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Off at 6am (it’s 2:50 am now) then my own ranch chores then bed. Can’t wait! Lol
I forget you're on west coast time. It's 5 here. I'll be on Pacific Time in a couple months. Going down to work west of Yuma out in the desert...
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Yep. Still a couple hours to go. Wish it was 5am. Lol
The desert could be fun. Remote area?
The desert could be fun. Remote area?
Once you get away from Yuma, yeah, it's remote. There's nothing but rocks and sand dunes all the way the the Salton Sea. It's really not a good place.
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Oh. Ya that doesn’t sounds great. How long will you be there? Or do you know?
I like the desert. I like dessert too.
You get one or the other. Ain't many places to get dessert in the desert...
Happy New Years everybody.
Been to Tucson. February vacation with my brother. Not sorry to have missed out on Yuma. Hah. Yuma prison figured in several Western stories I used to read. Seems like Elmore Leonard wrote a couple good ones.
You didn't miss much at Yuma. It's a weird combination of people - old white geezers living out their retirement in one of the 4,000 trailer parks there, or young Hispanic families. It's not a bad place, but there's nothing that good about it either.
Tucson isn't what it used to be. There's a big heroin problem and it's gotten to be a dirty place. I still have some relatives there I might try and go see, if I get time...
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Happy New year back at ya @squirrelhunter!
I took my brother there in February of '87. Didn't go downtown, we weren't city folk. Stayed at a motel on the outskirts, drove around in the desert. Still have a pic of my brother standing beside a saguaro. The Living Desert is like another world for Vermonters.
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I see you browsing @Spikedriver. How are you?
Hi Erica! I'm at the Tucson airport Hampton Inn. Decided to treat myself to a nice hotel for once. I crashed out real early this evening and just woke up at 0115 thinking I overslept and missed my 0830 flight home...
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Crashing out sounds really good! Will you be able to go back to sleep?
Probably not...
Surprisingly, the hotel gym is open. I may head down there if I can't go back to sleep...
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Oh nice! Just thought I’d say hi since you were on 
How long you going to be home for?
How long you going to be home for?
I'll be home from Wednesday afternoon to Monday then I'll fly back to Arizona. That will be the schedule until March unless something changes...
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Treat yourself to more nice hotel rooms when you can. You deserve it!
I think I deserve it too, but my bank account tends to disagree...
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I have never understood thatI think I deserve it too, but my bank account tends to disagree...
I mean why? If we deserve it why doesn’t the bank account just provide?? I mean I still have checks so that means I got money right???
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Our youngest is a pharmacist at one of the big hospitals in Tucson, and she does mention the huge heroin problem. She is only there till the summer, though.
I grew up there, and still call it home. Brother and sister still live there. Enjoy the warm weather Spikedriver, although they did just get snow.
I swear I could make a sandwich out of nothing but onions and sweet peppers sauteed in olive oil. It just hits something I'm craving every time I make them for sandwiches.
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I used to go to Yuma on travel. If you need something to do on the weekend you can visit another planet called slab city. Salvation mountain is worth a look. Who would have thought they had Covid restrictions?
http://www.salvationmountaininc.org/
http://www.salvationmountaininc.org/
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I just remembered I used to go to the movies a lot. Were else could I entertain myself for 2 hrs on 5 bucks. Something would come on the TV and I would tell my wife, oh this is a good movie. She got irritated one day and said I wish you would stop going to so many movies in Yuma. I said ok but there ain't much else to do. Do you prefer the casinos or strip clubs? She said movies are fine.
Here you go Spikedriver. Maybe this will give you someplace to try in Tucson. Sounds like there are a lot of choices. I hope you like Mexican food.
I have run across old houses with tube and knob insulators and what looks like mica covered tar covered copper wires, I've brought samples home that were in a garage of a home that I did some work on, just to show people what electrical systems used to be like. My neighbor on the west side of us has a home that originally was built in the 20's, it was an electricians nightmare, I saw single wires hanging in the crawl space from one side of the house to the other, I told the new owners that they would have to tear all the sheetrock, possibly lath and plaster, off the walls and rewire the whole home, if there was Romex in the home it was just two wire and no ground. Actually some of the wiring in old homes was probably safer than some of the mobile homes that had aluminum Romex, thankfully over the years of helping people with their electrical issues, I've only seen one mobile home with aluminum wire in it, that was probably the worst mistake done in all the years we've used electricity and thankfully most of those old mobile homes are no longer around.
