Arizona Market Place and a sunny day with a cool, west wind

Where are we today ?

Pilot Knob Resort

 clic a pic to enlarge it

        A great sleep and a mild night 52F at 5am was very nice and no wind to start the day off. Got my first walkabout as the sun was rising, but it hid behind the clouds so no colourful display today.
       Back home I thought we would enjoy a small beef chuck roast, today , Picked up one the other day at Fry's on Sale a 2.5 lb beef roast  for $7:45 not often we eat beef but with this deal. Cut it in half to put in our freezer. Into my slow cooker with potatoes, onions and carrots on low and just let it go all day and enjoy the lovely smell through our house.
        Then at about 9:30 we headed into to the Arizona Market Place just because we could on a nice sunny day. But a cold west wind.

love the market place always something new

      I cut this roast in half and froze the rest.

cut this in half for 2 meals

     We do enjoy this market , and ran in to good friends Rob, Pat, Patsy and Bill as they were leaving . At 10 am never to busy yet but we  saw what we wanted and bought a few things that we were looking for.

lots of fresh fruits and veggies, good prices too

      Back home by noon for at tasty light lunch then enjoyed the afternoon, very warm sunshine out of the wind with our e-readers.

Loving these amazing blue skies here in the desert

       Later on we moved our car to block the west wind and enjoyed the sunshine on our patio.

 this make a nice wind screen 

      After 3 pm our friends Kim and Ken joined us for Happy Hour. Just because they could and we were outside anyway. Always fun to chat with these guys, when we can.

Kim , Ken and Suzie

        As it cooled down about 5 pm they headed home and I made some Yorkshire Pudding mix to go with our Roast beef , potatoes and carrots done to perfection on our Crock Pot.

 this package does a great job so easy and quick

our crock pot we love

these Yorkshire puddings we love

        Roast and veggies done now to thicken the gravy , so quick and easy.

     Supper cooked perfectly in the crock pot, Added some Turnip we had in the freezer and really hit the spot today. Leftovers? Yup we did and will be great for light lunchtime meals.

what a very tasty roast beef diner we enjoyed

       As supper was done we did actually manage to catch a bit of the end of today's sunset.

a perfect ending to another  great desert day

    Hey, thanks again for dropping on by.

Returning to Ontario April 10thCountdown

Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ? 

click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com to book a tour 

 Where have we been this Winter?

Sunny warm, Imperial sand Dunes, and fun with friends.

Where are we today ?

Pilot Knob Resort California

 clic a pic to enlarge it

     A great sleep and the usual up early on a warmer morning with next to no wind, and the sunrising warming the desert up very nicely. Got a few walkabouts around the campground. Then seeing as we have not plans today we can pack away our Christmas decorations for another year.

a cool morning cloud this morning

soon to be a nice sunrise

           Clear blue sunny skies and no wind!! Loving it, is gonna be an awesome day.
 After a light lunch I hopped in the car to check out the Imperial Sand Dunes about 10 miles down the road west of here. And being a nice week during Christmas busy as always. Amazing to see all these people camped here with their dune buggies, atv's, motorcycles and sand rails having fun in this desert playground.

this is an amazing place to see
we have camped here couple if times years ago

     I headed down the the Plank road and checked it out , nice to see it has been restored very nicely.

sample of this plank road

the original plank road  kinda cool

another se action that was used as well

         I drove around just because I could checking out all these rigs and families here, amazing family times and memories for the people.

a nice looking sandrail
very fast machine

I stopped to let this guy fly on by

all lined up to climb the sand dunes here

the rangers are here keeping an eye on things 

another nice sand rail

lots of these huge rigs here too

need flags etc , they have it here

         Back home to relax in the sun enjoying our e-readers. Bill has his drone out taking pictures of us from the air.

      Now 2 pm ice cream social at the clubhouse so 6 of us headed on down for our ice cream fix, Nice that they do it here every Sunday afternoon.

Rob, Suzie, Bill, Patsy, and Pat

Barb scooping the ice cream, and Gordon doing the toppings

a Nice sundae for a buck

     Back home to enjoy a wonderful very warm sunny afternoon with a more reading, Then at 3:30 over to Bill and Patsy's for Happy hour, a perfect warm day for it and next to no wind.
      8 of there plus Freddy and Clemson, flapping our gums and sharing stories solving all the world problems.

Here is Freddy an amazing friendly dog we
have come to love over the years
always glad to see you

Freddy got his Happy hour drink
and Clemson being Clemson

our fun happy hour group today

Suzie got her doggie fix with Freddy today as well

      About 5 pm we all headed home for supper. Tonight we are enjoying some catfish fillets and fries.

I cut these fillets in half so they cook nicer in our fry daddy

       Fresh cut fries done and a set them in a pan on our weber Q to keep warm while the frier came came back to temperature  and fried our catfish fillets,  just so they are perfect.

fries done

    Fries keeping warm and heat the lemon to make it juicy and in a few short minutes the fish was done. So moist tender and crispy just the way it should be. We do love our catfish.

        Now we both enjoyed a wonderful fish and chip supper, with a few mixed veggies on the side

oh yeah catfish and fries 

          Then we managed to catch another wonderful desert sunset, never tire of these.

a perfect sunset after a perfect day

       Now inside for the evening we can kick back, relax, finish this posting and watch a show/ movie on tv that Suzie has picked.

Info about The Arizona Market place

A local resident posted a information about why the Arizona Market Place

has fall out of favor here in Yuma

  The guy that runs Marketplace (tenant) had a disagreement with the property owners. The tenant put up billboards around Yuma dissing the owners. He specifically called out Dr. Awar. The billboard idea backfired because Dr. Awar is a very well liked and respected Yuma doctor. Local people got mad at the tenant and stopped going.

    That was our wonderful desert day enjoying more sunshine, warm weather and fun with our friends, Hope y'all had a great day too. Tank s for dropping in.

Returning to Ontario April 10thCountdown

Want to learn more about Membership camping at Rock Glen Family Resort ? 

click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com to book a tour 

 Where have we been this Winter?