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Friday

 

Are you sick of pictures of this humming bird family?  I promise this is the last one. Please click on the picture to see all of the detail of his feathers.

Nice day today. The r.v. is gone, we are getting our mail here again. Claudia is ready to start gardening. Nikki looks beautiful with his new hair grooming. Plan is for a quiet weekend. The local newspaper keeps calling us, saying that we owe 4 months of back payment for the time that we were gone. They turned us over to a collection agency. I'm sure that must put us in a bad view in our credit score.

Thursday

I'll try to avoid being just a weather forecast.  We got the r.v. put into storage today. We went up to Kaiser to get my monthly medicine fix.  Claudia, Nikki and I all got hair cuts.  Nikki looks the best of us 3. We are still not quite into our "normal" routine.  The cactus look pretty good. We fired our old gardener and hired someone more aggressive. Not just mow and blow.  We need to program the gardening water.  Not too bad being back home.

 

This was very soon after the first hummer, seen here, was out of the nest. Look at that tongue.

Almost gone.

It finally stopped raining today.  We have finished unloading/reloading the r.v.  All of the dirty clothes have to come in, be washed and dried, and then returned to the r.v. We will put it in storage tomorrow.  I am finally getting a hair cut after nearly 4 months.

The humming bird pictures from the previous post, are one of the first flights of the baby hummer. The other was still in the nest. 

Nikki is getting his cut the next day.  The birds are flying around the house. We really should have them trimmed for safety. But they are so pretty while up in the air.   

 

Claudia on our back yard cactus tour. 

Sunday

We are still unloading the r.v.  It is raining lightly. Mounds or dirty cloths to wash.  Most of the cactus are out of the car, and the underneath cabinets.  Some of them grew quite a bit while in the dark for a week.  Weird.

 

 

 

home

Claudia thought she knew which Bakersfield Rv park was recommended by Dale and Cindy and Steve and Lynnette,but she was only guessing. We ended up at the Bakersfield Palms. Our first clue that she guessed wrong was that there were no cookies waiting for us in the office. Then when we asked where the restaurant was, the reply was that there was a Dennys within walking distance. Oh well it only cost us $27.00, and actually was nice. All pull thrus and the nicest newest power stacks that we have ever seen. We got home abt 4:30 after our usual stop at Crappy World in San Martin. We came home hiway 99 for a change. It may have been a little slower but there was much more to look at than on Hiway 5. Cool and overcast at home but at least we get to watch all the Giants game on TV.

We had a bit of good luck driving home. There is a long stretch of road, with not cross streets. About 20 miles. We passed by a brand new wreck in the middle of the road.  I am sure that when the police arrived there, traffic was blocked in both directions. We have had to sit there waiting an hour, in the past. So, some one else's hardship is our good luck.

 I took this picture a few days before we left the park. It is nearly empty.

 

Wednesday

Nasty weather today, drizzle along the bay.  Had another great visit with M and J.  We plan to leave tomorrow morning, spend a night in Bakersfield, and arrive home the next day. Only God knows where all of our mail has gone.

 

We watched a hummer build a nest in the porch light. Then the babies hatched. Claudia kept checking on them.  Pictures in the nest, and now pictures since they have left the nest. Nice to see them both live to being independent.

Here they were in the nest together.

 

You really should click on this picture to see the detail. 

Having fun in San Diego

Not very nice weather. But we know the area so well, that we can find some thing to do even with fog and gloom.  Spent over an hour playing with the large birds at our favorite bird store.  Then a couple of hours walking and shopping in the Old Town state park. Then we picked up nikki and went to a dog friendly restaurant.

 

This guy is just out of the nest.

Saturday

We squeezed the last cactus pot into the shower, got a fairly early start, for us, and we are  now in San Diego.  It was to be 99 deg. in Palm Springs, so there was no way to slow down Claudia.  It is cool here, but very sunny.  Nice park.  We are seeing Marc and Jane tomorrow.

 

Hi wind warning

We are getting ready to go home. The plan for right now is, leave here on Saturday. Spend Saturday and Sunday in San Diego, to visit Marc and Jane. Then be home on Tuesday.  I would stay here longer, if I could, but Claudia is more than ready to go. Today was supposed to be hot, but the wind was so strong that we needed to bundle up to eat outside. 

 

We have been watching this grow.

Then there was one; less.

 

This is the fence behind our coach, the other side is the tennis court.  Claudia had Jake outside, even though he is now flying, way too well.  Notice how every thing bad is her fault?  He got frightened by a loud noise, Claudia's leaf blower. And he flew way high up, over the fence, and flew around the court, finally landing near the net.  Frightening?  We ran around to the entrance to the court.  But, nothing is ever easy for us. The court was locked, with Jake on one side, and us on the other side.  Jake was so sweet, he came to my voice and climbed on the fence to be near me.  Claudia knew someone who plays tennis and has a key.  I kept Jake company while she ran to get the key.  A healthy re-union is a good result.

Her is Jake on another day.