The Wait Continues

Phoenix had its first 100º day on May 3 and May 4 we had our family get-together to celebrate Todd’s birthday, Vince’s birthday and our leaving for the summer.  We had a pizza party along with angel cake and pistachio ice cream.  Two grandsons were unable to attend.  Shane is in Lubbock, TX working and Alex, while he doesn’t have a regular job, had an opportunity to work and making a little cash is something a 19 year old male does not turn down.

Todd, Vince Larry , Cere´t, and Krista at our get together

Checking out the birthday gifts

Getting ready to enjoy birthday cake

Dawn and Vince's family had a family pix taken on May 4 

On Tues May 6 we pulled out ready to head to Cottonwood when we had red lights and alarms going off in the motorhome.  We stopped and checked everything and started out again only to have a red light on the dash.  We stopped again about half a mile away and again Larry checked everything out.  A good Samaritan stopped to see if we needed any help which was nice.  We figured we were delayed 5-10 minutes and when we started again everything checked out OK.  I thanked the Lord for the delay for whatever reason He had.  We had a good trip with a tailwind for most of the way and I had forgotten about our delay until we were about a mile away from the campground entrance when we came upon a terrible crash that had happened about 5-10 minutes before as the ambulance was just arriving behind us and had come from Camp Verde about 10 miles away.  PTL, He delayed us so we were not in the middle of that mess!!

Friends, Ed and Lana were in the park and saw us come in so he stopped to say “hi” while Lana was taking a line dance class in the pool clubhouse.  We last saw them in Capitan, NM last summer while we were volunteering at Bonita Park.  They have a place near there, much like our Merrill place, where they ‘visit’ to exchange items they did and didn’t use the last year while out.

May 16 was the annual Sheep Crossing of the Verde River just below the TTN campground.  I almost missed it as when I went down around noon and the sheep were bedded down one of the herders said they would cross at 3 PM.  I arrived at 2:45 PM and they were just about across the river.  There were 1500 sheep this year.  They will summer in the high country below Flagstaff.  Supposedly the drive helps them ‘lamb’ better.

The sheep bedded down at noon.  They started from Corder Junction,AZ

Our tires that I ordered in February still are not in Klamath Falls.  We are using the FMCA Advantage Program with Michelin and are saving $1000 over Goodyear tires.  When we do finally get them they should be really “fresh”!  Since the tires are delayed we are hanging out in AZ for another three weeks in the hopes the tires will arrive before we go through Klamath Falls.  If not, we will backtrack from La Pine to K Falls to get them.  Saving $1000 makes spending $100+ on fuel  less significant.  As a result of all the changes, I keep making changes to our reservations.  Everyone has been very understanding though.  Over the years I have learned there is a reason for the delay so I am anxious to see just what God has planned instead. 

The nice pull thru site we have at Camp Verde RV in Camp Verde, AZ

While at Verde Valley we met some new full timers from Klamath Falls and seemed to ‘click’ with them.  He does metal work and had two different “Tweety’s” so we decided we had to have them.  Larry has an idea for them which he will work on when we finally get to La Pine.  Our Mexican Tweety which was damaged in our crash in 2008 is again coming apart due to moisture getting into the plaster of paris so he will need to be replaced soon.  

More next month.