I can breathe again!

The company is gone and the RV is once again quiet.  Especially since Left Brain flew back with the grandkids as they were not sure they liked the idea of flying alone.  So, until Sunday I am a free woman!

The day was spent cleaning out the Arizona room where the kids stayed, putting things back in the outside bays and organizing stuff in the main living area.

I find myself thinking ahead to the days where we will once again have feline family by glancing at areas and thinking that would be a good spot for the litter box, I could put their water and food there, that kind of thing.  But I will try to stay on course and wait until we have done this for a full year before adding cats back into our lives.

Maybe it was inspired by the new cat rug I received as a Christmas gift from Vern and Lorraine.  Vern is a hooker, and I mean that in a good way!  He loves making rugs and I saw this one in the catalog and he surprised me with it for Christmas.  It is so soft and fuzzy.  I guess this will feed my desire for a cat until the real thing comes along.

Long Live the Queen of Cats

Happy New Year

The blog is tempararily discontinued while our grandkids are visiting us to bring in the new year.  We are having too much fun with them to write anything right now, so until Thursday the blog will be silent.

Long Live the Queen of Grandkids

More geocaching

 

I added some poster edges to jazz up the image of this one to make it look more artsy fartsy

We managed to get out and about with our continued pursuit of junk in plastic containers.

This is to show the variance in sizes of the caches we have located so far.

This one demonstrates how tiny they can be.  We needed a tweezers to pull the log out on this one. 

It was impossible to enter Da Keeffes (our geocache name) so he just left it as DK.

Some of them however are quite large and hold lots of treasures that the geocachers refer to as SWAG.  I'm not sure what that means...and I'm not sure I want to.

Here's a sample of a bigger one.  There was one in here with a travel bug tag on it that I desperately wanted to take with me, but since we don't move on until mid January it is bad ettiquette to keep it non-moving for so long.

However, this is one we will be revisiting with the grandkids and if it's still there it's MINE and it will find a new home in the middle of the desert near Quartzite.  I haven't found any travel bugs to relocate yet, so that will be exciting.

I'm also putting together one to launch into the world, but still working on the "theme" and story I want to use.  It's so much fun....a strange way to have fun, but it works for us.

Long Live the Queen of Cache

No blog today - just a note to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope that all are happy and healthy and having a great day.

This is yet another bogus photo from the Queen.  I wanted to decorate this lovely cactus the way I had seen in a nearby neighborhood.  So, I added graphics of beachballs for ornaments, that seemed appropriate. 

Then, thanks to Sue Retzlaff's class, I added a little snow to give it that Christmas spirit.

Long Live the Queen of Christmas
 

It's a wonderful life

It's harder to get into the Christmas spirit here in Arizona, maybe it's due to the lack of snow.  Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, who knows.

I had a nostalgic throwback at the grocery store yesterday when I saw the lefse.  "Look!" I shouted to Left Brain. "Now I know it's Christmas for sure, because they always had lefse during the holidays back in Wisconsin also."

He very calmly glanced at it, read the label and informed me it was not lefse...it was tortillas.  Oh well.

On our walk I saw this little gem and just had to take a photo of it.  Yup.  Nothing screams "Merry Christmas" like a fat white guy gazing down on the baby Jesus.

Unless it's a fat white Jewish woman doing the same thing. 

I'm sure we had lots of people cruising past in their golf carts wondering what I was doing in the nativity scene.

This one was my favorite as I recalled the song about a surry with the fringe on top.

Long Live the Queen of Frankenstein and Manure, or something like that