Weatherford Texas

We're in Weatherford Texas visiting Mom, Sister Joyce and all her family and Deb and Todd who were also visiting here. The first weekend Joyce said there was a car show in town but didn't know anything about it. When we found it, it was a all MG show which I have an interest in as I have a 1957 MGA. As you can see from the picture there were quite a few cars. The one in the picture below is what mine should look like when I get it restored.

Her is Mom holding her new great granddaughter Autumn Rose.This was taken at a cookout at Joyce's new home near Weatherford.


We joined mom for lunch at her care center. They have a separate room for families to eat with the residents. Picture also includes Joyce, Deb and, Nancy, of course.

Deb and Todd hosted another cookout at the city park in Mineral Wells. The recent Alaska residents thought the weather was balmy but the rest of us had to bundle up a bit. You can see mom is 'hogging' that new ggranddaughter again.

HEAT RETREAT

They lied about the weather in the 80's and low 90's. After we got to Quartzsite they predicted 100 for last weekend so we headed for the hills. We went to the national forest just south of Prescott AZ for about 4 days. Stayed in this campground for two nights. Lots of ponderosa pines and about 15 degrees cooler than Quartzsite. This area is about 5200 feet altitude.














We then moved to an area where they have "dispersed" camping. You still have to camp where it is authorized but the camp spots are mostly for only one camper. And Free.














We went into Prescott to do a little shopping and explored the many forest service roads in the area. As you can see from this picture, we did some more "leaf peepin" as the oak were changing color in the region.

Arizona

There was snow in the mountains, it was 37 degrees one morning and the forecast for Quartzsite was upper 80s and low 90s for 15 days so here we are. We came down throughthe polygamist communities of Hildale, UT and Colorado City, AZ. Went through the national forest by Jacob Lake and on to the Vermillion Cliff area. Beautiful! This was the first time we've seen them and we decided we WILL go back. Here is a picture of the cliffs from the hiway.


We then stopped at Cottonwood AZ to visit my two lovely aunts ( I have to say nice things about them so they won't talk about me). We had made arrangements to stop and pick up a transmission for our Tracker in Phoenix so that was our last stop before getting home to Quartzsite. Everything here was fine except the sprinkler system on our citrus trees failed during the summer.