Sunday, January 4/2015 - Saturday, January 10/12015

The weather is finally starting to warm up but the recent cold snap has certainly taken its toll on the bougainvillea. It has blackened and wilted but hopefully it will return to its original splendor and not be permanently damaged.
Kay's other sister Zana, arrived for a quick visit then flew to Montana to visit their brother and then flew back to Phoenix this Tuesday. Kay and I met her at the airport, went for a quick lunch and then dropped her at her vehicle so that she could go visit their Dad, who had a quick procedure in the hospital.  Kay and I then hit Sam's Club and Walmart then headed home.
John got a bit of work done of the jeep this week so now it is starting like a charm.
John, Hogan and I took a jeep trip into Box Canyon and I was surprised to see that there were still some evidence of snow in the canyon. It was definitely chilly with the sun going down and that is why the snow still remained. I bet the water that was flowing in the canyon was pretty darn chilly too.  I did not get out to investigate that!! Hogan seemed to enjoy his run in the canyon as the soft sand is gentle on his feet.
Kay got the bright idea of doing some landscaping around the flower beds in the "north forty" so that kept us busy for a few days.

Jeeping the Hassayampa River on the way to
Box Canyon

Saguaro Cactus on the hills around the river

Into the Canyon

Snow on the ground in the Canyon

Hogan running ahead of the jeep

The water was running

On Saturday, Ray, Kay and I headed into Surprise and hit the local Lowe's Building Centre.  John has decided to build the doors for the rooms here in the trailer so that will be awesome once that is done. With that in mind, we headed into town to pick out the boards. It look a while to finally find the straight ones and when we finally got to the till, we discovered that what we thought were $2.00 boards were actually $4.00 boards but at this point, no one was in a mood to rustle through the pile again to find 50 more straight boards.

Marie and Mary Beth

Mary, Kay and Mary Beth

Had a visitor at the fire, also!

Actually, I do not believe we left any straight boards behind!!
Once the boards were secure, Ray got his stuff bought and Kay and I headed to the garden centre where we purchased a few more plants and some cedar mulch for the "north forty".  It is starting to look real nice out there and if we keep plugging away at it we will have a "park setting" pretty darn soon!!
We are getting into the final weeks of the NFL football playoffs and we spent Saturday evening watching the two games that were televised.  It was a good ending to what really was, a busy week.

Sunset