A small move

Everyday here at Senator Wash has been a busy one, but take a few days off from writing your blog, and you wonder what you have been doing!  We continue making a few trips to Algodones, Mexico for dental appointments and we already picked up our glasses.  This year, both of us choose sunglasses with our eye prescriptions, and we now have sunglasses with progressive lenses.  I love it, as I can read a book outside!

Yesterday we looked after dumping our tanks, filling up with water and moving to another area.  Last year we met some great people from Indiana and Rhode Island, and they invited us back to reside in their neighbourhood and join them.  Thursday we joined over 80 others here for a Hot Dog/Chili supper, which is an annual event hosted by a great couple, Merle and Cora.  Awesome chili and Donald thought the desserts were heaven, as there were at least 50 homemade various specialties! This is roughing it in the boondocking area!

Today we are meeting our friends, Allen and Linda at the Arizona Marketplace.  They left the Sands and have travelled down to Yuma to check out some of the golf courses and visit with other hometown buddies from the northland. Monday we have reserved a spot on a farm tour of a Date Farm, and we have another dinner invitation for chicken enchiladas!

Oh - our other spot here at Senator Wash was probably a scorpion nursery!  Remember a large Arizona Barker scorpion ran past our lawn chairs - well, there was a baby one by our back RV jacks. Equal amount of venom. None have been seen at the new location - whew!

Blog writers lately have been talking of the winds and yes, they have been strong at times. While in Tucson last year, we picked up some X Chocks for the wheels of the 5th wheel.  There are easy to put on as you set up and come with a little handy tool which I also use for the rear jacks.  The up side is that the rig does not rock nearly as much with the winds of the southwest! Bonus!!!!!

Yuma is the winter vegetable capital of North America! Who knew that you can smell broccoli as you drive by - yes the fields are growing massive amounts! 

Boys, stay still and carefully raise your feet!

 Well, we are living in the habitat that belongs to wild burros, coyotes, snakes, spiders and also the scorpion.  The residents we have met are the burros and we have heard the coyotes.  Today, I had the pleasure of seeing Mr.(Mrs?) Arizona Barker within inches of Bob and Don's lawn chairs, while they were enjoying their morning coffee.

His tail was not up like the one in the picture, as it was busy running from Bob's RV to underneath our 5th wheel.  Good thing our cat is an indoor cat!  Bob looked up scorpions in Arizona on his IPad so we could identify it and know what we are dealing with.  The one I saw was an Arizona Barker. Very distinctive. It was kind of neat to see one in the wild!

Don and Bob have been busy fixing things.  Donald changed the oil in our little Honda generator and then they built a box to hold Bob's Honda generator in his motorhome.

We have also been to Mexico a couple of times - dentist appointment! We will be having to go back a few times, alas.  Donald is very impressed with the dental offices, spotlessly clean with more up to date equipment than our dentist in Canada.

The skies around the area have been busy with aircraft jumpers ( parachutists with parachutes that they control to land in a certain place ), as the Army Yuma Proving Grounds base has a jump school.

Senator Wash is 23 miles from Yuma, so we take our little cooler bag with an icepack to go grocery shopping, however, it is pretty tough to keep ice cream very solid.  So, what's a boondocker to do?  Wait till Friday for the Ice Cream truck to come right to your site! mmmm.

Do you have Rocky Road?

Valley views

I thought I saw some bright lights out across the valley each night, so we took a drive in Bob's SUV to check out my addled brain visions.  Yep, it was a vision all right, as it was only some of the RV solar light pathways.  Theirs must be brighter than ours!   We drove very close to the mountains on the west side of the valley, enjoying signs of very ancient volcanic activity and signs of spring. The bright colours of the desert plant flowers contrast so vividly with the browns of the rocks and dirt.

Yesterday, Don and Bob went into Yuma to look at LED lights for RV's, and to check out compressors. I think it is an excuse to go to tool places, but they love it! So, I stayed back at the Wash to complete the quilting on another quilt, that now rests on the foot of our bed. There is always a bit of a wind here, and I tried to lay the quilt on a couple of chairs to take a picture, but in the end needed assistance!

So much for desert views with the quilt - ha! I guess a couple of desert guys will suffice. You can double click on the pic, of course, if you would like to see it close up.

Well, it is a beautiful day and the weather outlook now shows that it may get up to 83 this week - whoo hoo!

Looks like all the RV's are parking lot camping, don't they? Believe me, they are not very close to one another, just from a very long distance they do.  Ah, the expanses of Arizona, Love it.

Hangin' out at the Wash

Senator Wash, that is.  It continues to be a busy place, with boondockers and the nearby Yuma Proving Ground Army base testing munitions early in the morning, with a little tank dust thrown in. WE missed the Annual Cookie Drive here, and the Boondocker's Chatter newsletter informed us that 745 dozen cookies were baked and delivered by the boondockers to the YPG base for their use during the year. Wow. The Emergency Personnel on the base were very pleased and grateful for all the cookies.

'Bob, we're here and we smell dinner!'

 Sometimes, it's a zoo here.  Last evening, the local wild burros made a stop by our little encampment, but they were not interested in our rig - only Bob's with the smell of something good cooking! We do not feed them, as this will only encourage this type of behaviour.

I am anxious to get back into pulling out some quilting that was packed away for our short move, however, I may have to send Don and Bob away for the day to do that.  The weather is too cool to sit outside for the day, but our solar panels are throwing in a whopping 19 amps at times. We do have them tilted here towards the south.  Also as usual, the big fancy rigs are here with their 7 panels, wind set ups, you name it!

Our skies!

For the Clubhouse Quilters!

The Pheebs!

Just a quick note to say that we are enjoying the vista views at Senator Wash LTVA with our friend Bob tonight.

On the way, we stopped at the Arco station that comes out of Borrego, and who should also be stopping? Al and Kelly of the Bayfield Bunch.  More later ..... except that the Pheebs stayed in the motorhome and we don't think Al's ham sandwich remained untouched while we chatting - sorry Al!