We Made It

 Yuma, Arizona      High 81 Low 46

We finally made it to Yuma. It has been very pleasant during the day and cools off a lot as soon as the sun goes down. Today is supposed to be even warmer.

We have spent the last week working hard to get things in order and we had a remodel project. When we got here, our whole lot looked like this: 

We also had a dead Palm Tree, which has been dead for two years. I cut it down and asked landscaping to haul it away which I found out is a big NO, NO. I was supposed to ask the architectural committee for permission to cut it down, and then it had to be cut into 50 pound pieces and hauled to the front of out lot for them to haul it away. The major problem I have with this is: Why do I need permission to cut down a dead tree from our own lot? It's not like we rent, we OWN. Oh, well, enough ranting.

We got our grand daughter, Teesa's Nightmare Before Christmas quilt finished before we left and delivered it to her. Cindy designed it from a pattern she already had. 

We tried to used every piece of the material and used most of it in the back. She was surprised that we got it finished so quick, she hadn't expected it until we got back in the spring.

Cindy also had me do another quilt using the same patterns as the quilt before the one for Teesa. 

On the way here we took a picture of the gas prices in Needles, California. I'm always amazed at why anyone would pay that price for fuel, when three miles across the river in Arizona Gas is so  much less, regular is 2.89 per gallon.

 Over $2.00 per gallon cheaper. 

  Friday evening, we were invited to a welcome back party at our neighbors. I think they said they had 15 people. 

Then last night we were invited to a surprise birthday party for our neighbor, Carla. It looked like about half the park were there, along with her daughter from Washington, that she hadn't seen for four years. I have no idea how they kept it a surprise with as many people that went, but she acted extremely surprised when she came to her daughters place with her son-in-law.

Her actual Birthday was a month ago, and she told her daughter that it was a nice birthday, but she sure wished her Palms family could have been there. Last night she got her wish. It was a Happy 80th Birthday for a really nice neighbor.

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Still Can't Head South

 Riverton, Utah          High 70 Low 68

The weather still has been unusually warm, except the weather guessers are predicting snow (the awful 4 letter word) for Tuesday and Wednesday. The next good day for travel through Utah look's like Monday the Fourth, so that's what we are shooting for.

Cindy's birthday was last week and my youngest daughter set her flowers,

There is not much else going on, with the exception of quilting. I hope you don't get tired of looking at them. The first one only has two patterns. I hope you can see them on the back.

I put my tape measure on this picture to show how small the pieces are. By my calculations, there are 3600 one inch pieces plus the borders.

The next one has baby jungle animals on it.

This quilt has Safari Animals.

Right now Cindy and I are working on a Nightmare Before Christmas quilt for her grand-daughter. She had us watch the movie, which we didn't care for, but they really like. I hope she likes the quilt. Pictures next time.

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My Hand Is Okay

 Riverton, Utah          High 81 Low 56

The weather here has been warmer than normal, about 20 degrees warmer, and new records have been set. Next Thursday is supposed to get back to normal.

I went to the hospital to the hand surgeon to get the pin nail taken out of my hand. They gave me a local in my hand, but wouldn't let me watch. The Doctor announce at 11 minutes he had the nail. They took me back to my room and let me get dressed and leave. I had to keep my hand dry for 10 days until I went to have the Doctor look at my hand again. He had put in self dissolving stitches and said everything looked good. I just have to keep brandade's on my hand for a while.

In the meanwhile, I finished two quilts, one of which took me two weeks to do. There are lots of different patterns and thread colors. 

The other quilt is smaller (although not much) and I was able to do an over all pattern. This one only took a day to do. Cindy had some blocks left over, which we incorporated into the back. The quilt front and back are flannel.

We slowly have been getting ready to head south to Yuma, but with all the warm weather, the walnut tree leaves haven't started to fall. We feel like we need to wait until they are picked up to leave because the dead leaves will kill the lawn if left .

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Almost October

Riverton, Utah      High 90 Low 68

The temperature has been unusually warm for this time of year. Salt Lake City set some new record highs this last week The temperature is more like August than September.

A week ago, we had most of the family over for a Barbeque. The great grand kids are getting big, and some of them are in school

I got some more quilts finished.

Friday, I was replacing some decorative molding over our washer and dryer. I was using a new to me, air pin nailer. I hadn't used it before and it didn't seem to work, so I was playing around with the trigger. And in the process, I put one of the pin nails into my hand. I decided to go to the insta-care to see if they could get it out. I found out what Nancy was talking about on the check in form. One of the questions was gender. They next question asked gender at birth. They the next one asked preferred pronoun. I ignored most of those type questions. Evidentially, this isn't just a California thing.

After getting x-rayed, the technician told me she wouldn't be able to help me and I needed to go to the emergency room at the hospital. After a long wait, they finally saw if they could get the nail out, and after trying for a while, he told me I would have to go to the main hospital uptown and see a hand surgeon. 

I should mention that the nail is about an inch long and about the size of two pins put together. It is bothering me, so I guess I better get it taken out. 

Anyway, they won't be able to do anything until Monday, and the hand doctor is supposed to call this evening. (I hope). 

I hope your time has been better than mine. By the way, I feel pretty stupid nailing myself.

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