The Park has been really full this last week because of the pool tournament, pickleball tournament and horseshoe tournaments. Then, Fish & Game came in and stocked the canals with 1000 catfish so we also have the die-hard fisher people. The tournaments are OK as they are done in a designated area but the fisher people seem to think they can go anywhere. The Park allows them to fish anywhere within 6 ft of the canal bank . I'm good with that ....until they drive up along side our house. The last few evenings barbeques are going like crazy but it's not hamburgers we smell it's catfish ! The entire Park smelled like it ! ( We've never eaten it but it does have a fishy smell while cooking. Maybe our friends from Arkansas, can make some for us some time. They are kinda ugly !)
It is hard to believe people are enduring all the cold, snow and freezing weather in the East. Our temps had been quite comfortable at 75-80* but this last week it's been in the low 90's. We're not near the coast so sitting at the beach is not an option. (The pool is so very crowded .... and besides I don't do swimsuit !) Funny, I'm complaining about the heat and that's exactly why we're here. :)There is another TT Park about half way from here to the Palm Desert TT Park (about 40-50 mi.) so we took a daytrip to check it out. It's at an elevation of 6500 ft and often has snow but not today. The sites are eroded from the melting snow so very few are easy to get into or even level. It felt good to be it the trees again..... I miss the pine smell. Norm says it's a bit tight for our 'house' so we'll just have to do daytrips in the Jeep.
California charges for parking almost anywhere. While exploring the reservoir we found they charge for parking and also to hike around it. There is a small museum with an archeological find of a mastodon which was dug up while creating the reservoir. Pretty impressive ! They even have a small JoAnn's Store but I think they have the same fabric they had last year !
I was ready to be a part of the park's craft sale until I saw that it was mostly a swap meet. Lot's of garage sale stuff but hardly any handmade crafts. BUMMER !! We whipped a U-turn and went to In-n-Out burger instead ! :)
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I have been doing some very small sewing projects, bags for coach items, a few alterations, etc. Mostly we bike around the park or do some sight seeing.
Last night I was so excited to get a bunch of my embroidery designs organized and put on the flash drive of my machine. Spent about 3 hours and all of a sudden ..... they're gone !!!! I accidentally deleted all of them !!!! Talk about being bummed ! @#$%^& I happened to remember that I had put many of them on a thumb drive after I had taken my 'puter to Geek Squad for a fix. 2:00AM and I'm up trying to find that little bugger. YES....found it....it didn't have everything, especially the ones I designed myself but all was not lost ! Guess I'll have to redo some. (This is why back-ups are important) .... AND....I learned from an instructor we had when we started driving schoolbus (Geri Lee) that you always document, document, document ! Old habits die hard ....I keep a notebook of my ideas, a journal of sorts. It doesn't have the finished product but enough that I can re-create most of what I lost. Now it's just a matter of sitting down and re-doing ! So...I'm off to re-do !! :)
