Yesterday 1-26

Yesterday we hit the road from Deming, NM at 8:35, still getting below freezing as my puddle picture shows. It was cold most of the day. There was so much standing water everywhere from last week’s storm and all the mountains had snow on them…you don’t see that very often down here I don’t think…

We had a pretty good day and traveled 295 miles when we reached our destination at Casa Grande, AZ. The park was full but had dry camping spots available which was fine with us, no power, water or sewer, so no T.V. or internet. We could have done internet in a pinch, but Larry would have had to put out the dish…the parks wi-fi was out…we were off the grid. There was an hour or so of lovely sunshine, so Larry put out our chairs while he took care of phone stuff and I crocheted. It was nice to soak up some rays.

Just before dark the lovely cow stench started permeating our space…yuck…there is a mega cattle feed lot 3 or so miles to the west of the park and the wind had shifted. It was really quiet without the computers humming, the space heater running, the TV, or the converter running…the furnace roar was all that really broke the silence, but it only came on a few times towards morning.

I am 3/5ths finished with the squares of the afghan…then I’ll have to do three rows around the whole perimeter of the blanket.