Hi, everyone!
We are enjoying a break in the very cold weather we suffered this week. One night, I believe it must have been the coldest we've had all winter. The weathermen say we are not going to see seasonal temperatures until mid-March.
We had a ten day bus tour to Laughlin, got home again last Monday night. Since the bus didn't originate here, we had to take a shuttle bus to Swift Current and got on the tour bus there. We took our jackets off then and put them in the overhead racks, and didn't take them out again until we got back to Swift Current. All three days in Laughlin we had shirt-sleeve weather. Our wallets were a lot lighter when we got home, but we were well-fed. You sure have to enjoy bus travel, though – we had three twelve-hour days on the bus.
Just for this trip, we had bought a Kobo e-reader, smaller than a thin pocket book and holds a thousand or more books. It came with a hundred books installed, classics that I likely never will read, but I enjoyed re-reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. It was very easy to read in the bus. I bought four books and installed them, and got a couple more from the library (free!) so am not likely to run out of reading material for awhile.
Doreen had taken six novels, and found them bulky and heavy, so when we got home, we bought her a Kobo too. We can share the books we have bought or borrowed. Best thing about the library books is that they are automatically disabled after 14 days, so we don't have to worry about returning them. Only trouble is, the library may only have one or two of a title available for lending, which brings the list of available books down to just a few. You can, though, put books on a wish list and when they are available, the library will notify you by e-mail.
We cart around a lot of books in our motor home – no more!
At Laughlin, there is a long River Walk that passes by six or eight hotel casinos beside the Colorado River. At one point, there were a bunch of mallard ducks sitting on the grass, waiting for hand-outs. I wonder if they came from Greenwater?
I just read a mystery about a town in New Hampshire that had a problem with geese – they had adopted the sidewalks and roads as their own and left the typical goose mess behind them, all over town. The town was even considering slaughtering the geese and giving the carcasses to their equivalent of the Food Bank, but of course that idea wouldn't fly. Finally, the heroine realized that where there was a pond with a mute swan in it, no geese would approach; she researched the matter, found that the swans and the geese are not compatible, and gave the idea to the town fathers. Wonder if it would work at Greenwater?
Speaking of Greenwater, there is a rumor going around that Connie and Gary Schmidt, owners of the Beach Cafe, have bought the Park Store from Rose and Jim Steadman. I phoned to check, and Gary confirmed it. The cabins are now in private hands, as is the boathouse, the store and the Cafe. The Administration Building is still headquarters for the conservation officers, and looks after the campgrounds, but I'm not sure what else is done there.
The Beach Cafe shut down briefly in the fall, then opened up in early December and have been open ever since. Gary tells me they will shut down for a week in April for maintenance but otherwise will be open the year 'round.
Happy Birthday, Merv! Merv celebrates his birthday tomorrow, the 28th. Not sure which birthday this is, but I believe he is over fifty-five. |
