Today was one of those nice lazy days that makes you appreciate the RV’ing life. We started off with our usual delicious coffee while we enjoyed the nice sunny day that was coming up. Much better than the cold, dreary yesterday.

About noon Jan heated up some more of Jeannie Sparks’ Potato Cheddar Soup from Tastefully Simple, along with the leftover Mexican from last night’s La Fonda visit. Seems like both the soup and the Mexican got better with age.

Jan was immersed in a book Nick Russell had loaned her on old Texas jails, while I spent most of the afternoon trying to tie PayPal into one of my client’s shopping carts, without a lot of luck. It kind of works, but not quite. I’ve got emails into both PayPal and the shopping cart software company. We’ll wait and see.

Giving up on PayPal I decided a nap might be in order to offset all the heavy brainwork I’d been doing. Well, maybe not heavy, but I did think about it some.

About 5:15 we all headed into Cottonwood to check out Stromboli’s, a local Italian place that had been recommended to us. Turned out to be well-recommended. It was really good. Not quite Da Boyz Pizza in Yuma good, but good.

We got back to the rig about 7:30 and were in for the night.

Tomorrow we’ll leave here about 9 am to head down to Mesa about 120 miles away to get an estimate on our coach bay door repair and also pick up our prescriptions from Sam’s Club.

Since this was a short post, I’ve rerun our visit last April to the poppy fields in Lancaster, CA.

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Thought for the Day:

Remember, if you aren’t part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.

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Posted on April 17, 2010

Jan and I had a craving for Chinese for lunch, so after Googling ‘Best Chinese Buffet Lancaster CA and coming up with the Super King Buffet right down the road from us, we headed out about 11 am. Turns out it was really good. Better than the place in Las Vegas. Great Hot & Sour Soup. We’ll go back.

Coming back to the fairgrounds about 12:15, we drove over to the Good Sam Rally area to get a day pass. And a lot of good it did us.

After they took our $20 ($10 each) we found out that the rally was over at noon. Seems like they could have told us that ahead of time. The schedule online said that the rally was taking place on Friday and Saturday. Bummer.

But I used the time to check out the facilities for Nick Russell as a possible site for a future Gypsy Journal Rally.

Leaving the rally we drove over to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve. It was about 15 miles out in the country. As we got closer we realized that this was the orange hills we had seen in the distance. The California Poppy is state flower of California and the Lancaster is the best place in the state to see them. And the view was really spectacular.

You can click the following pictures to enlarge them.

Note the poppies up the hillside.

Almost as pretty as the bluebonnets in the Texas Hill County.

After making the drive we headed back home about 2:30 pm.

Then about 6 Jan fixed her world-famous tuna noodle casserole and we settled in to watch the new Dr. Who.

More tomorrow…

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First off, our daughter Brandi has released the embargo on these photos from Landon’s day care.

This morning we had some of the new coffee we got from Amazon yesterday. This was Community Club Pecan Praline. Just opening the bag for the first time was a treat. And it was really needed because we had SNOW this morning and are expecting more.

When I looked outside about 1am this morning before I went to bed, there was a light snow coming down. It wasn’t sticking because it was still in the low 40’s. And it didn’t change much all day as it never got above about 45 degrees.

A little before 12 I called the Sam’s Club down in Mesa to transfer our prescriptions there to pick up Monday when we’re down there getting an estimate on the damage to our coach bay door that happened while we were at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson.

The only thing we can figure out is that it was done by the landscaper/tree trimmers working right behind the coach.

For lunch, Jan decided we needed some good hot soup to warm up our insides. So Jan fixed a box of the Tastefully Simple Potato Cheddar Soup we got from Jeannie Sparks at the Gypsy Journal Rally in Yuma, AZ this past March.

And, boy was it good. Wish we’d have bought more.

And to go with the soup, we used our GT Xpress 101 Grill to fix a Grilled Turkey and Pepper Jack Cheese Sandwich.

You just put each half in the individual sections and it grills it up perfectly with meat and cheese all hot and melted. Delicious!

Nick called about 1:30 pm to say he had booked a site at the Western Horizons – Camp Verde right down the road. Nick and Terry’s two weeks here will be up on Wed. the 13th and we have to be out on the 14th. We had planned to head over to Show Low then, but the Elk’s Lodge where we plan to stay is not yet open due to the cold weather. So we’ll hole up here for another week. So after hearing from Nick, I called the park to make reservations for us, although we won’t move until Thursday the 14th.

But I’m not sure how much warmer it will be. When I went outside to take the garbage to the dumpster I was pelted by a combination of very light rain, mixed with sleet and snow. A real mess.

Coming back to the rig I found Jan asleep on the sofa, so I decided a nap was in order.

About 5 pm Nick called to see if we were ready to eat. And boy were we. We were going back to La Fonda, the Mexican place right down the road. And it was just as good as the last time. I had the La Fonda Special plate, and had a lot to bring home. It will make a good lunch tomorrow.

Coming out after a great meal, we saw this evidence of how much snow the surrounding hills have accumulated. There’s a good 6 inches on this roof.

And, although it’s a little hard to see. the mountains all around are frosted with snow.

Getting back to the rig, we took the last of the ice cream over to Nick and Terry’s to have with the hot Apple Crisp she had made earlier in the day.

Really, really good.

It’s probably going to be in the 20’s here tonight so I disconnected our outside water to keep the hose and filter from freezing. We’ll use the water from our internal 100 gallon tank until it warms up.

It’s suppose to be a little warmer tomorrow with a high in the 50’s, and then back to down to the mid 30’s tomorrow night.

Brrrrrrr!

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Thought for the Day:

Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.

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