Quartzsite-Second Week

Up there in the banner is a photo of Boomerville several day after opening. It was taken by Tom Doerr from his ultralight parachute. See him up there in this photo. He goes up every morning and takes a photo of Boomerville.  Pretty neat. There are now 115 rigs that have come in; several have left, but we are keeping a running total of rigs arriving.

We have had a great time meeting all the people whose BBB entries we have read through the years, but never met.  We’ve reconnected with others.  Yesterday we went back to the American Land and Leisure booth to interview prospective camphosts and saw Rita and Jerry who worked in amazon.com with us.

Lesle and I sucked it up and went to Bells for their Monday Senior Discount Day.  Lines were very long, but the selection was great and I bought two pairs of capris for the warm weather we are experiencing here.  “Back in my day” we called them pedal-pushers, remember?

Last week Jan Moore invited several of us ladies over to her rig to learn Facebook and Windows Live Writer. 

I found out Facebook could take over your life if you let it.  You see your friends, and then friends of your friends and you start “writing on their Wall” and get answers back from friends of friends of friends…oh, my it can be very time consuming.

But I do like Live Writer, especially being able to compose a blog post while offline and then just publish it and it goes right into your blog.  Plus you can do some really cool things with the photos, tables to put photos and descriptions in, and albums are a lot easier to create than in Picasa.

Gretchen and Bob Mattison, Boomerville hosts, are making pancakes a couple of times a week out here.

  The best part of the breakfast is the syrup is warm!  Yesterday they made blueberry pancakes – yummoooo!

We had our first potluck Sunday with a brunch.  Oh, my what wonderful dishes from potatoes O’Brien to quiche to spaghetti. The normal large circle around the campfire became many smaller more intimate circles of friends to eat.  It was very nice.

After brunch several truckloads of folks took off for the Desert Bar outside of Parker, AZ, and five miles inland on dirt roads that you think are going to nowhere.  Then all of a sudden there is this oasis of activity at an old mine that was converted to a bar. They are only  opened on Saturday and Sundays from noon to 5pm because they only have solar which is used for refrigeration of food and sound system for the live bands.  This weekend there seemed to be more “seniors” than when we were here two years ago. Click on “view full album” to see all the photos.

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Going passed Parker we saw this really neat grove of palm trees.

Well, now I need to “publish” this Live Writer posting and hope it goes into blogspot ok.  Remember you are loved.  OK….hold on…pick up your feet…here goes.

Boomerville Starts

Today was the first official day of Boomerville (Escapee sub-group called Boomers meeting in Quartzsite is called Boomerville). We have 65 rigs were here for the first day. We will have about 150 rigs totally, but with rigs coming and going. Some rigs, like us, will stay the whole two weeks, while others stay a few days or a week.

Today was very, very windy with gusts up to 40 MPH, so some of the guys took refuge in front of our rig as it blocked the wind. I took this photo from the kitchen window.

The wind was so fierce they had to move our welcoming tent to in front of another rig to keep everything from blowing away.

Jim went to town to help set up the American Land & Leisure booth, but most of the work was already done by the morning shift; but Jim did get to talk with Gary Huntington the Personnel Manager, and that was good.

We had our daily Happy Hour, which for Escapees is their social get together time to greet new arrivals and make announcements of upcoming events. Tomorrow there will be a Women's Talk time, a talk on solar panels for rvs and another on catalytic heater installation in rvs. Jim will go to both of them.

We are also having a visit from Niki and Mike so they can see our rig which we purchased since we last saw them. That will be fun! We love having them around us again.

Remember, you are loved!