Topsy Turvy

I haven't been very good at updating this blog as I don't think I have even tried since we were in Arizona. We did get a new awning put on the Motor home tho, and after being home for a couple months, came to Minnesota where we are now. We got some of the summer things out and cleaned the place up a little as we were here for a couple weeks before going back to Pontiac for Rhys' graduation and a few other things. One being our Veterinary class group reunion which we had in Oglesby at the Best Western. Then Curt's wife, Vicky, had an aortic valve replacement on June 7, so we spent that day at St. Joe Hospital in Bloomington. She got along fine so we came back to the lake on June 9th.

One of the main reasons for bringing the blog up to date is to show some of the pictures from Minnesota that our granddaughter, Emily, has helped us with, and, the main one is to show our progress with our Topsy Turvy tomato plant. We started it about the middle of May when we were here, then hauled it home with us, and brought it back in June. Mainly because it has to be watered every day and fertilized once a week. To date it has consumed approximately 70 gallons of water and a half pound of Miracle-Gro. At last count one of the neighbors thought there were almost 60 tomatoes ranging from pea size to the ripe ones plus it is still blooming. It has been a great conversation piece and of interest to everybody who sees it.

more pictures of Minnesota coming soon...

Windshield picture

Don't know why this one didn't go on at all.

Up to Date

Haven't put anything on here for a while and we are in a park that has wireless internet so and going to try to put on a bunch of pictures. The first Dolores insists that I put on of me dealing cards for a sequence game we were playing with Short and Sharon in Mesa. We played a lot of sequence and euchre while there. The pictures may not be in the order they are supposed to be so hopefully you can figure them out.

The next ones we took on a trip we took one day to Sedona, which is up by Flagstaff. The first is one at Montezumas Castle which in the 1300 or 1400 AD's cliff dwellers lived in the caves at the top.

The next 4 are actually in Sedona, the first just a scenery shot, the second a Catholic church up on the hill, the third is a picture of a house taken from the area where the church is, and the fourth is one of Short and I from the front of the church just looking out over the area.

The last is what happened to us on our second day on the way home. We were just east of Albuquerque and heading for Santa Rosa, New Mexico when the traffic stopped about 5 pm. It was snowing and there had been a whiteout ahead of us with a major pile-up. We were told there had been 6 semi's and 4 or 5 cars involved. The interstate was completely full, both lanes, almost immediately. We sat there until almost 1 am before we were able to move and then we crept along about 3 miles to a crossover where they sent us back about 20 miles to Moriarty as the road was closed on east. We got back there about 3 am, pulled into an Alco store and slept for about 4 hours. The road was opened mid-morning yesterday so we started out again. We had had a reservation for that night here at this park but since we couldn't get here, we called them and asked if we could use it for last night instead, and they said we could. We came here yesterday and stayed last night, then decided to stay another night, so we are going to leave early in the morning. The weather should be better for us thru Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri by waiting this extra day. Hopefully I will be able to get these pictures on.

Correction

I don't know how the picture of our TV with the Wii golf game got on instead of the awning, but, it did!! Will try again.

Wind Damage!!!

We had a little wind storm along with the rain yesterday and it blew our awning up over the roof of the MH. Have heard that we had wind gusts of 45 mph here in Mesa and up to 65 or 70 mph in Apache Junction, which is right next to Mesa on the east. We were able to get it off and rolled back up, but will probably have to have a new one. We took pictures of it and hopefully, I will be able to get one on here.

Herb and Margie were here for 4 or 5 days with her daughter, and we took them on the train one day and to the Arizona Opry last night. They were leaving to go back to Vegas this morning.

We got off the train and went into Chase Field, where the Diamonbacks play, and took this picture in front of the stadium.

Trip to Las Vegas

Hello everybody,
Haven't put anything on lately so thought I would let you know about our last week, or so. We left Mesa last Tues. and drove up in the car. Left the MH on our spot at Mesa Spirit, and came to Herb and Margie's here in Vegas. We had planned to stay with them Tues., Wed., and Thurs., and go to Rito and Lucy's for Friday and Sat. Then Lucy had a free room here at the Red Rock Hotel for us tonight. Rito has had a bad week and we weren't able to stay with them so we just stayed at Herb's until today. Rito is so subject to any type of infection and he has been running a fever and vomiting so we didn't want to take him any other type of germ. We came to their house this afternoon and Lucy had a couple things for me to do for them, one was put a new valve in a toilet and another was to fix the light on their house number, which just took a new bulb. Only had to go a short distance to a Home Depot to get the parts and while I was fixing them, Dolores and Lucy ran over to this Hotel and registered for the room. We were able to talk to Rito from a distance, briefly, as he was in his hospital bed in their room, and we were down the hall. We also picked up some things that they wanted us to bring back to Illinois for their girls.
This room at the Red Rock is probably the fanciest room we have ever had. We are on the 11th floor and our window is to the east and we can see the entire valley with all the lights of the city and the strip. We are probably about 10 miles west of the strip and in the Summerlin area.
We fixed some things in the house that Herb and Margie are renting, and ate out a lot. Played some Bingo and slots but didn't do very well. We did get to see another friend who lives here plus a couple who gave us all the freebies a couple years ago. Dan and Jan came out from Minn. on Tues. also and took the Dunnes out for supper on Thurs. night. They let us know where they were going so we were waiting for them when they got there. The Dunnes were really surprised because they didn't know we were in town. Delmer and Eleanor Walden got out here today, that's Fleta's sister and her husband, and called, and we are going to meet them for breakfast in the morning. Then we plan to head back to Mesa.
We might stop over in Laughlin if we don't get out of town here very early, as we will go thru there, but doubt it.
We didn't bring our camera with us and are disappointed as we would have liked to have taken some pictures from here tonight to try to put on here. Guess we will have to do it next time.

Trip to Las