Gilbert Ray CG
This morning was dedicated to house and truck keeping. Penny was busy making a fitted bed sheet out of a sheet we found at a thrift store yesterday. She setup her sewing machine on the picnic table and was enjoying the warm sunshine. I was checking on the problems noted by the technicians from yesterday’s repairs. For example, they said the serpentine belt was worn. Not!
I made some tuna fish salad rolled up in caseras tortillas, chips and orange slices. Then, we went out for a 30 minute, 5 mile bike ride through the four campsite loops here in the park. I did one lap, then we did a couple more together. After that, we walked out into the desert for an hour finding saguaros of great stature, humorous stature, human like stature. Below them were the prickly pears, creosote trees, crucifixion thorn, mesquite, cholla, and many others. The sky was pure blue, sun was heading west, birds were calling, air was cooling and we were enraptured with the moment.
A man made phenomena caught our attention. There were power lines strung on 30’ poles across our trail, so we followed them for half a mile or so. The wind was making the wires “sing” and sent a harmonic vibration down the wooden poles. We could feel it. I know what you are thinking, but we were not imbibing in any contraband! We were hiking and gawking, mostly gawking, 70 minutes.
We had a great conversation with Penny’s parents in northern Michigan. They seemed happy and healthy, though each is waiting for surgery soon. Shirley has gall bladder issues and John is going to get a new hip.
Later, after supper of steamed green beans, carrots and chicken sausage, we put our packing quilt over the concrete picnic table, bundled up, grabbed the binoculars and laid on our backs looking up at the Milky Way. After about 15 minutes the cold concrete and air chased us inside, but we had a marvelous look at some star clusters and even saw a shooting star flash across Orion’s Belt.
The Zags are winning their 21st game of the year and they are the only undefeated team in the NCAA, so all is well!
The very bottom iage majes me think of my mom when she’d throw her arms up at some crazy outburst from anybody!
How do I get the postscfrom October forward?
Hey guys! We got your postcard. Thanks for thinking of us! xo Aura, Drew, and River