Happy Anniversary to Us!!!!!

Celebrating 14 years of married life!  Very low key this year, but watch out next year - 15 will be significant and we might just have to really celebrate.

Visit from Family - Brother Lawrence and Sister-in-Law Connie!

This weekend we had a visit by my (Linda's) Brother Lawrence and Sister-in-Law Connie.  We had a great time getting caught up and of course eating way too much!

Visit by friends from Lake Havasu City

Our good friends Willie & Shirley Hardy came for a weekend visit.  We all had a great time!

Final Phase of our Construction begins!!!

Here comes the "Mexican Brick" - it really does come from Mexico!

Unloaded and ready to begin the walls around the Ramada.

The beginning of the fireplace.

The short wall on the West side is in progress.

End of Day 1

End of Day 2

Fireplace - End of Day 3

Fireplace - End of Day 4

Fireplace - End of Day 5

After the end of day 5, we had a little Happy Hour Gathering.  Pictured clockwise are George & Billie Strasser, Dottie & Lew Anderson, me, Nita & Ken Barne, Andy, Jim & Helen Gilfillan, and John & MJ Maschka.

End of Day 7

Scaffolding looks a little scary!

Making progress.

End of Day 10

End of Day 13 - finally done!  A 5 day job took 13 days - sure glad we were not paying by the hour!

The final finishing touch - after all the construction and heavy vehicles on the lot, we needed a new layer of gravel.  It took two truck loads for a total of 11 yards to put a nice layer down.

Finally completed day 14

Our first fire!  We will be enjoying this Ramada alot!!!

Casa Clarkson is complete!

Visit from Andy's Son - AJ

Andy and his Son AJ. 

We had a nice gathering of friends to celebrate AJ's visit.  Pictured clockwise are Andy, AJ, Ken, Nita, me, Ron, Lew, Dottie, and Flor. 

INDIO FMCA Western Area Rally 2013

We are entering the Riverside County Fair Grounds in Indio California for our yearly visit to the Western Area  FMCA rally.  Looks like the weather might be a problem this year.

We had a great rally - as usual - then got ready to head to Quartzsite.  Before pulling out of the fairgrounds, we noticed that the alternator was not putting out any amps.  Fearing the worst, like getting stuck out in the desert of Quartzsite, we headed back to Yuma to get the problem fixed.

Glad we didn't try to remove the alternator ourselves.  This guy really earned his earnings this day - and again when he reinstalled it after it got rebuilt.

This is what almost 14 years of road dirt looks like!

Wow - a bright shiny newly rebuilt aternator!  A thing of beauty and hopefully the solution to our problem.

After reinstalling, the problem was not solved.  After getting the alternator back off and re-checked and re-installed - thought the problem was solved.  Didn't realize until almost time to leave for the Summer (fast forward to May - since I am so far behind updating this Blog) that the problem still was a problem.

Got another expert over to do some additional checking and what do you know - it turns out that the problem the whole time was the dual battery isolator!  The tech didn't have one in stock, so a quick call to Monaco Parts and an expensive "next day air" shipment and finally problem solved!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!!!!

We enjoyed a very Happy New Year's eve with friends.  Pictured in Nita, me, Andy, Dottie, Lew, and Ken.  The clock on the wall is not visable this year - but you all know that we are celebrating with New York!!!