We have been busy the past week (OBTW, Happy Birthday to my sister, Carol today 4/7 😃)
Believe it or not, we have almost had our RV for a year and we need to wash/wax the outside since we had a protective covering added. That task has been most of our last week. Darrel has diligently kept with it as we traveled around the RV working in the shade. It looks so much shinier. I hadn't really realized that it really needed a bath.
So here's some of our highlights over the week -- I don't have many pictures but we always seem to have an interesting moment or 2 (and me, without my camera 😱)
- Our truck decided to have a mental moment after we washed it last weekend (March 30) -- we had come inside and Darrel headed to the shower. The car alarm went off and we thought, oh oh, javelina (boar type creatures) were running into it -- but we saw nothing --- so we just though, fluke. Then I headed to the shower and it went off again. OK, this is now dark and we aren't wanting to irritate our neighbors with repeated car alarms going off. Darrel opens the truck to see what it happening, and other than a couple of moths flying out, he didn't see anything. So when I get out of the shower, I jump in the truck and we start driving to a place we can reset the controls hoping this will help. It never went off again, so all we can think is that those stupid moths were setting off the inside parameter alarm???? Anyway, a big thanks to Darrel's peeps -- brother, Mike, friend, Tom and nephew-in-law, Chris who tried to come to our rescue with videos and Ford posts of why this might happen.
- Next thing is we saw our first close up of a javelina in the neighbor's yard -- she came over and pointed him out -- I did get pictures as he was lying under their cool shade tree.
He looked dead, but he wasn't
I tried to zoom in because, I am definitely NOT getting close to him.
He did twitch a couple of times when I was taking his pic.
Later, Darrel saw him take off down the road and cross the lot across the street. They have been sighted many more times around the park. A couple days later, we saw one walking down the street like a really big, ugly dog.... if you don't corner them or mess with them, they usually go their own way!
- Rattlesnakes are out and we saw our first one as we were tooling around in the UTV. We were headed down the south street and near the wash I saw it sunning on the edge of the street. I told Darrel and he said, no way and so we backed up to see it -- I have to admit, I did move a little closer into the UTV seat. There it was just resting away, no rattle or even any indication that he was alive. We saw a bicycler headed our direction and we told her about the snake on the farside of the road a few feet behind us, she was very appreciative and decided to turn her bike around and not pass the snake. I think I probably would have done the same thing. YOU DO NOT GO OUT AT NIGHT WITHOUT A FLASHLIGHT PERIOD....
So that has been our busy work week, I managed to play pickleball most days, and get a bicycle ride in with Darrel in the early evenings.
I have family coming this next weekend to help me celebrate my birthday. I am sure we will have some adventures to write about during their visit. So until then,
Sending love and hugs your way,
Susan & Darrel
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