Hi There

We've been without email service for a number of days so I'm writing a little note now, Friday January 27, 2006 to send out possibly on Sunday when we go to Blythe, CA to do laundry. Mom thinks she saw a Starbucks there when we picked up groceries last week. We went to Lake Havasu on Sunday morning to watch the Seahawks win over Carolina. We are going to Mexico with them on February 7th and returning on February 10th. We are renting a condo I believe, Bob is going to make the arrangements and we'll just share in the cost. It's on the Sea of Cortez about 65 miles south into Mexico. We're looking forward to shopping and seeing the countryside.

Lake Havasu is very nice and we had a good visit with Bob and Georgia Williams who we know from when we lived in Boise 35 years ago. Carrie and Stacy may remember the Williams. They have a beautiful large home right next to a golf course.

Our Champion generator quit on us – just stopped producing "power" all of a sudden – after some problems with the trying to get if fixed and taking it to a shop 60 miles (one way) out of our way we got it replaced with an new one. However, we liked the Honda our friends Greeley's loaned us that when we went to the Big Tent Sale we bought a new Honda EU2000i, much lighter by nearly half (55 pounds) vs. 115 pounds on the Champion and much quieter. Anyway now we have two new generators.

We are back in Quartzsite now dry camping and enjoying it too. On Wednesday took the Komfort into Bouse, AZ 16 miles from here to dump the holding tanks and take on water. Out here it costs for those services but on $7 and it was a nice drive. We went to the Big Tent Sale in the afternoon which reminded us of the Puyallup Fair probably over a thousand vendors in all – they are all over around the big tent too.

The days are warm and the nights are cold and all the people look really old… except us of course.

We drove up to Surprise, AZ (near Phoenix about 120 miles) yesterday to meet the Greeley's daughter Vicki and son-in-law Loran. They had lunch for us. Mom really enjoyed herself since Vicki is a Quilter. They just had a pool and hot tub put which was beautiful with those two and the patio the backyard, consisting of gravel and palm tree, is full. Not many people have lawns here and only a few are green.

We are enjoying ourselves.

Happy Birthday Haley Girl – January 26th – you're a teenager now.