Back in Good Life

   Ahhh,  we are  back  in Mesa AZ. for the winter and so happy to be here.  The temperature is in the 90's with a cold front promised in a few days to brings us to a chilling 80's !!!

  It's great fun meeting up with our winter friends Mary , Chuck, Inez, both of them and Orbie.   Within the next  two or three weeks, the population will increase 60%.  After the holidays, everyone will be back.  There is a family connection here and each arriving guest is greeted with hugs and welcome backs. " Glad to see you " is heard all over the park.  

 Nov. 1st all the activities will be in full force and we will all be off and running to our favorite programs.  I enjoy the crafts, swimming, playing pool, the shows and card playing.   Pretty much everyone here volunteers for something.  I am assistant to the cribbage group and work the Saturday breakfast. This year I will also be collecting  tickets taken at some of the  activities.  

When I think of Arizona I think of saguaro cactus, the canyons, good friends, a busy calendar and Mexican food that will, as the paper said today, that will burn your socks off.  

 Red Sox game rained out last night.   Boo Hoo.  

Have a good weekend.   

Please tell me there is no such thing as a curse.

Red Sox rally falls just short Mariano Rivera showed up just in time to save the New York Yankees. Rivera got Kevin Millar to pop out to strand the tying run at third base in the eighth inning, then finished out a thrilling 10-7 win for the Yankees in Tuesday night's opener of the AL championship series. (AP)

GO RED SOX

The Curse of the Bambino

 

 

 

 

(Globe Staff Photo / Barry Chin)

Ortiz is greeted by a mob at home plate, beginning the team celebration, which would last long into the night and is  probably still going on in beantown.    The team has a few days off before they meet the hated New York Yankees.   Only time  will tell if this  will be our year.  

 The next question that always comes up is will the sox end the Curse of the Bambino?   The sox have not won  a World Series  since 1918, before that terrible trade  of  Babe to the Yanks.

  HBO Online: HBO Special Events: The Curse of the Bambino  

http://www.bambinoscurse.com/whatis/#wiLegend  

 "Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."   GO RED SOXS

Gold Canyon RV & Golf Resort

  Well , we are back in Arizona at a new park to us, about 30 miles from Mesa.  We are planning on staying here until the 15th of Oct, and then going to the Good Life RV Resort in Mesa.  

 This Gold Canyon  park is part of   the Sonoran desert with a background of the beautiful Supersition mountains.  The weather here is still in the 90's and sunny every day.  The sunsets are unforgettable and free every night. LOL  

Bob is in his glory because it offers a nine hole ecutive golf course., which is being reseeded next week.  Now  what that  means to Bob is that golf is free until then.  What a bennie!  He has been teeing off every morning at 7AM., before it gets to hot.  

 Besides the above they have tennis courts, two pools, two jacuzzis, card and game rooms , billiards, a ballroom and every kind crafts clubs.  It is luxuary living for the over 55 group, and right now the snow birds have not arrived and it's our playground.

  About.com: http://www.goldcanyonrvresort.com/

I've Always Loved Cowboys

  Monday we went to historic Tombstone, AZ., "The Town Too Tough To Die".    Tombstone  is indeed alive and full of old West vigor.   Lots to see and shops to visit.  Gun fights daily at the OK Corral , which  was the most famous gunfight to ever occur in western lore,  and then lunch at the Big Nose Kate Saloon.  Big Nose Kate ( so named for her snooping ways ) was the gal that loved Doc Holiday-and everyone else too.  

  Next we visited  the famous Boothill cemetery just north of  Tombstone.    It goes without saying that the name came from so many of the dead died with their boots on.  This is Tombstones original graveyard used from 1879-1884.  

 Big Nose Kate, The Shady Ladies and The 1880's Bordellos  

   My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys  

   Tombstone Arizona History - Boothill

Good Motto to Live By

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,Champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"  

Deming, NM

We are in The Dream Catcher RV Park in Deming, NM.   Good phone signal, but very slow.   I have some great pictures of the missions in El Paso, but am unable to load them up here.  We will be tucked in for the winter  on the 15th.  That means a real telephone line, which for me suggests a little more speed on the web.

Yesterday when we were getting ready to leave El Paso Bob saw a motor home with Massachusetts plates on it and went over to investagate.    Guess what?  It was a classmate of Bobs from Salem High.  Small world again.  They made plans to meet up for dinner in Az the first of the year.

Our next stop will be Benson Az.  One place we want to visit while there is Tombstone.  We will be here till Monday probably.  Have a good week-end.