Rainbow life: 30 degrees is a bit hot.

Monday Nov 5th

But we are managing quite nicely.

We have met some very nice people. Have been invited to the community campfire, to the thanksgiving picnic, and to the Christmas gift exchange.

We bought some golf clubs at the Christian Centre thrift shop, (here at Imperial dam) at the astronomical price of $.50 a piece. It broke the bank. Now we have to practice for when we go to the par 3 course. That should be a barrel of laughs. Hopefully, no one will be around to get bonked on the head by our stray balls.

Went to buy an 800 watt inverter yesterday. MJ has it hooked up directly to the batteries. No more plugging in the lighter receiver. Now we can watch tv without putting the generator on The old way, we were taking too much off the battery so we turned the generator on for extra power. Nice and quiet.

Our air conditioner in the truck has seen better days and it’s too darn hot here to be driving around without a decent cooling system. Tomorrow, we are going to Yuma to get it fixed. awwww, I can feel that cool air on my face.

Tuesday Nov 6th

Did get the air fixed. Don’t know if there is a leak or not. Put some freeon or whatever they put in there and have to wait and see if it leaks. Feels way cooler than it did before.

MJ needed shoes, so, 5 stores later, we have shoes. Then to the dreaded laundry.

Wednesday Nov. 7

Yesterday, our neighbour Don asked us if we wanted to go for a bike ride around the lake. After hemming and hawing for a while, we said yes. Actually, I’m the one (Leona) who hemmed and hawed. Well, what a freaking ride. Never again in this heat, 28C at the time. Took us 3 hours. Spectacular views, but tooooooooo hot.

Here are a few pics.

Burros are everywhere.

One of our pets. Great tailed Grackle. Male

Another pet, Great tailed Grackle. Female

Pet no 3, Red winged blackbird.

We feed these three birds everyday at happy hour, otherwise, they let us know.

Double crested Cormorant

Great Egret

Cactus

These palm trees produce dates. They are planted in rows upon rows, upon rows. Fields of these trees for days. Quite nice to see. We can see the dates on the trees as the harvest is done in Sept. and we only get here in Oct. bummer.