It’s only fitting that on the last day of January there has to be some idiot out there doing something stupid. Leave it to John Boehner who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Not only does the GOP have a majority in the House but they now have a majority in the Senate too. Can they govern? Apparently not as Boehner is busy racking up lawyer bills by running to the courts the same GOP once despised and ridiculed as non-elected lawmakers.
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First, let me deal with blog technology. It’s old, it’s staid and it’s antiquated. Blogger hasn’t changed much at all since I began blogging in 2009. A lot of bloggers like this but I detest it. It feels like I’m stuck driving an old 4 cylinder beater when I have a garage full of Ferrari’s (i.e. better technology like Instagram, Twitter etc.) that I could be zipping around in. Heck, out of sheer boredom I’ve even taken a second look at Facebook! Blogger, by design I feel, locks bloggers into a fatal flaw – repetition.
Leaving aside blogger technology which perhaps not too many of you ever care about I then find myself faced with blog content. This is our 8th snowbird season here in Desert Hot Springs. I just can’t bring myself to write the same old posts about going on the same hikes, eating at the same restaurants, golfing and swimming etc. While I thoroughly enjoy each of these activities and the superb weather, writing about them repeatedly makes me feel like I’m in a time warp.
I’ve spent some time over the past month reading a lot of blogs and for those who blog daily I’ve found the exact same pattern that my own blogs have fallen into – repetitiveness. It pretty much goes like this: “I got up at x, the weather was y, we did this and that, took some pics, went here and there, had dinner, went to bed”. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. Some bloggers undershare while others overshare. Some are more negative and glass half-empty while others are awesome and glass-full. That never changes either.
Given that’s the nature of the Blogger format, as I’ve already mentioned, then it’s to be expected and for the overwhelming majority of bloggers it’s perfectly acceptable and completely natural. For me though, I’m finding myself more and more bored with the format and the cycle of repetitiveness that it promotes. The idea of blogging to keep a journal of my day and activities does appeal to me but I can do that while keeping my blog private, available only to me and those I choose to share it with.
I admit, I’ve been struggling with this blogging question for almost a year now and have made a few attempts to kick-start my interest (i.e. abandoning my original blog and starting this new one last May) but it hasn’t worked to my full satisfaction. I may from now on just write a post when I have something interesting to me to say. I’m not going to say I’m quitting because I haven’t reached that point. I will, however, be spending more time on the new “Ferrari’s” of social media because new technology is where my true interests lie.
Now, onto my thoughts about last Saturday’s hugely successful Blogger-Fest at Quartzsite. The organizers are to be congratulated as they pulled off this event with remarkable efficiency and on such short notice even organizing perfect weather. In looking at the photos posted by many of the bloggers who attended, I recognized many folks that I’ve met in our travels and others who I only recognized from their blogs. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves so that was great to see.
Prior to the event I received a few emails asking if I was going to go, and then after, how come I didn’t, so that brings me to my thoughts on all this. First, and the main reason I didn’t attend, is that I absolutely hate large groups and the more people I don’t know the more I hate attending the event. That may seem downright unfriendly but that’s just the way I’ve always been and at 70 one doesn’t often change a lifetime habit. When I first read about Blogger-Fest my immediate reaction was it seemed like a great idea but it just wasn’t something I was remotely interested in.
I’m just more comfortable and happy with my family or a get-together with some of my good friends whether at home or here at the Sands RV Resort. Even here, I almost never attend the park-wide organized ‘fun-things’ like dances, happy hours etc. as I much prefer meeting up with a half-dozen or so friends I know at the dog park or going out with them for dinner. School reunions? Fuggeddaboutit – never been to one since I graduated from high school in 1961.
Blogger-Fest also made me think about another thing that has always intrigued me about RV’ing and it’s the idea, prevalent amongst many bloggers, that we are all some kind of big happy family who are somehow different from the general population and so we should get together whenever and wherever possible. I’ve never really bought into that idea either. Even though I’ve made some good friends through RV’ing and blogging (you all know who you are) there are others I’d hope to never cross paths with. RV’ers to me are pretty much like everyone else I’ve run across in my life.
So, what does this make me? Unsocial? Unfriendly? Neither as far as I’m concerned. I’ve never believed in self-serving, self-biased personality labels either. The trouble with labels is people often pick and choose only those attributes that are favourable to them and project the image of themselves they want others to believe. Too often I’ve seen bloggers twist themselves into knots trying to explain away the glaring contradictions between their self-defining words and their actions. Actions always speak louder than words in my experience anyway.
Finally, does anyone really care about my reasons for not attending Blogger-Fest? I really, sincerely hope not as I don’t really care who attended and who didn’t either. But, I’ve always written my posts about what interests me and this whole RV’er getting together thing has always intrigued me a bit so these are my thoughts. In closing, I’ll just say I think next year’s Blogger-Fest will no doubt be even bigger than this year’s as I know mine is a minority opinion. I’m o.k with that too!
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The further south you are at an airport in the USA the greater the chance is you may end up on a flight with a nutbar carrying a loaded gun onto your flight. At least that’s the conclusion to be drawn from the information the TSA has just released about firearm discoveries at TSA checkpoints for 2014. In total, 2,212 guns were discovered in carry-on bags with Dallas Fort Worth having the dubious honour of leading the nut parade with 120. No surprise to me to hear Texas out front hear.
Top 10 Airports for Gun Catches in 2014
Just a few of the 2,212 firearms your seatmates tried to fly with in 2014.
2,212 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging more than six firearms per day. Of those, 2,212 (83 percent) were loaded. Firearms were intercepted at a total of 224 airports; 19 more airports than last year. There was a 22 percent increase in firearm discoveries from last year’s total of 1,813. Do these nutbars really not know that guns are not allowed on airplanes?
What every passenger needs for “self-defense” on a flight – an assault rifle
Some joker tried to carry on a loaded assault rifle in Dallas! This brings a whole new meaning to “fly the friendly skies”.
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It was a long 12 hour, 350 mile road trip for me yesterday as I chauffeured Paulette and 4 of her quilting friends to visit several quilt shops from Palm Springs to San Diego yesterday. All 6 of us, along with Rylie of course, managed to squeeze into our truck as we left the RV park right on time at 8:30am.
Left to Right: Glynnis, Claire, Sandy, Paulette, Barbara
Our first stop was a familiar place – Temecula which is roughly the halfway point between Desert Hot Springs and San Diego. There were 2 shops the women wanted to visit so Rylie and I did our usual walkabout around Old Town while we waited.
Our route yesterday
Leaving Temecula we headed south stopping in both Vista and San Marcos to visit more of the “most favourite quilt shops in the world”. The final stop was The Country Loft in La Mesa. By the time all the shopping was done we had bags stuffed all over the truck – behind seats, under seats and in the foot wells. We arrived back in Palm Springs around 7pm where we stopped at Ruby’s Diner for dinner. It was a perfect evening and we were able to sit outside on Palm Canyon Dr. while we ate.
The Quilters were off again this morning to the Road to California Quilt Show
Not much else to say about yesterday except it was a long day. Unbelievably, at least to me, all 5 of the women who spent 12 hours quilt shopping yesterday, boarded a bus here at the Sands at 8am this morning for the short drive down to Ontario, CA to attend the huge, really big Road to California Quilt Show. For me, it’s going to be a quiet, restful day with lots of time spent lounging in the sun!
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In last night’s State of the Union Address President Obama repeated "I've run my last campaign". That statement was followed by some sarcastic applause from the Republican side of the aisle. Clearly irked, President Obama turned the tables on the Republicans by dropping this unscripted line on them: "I know because I won both of them".
President Obama nails it!
It was a thing of beauty to watch and listen to!
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Our ‘Little Man’ Mason is turning into a handsome looking little boy. Carrie posted a photo of Mason on Facebook of him sitting on his favourite ledge in their condo. It made me think of how many times I’ve sat on the sofa right in their living room and watched him while wondering how I got so lucky to have such a great little grandson. I miss Mason a lot but he’s enjoying life, having fun and there’ll be lots of time for Grandpa and Grammy when we get back home!
Mason is 19 months old now and growing by leaps and bounds
The weather sure has been great here lately in Desert Hot Springs. It was well into the 80’s today which meant I spent quite a bit of the afternoon up at the pool. Things are going to change a bit on Tuesday (not weather-wise) as 2 of Paulette’s quilter friends are arriving in Palm Springs for a 5 day visit.
For now, we’re loving our frequent G+ Hangout chats with Mason and Carrie
The change for me is I will be going back to chauffeur duties to drive up to 5 women to quilt shops located from Palm Springs to San Diego over the next 5 days. I’ll be getting Thursday though off as a big busload of quilters will be leaving the Sands to head to the Road to California Quilt Show near Los Angeles. I call this the Quilter’s Haj. It’s a must go for any serious quilter. It’s going to be a busy few days so I’m glad I’ve been resting up for this ordeal.
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No words to describe the incredible comeback victory by the Seattle Seahawks over the Green Bay Packers yesterday. It’s on to the Super Bowl with the ‘Hawks looking for their second consecutive Super Bowl win.
A simply amazing, unbelievable OT win over the Green Bay Packers
Seattle will play the New England Patriots on Feb. 1st in Phoenix in the Superbowl.
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After several weeks of debate and some controversy the iconic white cross that was toppled off its perch atop Mt. Tzouhalem by a November windstorm, the cross is now securely and visibly back in place overlooking the Cowichan Valley. Just last week, volunteers and members of the Nature Conservancy of Canada who own the land used sledgehammers to remove the old crumbling cement base before installing a new base and securing the large, iron, white cross in place.
The white cross, high atop the steep bluffs of Mt. Tzouhalem has been a popular destination for hikers and bikers of all ages not only from the Cowichan Valley but all of Vancouver Island and for tourists as well. Paulette and I usually hike to the summit at least 2 or 3 times each year. I’ve always looked at the white cross simply as a symbol that we’ve reached the top and not particularly as any kind of religious symbol – that is what caused the controversy in the first place.
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When the cross got blown away in November’s windstorm the Nature Conservancy was faced with a bit of a dilemma. They are not a religious organization so they began to wonder whether the white cross was an appropriate icon to return to its spot over 1,200 ft. up on the high bluffs of the mountain. The conservancy consulted with the community through surveys and the result was overwhelmingly in favour of the white cross based on its history and simple tradition.
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The site high atop Mt. Tzouhalem has a rich history. The mountain was originally called Shkewetsen, meaning “basking in the sun,” after a huge rock that resembles a frog warming itself in the sun. It was renamed Tzouhalem after a warrior who lived in a cave on the mountain and died in 1859.
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To those who have been wondering, and there have been a few, I’m just fine and thanks for asking. For the past several days I’ve been busy enjoying the great weather here in Desert Hot Springs by going for swims in the pool, long soaks in the hot tub, reading outside our rig in the sun or the shade, going for long walks as well as having dinner at a few of our favourite Palm Springs eateries like the Olive Garden. It’s been fun and definitely relaxing but not overly exciting to blog about in my mind.
So rather than simply chronicle the routine events of my days I simply explored areas beyond Blogland and discovered there is indeed evidence of life beyond the borders of cyberspace. Some of the bloggers listed on my sidebar may have also noticed my absence from commenting. My apologies for that but I have to say I’ve read very few blogs in the past week but I’m sure that will change and I’ll be back to my normal blogland activities pretty soon.
Along with normal routine activities, I’ve also been quite busy here at the Sands helping a few friends with computer issues. That has taken up quite a bit of my time as the issues have ranged from very simple to exceedingly strange (i.e. Croft’s friend who had his laptop hi-jacked by Russians) – first time I’ve ever worked on an actual Russian language issue so there was a lot of hopeful guessing going on there. I was the happiest (and most surprised) guy in the room when it all worked out perfectly!
Gee, Uncle Kevin – you can build blocks higher than my Grandpa!
Meanwhile, back at home on Vancouver Island, we’re happy to report that Mason is doing great and we’re really enjoying our twice a week video chats with him even though he tends to want to click all the computer keys thus managing to disconnect us now and then. He’s still smiling and laughing and having a great time and we sure enjoy our visits with the little man. He just loves playing on his Mom’s laptop!
One last thing, we enjoyed a great visit here at our site last Sunday morning with Sue (MoHo Travels). She also took the photos of both Paulette and myself at the top of this post (I ‘borrowed’ them from her blog – thanks Sue). Sue is a new quilter so her and Paulette talked up a storm about quilting techniques and stuff. Thanks for dropping by Sue, we really enjoyed your visit.
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Paulette and I each bought a set of progressive, transitional eyglasses and frames at Costco here in Palm Desert for the bargain price of $249 each. We each also get a $200 refund from our Canadian health plan so our cost for new eyeglasses comes to only $49 each. I don’t think we could have got a better deal even by travelling down to Algodones, Mexico which is about an 8 hour round-trip. So, it looks like once again we won’t be going to Mexico this year!
Ever since we’ve been coming down south for the winter we’ve been somewhat intrigued by the stories of relatives, friends and fellow bloggers who have told us about money-saving deals to be had on eyeglasses in Algodones. In the eight years we’ve been doing this not once have we ventured across the border mostly because we’ve never been in the market for dental work, prescription drugs or, until this year, eyeglasses.
Mason helping his Mommy celebrate her Birthday this week
We’ve been very busy this week here at the Sands RV Resort but I really couldn’t tell you about anything all that exciting. Mostly, we’ve been enjoying the great weather, going to the pool and taking walks while Paulette is busy again with the group of women quilters here at the park. We’re connecting back home on extreme-speed broadband via Google Hangouts to video chat with Carrie and Mason. I’m working on getting Mason to say ‘Grandpa’ and he’s getting the ‘G’ sound out pretty well.
The mystery of these gawd-awful pancakes last year has been resolved
If you happened to read my blog last year then you may remember my complaints about the horrible white, uncooked pancakes served at the Pancake Breakfast here at the Sands. This breakfast on Saturday morning is about the only organized event I attend here in the park and the breakfast was always good – until last year! They never did seem to figure out the problem. How does one mess-up pancakes?
This year, I’m happy to report the pancakes are back to normal
Anyway, the mystery was solved. Apparently, prior to last year someone decided to put the pancake mix (just the powder) into the freezer in April so they could use it that coming November when the breakfasts started up again. I’m not sure of what exactly happened but it’s safe to say the pancake mix was rendered inedible. This year they bought new mix and voila! The pancakes actually look and taste like pancakes should!
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Surely, the individual who thought up the first infamous “dumb blonde joke” had Faux’s Gretchen Carlson in mind as the perfect mould for this genre.
She is dumb beyond belief and on any given day easily qualifies as both an idiot and a “pants on fire” purveyor of un-truthiness.
Carlson was at it again on Faux yesterday when she attempted to use the horrific killings at Charlie Hebdo in Paris to launch totally false attacks against, you guessed it, President Obama and his administration.
Forget the killings, the horror, the assault on freedom of speech. To Carlson this was simply another reason (anything will do) to enhance her ratings with the crazies who watch her show. While the smoke from machine guns was still clearing in Paris she couldn’t wait to begin politicizing this tragedy with outright falsehoods:
Carlson: "It is what it is. It, meaning terrorism. Terrorism is what it is," Carlson said. "So why does the administration continue to have such a problem telling the American people and the rest of the world just that? …. That since our own leaders don't see any of these attacks as terrorism right away, neither should we?"
The problem with Carlson’s statement is that she’s dead wrong. Fantastically, ineptly and perhaps deliberately wrong – a true, first-class idiotic statement.
Here’s exactly what President Obama said in an official statement about this terror attack in Paris prior to Carlson’s commentary:
President Obama: “I strongly condemn the horrific shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that has reportedly killed 12 people. …… France is America's oldest ally, and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorists who threaten our shared security and the world. …..France, and the great city of Paris where this outrageous attack took place, offer the world a timeless example that will endure well beyond the hateful vision of these killers. We are in touch with French officials and I have directed my Administration to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice.”
Also, prior to Carlson’s comments, Secretary of State John Kerry:
John Kerry: "The murderers dared proclaim, 'Charlie Hebdo is dead.' But make no mistake: They are wrong," Kerry said. "The freedom of expression that it represented is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror."
Carlson, like most other talking heads on Faux News, will never pass up any tragedy or horror to try to make political gain by attacking President Obama. They love to play to the worst fears and prejudices of their older, white audience. To Carlson, and the extreme right wingnuts she courts while trying desperately to portray Obama as somehow, incredulously being weak on terror, here’s all I have to say:
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Canada defeated Russia 5-4 Monday evening to win the World Junior Hockey Championship at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. It was a tough, rugged game but the Canadian boys deserved the Gold as they went through the tournament undefeated winning all seven games they played. Looks like Canada will be in good shape in hockey on the international stage for several years to come as these kids are good!
Canada defeated Russia 5-4 in the Gold Medal game
The weather is heating up fast here in Palm Springs and it sure feels nice. Sunday morning was another beautiful day and we took advantage of it by heading out to one of our favourite local spots here – the Whitewater Preserve just a few miles west on I-10 from our location in Desert Hot Springs.
Following the well-marked trail out into the desert at Whitewater
There are a lot of hiking choices at Whitewater from fairly mild to rugged climbs up to the crest of the mountains. The trails go on for miles – thousands of miles actually as the Pacific Crest Trail runs right through the preserve so one could hike all the way north to Canada or south to Mexico. We didn’t do either of those.
Instead, we just chose a leisurely hike along a trail that followed the Whitewater River. Calling it a river is a bit of a stretch right now because there was barely a trickle of water and we could walk right across to the other side without really getting our feet wet. When it does rain out here I’m told the river turns into a raging torrent as the water flows down from the mountains and roars across the desert floor. That would be fun to see from a safe vantage point.
Even though we didn’t hike for hours and hours on Sunday morning it was still nice to seed the end of the trail as we arrived back at the Ranger Station.
The huge fish ponds behind the Ranger Station at Whitewater
All I can say is it was another beautiful morning spent at the Whitewater Preserve.
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On Saturday morning we took a drive and stopped for a bit at one of our favourite small parks in Rancho Mirage which is just a few miles east of Palm Springs.
The park has an official name which escapes me but most folks seem to refer to it as Frank Sinatra park as there is a commemorative plaque honouring him and he lived on the same street as the park - Frank Sinatra Drive – of course!
The last time we were at this park we noticed a sign for the Butler-Adams trail. This trail followed a deep wash (sort of like a ravine) that is built to carry water in the case of heavy rains as there don’t seem to be many storm drains in this area.
Most times these washes are bone dry. The Butler-Adams Trail was built high on the bank of the wash and a few hundred yards along the trail it careened down into the wash and across where it followed a golf course for quite a distance. We decided to walk the entire trail to see where it led.
This is typical of the dry washes in the Palm Springs area
You may be able to see our silver Chevy Duramax parked above in the wash. This was the start of the trail with the Frank Sinatra park on the right. One thing we really enjoy about walking in this part of town is the variety of fruit trees compared to home in BC. At home, Apple, Pear and Cherry trees are very common but not the Lemon, Grapefruit and Orange trees we see everywhere in Palm Springs.
One of the loaded Grapefruit trees in the park
It was another beautiful, warm morning and just perfect for a hike. This is another very popular area so we met many other folks along the way plus a lot of dogs out for walks as well.
It wasn’t very long before the dry wash of the ravine turned into a lush, green golf course. In Palm Springs they seem to build golf courses anywhere they can and if a wash never gets water in it then turn it into a golf course!
It was lunchtime by the time we got back to the RV park. After a quick bite to eat we just went out back and settled into our gravity chairs to soak up some sunshine.
It’s been 2 weeks since we arrived at the Sands and I still haven’t unpacked my golf clubs. They’re still in the basement storage area where I put them when we left Desert Hot Springs late last March.
Who knows – maybe I’ll just leave them there and skip golf this year. Then again, I just may get the urge to give it a go one of these fine days we’ll see.
Yesterday, Sunday, we drove out to the Whitewater Preserve for another hike this time out into the desert. We really expected to see some water in the Whitewater River given the storms that passed through this area a few weeks ago. The river was barely a trickle. In face, we were able to tip-toe right across it but I’ll leave that hike until my next blog probably tomorrow!
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Since we’re only a few days into the new year of 2015 and many of us are looking forward with hope to a year filled with promise, hope and good times, It might be worth looking at a few of the dire predictions made by several GOP talking heads (including perennial presidential hopeful Mitt 47% Romney) and ask yourselves how accurate they were? My belief isn’t that these were the honest predictions of these folks but rather their fervent hopes of what might happen. As usual, they are dead wrong!
What top Republicans predicted for 2015
Thankfully, gas is at its lowest price in years, the stock market is setting record highs, unemployment is down and the US economy is surging again. There is no collapse occurring as loud-mouth Rush hopes for, gas is not $10 a gallon as Newt hoped for and the stock market has not crashed as Bozo the Trump predicted. As for 47% Romney? Who cares what he hoped for!
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The temps are beginning to slowly rise back to normal here in Palm Springs but even though it’s still a bit cooler than usual it was warm enough for me to get back into the outdoor pool this afternoon. Blue skies, bright sun and no wind at all made it seem a lot warmer than the actual 60F.
Mason snuggling up to his Uncle Kevin (our son)
We had some chores to take care of this morning with Paulette handling the laundry while I drove down to Blair’s RV to get one of our propane tanks re-filled. Other than that and a swim, all I did was do some loops in the park and later in the afternoon, Paulette and I took Rylie for a walk around the exterior of the park.
I’m pleased to say that the service and performance here in the entire Palm Springs area has been excellent. Whether I’m walking around the park, at the pool, in downtown Palm Springs or simply driving anywhere in the Coachella Valley the Liberty Hotspot has maintained a strong 4G LTE signal. It’s so small I can just slip it into my pocket!
For us, it’s the perfect lo-cost addition to the Time Warner broadband cable we have at the Sands RV Resort. Could it replace the Time Warner broadband? No, it could not do that anymore than we could cancel our Shaw Broadband Cable service at home to just go with our Telus cellular. The broadband has virtually unlimited GB’s and is extremely fast so the Roam Mobility service here is simply an add-on for when we’re on the move driving somewhere or just walking around in the park. I’m happy with it and will definitely be using it again next year.
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