Watching the sky for sunrise, set, and the moon plus campers that come and go provided the week’s entertainment.
Some days’ entertainment starts by watching the sky for a colorful sunrise. Now happening at a respectable hour when I’m likely to be awake.
Then later watching the sky as the waxing moon peaked over an invasive yet beautiful Tamarisk tree.
Not always easy to avoid the many RVs parked nearby. Sometimes it’s a huge motorhome towing a SUV on a trailer, school bus or ambulance conversion, a 5th-wheel, tow-trailer, van, car, or a motorcycle. People come and go. I went out for propane and groceries plus found a strong enough signal to put out the last blog post. I’ve decided not to call these things “chores” anymore because of the negative connotation.
Watching the sky for storm clouds that did drop some light rain for most of a day. Thank goodness not a gully-washer storm or there would’ve been mass exodus because most of us RVs are parked in a huge dry wash. Also not a lot of solar charging going on. But did have enough to charge my phone and laptop plus start the fridge most of the time.
The next morning I was watching the sky drop over the eastern mountains. The 1% chance of rain held off and the day warmed to a partly cloudy 71°. I was actually able to get online briefly and check emails. Yippee, Social Security is giving a cost of living raise starting in January. Might be enough for an extra tank of fuel, if I didn’t drive a diesel.
Low clouds that evening meant no moon on the horizon but it did show at sunset.
Awoke to fog so thick I could barely see the neighboring RVs. Watching the sky over the next three hours the sun began to burn off the fog, then it came back and hung for a while before clearing completely.
Which allowed for the almost full moon rise on the horizon.
Waking to the sound of yet another freight train roll by got me watching the sky for another pretty sunrise. In fact I was up early because Joann was coming to get me.
From her place in town I was able to load the Verde Canyon train video. I know, I never got a blog post out about the train ride, and I might not. But the video is fun and I hope you’ll check that out. And please subscribe if you haven’t already.
Joann’s home is well decorated for Christmas and she gave me a present to unwrap saying it’s gag gifts and part of a tradition. We don’t usually exchange gifts, however we decorated the small tree together last year then took turns hanging it in our respective campers and a friend in a nursing home had it for a while also.
I now have an elf on a sort of shelf but it keeps moving to different places.
And who can resist chocolate? Not me.
I was a little late watching the sky for an almost full moon.
I was back to Joann’s on Wednesday picking up the box of calendars on my way to the Mexican border. Gayle had a dental appointment in Algodones the next morning so we camped in the parking lot on the US side and I was watching the sky for moon rise.
Calendars will be shipped this week. Still a few left if you’d like to order, $25 each includes shipping in the USA.