Back in Utah and Happy Easter

 Riverton, Utah         High 70 Low 38

The temperature here has been a lot cooler than Yuma. It even got below freezing one night, and we had 1.5 inches of rain the second night we were home.

We left Yuma early Wednesday morning and had a good drive, although it took 12 hours. We were both tired when we got home, and are thinking of maybe making the trip a two day thing instead of driving all of it in one day. Even poor Penny was so wore out, she didn't want to do anything the next day.

I spent a day getting Cindy's RO water filtration system installed, which for an old guy, was quite a project.

It works great, with instant hot and cold RO water. Now Cindy has water  for her sourdough bread.

I spent yesterday putting together another raised garden box. Now we will need to get dirt to fill it. It seems like the work is never finished.

We are going to put in soaker tubing to water all the boxes, since the spray nozzle I put in last year don't get the water where it is needed.

I  hope everyone has a Happy Easter.

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Getting Ready To Head North

 Yuma, Arizona        High 97 Low 73

We have been too warm here and finally decided it was time to go back to Utah. We plan on leaving Wednesday Morning. Last week we had one day that got up to108, and it stayed above 100 all week. At least we get a cooler day today with a high of "only" 97.

Penny still takes me to the small dog park most afternoons. She is getting quite shaggy, and I tried to get her a hair cut at two different groomers, but the earliest they had available was April 7 or April 15, and we plan on being in Utah by then, so she will wait till we get there. She loves her groomer there anyway.

We still have a lot of stuff to take home and I'm not sure I can get all of it in the truck, but we will see.

Short Post today.

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Another Dinner Show

 Yuma, Arizona         High 100 Low 70

It has been so hot here that we are really considering heading back to Utah. Friday it got to 108, which really is way hot, even here, for the time of the year.

We went to a Dinner Show here at our Park. The dinner was a lot better than the last one. The entertainer was a man named Robbie Howard. 

Robbie Howard is an American born entertainer, singer, impersonator and comedian who resides in Las Vegas, Nevada where he has directed, produced and starred in long-running shows on the Las Vegas Strip with Hurray America and Stars of the Strip and The Rat Pack is Back. He told us he does voices of forty different entertainers and we thought he did a very good job of sounding exactly like the person he was imitating. We didn't get to hear all forty, but we did get to hear Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Randy Travis, Johnny Cash and quite a few others.

He had three members of the audience Come up on the stage to do back-up for one of the songs.

Everyone there were happy with the concert. It was one of the better ones we have gone to.

Cindy has been busy with quilting and she made another loaf of sour dough bread.

She put pecans and cranberry-raisins in this loaf and it is really good tasting.

Penny has been taking me to Yappy Hour at the small dog Park most afternoons. Yes, you read that right, she has been taking me, and gets upset when I can't. We all know who rules the roost.

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Shows and Dinner

 Yuma, Arizona        High 95 Low 56

The weather here has been unusually hot for this early in the year. Hot enough that we might start thinking of heading back to Utah earlier that originally thought.

We had two concert here in the Park that we were able to attend. The first was The Texas Tenors. They are a vocal  group of three singers formed in 2009. They were a top four finalist in the forth season of America's Got Talent. making them the highest ranking vocal group in the Show's history. We were lucky to have them in person in our Park. Everyone thought they were phenomenal.

The second concert we saw was a Johnny Cash tribute. The singer did an excellent job with many Johnny Cash classics and everyone was pleased. 

And of course Penny takes me to the dog park whenever we can (most days).  We got some pictures of a lady that now longer has her own dog, but goes to the dog park to get a few doggy loves.

Last night we had an appreciation dinner for all the volunteers in the Park. Sorry, I forgot to take any pictures, but there were a lot of people there, whom put in a lot of time keeping the Park nice.

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Aloha Days

 Yuma, Arizona               High 88 Low 54

The weather here has been very variable. Hot, then cooler with lots of wind. Today it is supposed to start getting warmer with the weather guessers saying 98 by next Friday.

Our Park put on our annual play days. This year it was called Aloha Days. Everyone was supposed to dress in Hawaiian clothing. 

They started out with a march of the different groups to an area of the Park, where the different groups competed in various games, with the games the next day finishing up at the swimming pool, with water games. As always, there was a lot of participation and food.

The object of this game was to carry the balloon between their legs to their team-mate and then sit on the balloon until it popped. A lot of squirming was involved.

 

Everyone enjoyed the Aloha Days, both the participants and the spectators.

And I have been taking Penny to Yappy Hour most afternoons. She won't let me forget that it is time to go. 

I usually go with our Neighbor, and one day we took Penny, her dog Issie, and two dogs, whose owners weren't available to go.

It was fun trying to hold 4 dogs on the golf cart, but we made it alright.

While we were there, Issie got cold for a while.

One day Carla knew she wasn't going to be able to stay, so she dropped Issie off at the small dog park. I had ridden my bike with Penny in her bag. Carla was late getting back, so I put Penny and Issie in the bag and took them home. Fortunately they are both small, about 6 pounds each, and they both were good in the bag, so we had no problem getting them home.

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Lots Going On

 Yuma, Arizona      High 95 Low 62

I guess when it comes to weather, you better be careful what you wish for. First it got windy and cold, and then, very hot and miserable for this time of year.

There has been a lot going on this last week. We had our annual Can-Am Parade with all the golf carts decorated and later in the week, we had two quilt shows.

First, the Parade.

 

At the end of the parade there were games, which I missed, but we had a visitor watching. 

Some of the people said the owl turned around and looked at them, but I never saw that.

Later in the week, we had two quilt shows at two different Parks, One Friday, and one Saturday.

We both thought this was an interesting way to Quilt.

Then last night, we had our Parks annual Owners Ball. They have an elegant meal with entertainment following. The food was very good, as was the singer.

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