MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Well that about brings you up to date on what we have been doing.

We hope all of our friends have had a safe, happy, prosperous 2013 and that you are all safe and in good health. We hope you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

We have been invited to a Christmas Fiesta. For all you Alaskans that means eating Christmas dinner outside picnic style.

                                                    HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS!

During our drive through Death Valley we stopped at: Zabriskie Point is a part of Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California

On Sunday Dec. 22nd we decided to take a drive through Death Valley National Park in California.

 

 

 

Haven't posted in awhile so will try to catch you up on what we have been doing.

We got home from Everett WA on Oct. 28. We had 0 trick or treaters on Halloween all was quiet.

All our hard work on Dads house paid off  we had a buyer in 11 days from the time we listed it. The sale has closed so that part of things is taken care of.

We had to return to Everett on Nov. 19th to be in probate court on the 21st. On the 23rd we headed home again. Traveling with us was Rick and Cindy. They were able to stay through Thanksgiving and returned home to Vancouver, WA on Nov 29th.

As far as settling dads estate we are in the waiting period any creditors have 120 days in which to come forward.

In between trips we have been working on our house and property.

Still in Everett, WA

the stress level s running high. It seems like a death in a family brings out the worse in everyone.

Howard

gave us a scare yesterday. His heart got out of rhythm and  doctors had to use paddles to get it back into rhythm. All turned out well so we are extremely happy. He is back at home resting,

Still in Everett WA

We are busy cleaning and painting my dad's house and getting it ready to list for sale hopefully by end of next week. Rick and Cindy came from Vancouver, WA last weekend and were a very big help, we really appreciate it!

I will be in Everett, Washington for the next few weeks to start the task of settling my dads estate.

Today saddens our hearts as my dad age 82 passed away. It helps knowing that he can now reunite with his parents and brothers and will no longer be suffering

Our Place

In the night sky. These pictures were taken from our place in Pahrump with a binocular camera.

 

 

Kitchen - old cabinets are gone old flooring is gone
Time to start creating.

We have started demolishing the kitchen to create a new one.
The old one

UPdate

Just to let every one know we are both doing fine. Temperatures are still in the nineties. Don is installing a water filter in the pump house. Waiting for cooler temps to work on house. I have been busy in the craft shop, making 2 handed oven mitts and working on a quilt.

 

My dad (82 yrs old) is in the hospital not doing to well. He had 2 blood clots removed and one drained around the brain after taking a fall.

 

We hope all our friends and family are well and happy.



Crazy Night Skies

Lots of lightning going on!

Going into Vegas in the morning.

Only suppose to be in the 90's today.

Don is going to Vegas with a neighbor today to help him pick up a roll away door.

I am going to stay home and sew.

Lots of thunder and lightning tonite!!

Going to be another warm one air conditioner came on at 7am.

Don and I were sitting outside at 5:30 am having our morning coffee.

Tonight we are going to a shrimp fry at the neighbors

We were privileged to attend the wedding of a beautiful couple, Aug 10th

So glad we got to visit with our grandson John Hughes while he was in Vegas for his dads wedding.

Going to have a fish fry tonight ( Walleye that is) . Roger, Lynn and John will be here so glad to be able to visit with them.

Another warm day 88 degrees at 9:30AM

Suppose to top out at 100 with a low of 72 tonight

Excited Roger and Lynn will be here Wednesday and they are getting married in Las Vegas on Saturday. So happy that he has found someone to share his life with.

Well we left Pahrump on May 15th and returned Aug 3rd. We traveled a total of 5336 miles and burned 485 gallons of diesel.

Our Stays

Last nite we stayed just out of Evanston, Wy tonite we are in Meaquite, NV and it is 108 degrees. Tomorrow we will be back in Pahrump where I am sure it will be as hot or hotter.

WIND RIVER CANYON, WYOMING

Custer's Last Stans

Little Big Horn, Montana

Travels

Well as soon as we left I94 West to go to Little Big Horn, Custers Last Stand, Bighorn Mtn and canyon internet and phone service became real sketchy almost nothing. We are now back on I80 out of Rock Springs so service should be better.

Camped here July 30, 2013

East of Bismarck, ND

Weddings

While we were off traveling this summer, two of our grandsons got married.

Kelly in Wasilla, AK

 

and Robbie in Virginia

 

 

We wish them both the very

 best. We love you guys.

Great Grand Children of ours

 

8 that I know of

 

The one with glasses in picture below is not ours.

It rained in Pahrump, standing water in backyard.

We have very much enjoyed our visit in Minnesota!!! We are heading out this morning will move west into N. Dakota and on to Billings, Montana.

4th of July

We are celebrating the 4th of July with Howard and Jenny.

I hope everyone remembers to take the time to say a prayer today for all US troops serving this great country.

Refrigerators

Last September we replaced the cooling unit in our RV refrigerator so we were very disappointed when last week our refrigerator quit working. After some troubleshooting and research we discovered the only thing wrong with it was the ambient temperature in the RV was over 100 degrees. Norcold who makes refrigerators for RVs and boats says they are not broken and have not permanently quit they just can not keep up in those temperatures you have to run air conditioners to keep temp down in
RV.
Well ok it would be nice to run air conditioner but when you are boondocking for us it would mean running a generator 24 hours a day. It would have to run during the day for air conditioner and at night for Don's CPAP machine. Not feasible.

SO.......... we are back at Howard and Jenny's in Minnesota set up in their yard where we can have constant electricity. Now we can run air conditioner and the frig is working. By the way Howard and Don had to go pick up new refrigerator for Howards house, the old one not working properly

See why titled this post refrigerators.

Bored?

OK, Don has only found 8 small flakes not worth enough to pay for the gallon of gas it took to run his pump.  He is getting bored!

 

So yesterday, Friday, he spent the day working on an old tractor they have here at camp. It had not started and ran in 4 years but of course he got it running. The camp caretaker says it is running better than it ever did. They want to use it to mow the yard, the yard is the front acre that faces the paved street where the caretakers house is. It is a $350.00 a day fine for not keeping your yard mowed here.

The main field where the campers park is taken care of by a local farmer. He came the other day and cut and got 21 large round bales of hay. The hay is his payment for cutting. We were told these bales go for $400.00 a piece, so you do the math.

Lightning that lit up the entire camp, booming thunder and heavy downpour of rain all night long last night

Athens, Michigan

We arrived in Athens, Michigan June 5th, 2013. Athens is a small community of abt 1300 residents. The mining camp consists of 70 acres right of a paved city street.

                                            Don is looking for glacial gold.

  
                                         Nice camp spot

                                       Some of the rest of the camp