VISITORS AROUND OUR PLACE

One day last week it was sunny, so decided to go out and bask in the sun. Everytime we go outside Mr. Green dive bombs us to let us know he is charge of the feeder. I had seen him earlier at the feeder so took my camera with me and sat down and waited for him. He is on guard here and then flew over to the palm tree for awhile, then back to the feeder. He was perched for quite awhile and I didn't realize they sat for so long at a time.

I believe this is a female because there is no color on her .... isn't she cute.

It has been quite awhile since I have seen Mr. Road Runner run by. Today he doesn't seen to be in any hurry, so gave me a lot of opportunities for picture taking. This pose is interesting because he acted as if a hawk flew over and he hunkered down so he wouldn't be seen. But when I looked up to see what it was, it was just Mr. Green guarding his feeder. Even tho Mr.Road Runner wasn't even close, in fact was across the street from it, Mr Green gave him fair warning.

Eventually Mr.Road Runner came across the street and on our patio and gave me a chance at a great shot!
Is he not just beautiful!

WINNERS!

We entered a pickleball tournament at a rv park in Tucson. It is called Voyager and is about like Palm Creek where we are staying. Let me tell you it was a cold windy day. We wanted to go early and watch some of the matches, so left at 7:30. Our neighbors Noel and Judi went with us (as it turned out probably sorry they did). But I"m glad they did go as they took a lot of pictures. We were suppose to play around 12:30 and I believe it was 2:30 before we played our first game. We played 8 games in all and had a great time.

The couple on our left won the bronze and is from our park, so was glad we mostly kept it in the family. The couple on our right we played twice.

You might notice that in the first picture we have sweatshirts on and it is dark.

As soon as these matches were over, we put our pants, sweatshirts, and coats back on. It was a fun time and even more fun since we won! If we enter any more tournaments, will not go early!

Cross Lighting

It was a little too early when I took this, but was getting cold (er) and I wanted it to hurry up. We had it plugged into a timer that is suppose to come on at dusk. I was beginning to think the darn thing wasn't going to work.

BUT finally it came on .... it really looks nice and stands out from quite aways.

Really and truly, I think it could use one more set of lights, but that will be for next year.

Our neighbor Noel gave us his opinion, (of course he said it was perfect, because I give him my newspaper everyday). He and Judi are great neighbors and we are going to miss them when they go back to WA for
Christmas .... be gone 17 days!
Next up John and I entered a skill level pickleball tournament Sat. the 5th. Will let you know the results when I get all the pictures.

LIGHTING PROJECT FOR CHRISTMAS

I told John that I was sick and tired of not seeing any Christmas decorations that symbolizes Christ. I could tell by his face that he was thinking "oh no I can feel a project". Especially when I said "Oh it will be easy", that especially makes him nervous. One year I came up with the idea of making a cross, putting Christmas lights on it and putting it in a window, it was beautiful.

So we went to Home Depot, bought the lights first, then a stapler ( I wanted an electric one, but John said we would probably not use it again and he wasn't spending 30 dollars for one time use), then off to the lumber. You might think we did that backwards, but I wanted to fit the lumber to the lights. Anyway, the board was the cheapest thing in this project. First off, John sawed it, then put 2 screws in, then painted.

Next was the lights. You might notice we are now inside. That is because the wind is very cool, I believe the temp only got into the low 60's. Someone told me it would be like this until the middle of Jan. BRRRRR

It took quite a while to decide where to put it. First I wanted to put it on a palm tree close by, but John said the ranger would probably make us take it down. He was about ready to call it quits, when I thought of the flag pole! Next will send pictures of the finished product all lit up. I'm very pleased and hope it makes people think of what Christmas is really about.