After days of rain, it looks like things are going to start drying out now. But nobody around here is complaining because we certainly needed it. As of now, Show Low is several inches above the average precipitation for this time of year. After several years of drought, we need a snowy winter to go […]
All across Arizona, we are feeling sorry for the good people of Globe, about 90 miles south of us. It was just over two weeks ago that flash floods hit the town, killing four people and destroying much of the historic business district. And this weekend, not much more than two weeks later, the same […]
We are down in the Apache Junction area spending some time with Terry’s mom and dad, Pete and Bess Weber. We are enjoying visiting with them, and they are enjoying some of Terry’s kitchen magic. Yesterday she made chicken parmesan for dinner, which was delicious, and then she topped it off with some of her […]
Our grandson Travis reached a milestone in his life this week, graduating from high school. Travis is a good kid, a gentle giant of a young man who towers over his mom Tiffany, and we are all very proud of him. As his dad Ken said, “Now he has the world in front of him […]
Thank you to everybody who left positive comments on the blog and on Facebook about the news of our upcoming move back home to Arizona. Even with the help of a professional company to do the packing and loading of the truck, it’s still going to be a big job. We have been busy sorting […]
We have not done much the last couple of days except hang out in our room, taking care of some business details, and doing research for Baby Boom, the next book in my Tinder Street family saga. Everybody in daughter Tiffany’s family works or goes to school during the day, so we spend time with […]
Our week in the Apache Junction area was over, and yesterday morning we spent some time with Terry’s parents, Pete and Bess Weber, before we headed back up to the high country of the White Mountains to see my daughter and her family again before we start our trek back to Alabama. We were in […]
The LaQuinta Inn where we stayed Tucumcari, New Mexico had one of the nicest rooms we’ve ever had. Unfortunately, the people in the room next to us were a bunch of loud party animals who were still going at it at midnight, and started up again just after 7 yesterday morning. In spite of that, […]
We have all heard it said many times, happy wife, happy life. It must be true because I certainly have a happy life. And as you can see from this picture, Miss Terry is a happy lady. That’s because she whipped my butt again playing several games of magnetic chess after breakfast yesterday morning. It’s […]
More than once I’ve said here in the blog that the weatherman often speaks with a forked tongue, because many times his predictions are off. But this time he got it right. As I wrote yesterday, the forecast was for wind, heavy rain, some local flooding, and the possibility of isolated tornadoes, all part of […]
His name was Dave, and the first time I met him I thought he was an old geezer. What hair he had left was white and he walked with a noticeable limp, aided by a cane. But there was nothing old about Dave. Not at all! His daughter was visiting from California and called my […]
I have written before about an area in northern Arizona called East of Snowflake that attracts all kinds of weird people. If you’re a burned-out hippie, a survivalist, a conspiracy theorist, or any other flavor of eccentric, you can buy land east of the small town of Snowflake for very little money and live happily […]
We have a small blocked in flower garden area attached to the front of our house that has been home to a few flowers and some scraggly bushes. Terry has wanted to get out there and do some work on it once things cool down and decided she wanted some kind of a garden cart […]
His name was Dave, and the first time I met him I thought he was an old geezer. What hair he had left was white and he walked with a noticeable limp, aided by a cane. But there was nothing old about Dave. Not at all! His daughter was visiting from California and called my […]
I have written before about an area in northern Arizona called East of Snowflake that attracts all kinds of weird people. If you’re a burned-out hippie, a survivalist, a conspiracy theorist, or any other flavor of eccentric, you can buy land east of the small town of Snowflake for very little money and live happily […]
We spent eight days at the Superstition Springs La Quinta in Mesa, Arizona while we were in town to celebrate Terry’s parents’ birthdays, which included a family reunion with relatives coming in from as far away as New York for the festivities. We also spent some time browsing the local antique shops, me looking for […]
I witnessed something the other day that has stuck with me and reminds me that love really does know no boundaries. I thought I’d tell you about it today. I was in the waiting room at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville while Terry was in surgery and there were three people sitting near me, a man […]
We left Santa Fe RV Resort in Apache Junction, Arizona about 10 yesterday morning for the 144 mile trip to our old hometown of Show Low, in the White Mountains. But the difference between the two places would make you think you were in different parts of the country. We started out in the desert, […]
We spent the day yesterday with our friends Jim and Shar Lewis, who had invited us to their beautiful home in Pinetop for dinner and a visit. It was a great day, with the comfort that old friends of many years just naturally share. There are two or three men in this world that I […]
As fulltime RVers, we get to see all kinds of wonderful things and all over the country, and we visit places most people can only dream of. But not every day is about playing tourist. Some days we just keep busy with life in general. Yesterday was such a busy day for us, even though […]