It was a beautiful morning, 61 degrees, sunny and calm. We had plans to meet up with Dave and Mazie at the casino in Payson to give them the pecans we had picked up for them, so that was our first destination. We had a few flies traveling with us, and Lucille was in charge of the fly swatter. But when Joe asked for it to swat one on his window, she wouldn't give it to him because he was driving. Joe handed her one of our traveling zoo animals (moose) to hold while she rode, so she babysat the moose all day (that kept her from holding on to the seat belt).
We got to Payson right at noon, visited with the Johnsons for a while, had lunch, and I won $20.37. We had an issue going up the mountains, steam coming out of the vent from the new auxiliary heater that Joe had replaced, so he had to do a little maintenance on the casino parking lot. One of the heater hoses was dripping around the clamp, so he tightened up all the clamps and thought he had it fixed, but as the day continued, he thought we were still having problems so when we stopped at Eager, Arizona (Bear Paw Campground) for the night, he investigated further and found that he had somehow missed putting one clamp back on. So he got that fixed, and hopefully we are good to go tomorrow.
Lucille finally got to move out of the co-pilot's seat when we got to the campground, and I thought she would probably like something familiar, so I got out her solitaire cards and she played a few games while Joe did his maintenance and I got our meal on the table.
After our pretty full lunch at the casino, we just had a light dinner in the RV (tomato soup, ham salad, beets and pickles.
Then we watched TV for a while.
She thought maybe she could wash the dishes, so instead I told her she could sit at the table and I would put the clean dishes in front of her and she could dry them. She was ready to go to bed by 7:00 but she managed to stay up until about 8:30.
We watched her favorite TV shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, then we got her settled in the made-out couch.
But it was a rough night. She went to sleep pretty good but after the first bathroom trip (11:30), she had trouble getting settled. I got up once when I saw her remaking her bed. Then, the next time, she was sitting on the side of the bed, so I got up again. She had turned over and saw the little orange light on the heater we had put up front, and thought there was a fire, or at least that it was a flame. Finally, I switched places with her so Joe got her for the rest of the night. But that made-out sofa is not very comfortable, so we have a new plan for Friday night -- we are going to try her on the sofa without making it out. We have one other option, we can make out the dinette, so we will see if that becomes necessary. Our bed is too high for her so we are trying to figure out an alternative to giving up our bed to her.
As far as the drive itself, she worries about a lot of things. In addition to helping Joe drive, she thinks she needs to keep talking to him to keep him awake. She's not fond of driving on curvy roads, or through mountains, and she wasn't too impressed with the burn-out area of the Rodeo-Chedeski forest fire of 2002, where regrowth is beginning to make a difference. Among other things she found to complain about. LOL. All of us who know her well know she likes to complain. I guess when you almost 98, that's your right.
We got off the road at 4:45 (she was ready to end the day a couple hours before that). We drove 192 miles, but are still in Arizona.
She was up by 7:00 a.m. but Joe wasn't ready to give up his warm spot in bed just yet. It was 30 degrees up here in the mountains this morning, we are at an elevation of 7078.We will probably stay somewhere in New Mexico Friday night.
We are taking our pictures from our Smart Phones rather than the camera and I haven't figured out a good way to upload them to the blog, so for this first issue, I've just emailed them to myself, then copied and pasted them into this blog. I don't know how well they will come through, and I hope, with Cathy's help, to figure out a better and more efficient way of posting the pictures.
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