Winter 2013

The sun reflected tessellations patterns on the floor of the crystal clear pool as I swam my morning laps. I could feel the warmth of the sun when it decided to peek out between the clouds. The outside air temperature measured 61 degrees and the flags flew straight out. Thank goodness the pool heater worked properly. Welcome back to Chula Vista!


Winter in Sun City AZ rates the coldest one yet. We experienced a week below freezing. It snowed in Mesa and baseball for the Diamondbacks was cancelled due to snow on the field! The cold created many days where even driving the car to the pool remained out of the question. The weather continued to flip between cold and hot for a few weeks. We had a severe wind storm with rain and hail. Then in March it decided to warm up and cause us to fire off the air conditioners both day and night. The shifting temperatures didn’t allow me to acclimate as well to the 90 degree weather that showed up near the end of the month.




More visitors discovered the wonders of a little Arizona vacation this year. We found ourselves dining out two, three, or even four times a week. What a gift you are, my friends! I’m looking forward to seeing all of you again next year. This year our friends across the street even had us over to their house twice. I hope to cook for them next year. One evening we returned from baseball and were deciding what to have after we cooled off from sitting in the sun. Our neighbor knocked on the door and said “dinner’s ready, come on over”. So we did. She had invited three other couples and made it a party. How great was that?




Since the RV is “home”, we chose to remove the sofa. The angles needed to sit on the sofa and watch TV were uncomfortable. So we purchased a recliner and end table. I love my chair! When I sink into its softness, I don’t want to ever get up again. (That presents another kind of problem, but “Oh Well”!)




Baseball began early this year on March 22nd. Except for a few days off, we saw a game almost every day. Derrille and I attended 33 baseball games this spring training season. As usual, the people we met came from all around the country and provided interesting visits. Next year we plan to alter the schedule with at least one day a week off. A game every day for twenty days straight proved to be a bit taxing. After attending games together for 11 years, plus another year where just Derrille and my brother-in-law, Roger, came down, we’ve seen a lot of games.

I’ve thought about the blog many times and even taken photos to include with the different topics. Then time slipped away and writing time remained nonexistent. I’ll try to do better now that baseball is done for another year.



We left Paradise RV Resort in the afternoon of Tuesday April 2nd. Our park model neighbors all came to say good-bye. Then we drove down to the Freightliner facility. Last year they created a great parking place for RVs coming in for work. They provide nice wide spaces, big enough to send out all of our slides, a 50 amp plug and a covered outside waiting area with picnic tables. They even put in a doggy park. We went down to “Camp Freightliner” and plugged in. The lady next to us had been a school bus driver. Her husband died last fall, so she had her sister-in-law and brother-in-law with her. Their kids were teachers. Derrille spoke with others there, and they were retired teachers. As advertised: the Freightliner techs assigned to each rig arrived at 7 AM and drove each rig into the shop. Derrille and I went to breakfast and ran some errands before picking the rig up at noon and heading west.