Our First Senior Meal

Besides Medicare, free meals are another senior perk we love.

The Mariposa Senior Center offers almost free senior lunches most days of the week.

Rain!

For the first time in MONTHS, it rained today . . .

So our total rainfall for the year is . . . wait for it . . .

In other news . . .

Weather Station Moved to Permanent Location

Fire!

UPDATE (7/19): Fire is now 100% contained! However, the River Fire grew to over 9,600 acres.

UPDATE (7/12): We woke up to an acrid smoke haze this morning, but it cleared by the afternoon as the wind changed. The River Fire is now 9,000 acres and 10% contained. The Highway 41 road into Yosemite is threatened.

About 5:30 pm (our time) today I noticed what I thought was a developing thunderhead in the distance . . .

Nope. It wasn’t thunderclouds. It was smoke from a nearby fire — dubbed the River Fire. The fire is about 15 miles from us here in Mariposa.

What started as an 80-acre fire bloomed to a 2500-acre fire a fire hours later.

So, we have our “Go” bags ready. We’ll keep you posted.

Here’s a link to the CAL FIRE web page on the River Fire: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/11/river-fire/

Earthquake!

At about 3:50 PM Pacific Time I was in our living room working at my computer when I felt a deep shaking.

I thought it was one of the large trucks who use Idlewheels RV park as a turnaround for large vehicles. Our campground roads are over 30′ wide.

However, the shaking become stronger and stronger and Jan said “It’s an earthquake”.

We’ve been in a couple of quakes before when we worked in Bishop, CA which is on the eastern side of the Sierras, but this one was much stronger.

The quake only lasted several seconds, but it was creepy . . . and exciting.

What We’ve Been Up To

(1) Trying to Keep Cool. It’s been a hot week. A friend of ours who has lived in Mariposa several years said she has never seen it this hot so soon. Great.

(2) Painting the House. This has been going on for a few months as we’re trying to do it “right” — washing, scraping, priming, and painting two coats of the final color. As of today we have 3 sides down with the area under the garage the last to go.

(3) Getting Driver’s License. After we sold the RV, there was no need for Jan to get a Class B RV license (a real PITA). So here’s Jan with her Class C license:

(4) Gave Flirt a Summer Cut for those hot days ahead.

(5) Home Improvement Stuff.

(6) Looking for a New RV. Well, actually a used Class C motorhome in the under 30-foot range. Almost as soon as we sold our Newmar RV, we started missing RVing. So . . . we’ll probably buy a used one early next year . . . along the lines of this 26-foot 2004 Majestic Class C: