Happy New Year

My wish to all.

Every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year is a new beginning. The happiness comes out of how you handle it. We wish all to be able to bring joy into their life on a daily basis. That way you will have a happy year.

Now back to the journey . I think I stopped with wind. It didn't. On Christmas day we were greated with another blast of desert winter. We had put up out tent again a couple of days earlier and found ourselves revisiting the take down phase. If we didn't the wind would have taken it down and away.

Man does this wind roar. Again other vendors came to our assistance and helped us take it down. You don't ask for help. It just shows up. After getting mine settled I helped another vendor make changes in his set up. then you look around and see if others are in need. All was well after that and then it was a day inside.

The followiing day was calm. With this we changed our tent design. Top, no sides. Quick product packing and putting it away and the wind can have the rest. So far it's working. Since then we haven't had another windy day.

New Years Eve. Football time again. Plus there has been invites given by vendors to participate in a pot luck evening meal. Pat and I had to take a trip for provisions and since we don't have a toad we use our bikes. Great exercise for ol' folk. Especially when there is a steep bridge to travers, both ways, in the two mile plus one way journey. Huff and Puff ain't no stranger to me. But it's great for the legs and thighs and I feel the benefit when I just walk.

We had no idea of how many people were going to be there plus there were at least two other pot luck functions going on in our conclave. We brough rice pudding. Enough for about ten people figuring that would be the max there. Well it was about thirty. Hotdogs and hamburgers, good food, along with home made salads, BBQ and bread. there was a Mexician Pizza which I didn't taste because I thought it was just another pizza. Wrong. Fried chicken, beans, ice cream, cake and more. And a blazing fire to keep us warm. The company was warming enough with a little coffee to help. Oh yea there was wine and beer but not too many people took part of that. It was a suprising way to end the year and a very pleasant gathereing of people with the same interest in mind.

We no longer depend on the Weather Channel for our forecast but we do look at the weather channel and intellicast, keyed in for the Quartzsite forcast and that has really helped us get correct weather. At least so far.