This and That day

Yesterday Miss Lola met her new groomer. Get this, the groomer comes to your home with her trailer. Wow, that was neat. Lisa did a wonderful job grooming Lola too. Yes, it cost more for door to door service but driving the one ton dually through the traffic and trying to find a place to park the beast is a pain in the butt. So this worked very well for us. And the main thing is she was good to Lola and did a great job. Lisa put a pretty poinsettia  on Lola’s collar for Christmas. 

While Lola was getting all pretty we made what is called a “sparkle ball”. It’s a lighted ball that many here use as a decoration for Christmas. But with clear lights it can hang all year round. It’s made with 9 ounce plastic cups, a string of LED lights and lots of staples. It was so nice to do a project like this together. We hung the ball in what we call the Arizona room. It’s our sun shade porch that is like a whole other room to the 5er. The ball lights the steps nicely too. Not sure where we will store it as we travel from place to place, but I’ll worry about that in March. 

The 4 kinds of Christmas cookies are all baked. As is the cereal crunch, peanut brittle, cream cheese mints and popcorn balls. Even with that done, it doesn’t feel like Christmas for me. I miss all my Christmas decorations that I used to work my butt off to set up and all my special decorations on the tree. But I guess there is always something to be missed at sometime in our lives. Now we start new traditions. Change is a part of life.

The weather has been just about perfect with the days in the mid 70’s and the nights in the mid 50’s. Can’t ask for a better winter than that, in my opinion. Even with no snow around here the Arizona folk decorate for Christmas just like a snow covered Minnesotan. We enjoy walking around the 4 parks around us and look at the lights in the evening. It’s obvious that most RVer’s are not full time. You can tell by the kind and amount of decorations they use. No full timer would have room for all of that.  The drives around town to see the lights is just as much fun here as in Minnesota. I do have to say that is is so funny to see inflatable snowman on the sand covered desert yards The Christmas spirit is alive, even without the snow. But Christ had no snow on his day of birth either.