Tweety Coach on the Road: September 2015

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Heat on the downhill?

We started off August by celebrating Bethany’s 21st birthday at Olive Garden. While her birthday was the end of July we could not all get together until Sunday the 2. We had a great time and just about closed the place down. We also celebrated Krista’s birthday and instead of cake, both 'girls' wanted pie so Bethany had a lemon meringue pie and Krista had a pecan pie, both very good.

Birthday girl at Olive Garden

Bethany's birthday 'pie'

Colby and Krista closed on their new house on Friday Aug 7 and started moving that night. We had told them we would help them UNLOAD since their apt. was on the second floor with no elevator. It took them a lot longer to load than they anticipated since many of their boxes were books and they had to go down step by step. It took them 7 hours to load and with Dawn and our help only 1 1/2 hours to unload. They both had the next week off to unpack and get situated. Their new house is very lovely.

Kitchen in Colby and Krista's new house on move in day

Our realtor called on Aug 11 to say the house in Prescott had been broken into and the central vac was stolen from off the garage wall. The door locks on the slider door and the side garage door were broken and the door knob to the side garage door was missing. That door standing open was what alerted a neighbor that something was wrong and they called our realtor. Larry quickly called Doyle who painted the house and asked him to see about securing the house as soon as possible. He was able to get both doors repaired and secured that evening. We tried to get rez for a campground in Prescott but all were full up so we ended up going to Verde Valley in Cottonwood for nine days. Cottonwood is about 5-10º cooler during the day and 20º cooler at night than Phoenix so it was a nice break from the oppressive heat of Phoenix. We took just the bike and went to Prescott via Jerome on the 20th and then returned by way of I-17 after meeting with Doyle. Our realtor was away on a mini vacation after being in the hospital for a few days, so we did not see him. We enjoyed our time in Verde Valley. The views there are awesome. They were having power issues so they restricted the 'A' section we were in to only 10 sites open so it was really quiet. One morning I awoke to an odd sound and when I looked out the door saw a hot air balloon had landed just across the street from us!

Looking out our front door

The view I had each morning for my devotion time at Verde Valley

Friday night we went to the campground’s restaurant for the Fish Fry and to hear The Hired Hands Band. We have been following them for 15 years when Molly was just a little girl of five. She is now a very talented young lady as she plays five different instruments.

Molly, Jesse and Michele- The Hired Hands Band

Vince called us on Aug 18 to say they had their permit to build finally and it would start Monday Aug 24. I told him if we had known all it took was for us to leave town, we would have left weeks before!

We had the MH washed and hand waxed on Tuesday Aug 25 since it has been over a year since it was last waxed. Four hours after the fellow was finished we had a downpour that lasted well into the night. At least the motorhome was 'protected' even if the nice wash job didn’t last very long. It was a very reasonable price and was done with RO water since the water at Verde Valley is extremely hard. Rain water is 'soft' so it didn’t take much to touch up the few spots Wednesday morning before we left.

When we returned to Phoenix on the 26th we stopped at Copper Star Indoor Shooting Range in Camp Verde so Larry could 'sight in' his new rifle and scope. It is the only 100 yd indoor range in the state. Larry 'said' we would stop for an hour but it was three hours before we left. I was talking to the range master while Larry was on the range. He is a retired Eugene, OR police officer so we were talking about all the neat places in OR that we both have visited. He said he was last in Eugene in July 2015 at Premier RV Park and because the temps. were near 100º which is unusual for there, that park was having power issues with everyone running their A/Cs all the time.

Larry's rifle and new scope that he sighted in at Copper Star

We ended the month by going to Golden Corral to celebrate Larry’s birthday and our 55th anniversary on Sunday Aug 30. Then Monday Aug 31 we made two trips to the property, the first at 9 AM to meet with the contractor and septic fellow. The inspector was just leaving as we arrived and he had approved everything so the contractor said they may be able to pour the footers that afternoon which they did around 2 PM. We made it up there in time to see the concrete truck washing up. They will be back in the morning to finish up. Once the permit was issued, things are really starting to hop. Hopefully it will continue to move along smoothly.