House of Illness

Of course, H got sick, too. I am over the sneezing and constantly sniffling, H has that now. I just kept coughing to the point I was having rib pain, so I started a Z-Pack yesterday. I feel better except now I have stomach upset from the antibiotics. H had a fever yesterday, but none today. Hope he doesn't get the cough like I have. He can sleep when I am coughing because he is hard of hearing. I am a light sleeper, so if he coughs, I don't sleep. We both feel well enough to go out, but get light headed at times. I think that is from the fatigue.
Cannot believe that it is one week until Christmas. We decided we are going to stay in for Christmas, I am cooking. We will be going home in January for a belated Christmas with our family.

Ballet and Country

The lights we put up a before the wind made put the awning up, the lights are now just on the Moose. We haven't put the awning back down, yet. Just enjoying the sun coming in the door.Below is the a picture of the Ballet Yuma's program for the "Nutcracker" , which we went to Friday evening. It was very good.

Of course the other picture is of Dierks Bentley, we went to his concert at the Q on Saturday evening. He put on quite a show. Of course I would have enjoyed everything more if I wasn't ill. I caught a cold last week, spent all day Friday in bed, chilling and running a fever, I still went to the ballet. Saturday, no fever, but still felt horrible, couldn't miss the concert, though. I think I am getting bronchitis, need to break out the antibiotics.
Hope no one caught this cold from me.

Windy

Monday evening we just about got blown away. We had not heard on the weather about any high winds, but they came. Our awning was out with Christmas lights on it, it was strapped down tight, but after about an hour of wind gusts up 50MPH, the straps kept loosening. We got our neighbors, Rob and Patty to help us put the awning up. It took all of us to do it, the wind was so strong and kept blowing sand and gravel at us. We did get it put up safely, but yesterday we had to wash everything outside as they were covered with spotted dirt and sand. The truck will get washed today, all the car washes had terrible lines yesterday.
Yesterday was sunny, as is today, it is still cool, but as long as the sun is out life is good.

Welcome Back Party

We went with some of our neighbors to Los Algondones,Mexico on Saturday for their welcome back festival they have for winter visitors. They had free entertainment, free food and drinks. Only thing was, it was freezing in the morning, 42 degrees and breezy. It did get up to about 63, but the sun was mostly obscured by clouds, so it never felt warm. It was fun, but we waited 1 hour and 15 minutes to get back across the border.
Today is cloudy, cool, and has rained a little.

Wildlife Refuge

These are some more pix that I took last Monday when we went to the Painted Desert Trail and the Wildlife Refuge.

I love going out to see the many different looks of Arizona.

Painted Desert Trail

Yesterday we went north of Yuma to the Imperial Wildlife Refuge and walked the Painted Desert Trail. It is called this due to the elements causing different colors in the rocks and ground. Reds are from iron, greens from copper, and the whites, I don't know. Above is a small lizard, you may have to click on pic to bring it up bigger.

This rock formation is from two washes converging. As the water rushed down, it eroded this rock.







This trail is only 1.3 miles, but takes awhile due to climbing over rocks and walking thru loose sand. We did not see any rattlesnakes, scorpions, tarantulas, or spiders. Yeah!

Another Sunny Day!

Our hummingbirds are loving the feeder. We have it hanging on the support for the awning, so it is just beside the picnic table, they will come to eat when we are there, and sometimes buzz under the awning, just above our heads.


H did an addition to the Moose today. We have Direct TV, but cannot get the local stations because we get them back home. We connected the Moose's antenna, but CBS didn't have a very good signal no matter how we turned it. Our neighbor tried beer cans on his antenna, but didn't help, probably because they were lite beer. So he made a new antenna, H got the directions from Rob and made one today. The signal is strong on every station, plus we can get some extra stations we couldn't get before. This is connected to our new TV, the other TV is on Direct TV.