IF BY A MIRACLE I WAS EVER ABLE TO RETURN SOMEDAY

 RAINED MOST OF THE NIGHT AND RAINED MOST OF TODAY

I slipped out to the edge of the Park Sunday night and looked up.  Too cloudy.  Came back home, and that was it for that.  A lot of rain in the night, and I awoke to a gloomy-looking morning.  The uninspiring rain continued on and off throughout the rest of the day:((

 HERE'S PARK OWNER ADAM ON SATURDAY TAKING ONE OF HALF A DOZEN OR MORE LOADS OF TREES AND BRUSH FROM THE NORTH END OF WHITE CEDAR DRIVE....IT IS MY GUESS THAT HE MAY BE CLEARING AN AREA  OUTTO EXTEND WHITE CEDAR DRIVE TO CONNECT WITH BAYFIELD RIVER ROAD

 BAYFIELD RIVER ROAD IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT NEWLY CLEARED SPACE....THIS WOULD MAKE A THIRD ENTRANCE TO THE PARK, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA AS PARK TRAFFIC INCREASES WITH MORE NEW HOMES AND PEOPLE COMING IN

 THE ROAD, IF THAT'S THE PLAN,  WOULD EXTEND THROUGH THE CLEARING ON THE LEFT

Because of my love and interest in the American Southwest, and especially Arizona, where we once owned a house on Ghost Town Road, in Congress, I always click on Facebook sites that have to do with the Southwest.  It is always very nostalgic for me to see so many places featured that Kelly and I once travelled to and hung out at.  This morning I clicked on this one: Congress $18 Million In Gold And Then Silence.  Our house and property were less than two miles from this mine site.  There are two old cemeteries out there near where the old town once stood.  I have taken many photos in that area between 2012 and 2016 when we sold the house.  I miss our RVing days so much, and if by a miracle I was ever able to return someday, I know it would never be the same as when The Bayfield Bunch once all travelled together and had so many adventures and exciting times.....Coincidentally, as I was writing this paragraph, Facebook tossed me a nearly twenty-year-old photo of me sitting at a park bench with an open laptop.  I instantly remembered the photo and the circumstances around it.  This was at the end of our very first day of what would turn out to be thirteen years of Snowbirding to the Great American Southwest.  We had a Rockwood Fifth Wheel and A GMC 250 Sierra pick-up truck.  It was at the end of our first long driving day from Bayfield, and we had found a little Park somewhere just off I-69 around Muncie, Indiana, I think.  And of course, we had our loyal doggy guys, Max, Checkers, and little Cora with us, and that made us The Bayfield Bunch.  In the photo, Kelly had been inside fixing us up some supper, but came out to take a photo of me at the picnic table. I am sitting there writing about the day's events with our very first-ever laptop computer.  And hey, I bet I started my post off talking about the weather.  Geeezzz, what are the chances, eh.  At that time, I wasn't on the Blogger blogsite because I didn't know about that format.  In those early days, I uploaded my posts onto a site that Microsoft had at that time called 'My Space'.  That Microsoft site eventually went the way of the DoDo Bird, and I then caught on to the Blogger format in the summer of 2007.  I think somewhere in my files I may very well still have my posts from that site detailing our very first Southwest RV trip.  We got as far west as Quartzsite, Arizona, that first time with our Fifth Wheel, plus a day trip in our Hyundai Santa Fe toad to Blyth, California. Oh my, we learned so much from that first year trip, and little did we two Newbies know that we had hardly even scratched the surface of what we were about to learn.  Thinking we might be able to do three years of this, five at the most, we never dreamed we would still be RV Snowbirding for well over a dozen years.  And in those years we went through one pickup truck, one Fifth Wheel, two Class A Motorhomes, and three Class C Motorhomes.  Also, on Facebook today I saw a picture of Wickenburg, Arizona, which brought another flood of memories back.  In the picture, you can see the Wickenburg train station on the left.  In 2014, after Kelly was diagnosed with liver disease, and we were at our house in Congress for the winter months, sixteen miles north of Wickenburg, we would drive to Wickenburg, where Kelly routinely had to have her blood tested and monitored in a little place across from the train station along that street somewhere.  Also, in the photo you see mountains in the background.  They are the Weaver Mountains, and our place was at the foot of those mountains, 'where the desert breeze meets the mountain air'.  However, the picture itself is deceiving, and I explain why in the caption of the second photo below.

THIS IS BASICALLY DAY ONE OF MY 'TRAVEL WITH THE BAYFIELD BUNCH' BLOG  IN LATE OCTOBER OF 2006,,,,AND I STILL WEAR THAT SAME 'LAS VEGAS' BASEBALL CAP SOMETIMES EVEN TODAY

 

 THE ARTIST'S RENDERING OF THIS STREET IN WICKENBURG IS DECEIVING BECAUSE THE SLOPING HILL AND THOSE SUPPOSEDLY WEAVER MOUNTAINS NEARLY 20 MILES AWAY ARE NOT  VISIBLE FROM THE ARTIST'S VIEWPOINT.....THE TRAIN STATION, TRACKS AND STOREFRONTS  I ASSUME ARE CORRECT FOR THAT TIME PERIOD

With this spate of cool, wet weather upon us, I again this morning was not able to slip out to my walking road, but I did think it was a perfect day for a bike ride.  So without further ado, I saddled up my indoor bike and off I went:))

Al's Music Box:: On The Road Again by Willie Nelson.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The little Moron is swimming in a river. A man walks up and asks him, "What are you doing in there?" He says, "I'm washing my clothes." The man asks, "Why don't you use a washing machine?" The little Moron says, "I tried that, but I got too dizzy.

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"I have good news and bad news," a defense attorney told his client. "First the bad news: The blood test came back, and your DNA is an exact match with the sample found on the victim's clothes." "Oh, no - I'm ruined!" cried the client. "What's the good news?" "Your cholesterol is down to 140!"

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What's the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One weighs a ton, and the other is a little lighter.
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A naive young lady in the pet shop asks about buying a goldfish. The salesperson asks if she needs an aquarium. Her reply, 'I don't care what sign it is.'

A housewife with three young children was getting dinner ready when the phone rang. The six-year-old picked it up and said, "Hi, Daddy!" and she began telling him about her day. She then passed the phone to her brother and sister as was the custom whenever Daddy called from work. When it was finally the wife's turn to talk she took the receiver and said, "Hi, honey." "Thank goodness, lady," the voice on the other end replied. "I just called to tell you that the wallpaper you ordered is here!"

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