A nice quiet New Year's Day. and doggie fixes for Suzie.

Where are we today ? 

Pilot Knob Resort California

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      Here we are now the year 2019 who woulda thought. It sounds like wow were did the time go.
After a fun New Year's eve with good friends from Rock Glen Resort in Ontario. Suzie and I managed to stay awake at home until 10 pm (midnight in New York) watching the Ball drop in Times Square telling us the new year is here. A good sleep and I even slept much later this morning until 5:30.Would be nice if I could do that every day. But then I feel like I have missed part of the day.
     The weather for today a bit better than yesterday  still cool in the low 50's F a cold north wind about 25 mph. But we do have a cloudless sunny sky, love that warming sunshine !
      Today we decided for our New Years dinner, Corned Beef and Cabbage for a special treat. I got the corn beef, potatoes, celery, carrots and spice packet into our new to us Crock Pot cooker early to get it going on low all day. The only thing missing was the cabbage, no problem a quick 10 minute drive to the closest grocery store I grabbed a small red cabbage. it does not need to go in until the last couple of hours.

      Then a special tasty New Years Brunch, Peameal back bacon and eggs to start the year off right. We did bring a good supply of peameal bacon from home.
      After lunch I took drive west of here and up Ogilby road. Have not been up that way this year yet.
      I turned north here and noticed all the dust blowing in the dunes a bit further west. Those stand dunes sure can blow a lot of sand and dust around with this wind, rearranging the dunes in the process.

can barely see the dunes in the distance not far away

         Then a bit further north just over the train tracks to the right still quite a few rigs camped here in this free area.

lots of wide open space here

       Then down America Girl Mine road lots of rigs here enjoying this area as well.

American Girl Mine Road

      Now back home Suzie and I enjoyed reading outside in this warming sun though only 54F in front of our coach we are sheltered from the cold north wind.

loving these sunny blue skies

     Reading our page turners what a wonderful way to enjoy a New Years day outside in the fresh dry air. As usual I would read for a bit, a walkabout, putter around and read a bit more.

     The following 2 pictures I snaffled from Patsy's Blog posting (Chillin' with Patsy) thanks for sharing Patsy.

This picture was taken by Bill Richards the other day of our site 
when he had his drone in the air

This was our New Years eve with our bunch from Rock Glen Resort
nice shot Patsy
 LR. Pat, Rob, Me, Bill, Ron, Patsy, Suzie, Loree 

        About 5 pm we getting ready to head inside, really cooling down now. Bill and Clemson walked by and Suzie got a doggie fix.

Suzie and Clemson he is such a sweetie

           Then Ron and Freddy walked by. Stopped to chat, so Suzie had to come and see Freddy.

Freddy waiting for Suzie

what a beautiful friendly dog he is

         While were chatting with Ron another couple stopped by he knew from here to chat as well. They are from Yerington NV. Wow we know of the place as fellow bloggers we have met Ken and Shirley are for there. They also know of Kevin and Ruth, as well as Contessa's blog from Mazatlan (Stone Island Mexico). They are heading into Mexico again very shortly and have done so for many years. Now is this not a small world?
        Time for supper and our corned beef and cabbage meal is all done, we could smell it cooking all day inside our coach

Oh my, this was excellent and a nice treat for us
of course I picked it up of sale a while ago for 6 bucks

       While enjoying our supper we also got to enjoy another wonderful desert sunset. You can see the smoke in the air I believe burning garbage in Mexico. we can see it most days but very rarely smell the smoke.

as the sun begins to set

going

going

still going

that's it the show is over

     That was our very nice relaxing day. sunshine, cooler, and windy but we did get to spend most of the day outside even a few walkabout just under  2 miles walked today, better than none.

      Thanks for taking a peek and hope y'all enjoy a nice New Years day as well.

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 Where have we been this Winter?

New Year's Day and just enjoying the weather and time with my sweetie.

Where are we today ? 

Pilot Knob resort California

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      Hey it's a band new Year 2018!  wow how did that happen? Who would have ever thought back in the 1960's that we would actually be around to see this? It just seemed so far in the future.
      But here it is and we are in one of the nicest places in North America (IMHO) Sunshine every day and very warm winter weather.
      No  exciting sunrise this morning but I still got my walkabouts done.

Did I get taller this year what ya think?

still quite here but the rv's are beginning to arrive according
 to Kathy in the office,lots of reservations

      On one of my walkabouts said so long to Bill, Dee and Doug the pug, they heading out this morning, Safe travels guys and looking forward to catching up with you again in the future.

and away they go

nice green grass here is irrigated so nice to see in the desert.

        Seeing as it is New Years day and the weather is excellent we decided to treat ourselves to a bacon and egg breakfast with home fried potatoes. Suzie's favourite. In my restaurant I cooked a few hundred of these every week.

nice to use our grill mat outside , sure does a wonderful job
and no mess inside

this is a brunch we love on occasion
sure hit the spot

       Got this done then puttered around for a while and I did a short tour around the desert  behind us just because I can and  we are here. A few more walkabouts is always nice as well.

love this area in the square, I call it

    Then to enjoy a relaxing afternoon buried in out page turner  books in the shade, Did actually get to 80F (26C) but again with no breeze and not humid was an excellent day

we can enjoy it here no problem

     Eventually was time for me to begin whipping up supper, And tonight Suzie's choice again Fettuccini Alfredo with large sea scallops and garlic shrimp with a small salad and garlic cheese bread I made. This was all cooked inside because I have not found a way too cook pasta on our Weber Q yet.

supper just about done and the best sunset picture I could get today

perfect scallops and shrimp melt in your mouth
and the rest just rounded it off.

     What a great way to begin a brand new year. Chat with a few people, enjoying the very nice warm weather, and a couple of tasty meals all in one day. Her we are outside sill at 7:15 pm reading a posting this blog 63F (17C) yup we can suffer with this weather for sure.
    Thanks for stopping by and hope your New Years day was a wonderful one as well.

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

click this link www.geosuzie.rockglen.com

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Where have we been this winter ?

Wrapping up New Year's eve and a relaxing New Year's Day

Where are we today

Pllot Knob Resort , Felicity California

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         A few pics of last nights New Years Eve fun that we had. The Karaoke was wonderful so many great singers and the 3 hours we enjoyed with friends just flew on by. Stories, Jokes, lotsa laughs, dancing, snacks we had a ball.

line dancing

Gerry and Melinda

these guys were great

that's us having a good time

lotsa tasty snacks 

a first for Sandy (righ) doing
jello shots

the 3 ladies just having fun
with the music

Denis on the left backing up
 he did a wonderful job

count down for mid night with times square,
10 pm here 

      We toasted in the New Year with sparkling cider, and hugged and kissed everyone here, What a great time we had and a reasonable time for us old folks.We were home by 10:20 pm and in bed by 11, Arizona time, perfect !

      This morning I slept in until 5:15 am. Wow this is amazing, mind you we did not get to bed until  11 last night, unheard of for us !

      Had a bit of rain overnight again.  We have ever seen this much rain in the ten plus years we have been coming the southwest. But heck not a problem, sure beats the cold frost, snowy weather they having back home, Yup we love this.

more water this morning
the spring desert flowers will be amazing!

            At 7 am I took some turkey bones from the freezer to boil for a tasty broth for soup. more Turkey noodle soup. (make room in  our freezer as well). End up with a huge pot to share with Melinda, Gerry, Patsy and  Bill , and still more for us as well.

this was more ofa stoup (stew/soup)
very thick and hearty

        Then we enjoyed a very warm/hot sunny afternoon enjoying our e-readers and took a few minutes to clear up the headlights on our car and motorhome.

they much better now for a while

clear blue sunny skies and a few puddles

        Around 3:30 pm Happy Hour at Gerry and Melinda's in the warm sun with them, Bill ,Patsy us and Denis and Sandy, sharing more stories and a few laughs as well.

first Happy hour 2017

first sunset 2017
was a great way to start the year

        Supper tonight a couple quick and easy Fish burgers to add to another tasty  salad,

quick and easy on our Weber Q

Fish burgers and a salad
so tasty.

    That was the end off last year and the beginning of 2017, We all enjoyed this great time here with amazing weather.
    Thanks again for stopping by and we would like to wish y'all a Happy Healthy New year as well.

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