Their son, Keith was here, busy trimming trees and oleander bushes. On Friday, we all pitched in to help. Unfortunately I jabbed my left palm with a knife preparing lunch so we had to take 3 hours out of our work time to have Jerry take me to into Blythe to the ER to see if stitches were needed - nope, just steri-strips. A little painful, but not like I expected.
On the way home, we were discussing our upcoming Alaska trip, and decided it was just going to be too expensive with the price of fuel rising to who knows what. So, instead of telling our friends, Ken & Jan, with whom we were going, on the phone about our canceling, we drove to Indio, CA to have dinner with them at the Elks where they were staying - and tell them in person. Well, of course, they were disappointed, but very gracious and said we could change our mind anytime. Back home about 9:30 PM.
Saturday, Jerry, Larry and Lana helped with cleanup and I watched and relaxed. Since it was about 85 and sunny in the late afternoon, they took us for a boat ride on the river on their pontoon boat. So pretty
Sunday was more of the same, with awesome weather. The guys decided to chop down a dead spruce tree but about half way done, the saw died, so we went for another boat ride. Darn...LOL
As we were heading upriver, we spotted something on the shore...stopped to check it out. A Kawasaki jet ski - upside down. Apparently washed down the river on Saturday when the COE let a massive amount of water out of the dam upriver. (In front of Larry & Lana's home, the island which creates a canal in front of their home for about a half-mile, was almost completely cover and the water was moving quite quickly. Well, that looked like a challenge to Jerry. Larry brought the boat close to shore and Jerry hopped out to go explore. Was upside down but looked like not in too bad shape. He uprighted it and confirmed that it might be worth salvaging. Sue hopped out of the boat and took a line from the boat to Jerry to fasten onto the ski. Larry gave it some gas and "presto" it was on the water again. Jerry couldn't stand to see it floating along behind us - looked so lonesome without a rider...so he took care of that. Pulled it down river to the cabin and out of the water. They tinkered with it for a while, then it was dinner time. What a fun day!
Monday (today) will probably be a work afternoon with maybe some yard work - mowing and fertilizing the lawn. May go out for dinner tonight. Tomorrow we're packing up to move on. Tentative plans are to go to Joshua Tree NP for three days, on to see Jen, Ben & Eva in Redlands, CA next weekend...then north and east toward home. That will probably take us 3-4 weeks. Little Acres here we come!
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