BETWEEN SNOOZING & READING TO-DAY I WAS ABLE TO FIT IN SOME DOZING

RATTLESNAKE CRAFTS IS LOCATED OVER THERE IN THE GLEESON MOUNTAINS

It was 20 days ago that we left Ontario & to-day we had the quietest day since leaving home.  Kelly headed off to the exercise class but I decided to stay home.  My back is feeling normal again & I want to keep it that way.  Besides, I was able to get a bit of house cleaning done.  Did the dishes, vacuumed the floors, & made my bed real darn good.  I'm a handy little cuss to have around sometimes but just don't ask me to do any of that silly cooking stuff!!

THE A-10 BOYS FROM YUMA PAID US A VISIT TO-DAY

Want to clear something up about last night's blog.  There are no rattlesnakes at Rattlesnake Crafts.  John & Sandy do catch the rattlesnakes out in the desert but are not in the habit of bringing them home alive.  Their crafts are made from rattlesnake skins, rattles, etc.  John told Kelly there is no point in keeping live snakes around because they will just escape anyway.

 

Thanks for the compliments on last night's photo with myself in the blue ball.  If you look at the photo  you can see that blue ball in the bottom row about half way down.

Our weather changed a bit to-day with gusting winds coming in from the southwest & bringing the temps down to a more comfortable level.  It was a nice day for snoozing & reading with a bit of dozing in between the two.  And we didn't have to put the A/C on either which was a bonus.  Whenever you have to run the furnace you know it is too cold & whenever the A/C has to be turned on it's obviously too hot.  Somewhere between those two temperature extremes resides a little place called temperature heaven.

HEY, WHAT DID YOU SAY!!
LEGGO MY NOSE!!	OK, I’M SORRY
	YOU 2 GUYS ARE NUTS!!

We don't normally associate snow with Arizona but on February 10th of this year while at the ranch we did get snowed on:((  Saw snow on the Swiss Helm mountains to the east two days before so we should have known we were getting close to a dump.  By noon most of the snow had melted but I did manage to grab a few photos before it left.  Check out our BLOG & Picasa Web Album  WE GOT SNOWED ON for that day!!

WORKING WITH THE NEW COLEMAN

I do intend to try out the Yoga class in the morning but I'm sure not going in there with the attitude I did at the exercise class this past Monday morning figuring, 'hey' there isn't anything those women can do that I can't do.  Well, there was & my 21 year old attitude didn't match up with my 65 year old body & I paid the price.  Lesson learned!!

KELLY AT THE COMPUTER TALKING TO HER MOM & DAD ON SKYPE THIS AFTERNOON

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A man walked into a bar and sat down beside a women.  Suddenly her glass eye popped out and he caught it. She thanked him and asked him if he would join her for breakfast the next day. He agreed and got her address. The next day he went to her house and had a lovely breakfast. He asked, "Do you treat all men like this?" She smiled and said, "Just the ones who catch my eye."

I think my Live Writer problem last night may have been caused by a poor Verizon connection.  Same problem to-night so re-connected & I was OK.  Thanks to Rick for his advice comment to-day which I followed:))

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RATTLESNAKE CRAFTS IN THE DESERT

THESE OLD WEATHERED GUNS ARE THE REAL McCOYS

( For some unknown reason to-night's blog would not publish in Live Writer so I have reverted back to the Blogger program for to-night's post,)

My back was tweaking this morning but not as bad as yesterday. I'm not quite out of the woods yet because the upper back muscles have tightened up & bent we slightly forward. Just going to take a little time for things to ease up & settle down. Did not want to just sit around all day again so we decided to take a drive over to the old mining town of Gleeson & see if we could find the Rattlesnake Craft place we had heard about. We had spent a few hours in what's left of Gleeson last March & our blog for that day is HERE. And, check out our PHOTOS of the old ghost town.

HEAD NORTH OUT OF ELFRIDA & TURN LEFT TO-WARDS GLEESON & WATCH FOR THE WEATHER WORN RATTLESNAKE CRAFTS SIGNS

The pavement ends just west of Gleeson's cemetery & the dusty road eventually leads to Tombstone 20 miles to the west. We spotted a large western looking gate with the words 'High Lonesome Ranch Real Estate.' Took a drive through the scenic rolling hills & saw 6 or 7 homes scattered about here & there. Wide open spaces with up to a mile between places & you would need a good set of binoculars to see what color your neighbors car was. I would like it here:)) We continued up the main road a few miles where another old weathered sign directed us onto another dusty & bumpier road. Wasn't long & we rolled into the Rattlesnake Crafts Ranch.

ON THE HIGH LONESOME RANCH PROPERTY

Well, let me tell ya, this was quite the place way out here on the high desert in the shadow of the Gleeson Mountains. As soon as we parked & got out of the car I knew we were going to be there for awhile. Kelly was excited about the number of rocks & mineral specimens. I was fascinated with a whole acre of photo opportunities. This was a step back in time as countless bits of history hung everywhere. Weather-beaten pots & pans, old rusting guns, jars, & well, just too many things to even begin to mention. Somewhere over 5,000 items on display. I'll have to refer you to my photos to give you an idea of this place. Most everything is real & all of it is old, very old, with the exception of the many rattlesnake crafts which Sandy John make.

AND THIS IS THE ROAD INTO RATTLESNAKE CRAFTS

Sandra & John Weber have dragged home a lot of stuff over the years & what they haven't brought home others have brought out to their place. I think these folks were on the 'To-day' show years ago & there are a bunch of newspaper & magazine articles posted about them. They call their little 1 acre place in the desert Rattlesnake Crafts because they have a whole trailer full of just about anything you can imagine made from rattlesnake parts. In fact there are 150+ rattlesnake related items in the jam packed old vintage trailer. Wallets, belts, ties, sunglasses holders, hat bands, cell phone & knife cases, etc. etc. And where do the rattlesnake parts come from?? Usually within about a 20 mile radius of where they live. On warm summer nights during July & August they head out into the desert in search of the rattlers. John said it can take as much as 9 hours to track down a rattler. They have been doing this for years without injury or incident. Kelly asked him if they keep any snakes on their property & John said, "no, they just escape anyway."

LISTENING TO THE WIND TINKLE & JINGLE ALL THE OLD TREASURES

We didn't meet Sandra but she did go by on one end of a table her & John were carrying out to set up a rock collection. John, a very personable & friendly fellow did his best to answer Kelly's many gemstone rock questions. I was busy just looking at everything & taking pictures, marveling at the amount of history packed into this solitary little place kind out in the middle of nowhere. Pretty much everything is out in the open. No specially track lighted display cases or marbled museum floors here. Just the harsh Arizona sun above, cattle wandering by through the mesquite & cactus, & John's big rugged smile lighting up his cowboy boots from under is well worn & weathered cowboy hat. These are real western people & this is a real collection of wild west stuff they have here. No pressure from these folks to buy anything either. John just happened be setting up some stuff nearby when we got there. And everything is on the honor system. He said once they were away for 3 days, just left the place open, & when they returned someone had left $300 for some stuff they picked up. Real trusting down home folks these Webers are & isn't it too bad the rest of the world couldn't follow their example. If you don't mind a little dust on your tires or a bit of sunshine on your face just take the Gleeson road at the north end of Elfrida & follow it west. The placement ends west of the Gleeson cemetery & it's maybe another 5 miles or so to Rattlesnake Crafts. Watch for the signs & make sure your not transporting nitroglycerine or your gonna get blowed up for sure on the bumpy road:)) Check out Sandra & John Weber's website at.......RATTLESNAKE CRAFTS & ROCKS. Tell em the Bayfield Bunch sent ya:))

JOHN WEBER & KELLY.......'ROCK TALK'

Gets pretty hot in these parts by noon so we were back home about 12:30 & spent the rest of the day inside with the A/C on. Took a lot of photos so I will create a separate album for this mornings jaunt to Rattlesnake Crafts & upload it to our Picasa Web Album. Problem is we are almost out of bandwidth but I will probably upload the pics anyway. Sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do!!

THERE WAS A BIRD NEST IN THE FIRST POT ON THE LEFT

Sat out under the stars last night for awhile with my binoculars doing some Stargazing. I am always a little dis-oriented here in the southwest for awhile. Same stars & constellations for the most part but everything is slightly in a different place. No problem for me finding the constellation Pegasus last night but it took me a long time to find the Andromeda Galaxy which is located not far off one of Pegasus's 4 star points. Watched mighty Orion slip up over the Swiss Helm Mountains to our east. The Hyades & Pleiades were in fine form as were many other old familiar pals high in the sky. Could see 2 of Jupiter's moons. Arizona is probably one of the most popular astronomy areas in all of the U.S. & how lucky that is for me to be here in one of it's darkest areas. Stars from horizon to horizon in the cool, crisp, & clean desert air. Will be glad when my forgotten tri-pod arrives & I can pop my telescope on & see if I can find me some alien spacecraft:)) Do I believe in that sort of thing?? Absolutely!! Makes a whole lot more darn sense to me than many other popularly held beliefs.............10-4:))

AL'S SELF PORTRAIT IN A BLUE BALL AT RATTLESNAKE CRAFTS

To see the rest of our Rattlesnake Crafts photos from this morning click…. PICASA WEB ALBUM

And just in case anyone is wondering who AMOS & ANDY was from last night’s blog, just click on their names:))

GROANER'S CORNER:(( What do you call a guy on the side of the road with his hand up a horses behind? An Amish Mechanic!!

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The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now....AL.

PROBLEM!!!!

When I went to publish to-night’s blog I received the following message & the blog would not publish!!!!

The server reported an error with the following URL:

http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10886995/posts/default

400 Bad Request

I’m too tired to fight with this problem to-night & will try again in the morning!!!!

MONDAY’S EXERCISE CLASS CAUSED ME TO MISS TO-DAY’S YOGA CLASS &……..THE McAFEE STORY

 

My first Yoga class this morning was thwarted by my first exercise class yesterday morning.  While feeding the ranch dogs on my rounds earlier to-day I bent over to give Gleeson a tummy rub & felt that tell-tale quick sharp jab of pain in my lower back just to the left of my spine.  My old nemesis , Mr. Backpain  was back with a sharp reminder  that he is still around!!

LOOKING SOUTH TO-WARDS NACO MEXICO

First injured my back in the late 70's while working in a factory in Stratford, Ontario.  The company made large & very heavy cast iron V-belt pulleys so there was a lot of heavy lifting & for a young guy.....the heavier the lift the better.  Oh, the ignorance & bloated ego of youth!!  Every few years I will be doing something & my back will go out with varying degrees of severeness.  One time I laid on my apartment floor for a day & a half unable to even get up to reach a telephone.  Another time a doctor came to the house & gave me a shot of something & I was able to get to my feet.  Those were the 2 extreme cases.  Other times have meant painfully hobbling around for 4 or 5 days until the disc or whatever it is eases back into place.  Sometimes the injury is immediate & other times it's the following day after an event that my back goes.  I think this is one of those times & it's too co-incidental that I was laying flat on my back yesterday at the Elfrida Community Center with my legs up in the air pretending to peddle an air bicycle.  And then there were the ab crunches on my purple mat that left me feeling like an inverted crab at a Sourdough Saturday night barn dance.  I don't suppose my clumsy elephantine aerobic dancing helped matters either.

So, here I am at home in the rig while Kelly heads off to Yoga.  My back is sore but not debilitating & I think I may have dodged a bullet by immediately arching my back this morning right after the pain.  People in physical therapy once told me to do that when I first felt that first 'hot poker' jab.  Decided not to push my luck with a Yoga class this morning but hope to give it a whirl on Friday.  And I'm really not too darned sure if I'll be going back to that bouncing exercise class again.  Ya know, them there ladies in those boot camp classes are one bunch of tough dudes....or would that be Dudettes!!

 

CORRAL IS QUIETER THIS YEAR WITH 2 HORSES GONE & THE DONKEYS STILL IN PASTURE

There has been a bit of buzz lately about Google having access to people's accounts & activities.  RICK first brought it up in his blog a few days ago & I've read some blogs since then by bloggers who seem very concerned about it.  Personally, I don't understand what all the fuss is about.  So what if they know I've used 62% of my allotted space.  It's there business to know.  So what if they know I have 16 entries on my blogger profile, 159 contacts, have joined 28 other sites, have 10 conversations in my Inbox, 739 total conversations, a sore back,193 conversations in my Sent box, 93 Spam's or 179 conversations in my Trash box.  It does however tell me it's time to clean up some files for sure.  So what if I've got 21 gadgets installed, 282 public web albums, 17,316 photos, 9 fans, 42 photo comments, 30 reader subscriptions, a tattoo of Amos & Andy on the bottom of my left foot, 3 You Tube uploads, over 60,000 hits on the blogsite averaging 275 visits a day at the moment, 607 blog posts  so far or what color my Aunt Jean's Honda is!!!!  I just think some people are totally paranoid about certain unnecessary things.  Yes, I understand the need for security & all that, but come on people loosen up & be realistic.  There is a lot more to be worried about on the internet than Google.  I see Google as a good company making this whole internet/computer thing a fun, learning, & entertaining place for people to be.   As I said in a comment on Gypsy’s blog this morning.....I'm not worried about Google coming like a thief in the night & stealing my socks!!  Oh, wait a minute......how else would they have known about my Amos & Andy tattoo!!  ‘OH OH’…….:((

 

A DONKEY DUST BATH

And, speaking of computers & internet, I'm sure a lot of you people have heard of or are currently running McAffee anti-virus software.  I'm not going to give you my opinion of McAfee or Norton but the John McAfee story is a rather interesting one.  He's the founder of the anti-software company & is quite a flamboyant & controversial figure now living in, or shall we say hiding in Belize.  We stumbled across the McAffee story by accident last week while camped at RUSTY'S RV RANCH near Rodeo New Mexico & Portal, Arizona.  He was very prominent in this area a few years ago with his Sky Gypsy Aerodrome amongst other interests.  His story borders on the Howard Hughes lifestyle & McAfee actually bought & restored Hughes's old Airstream trailer.  Now, rather than me trying to re-tell the John McAfee story I'll just put in a few links where others have told the story much better.  I will include & caption the photos of his Para-Glider hangars, RV Park for his friends vintage Airstream Trailers with matching vintage cars, the building he built which housed the Sky Gypsy Cafe & movie theater.  It was here the rich & sometimes famous people partied on the decks to Karaoke into the wee hours of morn.  Couldn't get fresh veggies out here in the desert so he built his own large greenhouse to serve his friends whims  & needs.  He lost a Nephew & friend in a nearby canyon when their para-glider crashed into a rock wall.  After a few years McAfee left the valley just about as quick as he had come.  A huge auction was held & what wasn't sold McAfee gave away to many local residents.  Rumor has it he was hiding out at the Portal store for awhile when all the legalities were going on.  I think it might have been all the red tape from his various business ventures that finally drove him out of the country.  If you have the time, check the links for his rather fascinating Hugheslike lifestyle.  A colorful character for sure.

THE McAFEE STORY

SKY GYPSY VIDEO WITH JOHN McAFEE

THE AUCTION ARTICLE

WIKIPEDIA

 

THE McAFEE SAGA…….HOVER YOUR POINTER OVER THE PHOTOS FOR CAPTIONS & CLICK ON THEM TO ENLARGE

An easy way to follow our blog or anyone else's blog, or for that matter, any website is to simply put an icon on your desktop. To do that, just open up any website in your browser & look up to the top left of the page & find the word 'File.' Click that & a menu drops out. Scroll down to the word 'Send.' Another menu with 3 options pops out the side. If you want to send that website's address to anyone, just click on 'Link by Email' & it will automatically format an email for you to send. If you want to put an icon on the desktop for that website just click on 'Shortcut to Desktop.' In our case the icon will probably appear as an orange square with a white capital letter B in the center. Now, anytime you want to go to that website just click on that icon on your desktop & it takes you directly to the site. No more rummaging around looking for the website address:))

 

SAND HILL CRANES IN THE EARLY MORN

And to answer Squawmama's (can't find your email addy Donna) question regarding Verizon.  We bought & had the card activated in Silver City New Mexico last year around the end of November.  Purchased the card outright to avoid lengthy contracts.  The 5 GB cap was already in place by then:((  Kelly phoned Verizon this  morning so see if there was anything we could do about the cap but the next program up was a 10 Gig cap for nearly $200 a month.  Definitely not an option for us.  Verizon has lowered the penalty fee for going over the limit to 5 cents a megabyte from 25 cents a megabyte.  Guess if I wasn't such a blabberfingers & photo hog we wouldn't be having this 5 Gig problem.  Oh well, I'm encouraged by the fact I haven't touched a camera yet to-day..........:))

GROANER'S CORNER:((  I was driving home from work when, out of nowhere, a bird slammed into my windshield. The poor creature got its wing stuck under the windshield wiper, so I tried to get it loose by turning on the switch. On the first upswing of the wiper, the bird flew off, slamming into the windshield of the car behind me -- a police cruiser.  Immediately, the cop pulled me over. He walked up and told me he saw what happened. "I'm going to have to write you up," he said, "for flipping me the bird."

P.S. Did you really believe I had an Amos & Andy tattoo on the bottom of my left foot....tsk tsk:))   Oh, & if you don’t remember who Amos & Andy was……………….your probably too young to be reading this blog!!

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EXERCISE PROGRAM IN THE A.M. & A PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM IN THE P.M.

 

BRIGHT EYES IN THE SUNRISE

At Kelly's Yoga class last week she noticed other programs offered at the Chiricahua Community Health Center & one of those was a beginner's exercise program.  Well, guess where Al ended up this morning with Kelly prodding him through the door of the Elfrida's Community Center.  I knew I was in trouble right off the bat when it was obvious I was the only male there with 8 ladies, floor mats, wide elastic stretching bands, hand weights, & chairs.  I had seen these Senior exercise programs on TV before & now here I was about to become part of one.  So, it is true.  With the passing of the 65 age barrier I have entered into another era of my life.  I have become a Senior.  How did this happen & why did it happen to me!!!!

SOUTH SIDE OF THE RANCH HOUSE’S WRAP AROUND PORCH

Fortunately I had Kelly to lead me around by the hand this morning picking out a floor mat (purple) for me & suggesting what hand weights would be suitable.  I was hoping they would have balloons for weights.    She even brought me a chair for balancing & sitting exercises.  The instructor of course was the youngest person in the room & I of course was the odd man out in the room.  Made sure I got myself in the back row to avoid as much major embarrassment as possible.  The class lasted an hour & at no time did I feel I was doing any of the exercises remotely right.  Just a few short years ago I was smoothly moving through all 108 moves of a complex Taoist Tai Chi program & here I was this morning having trouble with walking on the spot.  Some of the leg twisting & stretching exercises shot pain through both my knees & I found that very discouraging.  My co-ordination was off & I felt like I had bags of sand in my joints.  And, to-morrow morning is my first Yoga class.........oh dear:((

Another free program offered by the Chiricahua group is photography.  Now, that one perked my interest because I'm always willing to learn new & better ways of doing things.  The 2 hour program was held in the Elfrida library at 1 P.M. with 6 people in attendance.  I think small communities always seem to have the nicest people & to-days gathering of shutter bugs was no exception.  I generally use Picasa 3.5 as my photo program but Ray & Jean O'Neal talked of another photo program called Paint.Net 3.5.  Kind of a half way  program between Picasa & Photoshop.  I have already downloaded it & will be taking it for a test drive shortly.

 

THE PHOTO GANG…..MAYBE BY THE END OF THE MONTH I WILL REMEMBER EVERYONE’S NAME

Ray also told me a place nearby called Rattlesnake Crafts which actually made it on to the ‘To-day’ show awhile back.  Sounds like we'll be heading out there soon for a day trip.  Not exactly sure what is all there but I guess that's why we're going to go. 

OLD FARM MACHINERY OR AN ALIEN COUPLE FROM ROSWELL

We are really having to scramble & re-think our on-line internet habits.  We are on a limited 5 GB Verizon Air Card & already we are over the 80% usage mark & we've still got one week to go.  We learned last year to avoid unnecessary downloads & uploads.  No using the web cam with Skype anymore & we don't send or receive large mega gobbling jokes while we're traveling.  I wonder if some of Windows Live Writer applications may be consuming a lot of bytes.  I might have to cut back on the photo album feature, decrease the size of my pics, & just simply upload less photos.  Maybe skip a blog or two which may be a reality sometime in the coming days as we rapidly approach our 5 Gig cap.  We love our air card.......except for the 5 Gigabyte cap!!!!  But, to skip a blog or two is just not acceptable

Welcome to new followers MAC & DIANNA & TRENT & TERESA.  Thanks for following our blog folks:))

GROANER'S CORNER:))  What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho cheese.

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The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now....AL.

A RETURN TO BISBEE & THE BBC

 

NO, THIS IS NOT A BIKER GANG…..JUST SOME MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIASTS DROPPING IN FOR BREAKFAST AT THE BBC

Needed groceries this morning so it didn't take us long to get ourselves on the road heading for a small alpine like village nestled snuggly in the nearby Mule Mountains a short 30 minute drive from the ranch.  We first stumbled into & out of Bisbee Arizona 3 years ago on our way from Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus New Mexico to Tombstone, Az.  It was a nastily cold day & the mountains had seen snow.  We came into the east end of Bisbee, got spun around a couple times in a traffic circle, went past the biggest hole in the ground I had ever seen, & somehow right down into a packed little town with nary a space big enough to turn a truck & fifth wheel around.  I remember making a wide swing in a partially snow covered car infested parking lot of sorts, making a panic right turn which put us on a direct collision course with what appeared to be the lowest overhead bridge I'd ever seen.  But, there was no turning or backing up.  We both let out a gasp (ok, mine was more of @*!!*#^) waiting for the inevitable jarring, ripping, & tearing off of our trailer's roof mounted air conditioner, as we whooshed under that bridge around a tight curve to the left, saw an RV Park sign flash by (& parts of my life too) & somehow we were back up on the highway heading for Tombstone. The air was so 'blue' in the truck we had to open the windows to let all the swearing out.  Figured we had just driven through the town from hell.  Don't ask me how we got out of there without a scratch but we somehow did and that was our very first introduction to a town we would later come to love, but not see again until this past winter....3 years later.

THIS STREET REMAINS SUSPENDED IN TIME

I have a lot of photos of Bisbee that I took this past March so I am going to include the blog links & photo sites here including a tour of Bisbee's Queen Mine:

BLOGS

BISBEE FEB 12/09

BISBEE FEB 19/09

BISBEE FEB 20/09

BISBEE BBC MARCH 19/09

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PHOTOS

:ALBUM 1

ALBUM 2 

ALBUM 3

ALBUM 4

 

XKE JAGUAR PARKED ACROSS FROM THE BBC

Our first stop in Bisbee this morning was to the BBC.  No, not the British Broadcasting Corporation, but the Bisbee Breakfast Club.  This great little eatery was recommended to us earlier in the year & we have been there 3 times since.  If you make it to Bisbee be sure to eat at the BBC.  In the above photo albums you will see photos of our times there & I took a few more this morning when we popped in for breakfast.  The old main street where the BBC is located is like no other.  It hasn't been restored, refurbished, or re-done since the whole town seemed to just pack up & move away many years ago leaving this one street as a reminder to an almost forgotten era.  The street remains suspended in time.  And it is in this suspended time location that you will find the BISBEE BREAKFAST CLUB  And it was here that we found ourselves this morning bellied up to the lunch counter because as usual the place was packed & the only 2 seats in the house were at the counter.  That turned out to be a good thing because we looked directly across at the very busy open kitchen.  Just watching the 3 fellows preparing the food was like poetry in motion.  They never stopped for a second as all three of them flittered about in the small space totally focused on the task at hand.  I was worn out from just watching those guys.  Kelly ordered something kinda Mexican on the menu that I couldn't even pronounce so knew right away I wasn't gonna have that.  Settled for one of my old reliable standards.....bacon & eggs.  Food was great, service was great, & as usual......the BBC was great:))  Always quite a cast of characters coming & going here & that in itself makes the place a really interesting stop.

I WAS WORN OUT JUST WATCHING THESE THREE GUYS

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TO-DAY’S BISBEE PHOTO ALBUM

Next stop was the Thrift Store.  Realized last week that I had forgotten to bring my short sleeve shirts.  I remember standing in front of my closet back home, picking out 5 or 6 summer shirts & laying them out on my bed & that was that.  I probably got busy with something else & it may have been a couple hours before I walked back into my room a few hours later, saw a pile of shirts on my bed, & while wondering what they were all doing there.........promptly hung them all back up.  Oh, & Rick, it's OK, there were no blood stains or bullet holes in the 3 shirts I got to-day.  I was very careful about that when I picked them out:))

HAD TO CROP OUT THIS GUYS GIRLFRIEND ON THE GREEN BIKE BECAUSE SHE HAD SOME NASTY’S WRITTEN ON HER LEATHER JACKET:))

 

The last stop of our Bisbee jaunt  to-day was to my favorite grocery store.  Yes, it's true, even men can have favorite grocery stores.  Can't remember the name of it  but it's across from Jimmy's hot dog place on the road that goes down to the Mexican border at Naco.  And why is it my favorite??  Well, strangely enough it doesn't have anything to do with food.  It's all in the lighting.  Instead of just the blatantly boring blast of neon lights from the ceiling this grocery store uses a lot of clever track lighting to highlight displays, food colors, & aisles, etc.  The store has a warm cozy feel to it, especially in the produce department.  Maybe it's my photographic eye that picks up on the soft colors, shadows, & highlights.  It's a very attractive way to display food & whoever did it is way ahead of his time.  Thank-you for making this my favorite grocery store Mister smart lighting guy or ‘ahem’..................girl:))

I HAVE MORE PICTURES OF THIS CAR IN THE PHOTO ALBUMS FROM LAST WINTER WHEN WE WERE HERE

P.S. The little yellow Tweety Bird & purple Gooble Bear that sit on the dash of our motorhome are both  from a Bisbee Thrift store & that’s why we call them……’The Bisbee Kids:))’

GROANER'S CORNER:))  A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the lavatory equipment. A police spokesperson was quoted as saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on!!

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The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now....AL.

I will include to-day's Bisbee photos in the following Live Writer album.......