Saturday we went over to Uncle Byron and Aunt Ruth's place, Byron looks awfully good for 91 and is still as sharp as a tack. They have two dogs, Sadie and Sophia and a cat Sylvester. Poor Luci, she is wary of cats, shortly after arriving, with no provocation, Sylvester attacked her, chasing her from the kitchen to the living room. Later Sadie took umbrage to her and attacked. Poor baby, atleast Sophia likes her. Ruth has a lovely quilting studio so I took the fabrics for Patti's graduation quilt with me to get started on it. I managed to get it all cut out including a quick trip to the quilt store, the name of the shop is Grandma Jo's, my mom went by that name after she became a grandma, for another piece of fabric. Since it was Ruth's birthday we picked up some delicious fish and chips from a nearby bar and grill. Yumm. Uncle Byron doesn't like to leave the house, he has macular degeneration and it's hard for him to get around. Ruth had baked her own birthday cake so we had that for dessert.
Sunday, the twins turned 9 today, many of you will remember when they were born. Time sure goes by fast. I went to quilt at Byron and Ruth's, Gary and Luci stayed home. I made great progress, feeling like I'll finish it before we leave. The people in the space next to us have a very popular bird feeder. It attracts finches, some of them had red heads, natural just like mine. Sometimes there will be 7 plus birds on it at the same time. One of the birds in "our" tree makes a call that sounds like "neener neener". Almost sounds Al.
Monday I quilted most of the day at Ruth's, am disappointed how one of the fabrics looks so I won't be finishing it here, I need to buy a piece that blends better. After dinner at the coach we took a walk to see the glorious sunset. We met a couple from Seattle that have been full-timing for 25 years. She kept giving Luci treats against our wishes.
Tuesday Luci barfed from the treats, she was just listless all day, about 2 we decided to take her to a vet. After $200 they diagnosed her with acid reflux, I could have given her a Prilosec. Carol and Al, Gary's sister and brother-in-law with another couple, Steve and Pam are making their way to Chicago to drive Route 66 back to Santa Monica with their classic cars. They were there when we arrived. I BBQ'd chicken in a beer can and had made an asparagus salad. We had a pretty good feast with all the food Ruth, Carol and the other Pam prepared. The temperature reached 98 degrees today but after the sun went down it was quite pleasant, we ate outside and visited for quite a while. Luci "perked" up and was soon tearing around the yard with Sophia. The Marine Corps must have been doing training, Blackhawk helicopters kept flying over.
Wednesday we started the day early with a walk in the desert, we picked up 5 geo caches, our total is now 1900! We made the decision to take the coach back to Tucson for some warranty work, we've tried to have the work done in other locations, they're all too busy. It changed our itinerary to Tucson and north to the Cottonwood area where Luke AFB in Phoenix has their RV park. Yuma reached 99 today, I'm ready to leave for Northern Arizona.
Thursday morning I went with Ruth to her quilt guild meeting, instead of a speaker they had 4 members doing demos, Ruth did a Spider Web quilt block that is a great way of using up your scraps. The other 3 ladies were demo'ing arts and craft projects. For dinner Ruth made chicken enchilada's that were delish. We "ate and ran", we headed home. 100 degree days tend to sap your energy. We said our good-byes, will see them again next year. We sat outside and watched TV, that is so fun, I can hardly wait for football season (for a long of reasons).
Those silly finches! They keep trying to get into our coach, they hang on the screen and sing to us. We headed off to Tucson Friday very early to beat the heat, we didn't make much progress though, two miles down the road we stopped at a casino for breakfast then had to fill the coach, it took 85 gallons, the most we've ever had to put in, but the last time we filled up was in Santa Nella. Ca. so we didn't feel too bad.
Look closely for the birds.
Steve with his 56 Chevy
Ruth, Steve and me
As we drove into Tucson we kept seeing jets doing maneuvers. We pulled into Davis -Mothen AFB to find out there will be an air show here Saturday and Sunday, free to everyone. We can catch a shuttle right outside the RV park. How lucky! Again we enjoyed the warm evening, watching TV outside.
We'll be in Tucson just long enough to take care of the little "bugs" in the coach, then will make the turn to head north. Very slowly.
TTFN
Gary and Pam
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