8:30 a.m….Skies cleared off about 10 last night so Kim headed out to do some imaging. I have no idea what time he came in…I do, however, vaguely recall some cold air invading my warmth as he crawled into bed.😐 He was imaging the Needle Galaxy and I’m eagerly waiting to see the finished picture. It’s much easier for him to do the processing sitting at a table in the clubhouse, so that’s where we are right now…doing the wash and plinking around on the computers. Also figuring out what to do with the day.
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We didn’t take a bicycle ride today. This morning we just got rolling with other things and just didn’t think of it. Then we talked about getting a ride in after we got home from our motorcycle ride…in fact, we managed our time so we’d be able to do get a ride in before it got dark. But we stopped at a Chinese restaurant in Coolidge for an early supper and after filling our bellies with some very tasty food, neither of us were much inclined to go for a ride that required physical input. Might not ride tomorrow either but we have rough plan to do some hiking. That’ll work as a substitute.
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The campground only recycles aluminum…everything else goes in the dumpster. Back home our recycling program has gotten quite extensive and I take advantage of it. Doing my best to put “Reduce, reuse, recycle” into play. Out here, every time I put a plastic bag, a pop bottle, paper, cardboard, etc. into the garbage bag, I cringe. If I wanted to be hardcore about recycling, the alternative to using the dumpster would be to pack our garbage back home with us…however, I haven’t quite gotten to that point of recycling yet. 😏
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Since we were up early, all the ‘chores’ were done early also…so now what to do with the rest of the day? Kim wanted a picture of last night’s image so we placed an order at Walgreens…we’d ride over to Coolidge and pick it up. Today’s ride just kind of flowed out of that…looked at the map to see where we haven’t ridden yet and headed in that direction. Just wanted to be back before dark…by the time we left Walgreens that left us about 4 hours. We could ride for a couple of hours, then turn around and head back. Reaching a destination wasn’t our objective. Kim didn’t really care where we rode so it was left to me to be the activity director of the cruise. I choose to head toward the mountains...and as soon as we turned on SR 79 north of Florence, I questioned the wisdom of that choice because we were looking at some nasty clouds hanging around the mountains in front of us. It wasn't obvious which direction they were headed but my hope was that they'd head over the mountain in a northeasterly direction because we were taking more of a northwest route. Eventually the dark clouds were behind us and blue sky was ahead of us. It wasn’t until a few raindrops hit that I knew that the clouds were not retreating north over the mountains but heading in a southerly direction. Oh, ding dang!! But we turned
north and the sprinkles were gone…surrounded by warm sunshine at that point. When it was time to turn around, we found ourselves looking at dark clouds again. More ding dang! As we approached the clouds, the wind increased and it became cooler…time for jackets. Not long after that, even though we hadn't encountered any rain, a gorgeous rainbow appeared to the left of us…a wide rainbow with purple, green, blue, yellow and red. Stopped for a photo op but rainbows are so tricky to capture in a picture. It’s one of those times when a picture doesn’t adequately capture what the eye is seeing…to say nothing of how quickly a rainbow disappears. Doesn’t keep me from trying though.
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| It wasn't pleased that the rain stopped |
We did get rained on but didn’t get wet. The air cooled down a bit and the raindrops were plentiful enough to mess up my googles and windshield but they weren’t making my legs wet. And there was no road splash yet. It wasn’t a nice rain, either…those raindrops stung! I was just thinking that the desert plants were going to be happy about getting a drink when the sun peaked through the clouds, the air warmed and the rain lost interest. It seemed the cloud just dissipated…and I was okay with that but the plants may have been groaning about the near miss. 😉 Off in the distance we watched as cool air met warm air and the resulting turmoil made the dirt in the fields dance high into the air. It wasn’t your average dust devil type of dance, though. Hard to explain but fun to watch. Getting good pictures of dancing dirt is tricky also…the result usually just looks like the lens had smudges on it.
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Found out today that Kim can control our lights with the Alexa app on his phone…yeah, while we’re sitting in our trailer in Arizona, he can have Alexa turn the house lights on in Michigan. Crazy!! Sometime in the last week or so, as a joke Kim had told Alexa to do just that…’Alexa, turn on the house lights.’ Last night the neighbor happened to be up at 4 in the morning and saw our bedroom lights on. She thought we were home…no, we’re not but how did the lights get on? Tonight Kim called the neighbor, they did an experiment and, sure enough, he can turn the lights on from Arizona. Really, Alexa?! That’s rich…no more pretending you don’t understand me when I’m 15 feet away in the sewing room. 😏
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The moon is out but the sky is clear and Kim is out giving imaging a try. As the moon gets fuller, it becomes increasingly more difficult to work around its light. I think he should just point the scope in the other direction but he assures me it isn’t that simple. 😊
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Bike miles today: 162
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