Driving back from the Desert we found this cute "little" critter. This is brown rocks formed in the shape of a lizard. How clever and simple is that? Now I am not even sure what street it was on, it is somewhere in the foothills. You never know what you will find next.
I am just glad in the years that we have been coming to Yuma we have not discovered any of the BIG eight legged thingies . There was a picture of one found a few blocks from us, it was on FB, I had to go by that post real fast.
Oh got to go, I think W is going to take me after Christmas shopping, well at least to Harbor Freight.
Had to edit this post, forgot to say what the lizard was made of.
Went to Dillard's, and Penny's and looked but found nothing I wanted. We went to Harbor Freight and Wayne found all kinds of goodies. Tomorrow I want to go to the Commissary and see if they have any Poppycock (Carmel corn with mixed nuts) if they do they will be on sale now that Christmas is over. Keep your fingers crossed. B
Jace, Bryce, and Gauge building a ginger bread house. What a great job they did. You know Gauge helped a lot. The boys were so excited when I talked to them this morning, they both were happy with there gifts, to numerous to say what they received. So happy with what they received from Santa. Rhonda and Steve was happy with there gifts too, Rhonda pots and pans Steve a coat. Wayne and I both got Coal..... not really but you would believe it. 
Dinner was at Char and JJ's, this year was just family and us.... nice relaxing dinner, even the kids were fairly quite. It was all yummy and we all did it right and ate to much.
Another week and the New Year will be here, and if we do it right we will be caching on New Years day.
Merry Christmas one and all...... B
Sunday started out at Mad Chef, Char, JJ, Bobbie, LG, BillieB, BertaB, and W43 and COL, enjoyed good company and good breakfast. I think MC has the best sausage, of course the golf course is not bad. After breakfast the A Team headed for CA for some caching to work off breakfast. BB and BB went Christmas Shopping and I am not sure what Char had planned.
The A Team started out cleaning up caches in the Holtville area, and worked our way back to Yuma. It was one of the perfect cahing day..... Well I guess any day is a good caching day. Nice and sunny, later in the day the clouds look like Yuma was getting some rain. Sure enought when we got home you could tell it had rained in Yuma.
On the way back to Yuma we checked out the old Coranado Motor Motel, we would always go by on the freeway so I was thankful that Bronco Busters put a cache there. There was some good sneekie caches in the area.
Tues we hit the bombing range for the first time this year, not sure why it has taken us so long to get out there. A new "chirp" was posted so we headed out to make the find. I need the practice using my new GPS , you know the saying about teaching old folks new tricks or something like that.
Today was laundry day, the last time we did laundry was Dec 1, can you believe that. At home I do laundry ever other day if not everyday..... oh well got to do what you got to do.
Hope everyone has a good Christmas.... spoil your love ones and enjoy the season.....B
This is the first time we have made it to the world famous parade in the foothills. I think W would like to dress up the RZR and join the parade, time will tell on that one.
As you can tell it is kinda hard to take pictures when the floats zoom by so fast, it was a short sweet parade. Fun and games in the Foothills for the Old Folks...... Hope something exciting happens soon.
Enjoy the Christmas season as we are. B
Went caching 5 days this week last Sunday, Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday again. I did not realize we were so busy this week. The first pix was taken with my phone, need to use that more because the pix's are quite good. The picture of the ground makes me wonder what lives there, and know I really do not want to know. Historical marker "Site of Mission San Pedro Y San Pablo De Bicuner" interesting bit of history "Squatters camp" would not want to visit, you see a lot of these around here. On Tue, there was a "Welcome back Winter Visitors" event at the fairgrounds, now I know what it is and will not need to do that again. It was just booths of different business. Mostly Dr's imagine that!!!
Bright and early was S*W*A*G monthly breakfast and it was a good turn out as always. Boy oh boy do they start the day early....... I guess once it will not kill me to get up early once a month. 
After breakfast we went caching......SURPRISE...... Went to Castle Dome area, nice desert area. We had a nice group finding the caches in that area. Found a lizard sunning itself on a rusted can, he was so nice to pose for me. Earlier in the week in town found an Owl at the base of a tree, he must live close because a fellow cacher took pictures of the owl a few days earlier, maybe he is the "keeper of the cache"
Getting ready for Monday, have some ham hocks cooking on the stove and beans soaking!!!!! Yummy, fry up some potatoes and I will be in heaven..... Good old mid-west dinner.
Have a good week everyone will will write more when the mood hits me or something happens. B
At 4:30pm the Rotary's "famous Walt Kammann sausage fry". This is there 53rd year of putting this on. We got there at 4:30pm when it started trying to beat the rush. First stop was to check out the cooking process and they had 5 big BBQ grills going, JJ gave us a sample. 2,000 sausages will be cooked tonight. The first time we went to this was 5 years ago, not sure why it has taken us so long to go back.
On the way into dinner you can preview what you can win at the raffle. The big prize this year is a Wii, I told Wayne I was going to win that one. They have a lot of nice prizes. Now look at that plate, doesn't it look yummy? Well let me tell you it was. If this was not enough you could go back and get more, can you believe that!
Here are some candid shots of the serving line. Some of the dinners, remember this is the first hour they are serving, some people are not even off work. Most of the people here at this time are the retired people, the people that have to be home by dark time. Here is a picture of Wayne dreaming of winning the Barbie.
Desserts galore, over 4 tables of different kinds of cakes, pies, cookies, and soft serve ice cream too. The deserts you had to pay a dollar or two dollars if you wanted ice cream too. What a deal.......
Think Wayne made a blog also so need to check it our!
Later from cool Yuma.........B
This morning was our first time at Ligurta station for breakfast this season. Things do not change much at Ligurta, I had Chili cheese omelet, and W had Sausage, eggs smothered in gravy of course. That just might be the only thing we do today.
Sunny but windy, so windy it rocks the coach, seems to even change what directions it is blowing..... can the wind really do that?
The Pearson family are camping this week-end at Manteca, the boys are playing ball at Big League Dreams. Sounds like they are having a great time....
Time to read my book and let the wind blow......B
M is our youngest cacher to find "53rd lane" this year, she was so proud. When they came in to visit a while M noticed some caches ready to plant, so we went her home with one. Now Toeman will have to help M with her hide.
On our way home from Glamis we did a little caching, think we found 20 more or less. New game, check out the last pix of the collage and play the game "can u find Wayne43"? If you can hide him can you imagine trying to find a pill bottle. 
Here are some different views of Glamis, it is a busy place this week end. Most holiday are, you can park anywhere you want. Some places they park just off the highway, it is one rig after another. 
Took a while before we found "Thanksgiving 2011" sweatshirts. No choice of color and the only sizes were large, 1X , and 2X. You can see how much the wind was blowing by how the flags are flying. Seems to be a good turn out for the holiday week end.
On the way home we had a bite to eat at "Mad Greek", W happened to remember today was Beef Barley soup day. This time it was not as good as usual, I had a salad and french fries.
Fun day, wonder what we will do tomorrow? Stay tuned and see what happens next..... B
Here are the cooks working so hard so the rest of us can pig out and enjoy our day. My hat is off to all of the cooks that made this possible.
The buffet table was so overloaded it needed reinforcement. There was Turkey, Prime rib, Ham, Yams, Mashed Potatoes with gravy, two kinds of Cranberrys, Fruit salad, Olives, Veggie tray, Spinach dip, Rolls...... and I am sure I left out something. Needless to say if you were still hungry it was not the cooks fault.
Windy earlier but by the time dinner was ready it was perfect sunny in the 70's. Could not have asked for better weather. Megan's home is out in the country and it is so nice and quite.
After dinner some of the guys decided to work off dinner pitching horse shoes. Look close and you can see Josh's horse shoe in mid-air. Hope your Thanksgiving was as yummy and layed back as ours. 
Here is the desert table, so many yummy deserts and I could not have any, on well I made up for having seconds of everything else......
So nice of Josh and Megan to include us in there first holiday celebration, we had a wonderful day.
Now it is time to think about Christmas......happy shopping for those crazy enough to to the Black Friday thingie..... B
We had some time to kill before the movie so we decided to check out the Southern Pacific 2521 train. It is a1908 Baldwin steam locomotive that is the centerpiece of the Pivot Point Plaza at the north end of Madison Avenue. If you want to check it out......most of us cachers have already been there looking for one of JJ's caches.
The movie we saw was "Tower Heist" and it was even better than I thought it would be. A few twist and turns that I have never saw coming. Great cast, check it out. Believe it or not we were even out after dark, that does not seem to happen often.
Not sure what is in store for today, just has a couple come by to find our cache, had a great visit. Nice sunny day will be in the mid 70's today working it's way up to 79 by the week end.
Have a happy Thanksgiving, later......B
and he "allowed" me to take him to the golf course for a BD breakfast. Every year I hear "I don't believe in birthdays" so we do very little on his "special day". For my BD he always takes me out to dinner or lunch and sometime around my BD I do get a present. SOOOOOOO I guess he just does not believe in BD's for HIM. He had a Dr appointment and the girls in the office noticed it was his BD and wished him well. 
Here is Scott looking for W's cache here at our lot. Just for Scott he put out even more decoys out, had to give the "newbie" a hard time, but Scott made the find.
Took the RZR out for a spin and to find a couple of caches. Our first stop was at Judy's house so she could take a ride in W's toy...... enlarge the collage and the second pix you can see them taking off and notice how Judy's hair! Judy had a fun time but she is not giving up "Ladybug" and time soon. To much invested her LB now......
Only found 3 caches that day, stayed within 3 miles of home, shoot we could have walked to all of them....... yeah right!
Who know what the week end will being, stay tuned and find out........B
Bad looking sky so JJ and W decided to forgo the the RZR's and Jeeped it! Limegreen joined the "A-team" for a fun morning of caching. BillBe put some new "pole dancing" caches in the Welton area. This was a wonderful idea since it was stop, go, in, out and worked off our breakfast.
Tried to take pictures of the sky but none of the really did it justice. There was a time of two that we did some slipping and sliding in the mud. Think I am glad we were in the Jeeps.
As always good caching day as any day is rain, shine, wind, snow you name it!
This is the last of 3 post so check them all out......little behind and yesterday the net was way to slow. B
Was a special "meet and greet" and flash mob at Lute's Casino in Old Town Yuma. Now the winter season has officially started. It was so nice seeing so many friends, and catch up on what they did over the summer. As always we met some new people and sure they will be friends before the winter is over.
The flash mob was 11 minutes of American flag waving, and there was a couple Canadian flags also. Everyone was in the spirit of 11-11-11.
Wayne never did make it to Applebee's or Chili's for his free Veterans day meal, the waiting list was way to long for him. Instead we had dinner at Mad Greek, this was our first time to eat at MG this year.
Kinda behind on my blog so will do two more and promise to not get behind again................... Sure B
JJ, Char, B39, W43, and col started the day with breakfast at the golf course and then a day of caching. The golf course still has a good breakfast and while having breakfast Alaskanyuman (cachers) came into the restaurant, it was nice to see them here so early. Slowly the "snowbirds" are drifting in.
After we had our tummies full it was time to work it off..... we ended up finding 20 caches in all. It was so nice to get the RZR's out and exercise them. We did not venture far today, stayed in the foothills at no time were we even 5 miles away from our lot. It was cool enough today that a sweatshirt felt good.
Here are just a few of the people that has stopped today to find 53RD lane. JJ and B39 made 53RD lane there first find of the day. There has been quite a few cachers stopping today, a few could not make the find. I am sure W43 will send them a hint.
Have a new GPS Oregon 550t, need to learn how to use it, JJ showed me some things..... but so much more to learn. Will have to see if fivebales is up to giving tutoring classes!!!
More later B/col
Driving back from the Desert we found this cute "little" critter. This is brown rocks formed in the shape of a lizard. How clever and simple is that? Now I am not even sure what street it was on, it is somewhere in the foothills. You never know what you will find next.
