Fulltiming Road Runners

We’ve had fantastic weather with highs in the mid 70’s for almost a week, then yesterday Mother Nature decided to  cloud up  and blow a bit cool.  It was actually pretty nice in the afternoon, but evening got cool and cloudy.  We got rain last night which lasted most of the night.  Today was sunny/cloudy with a hefty breeze up to 25 mph.  Most of us stayed in all day, only going out to walk the dogs.  Tonight there is a 30% chance of rain showers and 40% chance tomorrow.  I don’t mind at all, having spent 13 years in Aberdeen, WA with an average rainfall of 98″ per year.  I just love the promise of beauty to come.

This spring is going to be absolutely gorgeous with all the rain we’ve had this winter.  We already have flowers starting to open up.  I was out during a sunny period yesterday afternoon and managed to get a couple of shots of the newly opened California Fagonia and the Fairy Duster.  The Apricot Globe Mallow is budding out and the bushes along the highway are beginning to open, those along the wash will be open within a week.  I’m seeing a few Desert Marigold, Desert Dandelion, and Brittle Bush in bloom, again it’s those along the highways.  There is so much green out here in the desert now.  I can’t wait to see what the newly emerged plants turn into.

We’re still getting new campers signing up out here.  These are the folks who come here out of curiosity because they’ve been told about it by friends and want to check it out, or those who just have a love for the desert and solitude.

Have I mentioned the coyotes are much more “aggressive”  this year?  I don’t mean aggressive towards people, but braver towards coming into our campgrounds and hunting.  We’ve had them right under our windows at 4:30 in the morning yelping and calling out their location.  I wish there were a way to get the word out to those camping here that they really really need to quit throwing leftovers in the washes.  We always mention it to those we sign up, but not a lot of the contact station attendants do much more than sign the people up and give them their receipts.

About our electric problem.  We got a call back from DoubleTree Rv (mfg or our 5th wheel) on Friday.  He said he spoke to Xantrax (mfg of the inverter) and they told him it was a programming problem with the inverter.  Apparently it wasn’t programmed properly, if it was programmed at all.  He told Thom the Xantrax tech would be calling him (we thought it would be Friday) to discuss it with him.  He checked back with us in the afternoon before he went home for the day and we hadn’t heard from Xantrax guy yet, so he said he’d call us back on Monday (tomorrow) to make sure things happened.  We’re still in limbo, but closer to real answers.

Here are the pictures of the two flowers I got yesterday and then it’s good night.

The California Fogonia:

and the Fairy Duster… 2 shots:

Ya’ll stay healthy ‘n happy.

Toodles!