Mar 15
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.
Mar 9
How can you tell?
Click Here for a closeup of the banner behind the airplane.
Mar 8
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 . . .
Feb 28
We went for the food.
Let the pictures do the talking . . .
Feb 21
We spend about $10/week washing and drying our clothes at a laundromat. So a little over $500/year.
However, probably more important than the money is hauling heaps of laundry around town — a drag especially when the temps rise.
The drag is on Jan because she does the laundry. She won’t let me do it because clothes suffer when I’m at the helm.
So . . . we’ve watched with envy as other park model owners acquired washer/dryers.
Long story short, I decided to build a shed (#2) to house a washer and dryer. I had helped our friends Jim & Marianne build their shed last year and picked up the basics of Shedology: pouring a concrete slab . . . framing the shed . . . plumbing water & sewer lines . . . running electrical lines . . . etc, etc.
Started on February 7th and finished on the 20th. It was fun most of the time.
The photo saga (missed the part where Jim put in the shingle roof — sorry, Jim) . . .
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