Could serious problems await this summer?
A beautiful day today, sunny and warm, the kind of day that makes you want to get out and do something, unless you're me, and then you're too lazy to get out and do anything. But it does appear that spring is about over, and summer will take over, since the 10-day forecast calls for the mid-80s every day, but nights will remain in the 50s.
I am thinking about going out to my property near the 11-mile reservoir when the grandkids get back from their Florida trip, around the middle of June. That's not for sure yet, and it depends a lot on the weather forecasts and if anything else pops up that I need to take care of. Unlike in the winter, when I'm largely in control of where I go and what I do.
Usually, in the summer, one of my most important things to get done is getting my truck in shape to pass its emissions control standards, because without that, I can't get a 2027 registration, and without that registration, I can't get a current tag, and without that current tag, my truck and I are dead in the water. But this summer, something equally disastrous can happen, which is possible problems getting my driver's license renewed in September. On a scale of 1 to 10, both of those problems are 10s, and either one can bring my full-timing lifestyle to a screeching halt, and send me out shopping for snow shovels.
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The Wigwam Motel, Holbrook, Arizona. If you were driving down Route 66, who in their right mind could pass up spending the night in a teepee?
Creepy looking flowers growing in the yard.
These exceedingly rare flowers, which grow only on the south side of the Amazon River bank, were smuggled into Colorado, which by the way has a climate very similar to the Amazon, on a cartel drug smuggling submarine, and then brought across country in the pouches of specially trained kangaroos, which hopped from Key West to Denver, Colorado, in less than a week..... Why kangaroos, you may ask? Because ground penetrating radar and hyperactive sonar used by the border patrol can't detect things that hop. The border patrol learned this after seeing millions of people hopping across the border in Arizona. I was fortunate enough to receive a handful of these flowers and take their pictures shortly before the wind changed and the poison pollen from these beautiful, rare blooms killed most of the downwind neighbors.