EDIT
I forgot to mention that our younger son, Greg, is now in Florida. He is down there for a golfing industry convention . For those of you who do not know, he is superintendent of a local private golf course. He has such interesting seminars to attend----usually dealing with turf, bugs, or insect or pesticides---yuck!!! He left a couple days early in order to get together with an old friend who now lives and teaches down there.
So both of my "babies" are down south in "warm country". Waaaaahhhh!!! I wanna be with my babies!!!!!!
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My life is so boring!
Especially during the winter, when I hibernate most of the time.
I talked to "The Travelers" yesterday. (our son with the bus/motorhome, for those of you who don't know)
They are still in Yuma, but will be leaving Sunday after church.
Jeff's boss asked him to stay an extra day, so yesterday was his last day.
Today, they are taking their bus to a bluegrass festival in Yuma. There is camping on the grounds. They will enjoy that.
They had planned on going to Tucson next, but have decided to backtrack a bit.
They are going to San Diego for a couple days. They had originally planned on going there first, but when they left Bakersfield they had to go east in order to avoid storms and winds in the mountains to the south along I5.
They want to go the the SD Zoo, or maybe Sea World, or maybe even both.
I see there is rain forecast for all the southwest, so who knows what they will get to do.
Yesterday was granddaughter Gretta's 14th birthday. Happy Birthday, Cuppycake!!
She and her brother, Kenny, are finally adapting to living on the bus. Neither of them were happy about it at first. They missed their home and friends.
The only problem is that at this time of the year, they are only meeting "old people" at the campgrounds.
While in Yuma, they all did get to visit with my old girlfriend from high school in Tucson. Nat and her hubby, Pat, live in the house Pat grew up in. Pat's family are farmers. (Pat and Ken get along very well---both farm boys!) His parents acreage is divided up between him and his siblings. I believe his siblings run their own acreage, but Pat leases his out. Yuma is a big farming area. When we were there almost 4 years ago, they drove us around and showed us the area. Lots of lettuce and spinach being picked at that time (March). Dole and other large vegetable processors have plants scattered all over to process the produce and citrus immediately after coming off the fields. Really interesting. Both Nat and Pat were teachers years ago. Nat stopped when she had their children. Pat retired early, and took over the farming when his folks died. Pat used to have lemon trees, but a "bug" destroyed them, and he plowed them under. They still have many citrus trees around their house, though, and on winter afternoons, they sell to the tourists passing by. When we were there, it was so relaxing sitting out on the front porch, listening to the bees collecting pollen from the very fragrant flowers in the citrus trees. SO quiet!!
Anyway, Jeff and family left Nat and Pat's with pecans, lemons and other citrus. They also told Jeff of another camping area just north of them, since Jeff had to leave the current camping spot after two weeks, and they still had a few more nights to stay in the area.
So, that brings you up to date.
This last week I have been "living in the past"!
Bonnie (BLB) got me going on a project I had started about 2 years ago, and had put on the side----scanning old slides into the computer.
If I feel ambitious, I can do two trays a day---40 slides in each tray. Including the ones I had done long ago, I am on tray #24---out of 60!
When those are done, I can start on all the boxes and boxes of snapshots taken after we stopped taking slides.
I am working on 1971.
Does that let you know the daunting task ahead of me???????
Will I get it done before I die??????
Doubt it!!!!!!
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