Deer fighting in backyard!

This morning I awoke to an awesome sight, two bucks were putting on a show for me. I must of been too excited as I did a poor job taking photos through the kitchen window. I have taken photos from there before and they were pretty good but not today....boohoo.... anyway here are a couple shots just to show you.

We are home!

Hi, just a short note to say we are home. We had a great trip home, nice dry roads all the way with only a little bit of fog in Oregon. It is nice to be back in a "real house", the park model is fine but I sure love my home. We will see all the grand kids after school today and we are going to Marnie & Brad's for dinner tonight! We did a bit of Christmas shopping on the way home and now I have to get busy here and finish it up and also get DECORATING!! Will add to the post as I get things done here for Christmas, just to keep you all up to date and let you know what your missing by staying in Yuma and not being home with your family, ha ha ha.....

Garage is done!

Here are a few inside photos of the garage. We have bought a washer, dryer and deep freeze; I think we are done for a while. The concrete work will be done tomorrow.

More photos of the garage

Looking into the garage from our deck...The laundry sink, washer, dryer area...you can see the small shed just outside the door.Bathroom door and another view of laundry sink, washer, dryer area....

Looking into bathroom and hot water tank sits in corner on the little box thing you see...

Close up of waher, dryer area...we are also putting a small deepfreeze there....

Progress on GARAGE!

Well we are seeing some progress on the garage but I do not know if they will have it done on Friday as promised! Here are some more photos of it and the big tree....or shall I say the area where the tree was!

First they cut the top off the tree, the mess from that is still here!

When the contractor took out the tree our water line got broken, but WATER & SEWER are Ernest's specialty so he fixed the water line! They only put it about two feet deep so hand digging in the sand was not hard!Now we can see our neighbors across the road from us and they can see us! Also I have a few more places where I can see the top of the mountains in the distance.

Look how nice our place looks from the road, before you could hardley see the park model from this corner of the lot. I like it much better now! If you notice you can see our small shed just behind the house. In January we are making the shed into a sitting room, and also will use it as a guest bedroom....and yes it will have a TV in there but you will have to walk into the garage to use the bathroom!

The Garage and Halloween

We are having a garage built on our lot in Yuma. It will be 20 feet by 20 feet and will have a 3 piece bathroom in it. The garage will also be where we will have the washer and dryer as well as a small deep freeze. We are excited to have this building as some of our potluck dinners will be held in there if the weather is cold this winter.

This the big tree we are having removed. Under it is 3 nice palm trees.
On Halloween we only had 2 little boys come, the first one ran away so fast I never got a photo but I did get one of the other little guy. I was disappointed with the lack of kids and to think we stayed home instead of going out to the casino for the "Sea Food Smorg"....rats! Anyway here is a photo of him....
Here are a couple photos of some Arizona style decorations, I really like my "welcome Iguana".

Yuma

It has been very hot here, into the 30's some days. The nights have not cooled off much either so sleeping is hard since we do not have an air conditioner in the bedroom. Irene and Aki arrived today so it is nice to have family here now. I have some photos of the garage we are getting built but the Internet I am using is slow so I can not put them here. We are getting our Internet on the 8th so I will post the photos then. We only had 2 boys for Halloween, we sat out in our shorts until after 8:00 pm waiting for them and then had the lights on till 10:00 but no kids ater the two at 7:00.....that buts a different BOO in Halloween.....BOOHOO!