Happy Easter!

It's Sunday morning and we're slowly getting the motor home ready for travel. Checkout is noon, and we don't have a lot left to do. Should be simple. I took this adorable picture of the dogs this morning, up on the back of the sofa. It's been a great weekend out here, despite the rain yesterday. As you can see, it's nice and sunny this morning. It's going to be a beautiful day!

Have a great one!

Cloudy Saturday

We're relaxing out at McDowell Mountain. It's cloudy today, rained over night and was raining this morning. We strolled into Fountain Hills with Brandon & Jeremy and Bob & Ron and had breakfast at Phil's Place. It's a nice little greasy spoon with a decent breakfast. The coffee sucked, but the food was good. Fortunately I had coffee at home before we left.

I took some pictures of the mountains and clouds around us. I posted them on Facebook if you are my friend. If not, send me a friend request and I'll accept you. I've posted one or two on here. It's a chilly day but we have the windows open for fresh air and the space heater turned on. The boys are loving it. They are such cuddlers.

Dennis is taking a nap and the boys and I are hanging out, blogging, listening to The Blend on XM/DirecTV. It's a nice day to do nothing. We're intending to play board games later with our friends. We may even teach them "Flip It" and take some of their money. We brought lots of quarters. While we were out today, we stopped at Safeway and bought lottery tickets, so hopefully we won't have to go home tomorrow. ;-)

Have a great weekend!

Windy Friday

We made it out to McDowell Mountain Regional Park. The dogs and I arrived in the motor home about 3:30. Dennis drove the car out after work and arrived a little after 5. We hung out with Jeremy and Brandon until dinner. We had baked chicken with green beans. It was delicious! It was way too windy to grill tonight. The wind is almost as strong as it was 2 weeks ago when we were here with Jeannie. The only difference is that it isn't as constant. Ron and Bob are here as well as Bart and Jeff. Bart and Jeff are in the South Loop. The other three of us are lined up in a row in the North loop. I really love this park.

It's almost bedtime, I just thought I'd drop a quick line on the blog. Take care, everyone!

Wednesday Evening

Time sure does fly! I wish I had the time to blog more regularly. Our company left on April 1st. It was such a joy having Dennis' sister Jeannie here. The boys REALLY loved her, too! The house is so empty since she left! Last weekend was garage sale weekend. We didn't have much left so we didn't do quite as well as we did last month. We did about $170 in 2 days. More importantly, we got rid of a bunch of STUFF. Saturday, after we closed, I boxed up everything that wasn't going back into the house and took it over to Goodwill. It was nice to get it all out of the house!

Sunday was outside project day. I spent the day cutting and fitting together PVC pipe to run a line from the pool pump to the sewer clean out in the front yard. This allows us to backwash the pool directly into the sewer without having to use a pesky rubber backwash hose. It's so easy to use! Dennis helped me glue everything together once I got it all cut and fitted.

Tuesday evening, I went to the pool store to get the replacement pop-up heads for the in-floor cleaning system. We had 3 of them break over the winter. I also picked up some debris bags for the skimmer basket. The pool ran all night with all of the in-floor cleaners running and it was crystal clear this morning. Now it just needs to warm up and we'll be ready to get in!

This coming weekend, we've decided to join some friends out at McDowell Mountain Regional Park. Brandon and Jeremy are already there. They're going to let us know how full the park is tomorrow. If it's filling up, we may take the motor home out and snag a spot, then come back home to go to work Friday. After work Friday, we'll head back out for the weekend. If the park is looking pretty empty, we'll just wait until Friday. It's such a nice park and there aren't many weekends left where the weather is fit go to out there.

Dennis' first week at his temp job is almost over. It's not very cranial work. He would definitely prefer something more thought provoking and challenging. But I guess it'll do for now while he waits for an answer on the other opportunities still in the works. Continue to cross your fingers for him!

Have a great week and weekend!