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Taken In Quartzsite Arizona Dec 7th 2015

Friday, December 12, 2014

Ants, wind and cooler temps, but we have it all under control.

Where are we today ?
     Warm night again and was wonderful. Even early this morning pretty nice (70 f) too, but went all downhill from there.
      Still dealing with the ants we picked up in Texas. Thought they were all gone. No ants here outside so they are Texas ants, can tell they are wearing cowboy hats ! Clean out a cupboard and all gone. Next day we find them in another place, at least we get to completely empty and clean all our cupboards, and closets and purge at the same time. Think maybe we have the problem resolved????
      We were enjoying our e-readers out side this afternoon and all was not too bad. As the day progressed cloud cover, temps dropped to the low 60's and winds picked up.
      Our patio faces west and all of a sudden the west winds came in here like gangbusters, right across the open sand dunes. We should know better. So we quickly unsecured the awning and a nice neighbor came to our help, gave us a hand to roll it up, or we sure would have lost it. All is good now we are safe and so is our awning. Back inside we go.
       We had planned to visit friends right behind our campground dry camping in the desert. But not gonna be nice with todays overcast, wind, cooler temps and a tiny bit of rain. We had also planned to do some fish and veggies on our Weber Q.  But just like rving we have a plan B .
not as nice as it was but still about 60f
had to put on a hoody and long pants
looks at the niegbor's flag
      The plan B was to make a huge pot of spaghetti sauce with lean ground turkey breast. Lots veggies, onions, mushrooms, garlic and simmer for a few hours.
         We had a spaghetti squash on hand and Suzie's choice was a (click next for the recipe) Spaghetti squash lasagne , Easy to do and very healthy and tasty.
all scouped out and ready to make
spaghetti ready to reassemble
finished meal with a tiny salad and lots leftovers
        Supper done, now its dark and the winds have died down. Thats a good thing. The rains killed the dust storms and looks like all we be better tomorrow.
       Thanks for the visit and hope your day was good too.
Posted by George, a.k.a. "The Weber "Q" Man of Blogland" according to Rick Doyle. 
 Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Winter.

16 comments:

  1. Not fun when it is too cold to visit! It was cool in Palm Springs today as well but should get better tomorrow.

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    1. It won't be so bad except for the wind and cloud cover, Saturday will be better.

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  2. Oh man, I remember one time we parked outside my brother-in-law's place. Total wood lot of three acres. Did we ever get ants! They were coming up the jacks and getting in that way. Managed to round them up with many many ant traps (little round things filled with stick stuff), but they got into just about every cupboard.
    After that, and unbeknownst to my brother-in-law, (he doesn't like to spray bugs it seems) I would lace the jacks and and around the base of the tires with raid whenever we'd visit. That did the trick. Good luck.

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    1. We found the source in Texas and stopped them from coming in, up the sewer hose but too late , they keep popping up everywhere. Think we have them removed now. Time will tell.

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  3. We've picked up ants too. They sure like to hitchhike. It took quite a bit to get rid of them. Ours were California ants. We're expecting the rain tonight but the wind isn't supposed supposed to be as strong here as in California. Hopefully, it'll warm up as fast as it cooled down.

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    1. We have been working of them for a week now think the issue is resolved.
      Hope it does warm up quick again too.

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  4. Glad you got to the awning just in time. We have ants here too - we don't want to use raid so we kinda just live with them. Not as bad now - we've stopped most from coming into the van - the small sugar ants. Hope the weather is just a blip.

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    1. They were getting into food so that was not good. Hope you have the ants under control now.
      Weather now calls for sunshine and less wind so should be awesome again.

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    2. Ants are not fun, especially the fire ants we had, that bite you! We seem to have ours under control now, but it was a battle!

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    3. These were not fire ants, think maybe sugar ants. Time will tell if we got them all.

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  5. Glad you saved the awning. Had to do that at 3AM once, it was funny seeing everyone outside securing their awnings. We keep the ants out by using vaseline. Make a ring around the sewer hose ( and waster hose ) and they don't come in. We also do our jacks and everything else that touches the ground.

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    1. The wind came up so fast and we had it secured, but got it down.
      Never had an ant problem in all the years we have rv'ed.
      Think we are good now though.

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  6. We've not had an ant issue but I can imagine it being a major pain. The sauce looks delicious.

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    1. It was from a jar but with the addition of the spices and everything else was very good.

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  7. Ants sure can be a pain to get rid of. They are pretty harmless, though, as long as they stay out of your pants... ;c)

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