Monday Cleaning, Tuesday Shopping

Our days are lengthening...the short, dark days of winter are over and my hibernating needs are mostly done. I know this because I am waking earlier in the mornings. We are in the western most part of the mountain time zone so are having later light in the evenings but still dark mornings.
We are watching the weather network and continuing to thank our foresight to leave the Gulf Coast when we did. It has been an usually cold winter along the Coastal Gulf from Brownsville all the way to Florida and another cold front is now moving across.
Bob has been reading statistics to me about the Yuma area. Population normally about 100,000 then add about 85000 snowbirds every winter. Arizona has the lowest number, per capita, of smokers in the country at 16%, with Yuma at a record low of 10%.
The Yuma Proving Grounds between Yuma and Quartzsite is the largest weapons testing center in the country, covering an area much the same size as Rhode Island. Every weapon in use by the US is tested at this sight. There are over 10000 military personnel stationed in and around the Yuma area.
During Arizona's Centennial year the city of Yuma was so confident about the "number of days of sunshine" statistic, that it offered free meals to everyone on a day that had no sunshine. Not sure how the meal delivery system would have been provided, but none the less the message regarding sunshine was apparently proven as there were 365 days of sunshine in 2012, therefore no meals were needed:)

Bob has our morning brew ready no matter what time we wake up. I usually stay in bed long enough for him to have free range in the kitchen. Then the smell of the beans brewing draws me out. Now that we are back in the desert it is especially enjoyable to watch the day begin, as there is nothing and no one between us and the mountains as the sun rises above them.

Did several chores in town culminating with lunch at our favourite Mexican restaurant, Mi Rancho. We have gone here for years because we both enjoy our best choices for tamales for me and chili rellenos for Bob.
This is a two day blog. Wednesday is a similar morning. I have an agenda planned. No work other than daily maintenance. I want to make Valentines cards for the girls. I have a supply of stickers and will use my Tombow pens.
Sherry has sent me an article this morning on journaling to read with my coffee. She is an hour ahead of us in Melaque so is having her coffee earlier, and her morning news is waiting for me.
If is a wonderful exchange we share between our different journeys.
So, I have gone for my walk, met a lovely RV'ing couple from Fairbanks, Alaska. We stood on the road talking for over 1/2 an hour exchanging information about places we stay, experiences and opinions regarding our boon docking lifestyle.
This afternoon I made up Valentines cards for all my girls, a post card for Jassy, as I think she is passed the sticker stage, lol. Prepared my cheque to send to Lynn for my airfare to Italy and set all these things down in my journal. Somedays I get such a feeling of accomplishment. Today I walked, I painted, I did my paperwork, I even set up my Turbotax forms with a 15% discount for when we get home.

We have had Bbq'd ribs and a spinach salad and I am sitting outside enjoying the setting sun. It is still so comfortably warm and another peaceful evening. There is no moon until it appears as a crescent just before dawn. It is so dark here right now. There is absolutely no peripheral light from cities to dim the stars and not a sound in the night. I love the desert....

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