When we lived on eight acres out in the country in Alabama, Alli had plenty of room to roam. Now we have about an acre here in Show Low, Arizona, more than half of it with a high fence. She’s still got room to run and play, but she hasn’t had a lot of socialization […]
Kenny and I were planning to go to the gun show at the Show Low Elks Lodge yesterday, but it turned out to be a family affair. Tiffany wanted to go with us, and then granddaughter Hailey called to say she would meet us at the lodge with grandbaby Tyler. And just as we all […]
The monsoon season has definitely kicked in here in the White Mountains of Arizona. We have been getting some rain almost every day, sometimes just a quick shower and other times a borderline deluge. It’s enough that we haven’t had to water Terry’s outdoor plants or the clover I planted, and everything is looking nice […]
It was sure busy around our place yesterday, with a lot going on. After a light breakfast of sliced mangoes and an English muffin, I spent the next hour or so answering emails while Terry was filling several bottles of distilled water for use in my CPAP machine. Since it’s sometimes hard to find distilled […]
It seems like every time we get a storm coming through the area, we lose internet and cell phone service. And lately we’ve been getting a lot of storms. The one that rolled through early Sunday morning brought a spectacular lightning show, along with a lot of wind and rain. So I wasn’t surprised that […]
I think we have finally made a dent in our drought, and it’s about time. The rain started coming down on Monday evening and continued throughout the night, accompanied by occasional thunder. When I woke up to go to the bathroom about dawn, I looked outside and there were lots of puddles in the yard. […]
Sometimes when people come to me for advice, I have to burst their bubble, as much as I hate to. Such was the case the other day when a neighbor stopped by to tell me about a book of poetry he had self-published a couple of years ago, asking me how he could get people […]
It looks like today is going to be a busy day for us. We have been trying to find a primary care doctor in this area and have not had any luck so far. We got quite a few recommendations for different ones, but some aren’t taking new patients, and one that was taking new […]
Ditto –  verb – dittoed; dittoing; dittos – 1) to repeat or imitate something 2) to copy (something, such as printed matter) on a duplicator. The title of today’s blog pretty much says it all, because yesterday was basically a repeat of the day before, but without the rain. The ground was still sloppy wet from all […]
I think our bodies have pretty much recovered from the beating we gave them the other day when planting the garden. If our son Travis and his wife Geli hadn’t been here helping us, I think Terry and I would both be in traction. But, of course, you know that nothing slows my bride down […]
After a light breakfast yesterday morning I hopped right on the computer and got to work, writing another chapter in my new Tinder Street book, reading through it, and making some corrections I noticed it needed. Then I printed it out for Terry to edit and proofread. With that done, I spent a couple of […]
Our son Travis has been a bad influence on Terry. There was a time when she was a mild-mannered weaver/crocheter/spinner who was happy being surrounded by fibers of every color. But since we moved here to Alabama, Travis has convinced her that she needs to be a farmer, so now she’s constantly talking about fertilizers, […]
There’s always something going on around our place lately, and yesterday I got stoned. A big dump truck showed up in the early afternoon to drop off 26 tons of large gravel. A lot of it will be used by the crew from ProScape who are installing our French drains, and I will use the […]
We met Bob and Lynn Throckmorton from Hemet, California during our first month on the road as fulltime RVers, when we were all students at Life on Wheels in Moscow, Idaho. They were the very first subscribers to our Gypsy Journal RV Travel Newspaper, and we struck up a friendship that has stood the test […]
The other day I received an e-mail about the injured coyote I wrote about in a blog last week and finding it dead the next day. I don’t know how it was injured, but I suspect it was hit by a car or shot, though I did not see any open wounds. A couple of […]
How about some questions from blog readers to start your week? Q. After riding out Hurricane Ian, would you do the same thing if/when another hurricane hits your area? A. It would depend on the situation. If it was a major storm coming in directly off the Atlantic, we would probably leave. But the folks […]
Terry has her second cataract surgery this afternoon at the Kutryb Eye Institute in Titusville. She is really looking forward to getting it done and then for her vision to stabilize in both eyes. She tried taking the lens out of her eyeglasses on the side that she already had done, but it was still […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, what’s happening in our lives since we hung up the keys, and all kinds of other things. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. You mentioned buying smoked fish in yesterday’s blog. I know you had an […]
My CPAP machine has a reservoir that has to be filled with distilled water every day. It seems like it uses a lot compared to some people I have talked to in the online forums, but other people say they also have to refill the reservoir on a daily basis. Terry’s AeroGarden also uses distilled […]
Yesterday was a wordy day for us. I got in another 3,500 words in my new Tinder Street book, and once I was done with that, I gave the last five or six chapters a read through, making corrections as I went. Then I ran them through Grammarly before printing them out for Terry to […]