Where are we today ?
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A good nights sleep but windy again overnight but nice and mild in the mid 40's F and 48 F at 5 am when I got up. The wind bothered Suzie after I went to sleep so she pulled in the slide, and even went outside to put our Weber Q on the ground.Then she slept well.
Anothe wonderful desert sunrise this morning what a great way to start our day.
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| another nice desert sunrise |
About 8 am (Arizona time, 7 am California time) I took a drive around the area and into town. Just because I could and wanted to take a tour.
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| heading into town |
I stop by the State park and enjoyed a nice walkabout here. Supposed to be a fee during the week self serve. I am not paying a fee for a 15 minute visit sorry guys.
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| State Park Visitor Centre |
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| nice desert gardens here |
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| vistor centre below |
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| view towards the campground |
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interesting stone faced guy in the garden
an Alien maybe? |
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| love the signs they have here |
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| this be the pay station for the visitor centre |
Back home a walk about the desert for a bit and spotted this lone desert flower.
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| love the desert flowers |
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| my walkabout heading home |
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| this be home dirt so quiet here |
Just before lunch I took my fresh Chorizo and made 6 burgers to freeze , for some tasty burgers on down the road,
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| into the freezer to store |
After tasty lunch I took another drive around the area, down Henderson Canyon road , love this drive past the palm trees and Orange groves.
Got to the end and guess what? The fruit stand is now open !Ya hoo. They have fresh ruby red Grapefruits and tangelo oranges that we love. Ok finally they are harvested so picked up a nice 3 pound bag of these wonderful oranges, self serve only 3 bucks, we are in heaven !
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| good price on oranges and grapefruit |
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| we good for a while now |
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| this be the place |
From here into the Visitor Centre to check them out, I can fill our water jug and they have a key for trash and a recycle bin as well. Nice friendly people here too.
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| vistor center |
And a couple of sculptures here as well.
Heading back to home dirt, , what an amazing day, have been in my shorts since 10 am it is that nice here.
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| love the palm trees here by the golf course |
Back home to enjoy this amazing winter weather. Awning deployed so Suzie can read here I pad in the shade, (does not work well in the sun). She has a jacket and hoody on in the shade and I am in shorts and sandals in the sun . In the desert you need to be in the sun to keep warm shade here is very cold.
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| my desert view this afternoon |
We enjoyed hoary hour, discussing our adventures then soon time to whip up supper, Tonight gonna grill the chicken I picked up yesterday, a good day for it. The sun is beginning to set.
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chicken done to perfection and some acorn squash on the side
to go with our salad |
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| tasty? yup and leftovers for lunches and soup |
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| after dishes done the sun had set |
We had a plan to take a drive up the Julian for a piece of pie. But we have done that trip a few times in the past and enjoyed the scenery but neither one of us could get too excited about that long drive for a piece of expensive pie (oh it is good pie). So just decided we could hang out here and relax. Just enjoy hanging out right here with my honey. But we have a couple pictures of the Julian Pie Company from 2 years ago.
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| This is the place |
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| we did enjoy the Caramel Apple pie with ice cream |
Now it was 5 years ago we explored and found the Big Stone snake on this day Feb 11, 2016 after climbing the steep hill off of Rock house road. Suzie did not make it all the way to the top, But I got over there and saw it in person, she did not want me to hike it alone. We did not go back again but do have this memory.
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| Hey I spotted it |
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| and there it is another wonderful desert sighting |
This picture below is a flash from our past taken in 1957 at our house in Scarborough, Ontario. my sister Louise (6?), and me 8 yrs old I was taking shape to be a very fat kid, glad I have that under control now.
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| 1957 memories |
There ya go another fun desert desert day enjoy this wonderful winter weather and sunshine.
Glad that y'all dropped on by and hope your had a good one as well.
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