Getting Ready to Get On the Road

1 May 2008
Yuma, still

We've spent a lazy winter. We didn't accomplish half what we planned. Well, I didn't anyway - sometimes I make more plans than Chris.

He did some nice little fix-its on the coach - new stairs, window shade readjusted, radiator washed, new tires, carpets cleaned, drawers cleaned out... We seldom had Pugs in the storage room this winter - he just sat out. That way the neighbors thought we were real.

I was going to lose 10 pounds, exercise faithfully at Curves, finish the family photo books for the historical library in Springville, scan all my slides into digital, scan all possible documents and get rid of boxes of memorabilia, help Nancy with family history research, continue a couple of lines of my family research, find a new budgie baby, clean out my closets, catalog my books... I found my list the other day. Oops.

But, on the positive side:
-I got some of the photo stuff done - Ella Miner's story. I continued on Grandpa Miner's.
-I scanned a bunch of old scrapbook stuff and THREW THE ORIGINALS AWAY!!!
-I scanned a bunch of Mom's old slides and tossed the originals - this is a mortal sin in my family.
-I helped Nancy with research, but not enough. We found one whole new generation of Norwegians in Wisconsin, Iowa & Minnesota!
-We found lots of new budgies and lost one. We are now down to two new babies - Pancho (hatched in Jan) and Pepe (hatched in Mar). They will travel with us and amuse us. We had to make one trip to San Diego and one to Los Angeles to retrieve them.
-I made a major start on cataloging my cases and cases of books - www.librarything.com is marvelous. And I hooked both Eric and Todd on it - well, Todd's kids anyway. I'm bribing them to enter his books.
-I made a visit to Boise to visit my newest granddaughter.
-I made a visit to Seattle to tend the grandkids while Todd ran the Boston Marathon.
-We visited with old friends and made new ones, including the fun Canucks across the road.
-We went to Casa Grande for the gourd festival for several days.
-I entered some gourds in the county fair and won a ribbon or two.
-I spent lots of time burning, carving, painting - but not enough...

So I guess it hasn't been a bad winter.

New favorite restaurant: Parrish's Bar and Grill - on Fortuna Road near the post office. Great fish and chips, terrific BLTs, wonderful burgers, and nice people.