October 18, 2010 - Evening

EG commented that I should have just looked for a McDonalds for a WIFI hot spot Saturday night. I don't think EG has ever been in Jackpot, NV before! To get to the nearest McDonalds, we'd have had to backtrack fifty miles or drive 70 miles to the south of us! Not something I would be apt to do in my pajamas ;-) That area of Nevada is high desert, and miles and miles of nothing. Nothing!

There wasn't much excitement on the trip down. Unless you consider my driving through Las Vegas in a pouring rain, and getting from one side of the city (at the Las Vegas Speedway) to the other (Henderson, NV) in 19 minutes flat. I always try to hit Vegas on a Sunday, the traffic is light and seldom moves under 70 mph through the city.

Someone had an exciting (terrifying) day, though. We just missed seeing the accident, the ambulance passed us a few miles from the scene (*none of the people pictured are known to me)........

A peaceful little rest stop north of Las Vegas.

Somebody missed the turn to the entrance.

Mr. Granny thinks it used to be a Cadillac.

Not much left after the jaws of life peeled back the top and pulled off the passenger door. Note the wheelchair on the rear bumper. It was probably an elderly couple. I wonder if they survived it, the ambulance wasn't traveling very fast. Sad.

Weeds, weeds, everywhere! I got everything unpacked and put away today, then cleared the weeds from around the front porch, and got most of them pulled and raked from the fenced in area in front. Then I cleaned the entire front porch. I scrubbed the outdoor furniture, hosed off the concrete, the railing and the big rug, cleaned the barbecue and found my seashell thingy and got it hung up. I bought it at a yard sale a few years back, love to hang it on the porch or from a tree, for a bit of whimsy. I took thirty minutes for a quick nap, then hauled out a hose and sprinkler and gave the palm tree and the front cactus beds a much needed drink of water. It looks as though the drip system hasn't worked for quite some time. Evidently the minerals in our well water clogged all the emitters, so everything was terribly dry.

Nice clean porch. The rabbit is still in his travel cage. He'll be back into the larger one tomorrow.

Cookie

I got the entire fenced in area weeded and raked. It probably doesn't look like a big deal unless you know that, after being abandoned for 7 months of hot, dry summer, the entire property looks like this.....

And if you think this is bad, how many of you remember my pretty little garden from last winter?

My tiny Arizona garden last winter.

Here it is now.......

So, I think you can see why we had to get down here. We have the place up for sale, and it's going to take extra work to get it in shape this year. We've only had one other "weedy year" in the seven years we've lived down here, thank heavens!

It was lovely and cool outside this evening, so I put some potatoes and hamburger patties on the grill, heated some veggies in the microwave, and we ate our dinner on the porch. There was lightening in the sky towards Wickenburg, so we enjoyed the "fireworks" while we ate.