Well, I just don't know where to begin, I have been neglecting this blog terribly. I noticed we have 8 followers and you are probably getting pretty disgusted with us, as every time you come to see if we have updated, you find that we have not. Sitting in one spot will do that to a person...and instead of going all through what we did since Halloween, I'm just going to hit the highlights, so I can get you all caught up to where we are today.

At Thanksgiving, we went out to Lake Mittry to have dinner with everyone.

Making cranberry margaritas

Our Thanksgiving group shot

At Christmas, we actually took the bus over to the lake to stay the

Ron & Frank playing one of many cribbage games

Pop overs baking in oven

10 days, it was so nice spending time with our

Frank & Gretchen enjoying their pop overs

Boomer friends.While we were gone, brick work continued on the yard.

I made pop overs for the Moores & Knapps on Christmas morning

We're also having gates made for the three driveways and one of these days they are actually going to be done.

Pouring the cement for the addition onto the patio

As of this writing, though, the only gate that's closest, is the main one

Getting it ready to add the bricks

The new addition, the dips in the bricks are for pots with flowers

where we park, the other openings either have a gate that doesn't close or has

With pots and flowers added

none. Even my walkway gate is temporarily

Rons great find while out hiking at Lake Mittry

gone...hopefully, that will get fixed when we

It was in surprisingly good shape!

get back there in Oct/Nov.

Our second annual ladies luncheon at Julianna's Cafe, we had two full tables

Our very first patio/house warming party

We had a patio party for all our Boomer friends a few days before

Ron having fun grilling dogs and visiting with guests

everyone headed off to Quartzsite and as a result, we had a very large turnout, which was great!!!

The group shot

About 64 people made it, 'course, I'm sure it helped that Ron was cooking hot dogs for everyone and everyone brought sides to go with them.

The new bus chimes

It was a beautiful sunny day and by the time everyone got there, we had shade for everyone to sit in. As you will see in the pictures, we had more than enough room for all our friends to spread out and enjoy each others company. We had so much fun, we'll probably do it next year, too, at about the same time.

One of our many dinners we went to after the Wed movies

As we all headed north to Q, we split off and headed to Wickenburg for our annual winter bus rally. We always go a few days early to spend time with friends we haven't seen in awhile and stay at the city park up the hill from where the official rally takes place. It's so quiet and peaceful there and we can look out over the town at night and see the lights.

After the bus rally, we got to Boomerville in Quartzsite a week after it started and so had missed out on quite a lot of the good stuff that had already happened.

One of Quartzsites beautiful sunsets

I don't know why it is, but, it just seems all the good stuff is crammed into the first week of the rally and the second week is not so busy, although this year, it did seem busier than other years. Anyway, what was left to do was still okay.

The participants of the Geraldine contest, with emcee, Connie, dressed as a man

One of the highlights of the rally is the Geraldine show, where men dress up as ladies and it is a real hoot! You are probably wondering...what???? Well, it all started back in the mid 90's, when we were at a small rally in Moab, UT. The girls were going to have a girls night out, with dinner and a movie. One of our male friends, Gerry, wanted to go, so he dressed up as a girl and met us at happy hour.....we all urged him to come with us, but, he decided to opt out, after all. Something about using the restroom...he has since passed on and we do it every year in his honor. In past years, our good friend, Patsy, would emcee it and she did a great job. This year, I guess the torch has passed to another good friend, Connie, who did a fabulous job announcing the different "ladies".

While we were in Quartzsite, we met up Dave

Hanging out on the patio with Linda, Patsy, me & Ron

& Linda, fellow Boomers who have a lot in the Benson SKP park. Since they don't have a motorhome any more, they come up to Q and rent a motel room for the week. They were planning on heading to Yuma for a week and were going to stay at the lodge on the Marine base. We talked

Pegs 'n' Jokers with the Moores & the Albers

them into coming and staying in our mobile and they took us up on it. Also, our good friends, Jack & Jeanne, decided to come visit us, so we told them to come on over and we'd be home from Q in a day or so. So, the night before we headed back home, we had guests in our house having a party without us!!!

Jeanne, Pat, Don, Dave, Linda, Charlie, Dona, Ron & me

It was great having guests at our house and we had lots of fun with them. All throughout the next months of Feb, March & April, we continued getting together with various Boomers,

Ron, me, Kathy, Gene, John & Cathy, Jack & Jeanne

movies, eating out, and playing cards. I have various pics of our good times.

In Ocean Beach

In the middle of all our fun, we took Jack & Jeanne on a day trip to San Diego. I needed to get my hair cut by my best friend and I knew Jack wanted to go to the coast. So, we went to Ocean Beach to walk around, look in some of the shops and look at the surf.

Jeannie found herself a real surfing dude!

We then drove up past Sunset Cliffs and over the hill and dropped down into

Leave to Jeannie to find cactus plants at the beach!

Point Loma/Shelter Island area to have lunch at the Red Sails Inn.

Downtown Ocean Beach looking toward the beach

It was a beautiful day to enjoy the salt air and see the

At Sunset Cliffs, looking back towards Ocean Beach

sights.

One more look at the surf before we head out...

Having lunch at Red Sails Inn in Shelter Island

Well, since I haven't posted since mid January, guess I haven't told you we bought a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Our old one had computer problems and with it being already 8 years old and we'd used it pretty thoroughly, I didn't want to have to pay a lot for a part that was going to take 6 to 8 weeks to get there, so off we went to the dealership in town to see what we could find. Have you noticed that most dealerships don't have very many used Jeeps, if at all?

Our new Jeep

We figured we might as well get a new one and it should last us for quite awhile. Of course, this new one has a lot of new bells and whistles on it that the old one didn't have and

Linda, Jeanne, me & Dona celebrating in Algodones, MX

more computer operated stuff than ever, but, can't really get away from that, anyway. That is progress for you...

We found out that the old rack doesn't fit on the new one, so for now, we'll do without it. Also, the towing apparatus on the old one, didn't fit on the new one, so we had to buy a new one...sheesh! We also decided, for the first time since we've been on the road, to buy a "bra" for our car.

Jeep with the new cover on it

The ones that go from the top of the windshield all the way to the bottom of the bumper. Mainly, we got it to keep the diesel from spewing onto our new car.