early tomorrow morning to get ourselves with in striking distance of Boise for Wednesday noon.

I just finished chatting with Bev Schuler, and she and Jeff are going to drive to Yuma on 12/28 for their annual holiday visit. Jeff looked at flights and decided there was no easy way to get from there to there. We found Yuma to be a conundrum when we were looking at flights for the Ouseys. I thought it was because they needed to get to Canada, but evidently California is no better!

We do at least have a modem here in our room, so I am going to post this since I have been adding to it for days. Ciao