Rain in the Desert

 

We had quite a rainy and windy day yesterday.  The rain was no problem, but the wind was another matter.  We are 24 miles North of Yuma camping again in the desert.  The motor home is on a high point overlooking the valley so no problem with flooding.  The picture below is right behind us.  There is a road that goes up into a large wash . We did look at it  for a site.  So glad we decided to be up high.

This was around 5:00 pm when the rain had just stopped.  Our humming bird feeder was out all day and was swinging madly in the wind and rain.  The little guys hung in there dashing in and out trying to get a sip in between swings.  It reminded me of an airplane refueling in the sky.  The last one that came into the motor home could not find his way out.  I had to take a hat and move him out gently.  The first one that was motor home challenged.  We haven’t had one come in since we got here.

 

We have been 10 days now.  The landscape toward the back of us is nothing but rocks and hills.  Almost moonscape in nature.

Looking out the front is the Colorado river, very small I might add, which you can’t see.  Then a little to the North still in the camping area are several small lakes.

 

It gives a nice choice of camping.  We are in this area as it it closer to the prospecting, although Gary hasn’t done much.  With the rain now, the dry washing will be over. Metal detecting will be the only way to look for gold now.  We have 12 couples in the area now with the same mind set.  Some more driven than others.

There are several burros in the area and are quite friendly especially if you have food.  We were riding the other day and there were 5 of them at the top of a hill.  When I am out walking, you run across their little trails winding thru the rocks.

Yuma is our nearest shopping and has everything you could want.  It is all truck farming and date orchards from here to town.  It is still amazing to me to see all the lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower etc in the fields.  You just want to go out there and start picking.  One of the girls brought lemons from home, so I just made my second batch of lemon bars, which have turned out quite well considering the little oven I have.  It is difficult getting use to the gas.  I should get a thermometer to get the exact temp as I know it is hotter.

It is nice to be back in the desert as there are no rules.  You can run your generator anytime you  like.  The solar panels are working great.  During the day we can run everything with no problems.  Sometimes need to run the generator at night as we have both computers and TV going.  If we had more batteries, we wouldn’t need to run it.  We miss the showers at the spa – hot and lengthy and the church family.

Before we left the spa I took a picture of Jim and Linda’s bird feeder for the gold finch.  This is where they go, when they leave Oregon.

I did catch an evening hummingbird on the feeder.  Still working on getting one in flight.  Need to get the tripod set up with Gary’s camera to get a good one.  The chimes are made of obsidian dug out of the ground in the Northern Calif area.  Quite the artisans that put them together.

We are still having a wonderful time.  The other day I did mention that I missed the house a little mainly for  more room.  Gary is working on radio controlled airplanes now so there is a lot of STUFF laying around.  Miss the junk room upstairs and the washer and dryer.  Ugh- doing laundry at the Laundromat .  The days go by very quickly even though we are not sure what we do.  We are grateful everything has gone so smoothly and our health is good, except for the 2 week flu period.  God is Good.