We had an easy run this morning, a little more than a hundred miles. Interstate all the way. On the road after the major Monday morning traffic. A good ride. An easy ride. Now at this point you are expecting me to tell you what went wrong aren’t you? If you answered yes, then I have only one thing to say to you. GOTCHA! It was a smooth ride!
We both said at the same time, “There’s Picacho Peak.”
Then we saw our first Saguaro Cactus. However, it does look like this one is ailing and needs some help standing up.
Ahhh….back in our winter playground.
The cotton is ready for picking.
We pulled into Quail Run around noon and made arrangements for a site for a week. We usually would be given a site to park our rig in for three days to off load our belongings into the park model but we need a full week for all we have to do.
We got the closest site to our park model that there is. That will make it so much easier when we start taking our stuff over.
I had a question from a reader asking about the park model and what we will do with our new rig. We bought the park model in ‘09, you can see a picture of it in our sidebar and if you want to see inside of it CLICK HERE. We’ll store our 5th wheel about a mile away in a walled, camera patrolled, live in resident manager, storage lot.
We wanted the extra time because we want to really clean the park model out of stuff we just don’t use. Everyone told us not to get rid of anything the first year because we didn’t know what we would use and what we wouldn’t. Remember, it was fully furnished. So we listened and now we know what has to go. A lot.
There is another reason for the great purge of 2010. We’re only going to be in our park model for about 10 weeks. Starting January 1st it is rented out until March 31st. Our neighbors sent out an email wanting to know if anyone wanted to rent their park model to their family members and Bob and I decided we would. For one thing, it will cover our land rental fee for the year and this will give us an opportunity to live in the new 5th wheel while under warranty. If something is going to go wrong with it we’d rather know sooner than later.
I took a walk around to see who was here already and was very happy to see several of our friends. Every day now more will arrive.
Over the summer we lost an “Organ Pipe” cactus in our yard.
Oranges are just starting to turn.
Inside we were happy to find that the jugs of water we left all around still had at least a quarter of the water left.
One of the first jobs was to take sheets off everything.
Table for two?
We were very happy to find that there was no dust on the counters and the windowsills were clean.
Bob had lots of leaves to clean up outside.
But at 5 p.m. it was still very hot, even in the shade, so not a whole lot got done.
There’s always tomorrow…..
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