Saturday

What if you went off to Cancun for a relaxing two weeks on the beach and came home to this sign in front of your park model?  There are a few jokesters in this park.

Don and I drove over to Robson Ranch just to look around.  Just inside the gate is this pond. Lots of palm trees line the main street. Really nice houses are located along the edge of the golf course. Lots of green, manicured grass with rolling hills in the vista. To the far left is the right field fence of the softball field, complete with beautiful grass outfield. Beautiful club house and swimming pool. Green grass everywhere. Pro shop and grill. An interesting plant at an open house we checked out. The house we looked out had a casita, which is a guest room and bath with private entrance.  The owners find that in this economy, they must come out of retirement and go back to work.  We're guessing they've "lost" a big chunk of their retirement.  I'm not feeling too bad for them yet... they still have a home in California and one in Las Vegas.  They're asking a mere $489,000.00 for this house, complete with all furnishings and this view out the back patio door. Another view of the golf course as we exit. And  the other fountain.

A few miles from Robson Ranch, we stopped at the Arizona Sky Diving complex for a few minutes. This one was coming in fast. But he landed safely. Looks so easy, doesn't it? Right above us... tandem divers. Coming in to pick up another load of divers. Doesn't this look like it would be just too much fun?!We didn't stay very long as I was dressed too warmly and Don didn't have his cap on.  It was a very warm afternoon in the desert valley.  We came home to rest and I got in a bike ride before the Sherry Walker Concert tonight.  Jim (who feeds the quails) and Toma, our neighbors, were at the door greeting everyone and "guarding" the donation basket.  All the proceeds from Sherry's concert are going to replace the big Saguaro by the club house, that was lost last year.

Sherry is a resident who sings cowboys (not country and western) songs as she tells her childhood stories and reads poems, all with a cowboy theme. Sherry learned music on an accordion as a small girl and only self-taught herself to play the guitar five years ago.  She presented a wonderful show and held everyone's attention for an hour and a half.  I'm sure she would do a concert for anyone or any park in this area.

That wraps up our Saturday.  This was a full-battery day.... which means, I put a new battery in my camera this morning and before Sherry's concert was over tonight, my camera "died."