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| We should have been a bit earlier in the day to get proper lighting for a picture |
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| The view looking back. Pretty ordinary but it was good exercise |
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| This octillion would have appeared completely dead a month ago. |
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| Our home for the next few days. It is so peaceful here, only the coyotes at night. 20 to 25 degrees during the day and 8 degrees at night. Just perfect |
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| Every night this falcon came to hang around until morning |
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| Rose's birthday with Celine and Judes |
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| A group meal with chief Judes |
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| Left to Right John and Barb (BC) Sylvie and Emile (QC) Celine (QC) Rose , Hippie Bob (The Planet) Old Bob ( New York), Judes (QC) Because we hade 3 Bob's in the crowd they all got nicknames |
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| Old Bob always had lots of stories to tell! 80 years of them |
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| The three wise men, Judes, Bob, and Hippie Bob |
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| a very special memory |
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| Our first real hike of the year |
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| We started to climb this peak but it proved to tough for the first time out, very steep and and loose rocks that made for poor footing. At the top beside the flag and cross there is supposed to be a bible where you can go to meditate. maybe pray for a safe descent. |
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| A lonely cactus inn the distance, looked out of place |
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| Part of the 2nd trail heading towards the towers |
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| They call this the telegraph trail, I guess the trail predates cell phone towers. |
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| A look back at Yuma. Not visible in the pictures , but a lot more rvs than homes at this time of year |
Howling at the Moon
We went to "the howling at the moon " last evening. During the full moon each month people gather in the foothills to listen to live music from 3pm to 9pm
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| This monster of a unit was parked near us on the BLM. Most likely 75 feet long combined. |
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| Down town there was a bank of 36 Tesla Chargers in one set up. There were 6 being used when we happened to stop by. |
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| Behind Rose is a camel constructed of roots and branches. Very cool piece of art. The camel is part of the Quartzite logo . I think it was in the 1930's that they experimented with camels here to be used instead of pack horses. After a few years the experiment died out. |
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| A lot of beautiful crafts on display. This is made from feathers, absolutely beautiful. |
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| Same artist. All made from features , but I wasn't able to get a good picture because of the glare on the glass. |
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| This is all wood burning carving, on interesting shapes of wood. Touched up with paint for color after. |
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| Same artist |
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| The skulls are cleaned by putting them in a container with some type of beetle. They clean off all of the flesh and cartilage. This process takes approximately a month. Peroxide is used to whiten the bones. |
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| Not sure who would collect these but they are all small animal skulls. Skunks, racoons, squirrels, etc. They even had bat skeletons, mounted in picture frames |
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| This would look cool on a patio. It holds 3 bottles of liquor and you just open the tap to serve. |
Not much to report as we have been just hanging out at the Yuma BLM for the last while with friends. We have now moved on to Quartzite to the RV and Gem Show.
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| Cool looking bike |
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| We got a kick out of the sign on the bar. "Adult Day Care" |
We are back at one of the camp sites that we always stop at when we arrive in Yuma. It is almost like a home coming, as many of the same people are here that we have met in previous years.
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| We see this guy flying his ultra lite every year |
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| Denis from Sherbrooke brought his horse for the winter. |
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| Jude and Jacques preparing the steaks for supper. |
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| Enjoying our evening meal with the neighbors. |
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| There isn't a better way to finish off a nice meal and a camp fire than having a marshmallow roast |
We spent the morning at the Yuma regional medical center. Rose has had a high temperature and head aches for the last 4 days. It is a very large complex with teaching facilities, as well as a cancer center and a heart center. Wait time was about 10 minutes, and she was being attended to by a nurse, then a doctor shortly after. They determined that she had a urinary trac infection so she was given antibiotics and was released about 3 hours later. Great service , and really nice caregivers.
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| Notice the sign on the bottom of the door. No fire arms allowed. Immediately inside the door was an armed security guard and a airport style metal detector that everyone had to walk through. |
The drive from Holbrooke to Yuma is very interesting and varied. When you leave Holbrooke you are at 5000 feet , you climb to just over 8000 feet and then descend into Yuma that is actually at or below sea level, depending upon where you are.
At 8000 feet there was complete snow cover at least a foot deep, and banks on the side of the highway 2 to 3 feet high. People travel to this area to ski and snow shoe and there are snowmobile trails everywhere. I wasn't able to take any pictures as the sun had not come up yet.
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| Not sure of the elevation at this spot but a lot less snow than at the peak |
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| Once you get to the lower elevations you start to travel through dairy country. These mega dairy farms have upwards to 10,000 milk cows. They are housed in open barns with just a roof. Each barn probably has a 100 to 200 head with barns all lined up beside each other. Because the water table has been depleted so badly over the years the wells to water these animals are drilled about 2500 feet deep. |
