My kids drove 10 hours each way to camp in the windy, freezing Nevada desert in order to spend Thanksgiving with me. Am I bragging? Maybe. Am I appreciative? Oh, you bet. We wore our masks, and we were socially distanced, we didn’t eat together, and we were never indoors. Covid didn’t have a chance.
The adventure started with John and I picking out a probable destination, and then driving out there a day ahead to scope it out. The goal was something equal distant between all three households, and warm enough to camp. Serenity was coming from all the way up in Boise, so we basically had them drop due south. Laura and Alex headed southwest, and John and I drove northwest. We picked a spot just east of Las Vegas and just north of Lake Mead.
We sent the kids detailed google maps of our intended destination ahead of time, and hoped that the place would work. We could tell from google satellite photos that the final stretch involved driving through a sandy wash, and we didn’t know how passable that would be. We knew we might have to find an alternative location.
Another big concern was whether we would have enough cell service once we got there to be able to get cell coordinates out to the kids. Worst case scenario we’d have to find a camping place, then drive back out to civilization to catch enough cell service to be able to tell the kids where the camp was.
Here’s the sandy wash we had seen on google satellite view that were worried about.
Turns out the van was able to navigate it. Our van has large tires, even though it’s not 4 wheel drive. Also we carry traction pads and a hand cable winch in case we ever get stuck.
Success! Home for the night.
The next morning was Thanksgiving Day. John and I went on a couple of short hikes while waiting for the kids to arrive.
These were cool fuzzy plants:
We were very excited when everyone arrived safely that evening. Laura and Alex drove partway up the wash before deciding to park and walk the final quarter of a mile. Serenity parked on the main road and hiked the half-mile in; we met them at the road and helped carry everything to the campsite.
We had strong winds the first night. I felt very guilty sleeping in the van with the kids out braving the weather in tents. I could feel the wind rocking the van, yikes!
But they got up cheerfully the next morning, ready to go hiking. Laura had been up some that night with her dog, Zane, who had a learning curve around the concept of staying INSIDE his sleeping bag.
Here’s pictures from our Friday hike:
The masked desert bandits, lol
It started out cool in the morning, but got warm during the hike.
There were definitely no crowds to contend with. Every once in awhile a vehicle would go by on the main wash. We never saw any hikers in the region where we were staying. There were a few hikers at a designated trail head we encountered on Friday’s hike, but we didn’t hike the designated trail ourselves. We turned around at that point and went back the way we had come. We never saw any people or vehicles on this particular dirt road. We love the wide open spaces.
On Saturday John and Alex climbed a ridge, while Laura, Serenity and the dogs and I hiked along a wash.
Chilling at camp that evening:
This socially-distanced game is called “scooting the camp chair to catch every last ray you can”. Temperatures dropped rapidly as the sun set!
Kira wore her paws out hiking and playing ball on the gravelly sand.
Someone had written somewhere, “My muse has covid.” And yes, that’s me, that’s the thing I keep thinking, except my muse got cancer in a covid world. I’ve been considering taking a break from this blog for a couple of reasons. For one, I’m not funny anymore. I’VE BECOME BORING! Some of you may think I was always boring, but seriously, I’m more boring than I used to be.
I think it was not cancer nor covid that stole my muse; I think it was chemo. My brain is slower. I have less pizazz than I used to. Less sassy, less irony, less poke-at-the-world and smile.
Instead, I’m sad. I’m anxious. My old demons haunt me more than they have for years. It makes it hard for me to produce the light, slightly funny, wirily amusing blog that I’d like to produce.
Meanwhile I could plod ahead, unfunnily posting determinedly, even if no one reads it anymore, and be grateful that I am, at least, mostly coherent, and for now, at least, definitely still alive.
Olympia started their program last year, based on a program that had been going on in Eugene, Oregon since 1989.
I grew up about 45 miles north of Eugene and I raised my kids in Olympia. The towns are similar; small-to-mid sized college towns. I wonder how well crisis responders would work in a larger city? Maybe it’s time to give it a try.
The highway signs in Arizona on the day before Thanksgiving read, “I like my potatoes mashed and my drivers sober.” And I’m thinking, shouldn’t that actually say “smashed”?
Or does “mashed” also mean “drunk” nowadays and I’m just dating myself by not staying current with the slang? Do people nowadays go out and get mashed? Or did the bureaucrats not want to actually use the word “smashed” on an electric billboard, it somehow being too risqué, and figured we’d know what they meant by “mashed”?
Of course I get that potatoes are more likely to be mashed than smashed, but still, I think smashed would have made the whole sign much clearer. The word “smashed” would really work in two different ways, because not only can it mean drunk, it is also what happens to you and your car when you drive drunk – you smash into things. I guess mashed means that as well, but which are you more likely to say, “My car got totally mashed up”, or “my car got totally smashed up”?
Do you ever get so you just want to fix the dang sign? Lol. Here’s to mashing but not smashing this holiday season.
When we first arrived, the pool was quite cold. Here’s John being a goof in a wetsuit. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know why. It’s very like him though.
Our first project was to install a pool heater. The pool is our priority because the pool was the reason we bought this house. We’re postponing the kitchen remodel and the painting and all the other things we’d like to do, and we’re focusing on the pool.
In order to install the heater, we had to drain the pool. The water needed drained anyway, because it had gotten too hard over time. In year-round pools, like in Tucson, the water should be drained every 3 years or so. In our case, who knows how long it had been. The calcium build-up can damage the pool filtering and chlorinating equipment.
Here’s where it drains out. It was very pretty watching it run across the stones, although I felt guilty releasing all that water. It made me want to construct a recirculating pond someday, like we had in California (I always get these ideas, don’t I?)
Here we are refilling the pool after the heater was installed. I’m standing there for no reason – just because John asked me to for the picture. Maybe he’s trying to get back at me for the wetsuit picture, lol. The theme being: weird ways to be in a pool.
After the pool heater was installed, we went back to Albuquerque to get our furniture. On the day we moved our furniture to Tucson, we had a major windstorm. All that nice, new, clean water was a mess of dirt and leaves.
The pool came with an old pool vacuum, but it wasn’t really working. It would go for a foot or two and then stop.
Our pool guy suggested a new version of the same type of vacuum, but I was dubious. The one he suggested was expensive and I didn’t like all that ugly hose, and it’s not easy to take in and out. There had to be a better solution.
We got the worst of it out manually, with a skimmer (a net on the end of a handle). Then I did a little research and found this little guy! Isn’t he the cutest thing ever? (Not the bald guy, the little underwater robot vacuum – although the bald guy is pretty cute too, now that I mention it.)
The pool robot was cheaper than the regular hose-intensive vacuum, and it works great! (Hopefully it keeps working for awhile).
It zips along underwater, and drags a floating handle for easy removal when it’s done.
It even goes a little ways up the sides.
It doesn’t skim the top, but that’s fast and easy to do ourselves with the manual skimmer.
Next we installed a solar cover. This will help reduce dirt and leaves and it will also help keep the water warm in the shoulder seasons. In the summer we will store the cover because it would make the water too hot.
The solar cover is like heavy-duty bubble wrap, floating on the water.
Here’s John cutting it to size.
We also bought a reel so we could get it on and off easily.
The cover is clipped to the reel with straps.
It rolls right up!
It’s easy to roll up, and we just pull on it to unroll it. It’s not a nuisance at all.
The next step was to get the water heated up. In the summer the heater isn’t needed. In the middle of the winter it would be prohibitively expensive to heat the pool (although some people in Tucson do heat their pools all winter). We’re having an unseasonably warm November, and we wanted to see how the pool heater worked, so we went ahead and turned it on.
We’re not sure how expensive it will turn out to be. The heater is 400,000 BTU. In comparison, a furnace for a mid-sized house is about 100,000 BTU. So I’m estimated that hour-to-hour it costs about 4 times as much to run the pool heater as a furnace. I’ve never paid any attention to how long a furnace runs in middle of the winter, but a total of 8 hours in 24 hours doesn’t seem like too much. I’m guessing that might be equivalent to 2 hours of the pool heater.
At the moment, with temperatures still quite high (80’s) and dropping to around 50 at night, it’s taking between half hour to an hour to bring the pool heat from the low 80’s to the mid-80’s. That seems reasonable to me, but I expect we’re at the end of the season. Next week the temperatures are supposed to drop a fair amount. And before we know it, we’ll be into December.
We’re really, really enjoying the pool. I’ve used it every day since we got here except one day where I was just really busy unpacking. But I nearly always make time to take a break and get into the pool. I’m not a strong swimmer and have zero form, but I alternate between my front and my back to keep from getting too tired. I do several laps and it seems to be very restorative for me.
John enjoys the pool too.
A cold front is coming in and we probably won’t be using the pool regularly from now through mid-winter. Still, I can’t believe it’s been this warm in November. Tucson is amazing.
For years Laura’s blue willow dishes had been missing. I was sure they had been stored at her dad’s house since her childhood, but he insisted he didn’t have them. Turns out he did, and he came across them recently. The long-lost dishes are finally reunited with Laura.
Here’s an end-of-summer patio dinner in Laura’s backyard with Alex and her dad and stepmom (and Zane, the dog).
Zane and his buddy Bucky:
In addition to Zane, Laura and Alex have another new pet, Caden the cat. He’s shy, and spent his first few days hiding in the closet, so they put his bed in there for him. He’s slowly getting braver with his new surroundings.
A really cute picture of two of Emily’s girls:
Here’s all three of them, Daphne, Thea and Phoebe:
A few days too late for Halloween, here’s a funny picture John took of me dressed in disposable painter’s coveralls when I was painting kitchen drawers and cabinets. Lol, I didn’t really paint with the hood up, I just did that for the photo. But if I had been painting overhead, it would have come in handy.
If Laura was able to spend 5 years in damp & humid Japan with no clothes dryer, surely I can manage in Tucson, one of the most arid places in the US, right? The climate in the region where Laura lived in Japan was like Seattle in the winter and Miami in the summer. How she got anything dry, I don’t know.
Not that I originally planned to be without a dryer. The minute I knew we were going to be under contract for the new house in Tucson, I ordered a washer & dryer. I ordered right away because I knew there were delays due to covid. Sure enough, the delivery date was pushed way out.
We had no washer and dryer when we arrived, but I had a delivery date of mid-November. It hadn’t changed for a month, so I was tempted to believe it. Two days before delivery, they pushed it out by another month.
I had already been without a washer and dryer for nearly two weeks. I was not going to be able to go another month without figuring in a trip or two to the laundromat. Noooo! That would not be my favorite outing in the best of times. Definitely not what I want to do during covid.
The delivery dates didn’t really seem to mean anything. I wondered if they had no idea when the washer and dryer would be in stock and were just stringing me along, a month at a time. I called to ask, and the customer service agent was vague and evasive. She reluctantly admitted that yes, she had seen delivery dates change repeatedly, maybe going on for months. Meanwhile, they had my money.
Should I cancel the order? Was there some sort of queue and I was slowly getting toward the front and if I canceled I’d be in the back of the line again? Or was this washer and dryer simply never going to happen?
I started googling the models, looking to see whether they were in stock anywhere, at any store, and to check what the other stores were saying about availability. What I found was surprising. The washer was in stock at several stores in the region (if I was willing to settle for white rather than a designer color, fine, I don’t care.)
The issue was the dryer. Most stores were showing it unavailable, not even to backorder. One store was selling it, but warned it was out of stock until late February. February! Then I knew it was the dryer holding my order up, not the washer. I realized I wasn’t going to get either my washer or my dryer until February, because they were intending to deliver them together, even though the washer is currently available.
I canceled my order. I didn’t want a washer and dryer in February. I wanted a washer now. I reordered the washer only, from a different store, and got my new white washer within two days. Yay! Wash machine!
I figured I could pick up a used dryer cheap on craigslist. I figured wrong. There appears to be a supply and demand problem. People are charging nearly-new prices for twenty-year-old dryers! No thanks.
Plus, for some reason the dryers are retailing for more than the wash machines. That just seems backwards to me. And both are so expensive right now! So instead of a brand new, gazillion-dollar dryer, for less than 50 bucks I bought the fanciest clothes drying rack I could find on Amazon.
This bad boy holds a lot of clothes, on hangers so I don’t have to mess with clothespins and then transfer the clothes to hangers. It also provides nice wide, stiff rods for draping rugs over.
It easily collapses and telescopes down for storage. It’s lightweight, easy to move around, and suitable for indoor or outdoor use. The reviews say it doesn’t blow over in the wind – we’ll have to see about that. At least we’re not in Albuquerque-level winds anymore.
Meanwhile, John had strung a clothesline. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Every time we move (and John and I move a lot), I always want a clothesline. And every time he objects, on aesthetic grounds. I’ve accused him of being an elitist snob, but that doesn’t convince him. He hated clotheslines. Every time I washed bulky bedding and rugs, I would have to drape them over the patio furniture because I never had a clothesline. (Not exactly an aesthetically pleasing alternative, by the way.)
But now we didn’t have a dryer, with no solution in sight. In these extenuating circumstances, I finally got a clothesline! John was amazed how well the clothesline worked. It’s Tucson! The clothes dried as fast on the line as they would have in a dryer. John said it was like magic! Lol. I didn’t have a clothesline for 15 years and now I have a magic clothesline.
I suppose I’ll buy a dryer someday. Some cold rainy day in February I’ll decide I really ought to get a dryer. But right now I’m not even bothering to try to find one. In Tucson a dryer doesn’t seem all that necessary. Saves us a bunch of money, not to mention lowering our energy footprint.
We have no idea what this is. An alien, apparently. I thought New Mexico had a monopoly on aliens, but here’s one in Tucson too. Maybe it’s a desert thing.
It lives a couple of blocks away; we often pass it on our morning walk. Of course we had to pose with it.
After covid, come visit me and you too can get your picture taken with an alien in my neighbor’s yard.
Remember in a recent post I bragged about how well New Mexico was doing with covid? For weeks we had about 100 new cases a day. That was 100 too many, but it wasn’t an alarming amount compared to our neighboring states of Arizona and Texas, which were way out of control. But suddenly, last week, our numbers started rising. Instead of around 100 new cases each day, it was 200 and then 300 and then 400, and every day was worse and worse. Wednesday was 577 new cases and yesterday was 672! I have no idea what’s going on.
I don’t know what happened to make the cases start rising like that. It doesn’t seem like it could have been the weather. In early and mid October it was still hot in Albuquerque. (That was before the sudden rapid drop in temperature resulting in snow late in the month). Did New Mexicans get tired of wearing their masks? For months, New Mexico was probably the most masked state in the US. Even stricter than California, New Mexicans have been wearing their masks outdoors and well as indoors, including while exercising. For months. So what happened?
Along with a lot of the rest of the country, it has gotten so much worse since I wrote that post a month ago. Daily new cases rose and rose. It was 1,000, then it was 1,500…every new milestone was shocking. Yesterday new cases in New Mexico exceeded 2,000. That might not sound like much to those of you in populous states, but the entire population of New Mexico is only about 2 million people. That’s smaller than a lot of cities.
Since we’re in Arizona now, here’s the Arizona statistics – approximately 4,000 new cases yesterday, out of a population of over 7 million. So Arizona is actually doing better than New Mexico by percent of population.
I’m also having trouble believing the rate increases are due to the winter season. That’s a plausible theory in the north, but Albuquerque temperatures were in the 80’s and 90’s when rates started climbing there early last month. And it’s still hot in Tucson. It was 91 degrees today. That’s not winter weather.
There’s so much unknown. In addition to the rapidly rising numbers, it’s very concerning what we’re hearing about long term effects. People are exhausted and foggy-brained and have other vague but debilitating symptoms months later. It’s just hard not to worry.
Update: in New Mexico, over 2,000 new cases the day before yesterday, nearly 3,000 yesterday. A couple of months ago it was just 100 a day. What is going on?
I want to mention that I have a new facebook account. I’m having a lot of trouble finding people, so maybe you can look me up and send me a friend request if you want. I’m not quite sure how it works, but maybe this link will get you there, https://www.facebook.com/kristina.sullivan.731. Email me if you can’t find it and we’ll figure it out.
I have two accounts – if you find the old one instead, you’ll know it because I haven’t posted there for a long time, and if you friend-request the old one I’ll ignore you because I won’t see it. The new one I just set up yesterday. Not quite sure why I started a new account, just felt like starting over I guess.
I probably won’t post on it much, I prefer this blog. I mainly just wanted to be able to keep up with local activities (which at the moment are confined to zoom, but someday…) and I would like to read your posts, since most of you don’t blog.
BTW, if I have any readers who blog, let me know! I would totally read your blog!
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