Home for the Winter

We made it to Palm Creek Golf and RV Resort, our winter home here in Casa Grande, Arizona on September 15 and were greeted with 110 degree temperatures. Oh boy, what a welcome! The park is still pretty empty except for the folks who live here full time in the park models and village homes. I kind of like it this way. Very quiet, and peaceful.

We went right to work on extending our patio area, a project we've been planning since last year. We must be insane to have done the work in this heat, but now it's completed and we can enjoy it for the next several months.

This is "before"

And this is "after"

Golf here is free for residents until at least the middle of October, so Tom has been going out every morning around 7:00 am with a group of his buddies from here in the park. Even at 7:00 am it's still too hot for me to try golfing, and it's too early besides. But Tom is loving it, and the camaraderie with all "the guys."

One of the benefits though of waking up so early is seeing sunrises like this. Tom took this picture a couple of mornings ago.

The temps are still 100+ every day so we're spending most afternoons floating in the pool trying to stay cool. Hard work, but someone's got to do it.