February-March 2018 (04-11-18)

As I sat down to finally put this blog post together, several issues got in my way.  Paul and I recently bought a new computer, and we don’t plan on continuing to use the old one, so we moved “everything” to the new one. But, being busy having so much fun, the process took a very long time and got messed up along the way.  Some pictures are on the old PC, some on the new-some got plain lost. Plus, the software I use to create the blog doesn’t seem to play nice on my new computer so for this post I am using the old one. Ugh.  Add to that the fact that I have my first cold in 10 years, and I am really not in the mood.  But, it has to get written, so here:




February brought another flurry of activities, including several trips to the Desert Bar. We took the Teryx most times, but when there were too many people, we also took the Jeep.












Liz and Randy and I finally got around to hiking SARA’s Crack..













The view of the lake at the end always makes it worth the 5 mile trip!

The weekend of the annual fireworks show brought brand new visitors to the PPP.  Al and Debbie are friends who we know from Michigan. Paul worked with Al at Ford, and I worked, coincidently, with one of Debbie’s best friends. The Rockers recently retired, and towed their trailer to the southwest to avoid some of the Michigan winter.

We loved showing Al and Debbie around town, and Debbie’s cousin also came to Havasu that week- so much fun!

With my cousin Linda in town for the fireworks, we had quite the blast at the “Winter Blast”. Paul and I had decided to park our truck camper at the show arena so we could all eat a leisurely dinner and then sit back and wait for the show. It worked out very well!

It’s usually pretty decent, and this year was no exception.

After that flurry of activity, things settled down a little and Paul continued his work on the fence/solar project.

Once the fence was moved, he installed solar collectors for the pool water. I think he would say the hardest part was digging the trench for the pipe to go through.  He can now partially bypass the electric heat pump and use solar energy to heat the pool water.  In fact, for the last few days we have shut the electric off and have been successful at maintaining the pool temp with strictly solar.

In Mid March our son Stephen came to visit from Boston! This is his first time seeing the house. The last time he was here was just after we bought the lot.

The weather was too cool to swim but we were able to show him around the desert on the Teryx.






On one of the warmer days we rented a boat for all of us and took the Jet ski and boat out on the lake for the day.












We have all owned boats in the past, so the guys enjoyed taking turns driving.

Stephen’s thrill, however, was the jet ski…we rounded a corner on the boat, looking behind us for him on the jet ski….and about 5 seconds later he rounded the corner and blew by us at 67 mph!

I had so much fun just watching him- because personally I have no desire to go 67 mph on a jet ski!

Way, way too soon, it was time for Stephen to leave.












And a very short time later, we were having our last dinner as a group, before everyone left for their summer destinations.













Boy, did it get quiet fast!  Dozer missed all the attention so much he started finding new ways to get some!

You know what happens when people get bored?