Busy October

We moved 10 miles down the road to TTN Verde Valley on Oct 4 and promptly saw friends we have not seen in a long time. It is such fun to again meet up with friends! After the chapel service on Sunday at the clubhouse we went for Chinese at the Ming House in Cottonwood with Art & Faye and Beau & Becky. It turns out those two couples met this summer in Florence, OR and we have known both of them for many years! It really is a small world! Larry ended up working on both couples’ MH. Art and Faye’s 2007 Monaco turn out to be quite a challenge but Larry figured out how to make it work. The part that broke is no longer made and with Monaco out of business, things did not look too good. It did take several days but they had over a week and Larry finished the job and everything worked perfectly. PTL!

The part that broke on Art and Faye's MH and Larry's "fix"

Our site for three weeks while at TTN Verde Valley, AZ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





We went to see the Hired Hands again on Friday night only this time with Art and Faye. We stayed until they closed down. We always enjoy hearing them and they played my request, a song Jesse composed several years ago that I think is awesome.

Oct 15 we rode the bike to Prescott via Jerome and Mingus Mountain to see Larry’s mom. We did several errands for her and ended up bringing her truck back to Cottonwood to try and sell it for her. We returned on Thurs. and a fellow who has helped his Mom in the past stopped to say he wanted to buy the truck. We rode the bike back to Cottonwood and I decided to count the curves on 89A between Prescott National Forest and the city limits of Clarksdale—there are 185 of them! We made arrangements to return Monday morning Oct 22 to first get a new mattress and box springs for his Mom and then take her to the bank to sign the truck title and deposit the check. Since then she has had “seller’s remorse” even though she has not had her driver’s license for 10 months. She will be 90 in January and we don’t think she should be on the road anyway as she does not have good reaction time.

Thursday Oct 25 found us on our way back to our leased lot in Phoenix. We stopped for diesel a few miles from our lot and God was looking out for us as we would not have been able to get into the station if there had been any other cars there. We had to turn right and go around the block to get back on our planned route but were very grateful we were able to get fuel there as it was the cheapest station around. Vince came over and helped us get everything arranged and worked like a real trooper! Since we turned off the water before we left all the plants were dead (Larry was happy because he doesn’t like ‘green’) and Vince took two of them out and put them in the trash. He then took us out for German food in Glendale. How’s that for a good son-in-law?

Saturday night we ate at the clubhouse for the monthly dinner, October fest food again. It was nice being welcomed back to the community.

Sunday Oct 28 Dawn and Vince surprised us by showing up at church and then we all went to the AZ State Fair. Colby and his girlfriend along with Bethany and a girlfriend met us at the fairgrounds. We watched the dog handling competition of many branches of peace officers which was very interesting. I would not want to be on the “receiving end” of a dog’s teeth!! We ate lots of greasy fair food but were disappointed that the Dole Pineapple ice cream stand was not there. Of course I had to have Indian Fry bread! We spent eight hours there and didn’t spend any money for anything except food. Of course the kids bought ride passes and spent much of their time riding the rides. We did catch up with them for food. (Thanks to cell phones—what did we do without them?)

Larry, Vince and Dawn at the AZ State Fair

A new exhibit at the AZ State Fair called "World of Giant Bugs" really quite interesting xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Monday Larry had an appointment at the VA to see if there was something other than age that caused his altitude sickness back in UT in June. He did a test of his lungs and he has the lungs of a 64 year old so that is very good. The doctor did give him some pointers on how to acclimate to higher altitudes in the future.

November will be even busier!