IT WAS MOVING DAY UNDER CLOUDY SKIES

OUR NEW LOCATION

With weather channels predicting rain Thursday a high cloud cover moved in over top us late Wednesday afternoon.  We were planning to move anyway so figured it was a good idea to re-locate ourselves away from a sandy clay area right outside our side door.  Add water to sandy clay and the result is gumbo mud.  Not a good combination for RV'ers so we had to go get ourselves parked on a solid stony surface today.  Plus, we had tanks to empty today as well.

LOADING COTTON BALES BETWEEN THE CIBOLA WILDLIFE REFUGE AND BLYTHE CALIFORNIA

NARROW BRIDGE CROSSING OVER THE COLORADO RIVER

FOLLOWED THESE TWO TRUCKS TO BLYTHE WHERE THEY PULLED INTO A COTTON PROCESSING PLANT

BLYTHE HAS A GOOD DUMP STATION AT THEIR WATER TREATMENT PLANT...$7.00

Our winter travels so far have gone much better than last year when we were out here in the Southwest.  I don't know what happened but we just couldn't seem to get our usual RV hats on.  Much better this winter but must say when I happened to notice the date today I thought to myself, in a short month from now about this time we will be keeping a very close watch on the weather between here and Bayfield Ontario.  As much as we have been enjoying our time in the Southwest again this winter we are both very much looking forward to getting home again and back into our cozy little house with all it's familiarities and routines.  We are so fortunate to be Snow Birds and have a home to go home to.  Yes I know I say that every year but every year I just seem to appreciate it more and more.

NICE TO SEE THE OCOTILLOS GREENING UP

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Before heading south for a vacation, it may be a good idea to learn the language of our southern brothers and sisters. And we're here to help... Hah Tu Spek Suthun: 

BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck." 

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida. Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck." 

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I taint herd from him in munts."

 ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck." 

FAR - noun. A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far." 

BAHS - noun. A supervisor. Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!" 

TAR - noun. A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a flat tar in my pickup truck." 

TIRE - noun. A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime." 

RETARD - Verb. To stop working. Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65." 

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats." 

FARN - adjective. Not local. Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country." JU-HERE - a question. Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?" 

HAZE - a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert." 

VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun. Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?" 

GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Great ... 

ANOTHER gummit shutdown!
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