LOOKS LIKE WE 'OPEN LIVE WRITER' AND 'PICASA' USERS ARE IN FOR A BIG BAD DOUBLE WHAMMY

A few desert dwelling coyotes howling in the pre-dawn hours and aside from that all was peacefully quiet.  Had we stayed where we were I'm sure we would have gone to bed and woke up with the sounds of generators hammering in our ears. 

THIS IS THE VIEW FROM MY RECLINER OUT OUR SIDE WINDOW

Under morning's sunshine we again had us another relaxing morning walk.  We are now parked closer to a number of Palo Verde trees and how nice to hear birds tweetering in the nearby tree branches.  It was 55F when we stepped out of the coach with a predicted high today of 65F.  How many times can I say, 'El Perfecto':))

WE WALKED OURSELVES ALONG AN ARROYO WHICH IS A STEEP-SIDED GULLY FORMED BY THE ACTION OF FAST FLOWING WATER  

A GNARLY UNICORNED DESERT DWELLER GIVES ME THE EYE 

Tried 'Open Live Writer' several times today but no go.  I've suspected ever since the original Live Writer went down a few years ago that sooner or later the refurbished Open Live Writer would follow suit and that time may be now at hand.  If they do get it fixed I think it's only a matter of time and it will go down again and be gone forever.  With that thought in mind I spent some time earlier this morning familiarizing myself with the 'Blogger' format once again.  Not my favorite of course but it's my only option if I want to keep my blog going.  There are a few other formats out there like 'Word Press' but I have no interest in that and I'm not into any more learning curves with all this stuff.  I guess 'Blogger' it will have to be and maybe with a bit of luck I can get their clunky way of doing things figured out.  

 And speaking of changes it looks like we 'Picasa' photo editing program users are in for some very bad news and it seems it could be at the heart of the Open Live Writer program as well.  I think the end of an era is at last here.  First, a copy and pasted note from one of the 'Open Live Writer' techs.....'We'll try to get a hotfix out if we can work around it. As @jbogard says, Google's API changes broke this, and I expect they will keep happening'. Also this link about Picasa this morning so I'm thinking the final demise of Picasa is at hand and I think this may explain the current Open Live Writer program.  So what does this mean for my blog:((

'OH NO MY DAD'S HAVING BIG BLOGING PROBLEMS AGAIN'

Well, it means if I can't use Picasa to edit my photos then there is no point in me taking any more photos...….unless I can quickly find and learn myself another photo editing program.  Am going to try something called Photopea as well as Windows PhotoScape X.  I've suspected for a long time this day was coming but I have put off dealing with the end of both Open Live Writer and Picasa.  A Picasa extension is possible until March when Picasa will be closed down forever.  At least that is the way I am understanding things this morning. 

KELLY DOWNLOADS PHOTOPEA AND PHOTOSCAPE X FOR ME

Can you believe it's almost a whole week we have now been in one place.  I remember last winter when we seemed to be in such a rush all the time.  We would just get to one place and we'd already be looking at the next place and away we would go.  So far this trip we've not had that urge to move on after a day or two and today was a good example of that as we again simply lounged around the rig not doing too much of anything.  Just soaking up the sunshine and the desert's refreshingly cool westerly cool breezes today.

AND PHEEBS LIKES THIS SLOWER PACE AS WELL

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.  "However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.  And, of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position

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A sixth grade class is doing some spelling drills. The teacher asks Tommy if he can spell 'before.' He stands up and says, "Before, B-E-P-H-O-R."The teacher says, "No, that's wrong. Can anyone else spell before?" Another little boy stands up and says, "Before, B-E-F-O-O-R.  "Again the teacher says, "No, that's wrong." The teacher asks, "Little Johnny, can you spell 'before'?  "Little Johnny stands up and says, "Before, B-E-F-O-R-E."  "Excellent Johnny, now can you use it in a sentence?  "Little Johnny says, "That's easy. Two plus two be fore."

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"HI PHEEBS, HI PHEEBS" THE LADY SAID AND OH YES, WE MOVED AGAIN TODAY

HAD US A LOT OF WARM ARIZONA SUN IN THE COACH TODAY

'Oh Drats' here I am having to use Blogger's writing program again but if I want to keep the blog going I have no choice.  My fingers are tightly crossed Open Live Writer's problems will soon be solved.  I don't have any problems with the writing side of Blogger's way of doing things but when it comes to placing and sizing photos where I want them and the ease of doing that it's a different story.  Maybe it's just all in what I have become used to over the years so if tonight's post looks a bit jumbled it's probably just because it is. 

Another bright sunny and warm day for us here in the Why and Ajo Arizona area.  Can't even begin to tell you how happy we are with this weather.  Back home in Bayfield today it was 28F on a cloud shrouded day with temps dipping to 23F by Sunday and nothing above the freezing mark for the next couple weeks.  I even saw a couple days forecasted to be 10F.

We decided on a laundry morning so it was off to Ajo we went.  I always post a few pics of the Ajo Laundromat and have a few nice things to say about it because it is a well maintained laundromat with lots of good washers and dryers. Pulling in we noticed there was not another vehicle there except for a small Class C.  Kelly slipped in to get some quarters and in the midst of hoisting the laundry out of the Jeep I heard a ladies voice saying, "Hi Pheebs, Hi Pheebs".  And that is how we met long time blog readers Nancy and Kim from Nebraska.  One never knows where one might run into blog readers.  It was their Class C at the Laundromat and they had driven up from Why's Coyote Howls East where they like to spend their winters.  Nice folks these people and we had ourselves a pleasant chat.  A couple days ago I had thought maybe Coyote Howls had expanded east but Kim said no, that section has always been there.  So much for this questionable memory of mine.

TWO THUMBS UP FOR AJO'S LAUNDROMAT

 

NANCY AND KIM HEAD OUT AS PHEEBS KEEPS AN EYE ON ME FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT

WAITING FOR THE DRYER TO FINISH UP

After the laundromat it was a quick stop at Olsens IGA Supermarket back through Ajo to the south end where we again stopped at the Ajo's Farmer Market Store And Kitchen for breakfast casserole and coffee to go.  Really like their coffee.  

HERE'S ONE FOR YOU SHINOBI HIBOU

LOOKING TOWARDS CURLY'S COFFEE PARLOUR

KELLY IS TOP CENTER IN THE AJO FARMER'S MARKET KITCHEN

COMING INTO AJO FROM THE SOUTH YOU HAVE AJO'S ARTIST'S ALLEY ON THE RIGHT AND THE AJO FARMER'S MARKET KITCHEN ON THE LEFT

We were soon back to Why and took us for a cruise through the Hickiwan Trails RV Park where we have many great memories from our first two or three Snow Bird years.  Everything looked pretty much the same as we remember it.  We did take a drive through there last winter as well.

ENTRANCE TO COYOTE HOWLS EAST

ENTRANCE TO HICKIWAN TRAILS RV PARK

IN EARLY 2007 THIS IS THE SPOT WE HAD WITH OUR TRUCK AND FIFTH WHEEL AT HICKIWAN TRAILS

HICKIWAN'S BREEZEWAY WITH WASHROOMS, SHOWERS,  AND LAUNDRY

HICKIWAN'S OFFICE

HEY ARCHIE HERE'S YOUR WHY WATER:)

Back to the rig we had to hang some of our damp laundry on Creosote Shrubs to dry and we weren't long in getting our awning down again.  It was hot on that side of the coach.  

It was about 2:30 when a fifth wheel and truck rolled by slowly followed closely by another truck and trailer and sure enough they pulled into the site close behind us on the other side of the dirt road.  Acres of room here at Gunsight Wash with lots of nice sites but nope, right close to us.  Beside them was a wash with another RV right on the other side and we soon figured out they were all friends.  They were close enough to be within easy ear shot and I could here the folks talking, setting up, closing truck doors, etc. etc.  Sound really travels in the desert.  And then out came the generators.  Now I've no doubt these are all mighty fine folks but I also knew with a potential of 6 people together there was no way of escaping the normal people noise.  There is only ever one solution for this kind of situation and that is to move.  And that's what we did.  I had already scouted out another site in case this type of thing happened so off we went maybe a quarter mile south.  We were soon set up again with no human noises nearby.  We spend a lot of money and travel a lot of hard miles each year to be here in the peaceful desert where only the wind whispers through the Saguaros.  By the way they were joined by a Class C not long after we moved and tonight I could here the very faint sound of generators coming from that encampment.  Had we still been there we would definitely not have been happy campers.

YOU CAN SEE HERE WHERE THE RV'S HAVE MOVED IN KINDA RIGHT BEHIND US

PHEEBS AND I QUICKLY HEADED OUT INTO THE DESERT TO CHECK OUT OUR NEXT SPOT AND IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE WE WERE MOVED AND SET UP HERE

YES I KNOW.....IT LOOKS JUST LIKE OUR OTHER SPOT.....BUT THIS ONE IS EVEN NICER:)

IT WAS ABOUT A QUARTER MILE MOVE

WE HAVE SOME NICE CACTUS IN OUR FRONT YARD NOW

AND PHEEBS LIKES OUR NEW SPOT BETTER TOO

AND NEARBY WE HAVE A PROBABLE GRAVE SITE.....ANIMAL OR HUMAN IS ANYBODIES GUESS

I don't know why it happens sometimes but today my photos looked like somebody had thrown a hand full of sand on them.  Checked all my settings and things seemed Okay.  Every once in a long while this happens and I don't know why.  So, I scrapped a lot of them.  Maybe I can get myself smartened up by tomorrow.  We had a nice sunset tonight so here it is...…………..

AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT HAS LANDED IN THE DESERT NEAR US

We still haven't heard anything more about the Live Writer problem but if they get it fixed I will post my Wednesday blog at that time.  

TONIGHT'S DESERT MOON

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Jon's working at the lumberyard, pushing a tree through the buzz saw, and accidentally shears off all ten of his fingers. He goes to the emergency room. The doctor says, "Yuck! Well, give me the fingers, and I'll see what I can do. "Jon says, "I haven't got the fingers. "The doctor says, "What do you mean, you haven't got the fingers? It's 1998. We've got microsurgery and all kinds of incredible techniques. I could have put them back on and made you like new. Why didn't you bring the fingers? "Jon says, "Well, heck, Doc, I couldn't pick 'em up." 
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“When the baker is happy, what does he do?  Abundance.”
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Knock Knock
Who's there?
Maya!
Maya who?
Maya best friend?

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Max!

Max who?

Max no difference. Open the door!
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BLOG PROBLEM

Well it’s happened again of course.  Blog error #400 and my blog won’t publish at all tonight.  I struggled with Tuesday night’s blog but finally with a lot of patience it finally did publish.  But not tonight.  So, I’m dead in the water with no immediate solution……………………