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And it is almost summer!

I am definitely in the mood for getting out again. We haven’t bee out since the last trip at the end of April. For Mother’s Day we had most of the kids and grandkids come over for dinner. It was nicer than just the two of us going somewhere, though I did do the cooking LOL! We had pot roast, carrots, and potatoes so it wasn’t too hard.

The kitten are growing like weeds. They are so well behaved! Never any scratching even when being held against their will. They don’t scratch anything except their scratching post except for my big rolls of batting downstairs. I have had to move them all to an inaccessible spot since that soft batting seemed just right for little kitten climbing. We kept them on kitten food since they were so small, but we are transitioning them to adult cat food now. They seem to like it just fine.

It is hard to get a picture of them playing without it being fuzzy! They were chasing the magic red dot (laser pointer).

Minerva was particularly fond of the doll bed we got for my granddaughter’s birthday

I have been sewing some. The king sized quilt for our bedroom at home has the main center part completed – 80” square. I need to add borders, but I haven’t gotten in the mood. I did finish quilting three quilts for my quilt guild though. As before, just utilitarian meandering, but it keeps me in practice. I am not a person comfortable with completely scrap,quilts, particularly in big pieces. I find these dreadful, but the people who donate fabric to the guild should have no doubt every inch of useable stuff they give to us will be put to good use.

The last one, just before I started quilting it.

I also have made Kevin a pillow case for the travel pillow he uses for his knees at night. We found a little pillow at a truck stop this winter, but it has a satin cover and slips off the bed during the night. A cotton cover keeps it in place better. I am also just finishing up a bunch of bowl cozies I am going to use as small gifts on our upcoming trip.

I modified my fabrication process to pre-wash both fabric and the batting. Then I made sure all three layers (fabric/batting/fabric) are quilted together. Hopefully that help them keep their shape after washing.

We do have the first part of our summer trip planned. In a normal year we would just take off, making reservations only at destinations. This year we are slightly spooked by reports of massive numbers of people on the road, so we made more reservations than normal. We leave on Tuesday, 1 June, to go to Hamilton, MO, home of the Missouri Star Quilt Company and their multiple shops. We will stay there a couple of nights then off to eastern Oklahoma to visit some tourist locations we haven’t seen for 30 years or more. Then we head to Canton Reservoir where I worked as a seasonal park ranger before my senior year in college. I haven’t been back since, so it should be fun. We have reserved a Boondocker’s Welcome site in far eastern Texas off I-40. I figure I will give the hosts a couple of bowl cozies as a thank you. We are hoping for good enough weather to hit up a bunch of Native American sites in New Mexico. Eventually we will head north to Cody, WY for an FMCA chapter rally followed by Gillette, WY for the big FMCA national convention. We then have reservations at Badlands NP during a new moon for Kevin to get some astrophotography done. We will gradually head back to Iowa then, time TBD.

I will be getting some shoulder surgery done when we get back. I have a bone spur that is giving me grief. I have been using cortisone shots to manage it, but I figured it will only get worse. Hopefully there isn’t much rotator cuff involvement. Rehab is something between 2 and 12 weeks, depending on what they have to do. Sigh. Even with an MRI they can’t tell until they get to look inside.

Kevin has been busy making even more modifications and updates to the motorhome. I will post those after we get on the road so I can take good pictures. The expensive one was 600 amp hours of LifeBlue LiFePO4 batteries with internal heaters. I am really looking forward to off-grid camping with those! Some of the less expensive modifications are woodworking and others are 3D printing, and they are quite cool. We even got our yearly diesel maintenance done, this time at the Decorah Truck Country shop. Nice folks. It was a more extensive list than we had for previous yearly, so it also cost more. Sigh. Just the price of owning a diesel motorhome.

And we are off to start packing!

On the road again, but just a bit

We finally went camping again! On Wednesday we went to a local park that is a whopping 7 miles away – Big Woods County Park. It is a lovely place with long sites. Most are wide, but they have two rows of “buddy sites” where if you pull in correctly you will face the folks next door. Luckily we found a site that backed up on the bike route and lake. We were hoping to dewinterize the motorhome, but the water wasn’t going to be turned on u til Thursday. Whoops! We stayed at home for the night and went back on Thursday to dewinterize. We got everything set up except the water softener which we forgot at home.

We were doing this to have the three oldest grandchildren out – twin girls, 11, and a boy, 7. We picked them up at lunch after a soccer game on Saturday, ate some take out pizza, then went to the camper. It was much colder than the forecast had shown when we set it up, so I felt bad we couldn’t do the bike riding we wanted to do. A windchill of low 40s just didn’t appeal to me. We left the kittens at home, thinking an introduction to both the motorhome and three children would be a bit much! We did have a lot of fun even in the cold temps. There was a nice playground, a sand spot at the edge of the lake to build sand castles, and a nice fire pit. We made layered green chili chicken enchiladas in a Dutch oven and campfire biscuits on Saturday night. Sunday morning had monkey bread in the motorhome oven along with eggs and fruit. They said they wanted to do it again, so I call that a success!

We picked up the kittens after we dropped off the kids, and they adjusted faster than I expected. Luna was thrilled we could open up the screen door. Don’t worry; behind the grill is a screen!

I didn’t get a picture of Minnie because she was either running around like crazy or hiding out, her two favorite things to do.

The weather was so absolutely gorgeous while we were packing up on Monday that we decided to stay an extra day. We road our bikes around the lake and some of the nearby trails, soaked up sun, and generally had a wonderful start to the camping season.

Once we finally got packed up, we decided to drive to Cedar Rapids to get the motorhome washed. It hasn’t had a bath since July, and it was in dire need! We just don’t have a place to wash it ourselves, so we went to a newer truck wash, AFCS Truck Wash. Astonishingly no one was in line in front of us! They did a good job, and it was well worth the $75 it cost. As we drove out, there were 2 motorhomes and a semi truck in line behind us, so we really were lucky.

Next trip might be Mother’s Day, or it might be a warmer weather overnight with grandkids at a different campground. Time will tell. We take off for the summer right after Memorial Day – YEAH!

Kittens, restaurants, and shopping

I am striving to be more frequent in my posts. I hope it lasts!

Luna and Minnie are still settling in. Minnie, in particular, still has a tendency to hide whenever she sees our legs. She is perfectly happy to get petted if she is on her cat tower, but she is on the floor and we walk toward her, she gets spooked. I actually wonder if she has been kicked before. Cats can have long memories, even of accidents. Thank goodness we got the two together since they play a lot together. They wouldn’t be nearly as happy with the limited play they get from us, though we do play with them about an hour a day. They are particularly fond of feather sticks.

These are their normal locations. Luna loves to sit on top, surveying her world. Minnie prefers to look at the world from her safe spot. I wish I could show the color of Luna’s eyes; they are a deep golden color that is truly stunning.

It feels so very odd to be going to restaurants. We spent so many months doing drive through and carry-out I keep forgetting we can actually go into restaurants. So far we have eaten at a couple of Mexican restaurants (with margaritas!), a steak place, and a few breakfast places. We haven’t done any “fine dining” yet, mostly because we don’t have many open where I live. So many restaurants closed or went to greatly reduced menus! Of course that would also mean putting on slacks instead of the jeans I live in, so it is a mixed blessing.

We also have done some shopping, the type where you actually go into a store and look around, not just order online. I bought a bunch of new bedding for,our spare bedrooms plus new towels for the guest bath. Today we went to Trader Joe’s to stock up on some of their specialties. I adore their coconut shrimp, ginger biscuits (British cookies), biscotti (nice small ones that are a treat instead of a complete meal), plus some of their sweets. We can now use our own reusable bags there and at our local grocery stores, a real plus. I am so tired of the thousands of plastic bags we have accumulated. Yes, I take the plastic to the recycle center, but I still prefer the reusable bags for ease of use.

I have been doing some quilt piecing too. I have 2/3 of the main part of a king sized quilt completed. However I can’t find the pieces for the rest of it! I am going to have to bite the bullet and clean my sewing studio completely. I know those pieces are around, but I have so much miscellaneous stuff laying around that I can’t find them! So that is tomorrow’s job. Pray for me!

Not much going on

I just don’t post as much when we aren’t traveling. I actually haven’t been doing much, giving in to a really bad back probably more than I should have. I am now back in PT and taking acetaminophen three times a day. It has helped a lot. I also got a Nursal brand e-stim unit. It helps a lot to loosen sore muscles that have just been overwhelmed with pain.

The big news is we have two new kittens in the house. Luna (black) and Minerva (tabby) came home with us two days ago. They are sisters, six months old, and they are still restricted to our bedroom and bathroom until they get a bit more comfortable though. We decided to call Minerva by a nickname – Minnie. She is just a tiny little thing just over 4 pounds. Her bigger sister is at an average weight of 5.5 pounds. They are really well socialized, very healthy (our vet has already done a checkup), fully immunized, and they have already been chipped. They spent three months in a foster home, so their behavior has been very good.

Luna (left) and Minerva aka Minnie (right)

They each slept on the bed some last night, though they also decided to play with the blind cords at 4:30 in the morning! We haven’t had kittens in a long time, but we knew what we were getting into. That included interrupted sleep.

I have also been playing with my sewing machine some. I ordered a Sew Steady inset for the sewing machine table I keep in the motorhome. Then I started thinking about using that inset as a stand along table for when I go to retreats or just want to sew outside. The inset has no legal, so I asked Kevin for some 3D printed adjustable legs, and he delivered!

Each leg slips onto the suction cup and has adjustable feet to accommodate different surface heights. I love them! I am now going to out the small, old wobbly table that came with the machine into the storage room some place.

I have also been cooking some. I have watched way too many seasons of The Great British Baking Show, and I wanted a lovely desert for Easter. I practiced making a pavlova, and it was wonderful! I even made a home made lemon curd to go with it, but some of my grandkids got sick so no big Easter meal. My son Mark did come up, but he doesn’t really do deserts, so we just had little pastry cases with some lemon curd. Well, and a pot roast, carrots, and potatoes.

We have been planning our summer trip. We will leave the day after Memorial Day, heading to Hamilton, MO where Missouri Star Quilt Company is headquartered. They open in early May after 14-15 months of closure due to COVID, and I am looking forward to it. We will have 2 nights at the campground which gives us one full day in the town. Then we are going to head south to the Bartlesville and Tulsa, OK area. We hope to spend a couple of days at Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve, a treat we both remember from our childhood. I also want to see the Philbrook Museum of Art and its trove of impressionist paintings. We don’t know how long we will stay in the general area, but probably about a week. We have a Corps of Engineers site reserved at Copan Lake for the Woolaroc visit, then we hope to stay 2-3 days at a Boondocker’s Welcome site nearer Tulsa. After that we don’t have any firm plans, but intend on staying in the northern Oklahoma/southern Kansas/eastern Colorado areas for a few weeks. The next firm commitment is Cody, WY for a FMCA Diesel Club chapter meeting for a few days during the Independence Day holiday. Then off to Devil’s Tower followed by Gillette, WY for the FMCA convention. Then it is to Badlands NP for dark sky photography around the new moon. We intend on being back to Iowa sometime in August, but nothing firm.

We both finished our COVID vaccination series 3 weeks ago. It sure feels good to be back in society again. We are shopping and eating at restaurants again, a lovely treat. Hopefully we can put this nasty disease in our nationwide rear view mirror soon.

I am off to sew. I still need to finish a quilt for our bed, and I need to make a little bag to put the legs for the Sew Steady inset.

Death Valley catchup (plus Iowa things)

Warning – this has a lot of time and variety in it!

To catch up on Death Valley and surroundings, we stayed at Sunset until the morning of 20 February. Since the cellular data service ixps extremely limited there, we were pleased to make full use of the monthly WiFi pass at the resort. $60 gives you 30 days of high speed Internet on up to two devices! I tried to get some pictures from Kevin’s fancy camera of the Funeral Mountains to the east of us, but I wasn’t terribly successful. The mountains are made up of rocks so old and confused they are called “Funeral Chaos”. Twisted, faulted, squeezed, faulted again – they show amazing patterns. I just couldn’t get a good picture though, so I guess I will try again next time.

Searching for phone service and a place to hunker down to care for Lily, we ended up at the Needles KOA. We have stayed there a few times before. The sites are big enough, and there is a resident group of quail that I find adorable. I tried to get a picture of the 20 or so who ran across the road as we were checking in, but they were too fast for me. You can hear them clicking away in the mornings if no one has taken their dogs out yet.

As I said in the previous post, we headed back to Iowa as soon as we knew about Lily’s condition. We stayed at Lavaland RV Park in Grants, NM the first night after we left Needles KOA, Tuesday 23 February. They had a nice brewery that concentrated on porters and stouts, my favorites. Sadly their kitchen was closed, but we did order some pizza delivered to the brewery. Nice to eat pizza and beer inside an almost empty place. Our next stop was Big Texan RV Park in Amarillo. It is a mile or so away from the famously advertised restaurant, but it was an easy in and out spot. We made it to the Wellington KOA on Thursday, much nicer than the dreadful place we stayed heading to Arizona in December. We then headed to the Lakeside Casino RV Park in Osceola, IA for our last night. It isn’t very suitable for big rigs since the turns are tight and the sites pretty short, but we found a spot we could fit into. It wasn’t the one the check in folks had us in initially, but with only 5-6 other rigs we had our choice. It is close enough to home to make it a good spot to winterize the rig, and thanks what we did on Saturday morning before heading out. We are pretty good at it these days, and it too, less than an hour. The ice maker is always the hardest!

We had gotten COVID vaccination appointments on Sunday, 28 February, and we had our follow up vaccination yesterday (Pfizer). I am anxiously awaiting my 2 week time for feeling comfortable again! We are having two of the kids and their families over for Easter (another son heads to his cabin every Easter), and I am soooooo wanting to hug them all!

Kevin’s big job this time was installing new LiFePO4 batteries. He chose three 200 amp hour LifeBlue batteries with their integrated heater. Lithium’s don’t charge below 35 degrees or so, and we stay in those temps too often to not get the more expensive heater version. He needed a new solar controller, and luckily this one has Bluetooth so it is much easier to see what is happening. They see to work fine, and I am anxious to try them out on a real trip, not just sitting outside the storage unit. Our solar system will be able to punch more power into the batteries because it won’t be throttled by the lead acid charging curve.

We have been doing work on the house too. We bought a pergola to go on our very hot west side deck. It has a nice adjustable shade cover that will help with keeping the house cooler too. We even bought a propane fire pit to put under it!

i also finished the three quilt tops I sewed while we were out. I got them quilted pretty quickly, but I procrastinated on the binding because it is the task I like least. I got them into the wash yesterday though.

The first two were made from a layer cake I bought on sale. I love the water lilies and dragonfly theme.

Bound and backed with a green Grunge fabric

Bound and backed with a light turquoise fabric with yellow dots

This one was way outside my comfort zone! I just don’t “do” scrappy well. It will make a fun ”I Spy” quilt for some child though.

Enough for now. More going on at home, but I will leave that for later.

Apologies for no new postings

It has been 3 weeks since I last posted, and I am still not quite ready. Posting from Death Valley itself is challenging due to the bad (well, almost non-existent) data service there, but that isn’t my real excuse. Turns out Lily, the cat who has been traveling with us for 12 years, turned very quickly into a critical care patient. We left DVNP, headed to Needles, CA and started calling vets on Friday, 19 February, after she showed distress Thursday night. In these COVID days, it is really hard to find a vet open on Friday and taking new patients! We expanded our search gradually, and we ended up with an emergency vet in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Blood work showed our fears were true: Lily had moved from having serious kidney disease to being in kidney failure. They gave her antibiotics, just in case, plus pain meds and bags of IV fluids we injected subcutaneously. After a few days it was obvious nothing was going to help, so we headed home. I just wanted to make it home before she left us, and we managed, though it took two fluid injections a day to get us there. We had her euthanized with our home vet on Monday. Here is the last picture I took of her, staring out the motorhome window at some bird. This had to be her favorite activity.

I am going off to cry a bit now. I will post more later.

I do love Death Valley!

After a long convalescence from my horrific attack of sinusitis, I am almost well again. It took prednisone and lots of OTC meds plus lots of sleep, a humidifier, and personal steamer, but I am probably as well as I ever will be in this climate. I love the desert, but the dust is a major irritant to me, so something bad happens most years we are out here. I put up,with it because I love this place so much. We spend at least a week in DV every year, and most years 2-3 weeks, so we have visited pretty much all the standard tourist spots. It is hard to come up with pictures I haven’t posted before, but I think I have a couple of unique ones this time!

Need to keep your distance from a Storm Trooper!

Yup, Kevin found a father and son doing cosplay in Golden Canyon, site of some memorable scenes from the Star Wars movies. Isn’t the little Jawa adorable? He was more than willing to put on his mask for a picture of his fierce side.

It just isn’t DV without Artists Palette, is it?

And then there are just more layers, this time close to our campsite.

It is really hard to grasp just how vast the landscapes are out here unless I throw a few people in the pictures for scale.

There is a guided horseback ride from the Furnace Creek stables every morning. They are headed down from Texas Spring here

Badwater Salt Flats are awesome and huge

We are camped at the far eastern edge of Sunset campground. You can’t beat $7/night (senior pass rate) looking east. The sun warms us early, and the bulk of the motorhome shields out “porch” on the hot afternoons. We also have a nice view of the Oasis at Furnace Creek Inn, a very upscale resort. I keep saying I will get lunch here some day (dinner requires dressier clothes than I prefer), but I haven’t done it yet. The winter sun and temperatures in the 70s in the day make just hanging around an awful nice idea.

Recovering from sinusitis and heading into Death Valley

We left Quartzsite on Sunday to drive the short way to Needles, KOA. It is a nice enough park, and a good spot to use for laundry and tank cleaning. However we didn’t do either! I was feeling truly horrid with massive sinusitis, something I am sadly too familiar with. Fever, chills, massive drainage, cough – uggh. In these times, we looked to find a drive-through COVID test site, just because, and we found a rapid test one in Las Vegas. So off to Las a Vegas we went! It is not really out of the way to Death Valley, and we go through it quite a bit. I got the test sample submitted, and we headed to Pahrump, NV, our traditional rinse waste tanks, fill fresh tank, check up on propane and fuel spot. We reserved 3 nights at Preferred RV Resort which is, not surprisingly, not a resort at all but filled with working folks and long term snowbirds. Not bad for the price, but not as nice as Lakeside. But we are just hanging here quarantining until I got my test results Tuesday (negative, as expected). My lovely ENT back home sent me a prescription for a prednisone 6 day dose pack, and I am feeling much better (but not well) here on the morning of day 4.

The drive to Vegas and then to Pahrump was awfully pretty with snow on the mountains. Sadly the pictures I asked Kevin to take out the window of the motorhome didn’t work for some reason. Highway 160 from Vegas is an interesting road crossing the mountains on a deceptively steep and very long grade. Luckily the 9% doesn’t last very long, but there are miles of 5-6%. This is where I end up appreciating the diesel, its exhaust brake, and the Allison transmission that does a lot of the hard work for me.

Kevin and I may not like the RV park over much, but Lily thought it was wonderful! There are pine trees on either side of us with doves in residence cooing. She has been enthralled.

There is a bird on the other side of the window.

We leave this morning for Sunset Campground in Death Valley. I know there won’t be enough cell data service to post, but I will buy WiFi access at the resort occasionally. The weather for forecast to be spectacular (highs in the upper 60s to upper 70s), and the weather at home is abysmal (lows well into negative numbers for 10 days) so we aren’t in any hurry to leave.

Sewing, a bit of cooking, and wildlife

It rained like crazy here on Monday, so we decided to go to Phoenix to do some shopping. Wow, did it rain! And snow! And sleet! There were quite a few cars in the ditches, and I pulled off the road for about 15 minutes to let the sleet/snow pass me by. We have had light rain a few times since too, but a good desert dweller never complains about rain. It has given me time to get some other things done. For example, I made an Instant Pot cheesecake using the famous “Cheesecake #17” you can find online. As usual, it came out great.

I also finished the third tumbler baby/lap quilt. The first picture is the teal/aqua one I did before that I didn’t take a picture of, and the second is with a dark blue contrast fabric. The patterned blocks came from a wonderful layer cake (10” squares) I bought on sale a while back. There are deep flowers, dragonflies in lots of colors, and some blenders, all with shimmery gold highlights. Sadly the gold doesn’t show very well, but it is much prettier in person. I have bought backing and 505 spray to sandwich at least two of the quilt tops I made on this trip, and I will start quilting them soon.

On Thursday we went to the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, driving on the dirt roads in the Yuma Proving Grounds to get there. Oddly enough the Army has been very good for the desert with the restrictions on activities along the roads, so it is a lovely section of “natural” desert.

Going through the Proving Grounds can be a bit interesting. We got to see an equipment drop by parachute, though we didn’t notice the aircraft that must have dropped them. There are 5-6 parachutes on the big item, and 2 on the small one. There is definitely a lot of training and/or testing going on. We have heard quite a few loud “booms” in the evenings, two of which had such a concussive force my motorhome swayed! The cloud ceiling was quite low, and that makes the shocks greater.

Another thing the Provong Grounds has is an urban combat practice zone set up similar to towns and villages in Western Asia, especially Iraq and Afghanistan.

There are small clusters around the area away from the larger “town.”

Just outside the western edge of the YPG is the Colorado River. It is mostly a slow moving irrigation canal here. You can see the heavily irrigated fields up west of the river in the picture below. They grow lots of alfalfa, some cotton, and even some produce from the cabbage family, though we didn’t stop to investigate.

The Colorado River isn’t too impressive here

We finally got to Cibola, and it did not disappoint. There are hundreds of Sandhill cranes, though this shows only a few of them.

There are a few other types of birds including this white heron of some type. This is zoomed in an awful lot, and I can’t tell exactly what species it is.

The best part of Cibola is sitting by the large pond that has hundreds and hundreds of waterfowl of all types. Click on the link below to watch a video, and make sure you turn your sound up!

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We are in Lake Havasu right now, picking up some Amazon packages and applying for our passport renewals. Mine expires in March, and I almost forgot about it! We plan on staying at Quartzsite until Monday, then heading to a private campground somewhere we can do laundry, clean the tanks, and shop. After that, we are off to Death Valley for a week or two. COVID vaccinations are still to hard to come by in Iowa to worry about, so we will just enjoy the warmth a while longer.

Kevin is actively looking at getting some lithium ion batteries for the motorhome, and that lets him have all kinds of fun. The plan is to put them in at home before our next summer trip.

Quartzsite 2021

We finally got our T-Mobile/Sprint hot spot, and it works soooooo much better than our Verizon hot spot here. I can post again! So be prepared for a LOT of pictures.

Monday we rode our bikes to the Big Tent for a funnel cake. I am addicted to good funnel cakes, and one of the vendors outside the tent has very good ones. I am a purist – cinnamon sugar only. This is the stand that is always set up on the west side of the tent.

The area around the Big Tent was remarkably uncrowded. There were numerous parking spots in the lots nearest to the tent at 10:30 in the morning, something unheard of in regular times. Pretty much everyone was wearing masks, and almost everyone was walking the correct direction on the one way aisles. Kevin went in to take a look around, but we didn’t stay long. My e-bike was all messed up, and it took a while to get the battery monitor reset. Otherwise it was a lovely ride from our spot in La Posa Tyson Wash into town, about 3 miles.

We have done a lot of just hanging around in absolutely gorgeous weather – warm and sunny. We also reveled in some rain on Wednesday and Thursday. It out a damper on our evening campfires, but it sure cut the dust which had been pretty overwhelming. Lily decided she had enough of life during one significant shower.

We went to Lake Havasu on Thursday to do our laundry (such excitement), and to go to a couple of quilt stores there. Sadly I couldn’t find the adhesive 505 spray I use to sandwich quilts, so I will just have to keep sewing tops until we get to Yuma next week. We also picked up some groceries since the shops are better than closer to Quartzsite.

Today was a much more enjoyable day. Terry and Betty Brewer took us on a 4WD trip along with Bill and Pam. We went northeast of Quartzsite on BLM “roads”. We took off on Paloma Road and followed some combination of 80, 82, 90, and 92 before we came to Hwy 72 and headed back. The trip was somewhere between 25-30 miles of back country, and it was a workout for our Grand Cherokee Trail Hawk. It was fully Class 2, with a couple of sections that were marginal, but Kevin and the Jeep made it fine. I admit I don’t want to do roads much higher rated than this one though. As a passenger, I really got thrown around. The country was beautiful though, and the scenery made it worthwhile. Here comes the photo overload:

Vistas were dry due to no monsoon this year

A great example of the Palo Verde tree and Saguaro shading and helping each other hold water

Part of the ride was near the hills with great views

Looking into the valley where US 95 runs

The ocotillos were turning the tiniest bit of green tint.

Coming close to the end with fearless Terry and Better in the lead

Probably enough now with the pictures. I will post some more sewing stuff next time.