May 15, 2020 Finding Rocks

Ever since the stay at home orders have been in place around here a lot more people are walking, riding their bikes and basically spending time at home. A lot of people have been decorating rocks and leaving them around the neighborhood for other people to fine and people have really been enjoying it. Yvonne and I were out walking and talking about the rocks and all the sudden we came upon one. She was so excited, she kept saying I’ve been looking all over every time I go for a walk and I never see one and now I finally found one. The whole idea when you find one of the rocks is pretty much to enjoy the fact that you found it but then re-hide it for someone else. So she was carrying the rock she found and we were walking a little farther down the road and there was another one.  So again she was so excited and said,  not only did I find one, but I found two on the same walk.

We kept walking for a little while longer and then she really hid each one in a different spot for someone else to find.

May 9, 2020 New Trailer

Well....it happened.  We bought a new trailer.  Kev has been looking and looking and looking, on line, at dealers and from private sellers.  He actually had one all picked out,  a brand new one.  But then all the BS from the salesman and just the hassle, it was so annoying.  And Kev did what Kev does and we walked out.  The next morning he was looking on line and said to me, let’s go look at a trailer.  We did and he told the guy on the spot he wanted it. It’s new to us but it’s a 2004.  It’s funny, all the trailers Kev was looking at were not toy haulers and then this one is.  It’s really similar to our old one, just a little smaller.  It’s going to be awesome to be camping again and not be doing it in a tent....yay!

May 8, 2020 Knock on the Door

It was around 7:45 pm and there’s a knock at the door and Kev says come in. We both sit there and no one comes in and I look at him and he says, what did you order and I was like I didn’t order anything. So I say to him I think you should go answer the door in case there’s someone there. He goes to the door opens it and there’s a box there addressed to me. It was a box of flowers from Paul, Sarah and Annabelle for Mother’s Day. Such a great surprise.

May 5, 2020 Score

I got a text yesterday from my friend Lyn that lives in the hood, and she said she was at Costco and they had toilet paper and did I want her to get me some.  Ummmm yes!!! We are down to our last three rolls.  I had told her Saturday morning when we were playing Pickleball that I went to Costco the day before because someone posted on Facebook that Costco had a bunch.  Well I got there, there was no line so I walked right in and I saw all these carts with toilet paper in them.  I go to the back in a quick pace and can’t find it.  I say to this guy, who has a pack in his cart, where’d you get that? And he says I got the last one 😩 and he says plus they had it hidden over there, and points to the opposite side of where I am.
But hey.....I’m now stocked up, thank goodness Lyn didn’t need it for herself.

May 3 - 4, 2020 Twins Overnight

I missed my girls so much and Alicia was ready for a break. lol  So I went and picked them up. Kev and I needed a Lainey and Emery fix❤️

It’s hilarious to watch.  They make a race track around anything and just do circles 

around and around.  This race was with their babies in their strollers. 

They love books...especially Emery.  She’s always dragging out a book. 

Kev gave them popsicles after dinner. 

Emery’s fell off the stick so she was doing everything to still eat it 

Kev’s been having this pain in his heel so he put on a support sock and I was rubbing his feet. 

The girls were concerned so they wanted to help Papa too.

They had a fun afternoon over in the Dukes pool.  They love the water and did great floundering around by themselves as well as playing in the boat.  

The girls have gone for rides in the golf cart before so when they saw Kev take it out of the garage to wash they thought they were going for a ride.  But once they realized they weren’t, 

they just took turns driving. 

They had a busy couple of days with grandma & papa.  They were so worn out 

they couldn’t handle the ride home, especially Emery.  

May 1, 2020 May Day

I got an awesome surprise today.  There was a knock on the door and Kev answered it and the guy said he had a delivery for Elaine.  Yay!!! Flowers for me.  I opened the card and it said....
Happy May Day    Love, Mary
Totally made my day.  Thank you sister ❤️

April 30, 2020 Zoom Call

A couple weeks ago I had a group text going with my high school girlfriends and it came up that we should do a zoom call.  So we did I think the next day.  Funny thing when we were talking about it I said that the call was only good for 40 minutes and a couple people were no it’s unlimited.  I said it’s unlimited if you pay for it otherwise we will get cut off in 40 minutes.  No one believed me. Low and behold 40 minutes in, blank screen.  Haha I tried to tell them.  We had another one right away and realized we’ll get cut off at 40 minutes.
So tonight we had another call.  This time we knew it would cut off in 40 minutes so at the 40 minute mark Chag set up the second call while we all went to the bathroom and got a refill on drinks.  It’s actually been fun getting on the calls.  We do keep in touch now and then with a random text but the calls have been great being face to face with everyone.  We really only see each other when we get together on our annual trip.  This year our trip’s suppose to be to Nashville, but not sure with everything going on if it will actually happen.

April 30, 2020 Yvonne’s Morning Pickleball

Since today was Yvonne's birthday her only request was to play Pickleball.  We only have four courts to play on and they are first come first serve.  This time of year with it being so hot everyone wants to play first thing in the morning.  The last few days the courts have been full by 6:00 am so we decided we needed to play at 5:30 so we could get a court.  Lyn, one of the girls I play with, doesn’t like to play when it gets warm so the earlier the better.  I wanted to decorate the court for Yvonne so Lyn, Linda and I met down at the courts at 5:15, one to decorate and two, to make sure we got one of the four courts.  It was still dark when I got up but I dragged myself out of bed and down to the courts.  We put some signs and ribbons around the court and Yvonne was surprised when she saw it all.  It was really funny cause Linda gave her a gift bag that had two rolls of toilet paper in it and then I gave her a mini hand sanitizer I just got yesterday from Bath & Body Works.  We ended up playing pickle for 3 hours and just had a great morning considering it was going to be the highlight of her stay at home birthday.

Oh and notice in the pictures that the sun isn’t even up yet. lol

April 27 - 28, 2020 Up on the Rim

Kev and I decided to go up to the rim for the day and hang out. He wanted to see if there were any places available that we could rent space for a trailer.  He’s back on the “getting a new trailer” kick.  We have really missed ours since we got rid of it.  At first we didn’t think we would but having done tent camping the last few years we realized we do.  So we checked where spaces were available cause then we wouldn’t have to tow it up the hill if and when we get one. We also stopped so I could do one of my favorite hikes.  It’s funny cause a good portion of it runs right along the side the road but then the other side is the rim and it’s like being up on top of the world.  You can see for miles all the rolling hills and mountains and it’s just so pretty.  Kev pulled in the one parking lot and we set off to hike.  He said to let him know when we’re a mile in cause he thought he’d be able to do two miles.  His knee has been bothering him so he figured that would be enough.  We got about 1/2 mile in and he decided that was enough.  We decided he was going to go back to the truck and I was gonna keep walking and he was going to meet me at the last parking lot along the road. There are three different parking lots along the rim road so that people can get out and either hike the trail or see the pretty view. Well I kept walking and for some reason I thought there was another parking lot after the last parking lot and I went too far so when I got to the end of where I was walking Kev wasn’t there so I turned around and was walking back to the parking lot I thought he would be at and then he saw me while he was driving down the road I ended up doing a little over 3 miles which was a nice walk especially because I love that view.

 This was a painted rock that someone left right on the edge.  

Made me feel good seeing it. 

We had lunch and went fishing at Willow Springs.  No fish :(

 Kev fishing

 Me fishing.... lol

We decided to stay overnight and just slept in the back of the truck.  It was comfy but we got too hot. We thought it was gonna be colder so we layered all these blankets and Kev ended up throwing all his on me so I was double hot lol

Before we came home we stopped at Bear Canyon Lake and Kev wanted another try at fishing.  The thing about Bear Canyon is that you have to hike to the lake.  It’s a pretty steep hill but Kev said he’d just take his time.  It wasn’t bad going down but he was struggling going up, mainly cause he was hurting.  Again no fish, but still a good day out.  And the weather up there is definitely cooler then down here.