A Trip to Blythe and Quartzite

Greetings! It's almost 9 PM and the outside temperature is still 75 degrees. A person could get to like it here!

Forry thought that I would get some responses to the picture in yesterday's blog (especially from Vic!) but all has been quiet today.

Forry's been working on electrical issues all day today -- he'd ALMOST finished his shower this morning when the water pump quit working. Fortunately he found the wiring/fuse issue so that I could take mine. (He always wants to take his shower first because he really doesn't like to squeegee the glass shower walls down...)

This afternoon we drove the 26 miles to Blythe, California back across the Colorado River to pick up our mail at the post office there. We had been warned of the long lines and cranky people at the post office in Quartzite, so asked Daughter Mary Mae to mail it to General Delivery in Blythe instead. The folks at the post office there were extremely friendly and also commented that we'd made a good choice in coming there! MM did her usual good job and probably could not have crammed any more mail into the fat Flat Rate box she used. It had everything from Christmas cards and magazines to new checks (finally ones with the Mount Vernon address on them!) and a couple of prescriptions -- and of course, bills.

On our way back through Quartzite, we stopped to visit Burgess and Maxine, friends from our old Flying Farmer days. They have a place in the NW corner of Q that Burgie's parents had bought back in the sixties. They have a few acres they have planted with a variety of different cacti. Maxine laughed though and said they always return to their farm in Washington before they bloom and have only the neighbors testimony about how beautiful they are. We saw Gambel's quail, a ladderback flicker, mourning doves, a rabbit AND a coyote while we were sitting sipping ice water at their dining room table. The coyote had a beautiful full coat of fur and looked very healthy in comparison to the rather mangy specimans we've seen around. Maxine says they have a neighbor that feeds hamburger to the coyotes...