Dec 28th - Yuma Az

Dec 28th - Yuma Az                                                                         Weather – lo 48/hi 66 scattered cloud 

Total Kilometers this trip -  11067.5                                                Km travelled this day – 0

Yesterday, our neighbours who are usually home early, stayed out very late.  We met them this morning and I was kidding her that they were out past their bedtime, “you know, that you are supposed to call when you want to do that” .  After all kidding aside, she mentioned that they were at the hospital most of the day and evening – Sonny had problems with his heart.  He had a heart attach numerous years ago, and is presently wearing a pacemaker, so they were concerned.  He seems to be okay now, but will have to take it easy for a couple of days.

We headed off to see some of the sights today.  Our first stop was to go on a tour of the Peanut Patch.  Unfortunately, the tour was cancelled this Friday, and will start up again in the New Year.  Oh well, off we headed to the next place – Cloud Museum in Bard Ca. (Winterhaven Ca.)  Where do I begin with this story.  

He has almost every kind of motorized thing from the early years, some restored and a lot just there but working.  I will post pics, because my words cannot do it justice – well worth looking into.

 

 numerous old unrestored vehicles

 crawler excavator

 Gibson tractor

 Tanker truck

 1937 School bus

 Restored vehicles

 older pickup

 doll buggies

 pedal cars

 some of the hundreds of old licence plates

 blacksmithing shop

 old restored truck

 wicker stroller basket

 scooter - an older era

water windmill

 living room

 kitchen

 piano with foot bellows

 slot machine

 kitchen utensils

 more unrestored vehicles

motorhome

 While walking through this museum, we were thinking of  Lori and Tim, as well as Debbie and John who both have one of these older type of vehicles.  Ken in Mathis, would also be very interested in this place, I would think.

After the museum, a little further up the road we went into two date gift shops.  At the Sun Gardens we had our first date shake.  It was yummy.  Numerous people had told us about it, how good it tastes but also how rich it was.  Well, it was worth every drop.  Vadie purchased some dates and other goodies from both stores.

 trees of the date farm

 short date tree

 tall date trees

 farms - lettuce

 lettuce - date farms

 more lettuce

 broccoli farm

Our next stop, pottery places, but we could not find any.  We did however go into a few art galleries which had pottery in it.

While touring the area, there were numerous antique shops, it would be so nice to furnish a home with all this kind of goodies.  At this one antique shop, Vadie picked up a load of old license plates, things she wants to use for her pottery.  I also picked up a diecast model of a motorhome – these are hard to find.

During all of this, we had taken our furry ones with us, so we walked with them at different places.  They sure like going for car rides, actually being with us at all times.

 chopped vehicle - nice job

When we got home, Vadie made dinner and I continued on with cleaning the door area so the new rubber stripping could be installed – all ready for tomorrow.

Special people today – Daughter Cyndi, husband Steve, and children Jordan, Andrew and Jessica.  Cyndi has been doing a numerous of firsts this year - making turkey soup from scratch is one of them LOL.