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Moving Day

Actually, it took about 3 days to move from our park model to our RV.

We took the RV out of storage on Tuesday and brought it to a Crazy Horse Campground site.

The first day was spent sanitizing the RV water system and installing new water filters. Basically, it meant adding a bleach solution to the RV’s 100-gallon water tank, letting it sit for a few hours, then flushing the tank with fresh water over and over until the bleach smell is gone. A lot of water.

The second day, Wednesday, was moving our DISH Hopper TV system and my Apple computer and monitor back to the RV. Lots and lots and lots of wires.

Thursday, the final day, was moving all the food and clothing. Also, it meant “closing up” the park model — nuking the crawl space with insecticide, closing all the sun screens, storing all the patio furniture, and putting aluminum sun screens on the inside of most of the windows.

Here are photos from the move (since I was taking the pictures, you don’t see what Jan was doing — moving the clothes, food, and putting up sun screens):

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1st Day of AC

Temps have been in the 80s for the last week. We’ve been relying on lake breezes to keep the house cool, but no breeze today.

So . . . we turned on the house air conditioning. Both our dogs love it — they lay on the AC floor vents.

For Wisconsinites think of it this way . . . about the time you turn off your heat, we turn on the AC.

Here’s our forecast for the week:

LAKE HAVASU, AZ FORECAST . . .

BISHOP, CA FORECAST (We’ll be here on Saturday) . . .

Lake Havasu Art Show

Jan & I checked out “Art at the Lake” on Friday afternoon.

Jan is a member of the Havasu Art Guild (not to be confused with Dune’s spice guild) who sponsored the art show.

Besides watercolor (Jan’s current interest), there were works in oil, acrylics, mixed media, . . .

While Jan talked with other art class members, I wandered around eating hors d’oeuvres and taking photos:

Remember, the actual artwork looks much better than these photos.

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It’s Spring Break in LHC

How can you tell?

Click Here for a closeup of the banner behind the airplane.

Jeepin’ to the Abandoned Mine

Last Thursday, March 5th, we took a Jeep trip into the Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge outside of Parker, AZ.

We walked a couple of small canyons, stopped at the Bill Williams River, and checked out an abandoned mine. Door to door, it was 115-mile trip. We left Crazy Horse Campground a little after 9 am and returned at about 3 pm.

The old mine was the most interesting.

When it was in operation, the mine used water piped from the Bill Williams River. It looks like some sort of open-pit deal as there were hills and hills of tailings all over.

It also looks like when the mine failed, the miners just walked. They left everything to the desert and vandals. The mine site has that Charlie Manson-Lived-Here look. The remains would make a great environmental ad.

To see an overhead view of the mine site, go to Google Maps and enter these coordinates: 34.228977,-114.006194

Here are some photos from our trip . . .

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