Halloween Decorations

I,m real happy with my latest creations for Halloween.  Since I was on vacation, I started making  by handstitching everything.  Turned out nice.  May keep making by hand, or do some machine work to speed up process.
By the way-----Happy to be home.  Our problem resolved itself before we got home.  Prayer does work.

Homebound Preparations

Well, we leave Albuquerque in one week, and we work on getting ready.  Went home toTucson last week to drop off our van and bring the pick up.  Things were crazy there, and not sure how to fix,  We let a homeless lady that had aquired a small trailer to park it at our house while we are gone.  She was allowed to use the utilities also.  The understanding was that she would be gone by the time we got back.  It's not looking good.  What do we do, I don't want to be mean, but it is against our zoning.  Help!

New Product for Etsy Shop

I created a new item especially for Halloween for our Etsy shop.  It's one of those things that you feel it should sell like crazy and people think reallly cute.  Then you post the pictures and descriptions and it just sits there.  Most artistic creaters know what I mean.  Of course, it's a it's a bit early for Halloween sales.  I can only hope and make some more styles.  We sold so much more in craft shows last month,  we may do more of them when we get back home in a couple of weeks.

Bayfield Park Problems

This was our third year at this beautiful RV park, and really didn't enjoy it that much.  We had asked for some shade at our spot since we don't have an awning and we have two dogs.  No shade!  Right away we started having problems with getting enough power to run our air and it was hot.  Even Colorado can have very warm days.  The owner blamed us by saying we
must have something going bad in our RV.  It cooled off after a couple of days, so we tried to use little air conditioning.  We enjoyed our parties and kept an eye on our power usage with a volt meter.  When it got hot again, we put volt meter in their connection and pointed out to them how little power we were getting.  They moved us to another spot and our last week was much more pleasant.  But it came out that they were having power problems in that area of the park before we ever arrived.  If we come back next year, we will probably go to another park.

July 16, birthday. July 17, wedding.

WE got lucky, no rain on my birthday.  There were about 30 people for the party here at the RV park.  I knew most of them, because they are family.  My son, Matt traveled from Florida, not so much for my 70th birthday, but to be best man at his brother's wedding.  Nice to have him here, haven't seen him for a year. We are a pretty tight family.  That's what can happen when a single mom raises three children through some fairly tough times by herself.  My daughter, Shauna, with her husband and four kids came in from Albuquerque.  My brother arrived with his son from just west of here about 3 hours drive.  His other son from Ohio, with his wife and son, and his daughter from Corpus Cristi, Tx.    Well, the birthday was planned and then along came a wedding of my oldest son, Mike.  He decided he wanted the wedding here in this beautiful park, so we decided to do it while everyone is here.  It all turneed out wonderful. 

What excitement! Laundry day.

It is definately cooler in Colorado, of course just about anyplace is cooler than Tucson.  Phoenix wins the award of being the hottest big city, I think.  The sun is intense here, though, and we try to get stuff done early.  This  morning we got off early(9:30am) to do the laundry in town.  The laundry here at the RV park is tiny and hot, and we found the one in Bayfield the first year we came here.  By going early, we can take the dogs and park in the shade, and Larry stays with them while I get things done.  While the wash was doing it's thing, I went up and down the street taking pictures.  It's a nice small town, and I want a few pictures to remember it by.  We probably won't come again next year, since my husband has problems that make driving the motor home difficult. 

Home in Bayfield

We made it through the smoke, it was pretty bad for about 30 miles, and here we are home for a month.  The RV park is really full for the fourth of July and should empty out somewhat after that.  We have a family right next to us in a brand new Class C and first time camping.  They didn't have all the equipment to empty their  waste, so my husband showed them what they need. 
This is a beautiful RV park and it's our third year here.  It is Bayfield Pine Riverside RV Park and my son is having his wedding in the meadow this month.  Pretty exciting.    Terry