Indio, CA

We are at home in Outdoor Resort Indio, living on Ed and Betsy's (Monacos in Motion) extra pad. It's a gorgeous place--this is our backyard, and we have a number of friends in this park from Monaco North Central. If we get the walking, biking, pickle ball, swimming, jeeping done before 5:00 for drinking we'll do fine!

Back to Minnesota

We left Indio on the morning of Mitch's birthday. Caryn taught Brayden "Happy Birthday to Grampa". Check it out at braydenandus.blogspot.com.


We arrived in Minnesota late and woke up to snow. Beautiful (for a day)!












Our other greeting was Addy--we were looking forward to that one!














Then off to "up north" deer hunting. Bryan actually shot this six pointer, but Jim and Mitch had to clean it!
















Back in the cities Bryan and Stacy came over to make wild rice soup--a lot of it-- 13 pheasants worth! The soup was wonderful!












Every day we took Addy to the hospital to "play" with Mommy. Sarah is now 30 weeks along in her pregnancy and she and the baby are doing well. They still have four weeks to go before the little one is born. That is a long hospital stay for that family! Say a little prayer for them.













Addy, however, is a charmer, and we had a ball with her. She loved making "tall towers" with Grampa.











She is also a little character. After telling Kaiser the dog to move, she sat down on his bed. When I asked her what Mommy would say about being on the hairy bed, she said, "No no!"

She also loves to color and will carry one crayon around saying "paper only" before she slyly makes her mark on whatever is close. I love those washable crayons!





Addy is very verbal and has a great vocabulary for an 18 month old. Since Mommy has been in the hospital Addy has gotten to watch TV (football) with Daddy. Play the video to see what he has taught her.

It was a busy 12 days in Minnesota and we loved seeing our family and friends! We are now back in Indio being busy in a different way!

Brayden--Days Gone By

A professional photographer came to "school" to take pictures of the kids one day. Brayden didn't feel to well, but that stoic little face just makes the picture!

Update on Sarah

Sarah always sounds upbeat when I talk to her on the phone. She is trying to keep busy and is now doing some of her work with her laptop from her bed. She just had a bout of kidney stones, but they passed and she is now pain free.

Coming up to four weeks--thank God and let's keep praying!

Bullhead City, Arizona

We are parked in Bullhead City across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, the "new" Las Vegas. This is a view of the strip of casinos that we can see from our campground.

This deserty area is full of arroyos, large gullies the look liked they have been scraped out of the desert. If Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Arizona must be the Land of 10,000 Arroyos!

On the road again--to northwest Arizona

We are always amazed at the country we see. Driving through northern Arizona was fascinating. Although there is desert, there was a lot of mountains--sharp and craggy. We were amazed that Flagstaff sits at 7000 feet and gets about 100 inches of snow in the winter.

This is the London Bridge. I wanted Mitch to sing and I would do a video, but he wouldn't do it. The London Bridge was purchased for $2,500,000 from London and put back together for $4,500,000 in Lake Havasu City.

Pickle-Ball

Mitch's mom keeps track of where we are and what we are doing, but doesn't know what pickle-ball is. So, these are the paddles and the whiffle balls that we use. The game is played on a sport court (like a small tennis court).

One must play as often as possible--preferably twice a day for a least two hours each. But never run backwards to return a ball--it's only worth one point!

Actually, there are rules, we usually play doubles--the game is similar to tennis and we play for fun.


We've met some great friends on the court! Our last night at Verde Valley was a pickle-ball get-together.